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2009-07-27 Conference Call

2009-07-27 Conference Call

Aug 03, 2009

Logistics

Time: Monday, July 27, 2009 @ 10:30 am EDT
Conference Bridge: 218-862-7200 #167964

Attendees

  • @ScottS

  • @Benn Oshrin

  • @Jonathan Markow

  • @David L. Whitehurst

  • @Eric Pierce

Absent

  • @Troy Bull

Agenda

  • Review of Old Action Items / Business

    • RFCs

    • CAS Clients

    • Marketing

    • CASifying Outlook - Resolution?

    • mod_cas CCCI ISAPI Client "Issues"

  • Brainstorming of Key CAS Positions

  • ClearPass / CampusEAI

  • Conferences

  • Next Community Call

Notes

  1. Elections

    1. New terms begin in September, however newly elected representatives will be invited to the August call.

    2. Chair of the steering committee is currently the technical representative. Jonathan proposed that the steering committee selected chair instead.

    3. Vote for the technical representative needs to happen ASAP.

  2. RFCs

    1. CASShib - stalled

    2. Status of the RFCs should be reviewed at the next community call.

  3. Renaming CAS

    1. We should come up with a specific recommendation or recommendations for potential new name, and analyze what impacts the new name might have, before presenting a recordation to the board.

  4. August 2009 Community Call is August 12 at 2pm.

  5. Clients

    1. Is the steering committee OK with the grid attributes?

  6. Marketing

    1. Scott talked to Jim Layne, they're working on it, will try to have it addressed soon.

  7. CASifying Outlook

    1. Still need documentation to recommend an alternative.

    2. Sacramento State might have CASified Outlook, but unclear if they have time to write it up or if they're even using it at all.

  8. mod_cas

    1. CCCI has updated wiki.

    2. Yale says don't use mod_cas anymore.

  9. Conferences

    1. Items for CAS development at the unconference?

  10. ClearPass

    1. How much support is CampusEAI willing to provide?

    2. What we want: a committer willing to commit to timely releases of bugs, patches, fixes, and any changes needed to work with CAS server updates. Maintenance, not development.

  11. CAS Positions/Roles

    1. Potential roles include documentation coordinator, documentation writer (including both the webpages and the wiki), marketing, UI developers, CAS client community liaison, release engineer, testing/QA, technical lead, committer, steering committee member.

    2. Jonathan can add language to help institutions justify this work.

Action Items

  1. Scott: Notify the new Andrews about call logistics.

  2. Scott: Draft a proposed change to the bylaws to allow the steering committee to select the chair.

  3. Scott: Ask the committers to vote for the technical representative.

  4. All: Think about potential new names for CAS, what we are looking for in a new name, and what impacts a new name will have.

  5. All: Review grid attributes by 7/31.

  6. Scott: Review text of client descriptions against grid attributes.

  7. Scott: Send client descriptions to community lists with request for review by Friday 8/7.

  8. Eric: Send mail to the lists asking if anybody has CASified Outlook, both to see who is using the previous recommended version and to see if anybody has done something different.

  9. Scott: Send mod_cas announcement to announce list, user list, and newsletter.

  10. Benn, Scott: Discuss unconference development ideas with Eric D.

  11. David: Help put together something on marketing position.

  12. All: At "job descriptions" to the list of potential roles.