Keith Boswell (COE/ITECS) is the sole nominee for chair of the AITD for the next year. Greg Robinson (CNR) was nominated and declined. However, he is the nominee for the second officer.

I attended the CAB today. The meeting was very brief as several members were absent. There were no changes to report on, except that I provided the update that we are working to test moving administrative Novell file and print servers from the CheckPoint to the Cisco firewall. The original date was 11/14; I noted that the date depends on successful completion of testing. Gary Li asked that Gene coordinate a date/time with Cheryl Cleveland as there is a major financials update scheduled a few hours after the original date for this change.

Since we now allow folks outside of ISO to see our public content, I've changed the default permissions so that any logged in user can post comments.

Since folks must authenticate, we should be protected from the great spamiverse outside.

I also added the right to vote in polls, and to cancel their own votes, should we ever post any polls.  If an intra-ISO poll is desired, we can just use the regular taxonomy controls to restrict who can access the poll to vote on it.

I've added an rss aggregator to collect all of the public posts from the service teams hosted on this site, and added it to the right hand block of this site, under "Sysnews Announcements"

If you don't care for it, go to your "My Account" settings, and you can turn it off.

I find this is a cheap and easy way to keep on top of the teams I'm supporting, and figured it might be generally useful.

This website has been opened back up to the general public, as per our discussion in the SHS staff meeting this morning. Individual nodes of content will be tagged with a Security level, which allows us to intermix public, campus, oit, and group-specific content on the same site.

Note as well that the URL has been changed. The old URL xteams.oit.ncsu.edu/shs is now redirecting to xteams.oit.ncsu.edu/iso which is the current URL for this site.