CIO Constituent Group

Greetings friends,

Over the years, we have seen many request for RFPs but I don’t recall seeing these.  So, if you would be willing to share an RFP for one of the following, I’d love to hear from you!

·         Card access systems for residence halls and/or offices

·         Consolation of alarm systems (both fire and burglar) in one comprehensive system

·         If someone has one for a package that includes both as a single integrated system, that would be great

For what it’s worth, we...

Folks,

I clearly struck a nerve with my questions yesterday, and have heard from roughly 100 CIOs in the past 24 hours.  So this seems to me to be a community issue rather.  No need to send me more indications of interest – it’s obviously something that many/most of us are facing.

I was reminded in one email of the similar conversations that took place between our community and Microsoft some years ago.  There are some good lessons to be learned from that experience.

I was also reminded that Adobe has a customer advisory board, and that some members of that board are on this list.  That communication channel can prove to be very valuable, and with their permission, should be leveraged.

We are exploring the possibility of expanding some of our summer activities for children to include multi-day and overnight camps. If you offer similar programs, to what degree do you provide internet access (wireless, computer logons, etc.) to minors? As with most other colleges, we do not provide any web filtering and we are concerned about minors accessing inappropriate content via our networks. Minors who come to campus for classes and workshops must have their parents sign a consent form where they acknowledge that we do not provide any filtering but with possible significant increases in the number of children, this will become an onerous task.

Do you provide network/internet/computer access to minors enrolled in summer classes, music programs or camps?

If so, what is your...

I guess there is comfort in knowing “we are not alone” in dealing with Adobe license changes – but there is high dissatisfaction (at least on my part…) in the direction their licensing is moving.

We have been long-term CLP customers and have seen:

·         flip-flops from concurrent-use to NO concurrent-use

·         product bundles that have shifted over time, sometimes without much logic.  certain standalone products that are price prohibitive if purchased outside of a bundle with stuff you don’t want or need.

·         many years of paying annual maintenance for products – now to be told that is no...

We’ve heard estimates all over the map on what a “typical” 3D generated output costs. I know that the cost can range wildly, but a couple of our clients have asked us what to expect for cost / model ‘printed’. Mike, do you have any cost ranges for student projects to guide other campuses?

I think that your response could help schools decide how to handle these amazing but potentially expensive devices.

We currently have a hodge-podge of different setups on campus to record students preforming tasks for later review and discussion with faculty. Speeches in a  Speech class, interviews in a Human Services class, patient interviews in Physicals Assistant classes, simulations run in a Paramedic Class. I think we need to move to a consistent implementation of this process across campus if possible. In all cases we need to record both video and audio, in some cases there are multiple cameras needed to capture the task being performed. I am interested in any products anyone else might be using to accomplish this.

Thanks in advance for any replies

Mike Cunningham

VP of Information Technology Services/CIO