Meeting Minutes

October 25, 2007

Kiosks

Debbie Cherry helped us with a mock kiosk set-up so that we could determine what is "too long" in terms of log-in time. The mock set-up took about 35 seconds. SAC decided that this was too long. We determined that about 10-15 seconds was ideal and that log-in time should definitely be less than 20 seconds.

Where on Campus besides the UC?

Doherty: Hall, Apartments
Bldgs that donít have clusters
Dorms that donít have a cluster
Where the Donner printer is
Tepper 1st Floor next to Gingers
Zebra lounge in CFA (1st floor)
Newell Simon Atrium
Margaret Morrison and the sorority area
Hamburg/Hamerschlag
Front part of Scaife
Baker cluster Hallway

Other comments

Are useful w/ a printer esp in res hall
Use is dependent on where the kiosk is
Printer w/out computer is lame
Stats on how many students have Andrew printing set up on own machine?
Doc harder to find

What software should the kiosk have?

.pdf
.doc
.ppt
.txt
.xls
Browser
Printing
Email
USB access
.tff/.jpg images (built in?)

Other comments

Access to power button? Make it harder to turn off via OS
Readers will not be sufficient for office programs
Some of this may depend on where it is
Staplers and hole puncher wherever these go
Another color laser on campus
Page limit? Stop-in to print and wait for a printer!
Screen size
Enough room for a mouse

Software Challenges

SPSS (only in BH)
Office 2007 (6 yes, 1 no)
Stats - SAS, Maple
Creative Suite
Maya
Viso
Visual Studio
Auto Desk family (CAD)
Macromedia
text editor (both platforms)
typefaces
Ruby, Ruby on Rails
textmate
textpad
Oracle

Other comments

has to be available to off campus to be useful
1st floor library machines need office, adobe, flash
software not on enough computers for some of them
develop software not accessible from internet
database SQL more robust.
unlimited bandwidth
if software is virtualized...how will this affect bandwidth?