Present: Bill Dooley, Kim Homer, Dave Adams, Karen Herrington, Flex Vaughn, Nate Smith, Rob Sprague, William Dougherty (scribe and chair)

• Google E-mail for Alumni: November 1st, 2009.

 ---GAMS: also to be deployed on November 1st, 2009.

Lots of items are bundled with this Middleware deployment and testing is still ongoing. 

Link to Computing page with the documentation will be posted here when it becomes available. 

• Shibboleth will be CASified, i.e. go through CAS also on November 1st. 

• Storage Management Infrastructure updates; new blades for fibre channel blade deployment.

---Impact on all operations; date still to be determined; normal maintenance days are 5:00am-7:00am Tues/Thurs, but special arrangments may be made for this event. Stay away from November 1st. Course request are happening week of October 19th. Banner install is November 8th. Drop/Add begins November 30th.

• TAS deployment: October 19th, 2009. NOVA will be enabled to issue tokens. Will not require a Hokie Passport to obtain a token; will still require two photographic IDs or Department Head verification. Currently no apps, but they want to have the tokens before developing them. 

Future News: LT will be piloting a Sakai based course evaluation system in December. Existing system will eventually be phased out. By January all apps will be upgraded. BlackBoard (minor change), DyKnow, old course evaluation to new hardware. Major update to Sakai in late January. (Sakai=Scholar)