1 Welcome

2 Minutes of last meeting accepted.

3 Chairs steering group report.

Sarah Lawson gave the report. The ICTF steering committee now meets every 2 months not termly, this is to increase the flow from IT Services and Service Delivery to Others. A channel for ideas – please contact ICTF with ideas or proposals. Brian Hicks is off the committee due to other commitments. Andy Davies is co-opted onto the committee from Philosophy faculty, therefore all divisions are represented. Conference palnning is continuing, date is 7th July this year and booking will open after Easter. There are many services requiring experts, please get in touch. Innovation fund was mentioned as a way to get projects funded and delivered , that have a benefit for all.

4 Project Reports

a./ SSP/Admissions –

Alistair Baker gave a presentation. Communications and training in the following months.

A question about contact details.

b./ GOWN update Andy Saunders gave a brief update.

Two business analysts are gathering requirements. A draft report has been produced, more communications will follow.

c./ TONE – Andy Saunders gave a report.

ODIN the backbone network upgrade, work is in progress, a testbed is in place and a number of deisgn workshops are planned. ODIn introduced greater resilience, each Frodo will be connected to 2 routers. Bandwidth options will be increased from 100M/1G to 1G/2G/10G/40G although a special case will have to be made for the higher values. An IPv6 service will be available, there will be 4 core nodes down from 9. A Pilot is set to run fromJuly to September for 10 frodo’s. Everyone else is planned for October – April 2016. Tone uSer group representatives are the way to feedback and there will be no charging until Aug/2016 to allow budget preparation, costs are being worked out. Question was :who should we contact regarding the second Frodo connection. Answer was Bifrost installations manager. Email tone@it.ox.ac.uk

d./ Chorus ICP Update Alan Williamson gave an update.

Information is also available on the website and blog including the newsletter.

Vibrant is the name for the resilient virtual infrastructure, under testing and migration. contact icp@it.ox.ac.uk for information for bursars and administrators. There is a functionality matrix for pricing and models available. For new build projects talk to telecoms or chorus. 5 ITS3 update – Tony Brett gave the report.

5 ITS3 Update - Tony Brett gave a report

6 Items form representatives on other bodies – there were none

7 Reports from Special Interest & Advisory groups

a./ HPC Sig there was no update but they met recently.

b./ Websig - Jim Leek gave an update, there is a meeting on Friday 20th at 14:00. Although Alex Dutton will now not be presenting due to a road accident.

c./ Drupal Sig there was no update

d./ Digital Media User Group – this is comms. Focussed and Stephen Eyre will be hosting in the ISIS lecture theatre on 26th June, BBC talk about using technology in extreme conditions .

e./ info Sec Jon Ashton gave an update .

An improvement programme has been agreed with governance structure. The Web server security survey is underway. To address risks particularly where personal data is stored. Identifying higher risk servers and taking action.

8 Reports from central units

a./ IT Services report –a report was given by Sebastian Rahtz. Daryll Sturley is leaving .Anne Trefethen now has responsibility for ASUC (Libraries and Museums). The IT innovation fund was mentioned as a way to progress ideas and projects. It is a consultative process. 2nd University data centre is mooted at Harwell. Web CMS/ Drupal a central service coming soon. More lecture capture equipment in seminar rooms. Finance and DARS to receive major upgrades. University card – two projects, one to look at the needs of the card. Another Identity management across the University, making the card an output of the process. Concerned with Identity not access management.

b./ BDLSS Kim Wicks BDLSS Service Delivery manager gave a report.

The Weston library will be opening at the weekend, Lucy Burgess is the new director. Viper is a joint venture with NSMS and is a virtualised infrastructure, going live in the summer. CMDb being created , sys admins are excited. Digital collections is going live in the summer also. James Shaw working on Interlibrary Loan systems using Aleph.

9 Divisional Reports

a./ Colleges Simon Mortimore gave an update- there is a new governance structure, the computing fellows IT Committee concerning teaching and research and the IT managers Committee concerning all else. There have been 3 meeting with 34 out of 38 colleges represented.

b./ MSD There was no report as IT committee had not met yet.

c./ MPLS – A report from Andy Richards

d./ Humanities – Revisiting terms of reference

e./ Social Sciences. Steven Kavanagh updated us that the divisional Committee met after a period of some time so was reviewing their terms of reference.

10 AoB Update requested about the C3E – it was thought that there is no panic, no dramatic change envisaged, but a report with options has been finalised.

11 date of next meeting TBA