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Agenda

CSG Workshop and Meeting Agenda
Harvard University
21-23 September 2004


Tuesday 21 September 2004

**Registration and Breakfast in Terrace Room, Sheraton Commander Hotel

CSG Workshop
**Ballroom, Sheraton Commander Hotel


8:30    Continental Breakfast

9:00    CSG Long Workshop:  Messaging/Collaboration Services
        Coordinators:  Waite-Franzen, Pickett, Giltner, Long
        Please see Addendum A for the detailed agenda.

10:35   Break

12:00   Lunch
**Terrace Room, Sheraton Commander Hotel

1:00    CSG Long Workshop:  Messaging/Collaboration Services (continued)

3:00    Break

5:00    Adjourn


Group Dinner - John Harvard's Brew House
6:00 - 7:00    Bus circulates between Sheraton Commander and Brew House
6:00           Cocktails
7:00           Dinner
8:30 - 9:30    Bus circulates between Brew House and Sheraton Commander


Wednesday 22 September 2004

**Registration and Breakfast in Terrace Room, Sheraton Commander Hotel

CSG Workshop and CSG Meeting
**Ballroom, Sheraton Commander Hotel


7:30    Continental Breakfast

8:00    CSG Short Workshop:  Impact of 'pervasive computing' on teaching
                             and learning
        Coordinators:  Kumar, Schnabel
        Please see Addendum B for the detailed agenda.

9:50    Break


12:00   Lunch
**Terrace Room, Sheraton Commander Hotel


** Harvard Campus Informal Walking Tour (led by Frank Steen)
** Featuring the Harvard Museum of Natural History's glass flowers exhibit
** Starts 12:15 pm at the Sheraton Commander
** Ends 1:15 at the Sheraton Commander


CSG Meeting
**Ballroom, Sheraton Commander Hotel

1:30    I. Introductory Remarks (CSG Coordinator)


1:35    II. Short Slots and Breaking News (CSG Coordinator)


2:00    III. Chandler Update (McCredie/Kapor)


2:45    Break


3:15    IV. Policy Discussion 1:  Security Incident Response, Remediation,
                                  and Policy
        Coordinators:  Scaturro, Bruhn


4:15    V. Timely Topics and Gossip (Eadie)

        S/MIME support in Eudora.
        Status, best practices, and open issues w.r.t Windows XP SP2,
           including potential feedback to Microsoft.
        Who's supporting which course management systems?  Are you keeping
           up with demand?  How much interest in Sakai?
        Standardizing open-source software licenses (Brad & RL Bob).
        Calendaring standards and happenings in the calendar space.

        Please send additional topics to Gavin.


5:00    Adjourn


** Harvard Campus Walking Tour (led by campus guides)
** Frank Steen will lead group from the Sheraton Commander at 5:45 pm
** Starts 6:00 pm at Johnson Gate
** Ends 6:45 at the Faculty Club


Group Dinner - Harvard Faculty Club
6:00 - 7:00    Bus circulates between Sheraton Commander and Faculty Club
6:00           Cocktails
7:00           Dinner
8:30 - 9:30    Bus circulates between Faculty Club and Sheraton Commander


Thursday 23 September 2004
**Registration and Breakfast in Terrace Room, Sheraton Commander Hotel

CSG Meeting (continued)
**Ballroom, Sheraton Commander Hotel


7:30    Continental Breakfast


8:00    VI. Organizational Issues (CSG Coordinator)

        A. Steering/Membership Committee Issues (Jackson)

        B. Treasurer's Report (Duwe)

        C. Logistics for Winter 2005 Meeting (Antonelli)
        (Stanford University, 5-7 January 2005)

        D. Venues and Dates for Future CSG Meetings (Antonelli)
        Please see Addendum C for the current list.


8:15    VII. Session Proposals for Winter 2005 Meeting (Jackson)

9:00    VIII. Policy Discussion 2:  Options and rationales for rethinking
                                    IT strategy in an age of Open Source
        Coordinators:  Lambert, Jacobson, Klingenstein


10:00   Break


10:30   IX. Policy Discussion 3:  Campus information architectures --
                                  follow on from Mark's "Architecture"
                                  presentation and the ensuing conversations.
        Coordinators:  Gettes, Poepping, Long

11:30   Adjourn


11:30   Lunch (box lunches available)
**Terrace Room, Sheraton Commander Hotel


Addendum A:  CSG Long Workshop:  Messaging/Collaboration Services
             Detailed Agenda

8:45-9:00
Introductions

9:00-10:00
Setting the Stage
Results from the survey and discussion session
Phil Long, Yale

10:00-12:00  with a 15 minute break at approximately 10:35
Enterprise mail and calendaring systems, specifications and the process
for defining the system requirements and discussion session

Email and calendar RFP process and evaluation
Harvard, Susan DeLellis and Tim Gleason

The Duke Experience, Mike Pickett

Feedback from constituent groups on campus regarding messaging, and how
it will shape future plans
Colorado, Brad Judy

Noon - 1
Lunch

1:00-2:45
The MS Exchange environment and discussion session

The Exchange Mail and Calendaring environment and support
Brown, John Spadaro, Molly Baird

SunOne IMAP and Microsoft Exchange Coexistence;
Support issues for PDA's, Blackberries, etc.
Princeton, Daniel Oberst

2:45-3:00
Break

3:00-5:00
Spam approaches and discussion session

Integrating anti-spam and anti-virus into the email environment
Anti-spam technologies/techniques investigated, used and future
possibilities
General trends
Wisconsin, Jesse Thompson

The Berkeley Experience
Jack McCredie


Addendum B:  CSG Short Workshop:  Impact of 'pervasive computing' on teaching
                                  and learning
             Detailed Agenda
 
8:00-8:30    Introduction
                  Motivation
                  Survey Results
 
8:30-9:50    Pilot Projects, part I
                  Duke - iPods
                  Virginia - Tablet PCs
                  Wisconsin - Croquet
 
9:50-10:15   Break
 
10:15-11:15  Pilot Projects, part II
             Dartmouth - GIS/PDAs
             MIT - ILabs and other Pervasive Educational Initiatives
 
11.15-12:00  Discussion of issues that arise during talks that participants
             wish to discuss further
 

Addendum C:  Venues and Dates for Future CSG Meetings

Winter 2005 (Stanford University, 5-7 January 2005)
Spring 2005 (Penn State University, 11-13 May 2005)
Fall   2005 (Carnegie-Mellon University, 21-23 September 2005)
Winter 2006 (Duke University, 4-6 January 2006)
Spring 2006 (University of Wisconsin - Madison, 10-12 May 2006)
Fall   2006 (University of Delaware, 13-15 or 19-21 September 2006)
Winter 2007 Available!
Spring 2007 (Columbia University, 9-11 May 2007)
Fall   2007 Available!