Technology
Committee Meeting
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Agenda:
Minutes 1. Eric Hinds came and made a presentation. They are planning a conference in fall of 2003 on the issue of stem cell research - ethical issues, not just science. Speaker is Glenn McGee from U Penn. One of the things that would be ideal and helpful would be to have a record and a website of the conference. He's here to find out what to do and what is possible and what we can do. The speaker has confirmed and said he has the capeability to do the audio and video, etc,. but would cost $2000. Steve responded that we are about to look into moving the diocesan site so that we can do this. We will support in all we can. Steve suggested asking the speaker for a clip from his past work to use in advertising. John encouraged Eric to come to us in hope that we can offer the expertise and manpower to support him. Eric is hoping to use this first event to build a committee of interested folks. Russ asked about how registration would be handled. Eric said that he was not planning a fee, but was looking for reservations so as to have a handle on numbers. Russ has a software registration package that could be used soon and offered to help with this. This will still be the John E. Hinds lecture series. There may be a future time when a web site is needed. Harwood suggested that his cousin, Terry Harwood, is a medical ethicist at Harvard and might be a speaker. We will be more than happy to support you in any way we can. We will provide a url and a minimal web page for starters. Harwood will do the audio/video and put it on his server and we'll point to it. 2. Transition to CPG server - John gave the background on the Church Pension Group offer to share space on their servers. John has contacted Clayton Crawley, who said they should be ready by November. His reply is that they are about a week from launch - December 1. They run on Linux with.....a bunch of other stuff, including perl, apache, unlimited e-mails, unlimited list serves, domain hosting. John will keep after them. Steve says we're paid on IDT through the 1st quarter, so we are ready to go. Steve has offered to help with the transfer. We will have to test the cgi scripts and move the e-mail aliases...article manager needs to be moved and tested. 3. Article Manager - works fine. 3-4 districts are using it. District 7 has a good site and doesn't need it. Other district conveners weren't interested and didn't respond. Susan and Russ will bring it before the other districts. Steve will bring it up at Council, but may not have conveners there. 4. Convention - Power points will be used - Russ said Cross Roads and there will be multicultural presentations. Steve thinks there will be a floor fight on the budget and he is the chair. Steve will ask John to get the info to us. John raised the concern of asking the hotel to provide the projectors - they have them and they're big and it is time to ask what the cost would be. One of the frustrations is that our smaller projectors are too small for everyone to see. If it is too awful, of course, no, but if it is reasonable, we should go with them. Scott will ask the av guy at the Glenpointe. We really need 4. We will support the election results as before. This year is going to have 2 flavors because of the left-over clergy convention alternate. 5. Budget-3-5 year plan - The developemnt office (Susan Hillers) would be helped with our dreams if we could produce a plan. WebEx is an awesome tool. Steve will look into the pricing. Another dream is to be able to submit the data for the master list about parish leadership and have it flow into a cold fusion data base and then be able to have it be able to generate reports. Another dream is having the site stuff palm-pilot friendly. Johanna is still fighting with Adobe. Steve says Corel 10 will do it and maybe we can solve the problem by upgrading to 10. We need to report back to Michael to go for all these dreams. 6. Russ's survey summary. We got a major report. It is now on line. Russ has software support links on the Crossroads site. www.crossroadsoutdoorministries.org/TechSurvey.htm is the online version of the report. Where do we go from here with this information? The administrators don't seem to really even know enough to ask questions. John suggests that the administrators be asked if they are interested in adopting the report and making it current. Russ has no problem with doing that. Also ask them what they would like most to learn - take the office tutorials and see if there is any interest. Russ has hard copy and will give it to anyone who wants one. 7. Future workshops. A couple of congregations want web workshops and then Russ should have some clue about what the administrators want and when. Head for March 1- Basic Web Workshop; article manager; 8-noon; ask Cindy if she would be interested in an afternoon advanced workshop on what topic.
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