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Agenda

 CSG Workshop and Meeting Agenda
Penn State
27-29 May 1998


Wednesday 27 May 1998
CSG Workshop


9:00    CSG Workshop:  Technical Issues of Electronic Publishing

	Coordinator:  Steve Worona

	Please see Addendum C for the detailed agenda.


12:00	Lunch - Penn State Conference Center


1:00    CSG Workshop:  Technical Issues of Electronic Publishing (continued)


5:30    Adjourn


Group Dinner - Penn State Conference Center Hotel

6:00	Cocktails (wine and beer open bar)
7:00	Dinner


Thursday 28 May 1998
CSG Workshop and CSG Meeting


8:00    CSG Workshop:  Asynchronous Learning

	Coordinator:  Judith Boettcher

	Please see Addendum D for the detailed agenda.


10:30   Adjourn


CSG Meeting


11:00	Working Lunch

11:10	I. Introductory Remarks (King)


11:15	II. Organizational Members Updates (Vaught)

	A. CAUSE (Ryland)

	B. Educom/NTTF (Roberts or Luker)

	C. Merit (Aupperle)

	D. FARNET and R&E Networking (Staman)

	E. CREN (Boettcher)

	F. Internet2 (Hanss)

	G. DLF (Waters)

	H. CIC Schools (Riley)

	I. JSTOR (Fuchs)

	J. CNI (Lynch)

	K. Others


12:00	III. Long Term Issue 1:  Trouble Ticketing

	Coordinators:  Rich Kogut, Ken Klingenstein


1:00	Break


1:30	IV. Long Term Issue 2:  Costing

	Coordinators:  Ken Klingenstein, Jack McCredie, Dave Lambert


2:30	V. Short Slots (Long)

	A. Campus Computer Stores and Electronic Commerce (Bruce) [15 min]

	B. NT Workshop Discussion (Poepping) [30 min]


3:15	Break


3:45	VI. Technology Tracking Group Reports (Worona)


5:30	Adjourn


Group Dinner - Hummingbird Room

6:00	Cocktails (at Penn State Conference Center Hotel)
7:00	Bus departs for Hummingbird Room
7:45	Dinner - Hummingbird Room
10:15	Bus departs for hotel


Friday 29 May 1998
CSG Meeting


8:30	VII. Organizational Issues (Long)

	A. Steering/Membership Committee Issues (Long)

	B. Treasurer's Report (Wolfe)

	C. Logistics for Next Meeting (Antonelli, Jackson)

	D. Logistics for Two Meetings Ahead (Long)


8:45	VIII. Long Term Issue 3:  DCE

	Coordinator:  Jeff Almoney


9:45	Break


10:15	IX.  Long Term Issue 4:  Internet2/CSG

	Coordinators:  Ken Klingenstein, Eric Aupperle


11:15	X. New Project and Workshop Proposals, and Long-Term Issues
	    for Next Meeting (McCredie)

	A. Project Proposals
	
	B. Workshop Proposals

	C. Long-term Issues for Next Meeting

	   Previous candidate list:

	   . Distance Education (Organizer:  CREN)
	   . RPI Report on Studio Learning Model
	   . Windows Deployment and Support strategy
	   . Appropriate Use Policy


12:00   Adjourn


Addendum A:  Candidate TTG Topics

Get in touch with Steve Worona to get a topic on the agenda, add
topics, or volunteer to coordinate open topics.

Authenticated DHCP; drop-in connections  Mark Poepping
Authentication/security                  Bob Morgan
Campus network architectures             Doug Gale
Campus network funding models            Jack McCredie
Charging for printing                    Phil Long
Collaboration tools                      Steve Carmody
Community networking                     Ken Klingenstein
DCE                                      Jeff Almoney
Digital Libraries                        Sue Rosenblatt, Steve Worona
Directory services                       Mark Poepping
Distributed computing architecture       Bob Morgan
E-mail                                   Terry Gray
Human resources issues                   Jack McCredie
Internet-2 applications                  Ted Hanss
Internet-2 resource allocation           Ken Klingenstein
Internet-2 technology                    Jeff Almoney
Network Commerce                         Jeff Schiller, Bob Morgan
Network-based calendaring                Paul Hill, Greg Jackson
Policy                                   Steve Worona
Service level agreements                 Ken Klingenstein
Video                                    Ed Sharp
Wireless technologies                    Alex Hills

These TTG's currently have no owner:
     Departmental LANs
     Higher-Ed objects
     Information Technology Architecture
     Version control and software distrib
     WWW
     Workflow


Addendum B:  Current List of Members of the Common Solutions Group

   * Brown University
   * Carnegie Mellon University
   * CAUSE
   * CNI
   * Columbia University
   * Cornell University
   * CREN - Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
   * Educom
   * George Washington University
   * Georgetown University
   * Harvard University
   * Merit
   * MIT
   * Digital Library Federation (DLF)
   * Pennsylvania State University
   * Princeton University
   * Stanford University
   * University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development 
   * University of California - Berkeley
   * University of California - Office of the President
   * University of Chicago
   * University of Colorado - Boulder
   * University of Michigan
   * University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
   * University of Utah
   * University of Virginia
   * University of Washington
   * University of Wisconsin - Madison
   * University System of Georgia
   * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
   * Yale University


Addendum C:  Technical Issues of Electronic Publishing Workshop
             Detailed Agenda

Wednesday, May 27
9am-5:30pm
Penn State Conference Center Hotel
State College, PA

Morning (9am-noon)
    9:00 Overview (Bill Arms, CNRI)
    9:45 Dienst: A distributed network publishing system (Carl 
            Lagoze, Cornell)
   10:45 Break
   11:15 Printing and publishing technologies (CUPID, Dienst, XML) (Rich 
            Marisa, Cornell)

Lunch (noon-1:30pm)

Afternoon (1:30-5:30pm)
    1:30 The Illinois Digital Library Initiative: Full-Text Journal Access 
            (Bill Mischo, UIUC)
    2:15 Content Management Systems: Getting from Concept to Reality, 
            (Chris Kartchner, CDIS, Inc.)
    3:00 Break
    3:30 Vendor panel (PubWeb, Community of Science)
    4:30 JSTOR (Ira Fuchs, Princeton)
    5:15 Wrapup (facilitator to be determined)


Addendum D:  Asynchronous Learning Workshop Detailed Agenda

CSG WORKSHOP SESSION on ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING
Thursday 28 May 1998


8:00 to 8:15 a.m.

1. Brief Intro and Overview of the Session   -  J Boettcher, CREN

Intro will provide overall framework for asynchronous /flexible learning
initiatives and goals/issues of the workshop.


8:15 to 8:45 a.m. "Status of the use of CBT Modules at Berkeley" Jack
McCredie, Berkeley

Case study example -- Description of the technical and policy issues in
providing training for technical IT professionals. Jack will provide an
update on the status of implementation and use of the CBT training modules
at Berkeley. This discussion will solicit input


8:45 to 9:45 a.m. 'Designing, Developing and Delivering of Asynchronous
Learning Programs (ALN) for Students - Penn State's World Campus Initiative'
John T. Harwood, Center for Academic Computing, Penn State and
Larry Ragan, Continuing and Distance Education, Penn State.

This section will focus on the design, development and delivery issues for
student programs offered in an asynchronous mode.  This will include the
description of the technical infrastructure and policy issues in providing
learning to students in ALN environments.


9:45 to 10:15 a.m.  "Coming Support Trends - 'Course Web' and Course Site
Generators."   Anne Stunden, Cornell

The landscape is changing for support of ALN courses. The National
Association of College Book Stores is launching a major development effort
in a product called Course-Web;  Course Site generators to assist faculty in
developing web sites for their classes are also ramping up. Anne will
provide a quick look at these two issues.


10:15 to 10:30 a.m. Questions and Wrap-up and link to ongoing focus groups.