From: Pugh, David
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:06 PM
To: lsa-dev-osx@umich.edu
Subject: Meeting Minutes

Mac OS X meeting
June 18, 2003

Laurie Sutch
Exploratory - facility on 2nd floor of grad for faculty workshops
also offer grad student series
Knowledge Navigation Center is available for other stuff
Been around since 97
support both mac & pc
been running virtual pc, but moving to remote desktop for faster speed
last winter term, taught a os x class which had about 10-15 people, which
  is a large amount, july class has 13 of 17 seats taken
LSA is the largest audience
fall classes: imovie, iphoto, dreamweaver, etc.
most people using dreamweaver, not golive
all handouts are online at http://www.lib.umich.edu/exploratory
classes are only offered to faculty, not staff who support faculty
  since faculty are the only ones who stay forever in their position
there are some classes offered to grad students and students.
occasionally staff are allowed, but generally only if as a guest of faculty
coordinate with ITCS workshops: faculty go to exploratory, staff go to
   ITCS workshops (but those aren't free)
no MS access, no Filemaker pro
media union has begun to offer classes now too, which are open to anyone
trying to coordinate with other training groups so that same classes aren't
   offered on the same day so they can pretty much go anywhere anytime
For OS-X, they will either visit the faculty member, or the faculty
   member can bring their laptop in for training
Haven't really been showing people new stuff, just helping them walk
   through the new ways to do what they already know.
Primarly explaining differences between old Mac OS and Mac OS X, why
   are there admin users, what are libraries, what's the dock, etc
Home directories: stressing to use a home folder instead of scattering
   things all over.  
The main thing from Laurie's perspective is to ensure that people know 
  that they're there and available.  They offer help for any skill level
   (how to use a mouse, all the way up to advanced topics)
New 25 station PC lab on 4th floor Shapiro
If there's a batch (a few) of faculty that need training, feel free to
   send them her way, or they can do departmental training

Jeff and the lab:
lab is all bootable
today is the day the password file is getting loaded
uses passwd file from guardrail - we can load it in.
Calvin from apple is doing the scripting work to import it into 
   LDAP-friendly to set up groups and access control for those machines
started getting walkthroughs on settings for workgroup manager
they boot in about 2 minutes, depending on how fast they get their 
   network information
there will be an open house sometime in july - just need to find a time
   when math camp isn't using the room

Gretchen and lab:
98% chance that the psych mac lab will be disassembled and changed to PC
   due to need for SPSS even though SPSS is now avail for Mac OS X.
   This affects about 30 macs.  Not certain where the machines will go
Jeff suggested using the machines to convert a solaris lab.  Math labs
   sit idle much of the time, so setting up a cooperative lab would
   be good use of machines, space

The Image:
got it up on Monday
currently working on getting a ramdisk mounted at startup so there's
      writable space
working on getting resolv.conf built off DHCP responses
need to have DHCP helper addresses set up - each dept will need to
     contact Mark Weishan.  DHCP helper address points to the netboot
     server.  What happens if a subnet has multiple helper addresses?
Which departments will be testing?  physics, psych, math?, 
Can't conveniently have multiple netboot servers available on the 
   same subnet
Karen will coordinate with Mark to get things set up and work with
  physics on getting it to work with their existing DHCP servers
For math, we could just put the image on their existing netboot server
We can utilize existing tools on osx for LDAP lookups for account creation
Changing the hostname of the server from rotten.lsa.umich.edu to
   rotten.lsait.lsa.umich.edu - Karen will change DNS, phil will change 
   server settings
Phil will set up shares on packages drive on rotten for us to put stuff
   on there.
Need to create accounts for people to do the install
Dave will write a script to populate local netinfo account
Phil will send out instructions on how to test
Phil gone from July 1-9

Reminder - no meeting next week while everyone is at WWDC
Next meeting: July 2 @ 3447 East Hall