District IT committee minutes (4/12/07)

During vacation will be doing electricity and cable runs at OTES for wireless upstairs.

OTHS - during vacation will put in leftover airports to cover as much of the building as possible.
Some difficulties with fiber setup - buildings were pulling IP addresses from each other; caused local network difficulties.

Estimate from TimeWarner - could route teachers/staff to cable internet and route students to fiber & BESS. If this is done, we'd need to be very careful to make sure unfiltered access doesn't enable naughty behavior. Estimated cost would be $0.50/foot for fiber or less for cable. Fiber $1700, cable $350. Labor contracted out, so the labor cost would be $15,700. Cable $1200 labor. Total cost would probably be around $20,000 to connect the 4 buildings. Jef is exploring using IP phones; if we go that route eRate may be able to take care of part of the cost.

BESS: Filtering level at OTES, LMS, OTRP is set to "minimum". When decision was made to increase OTHS security, it was moved to "School" setting (blocks commerce, etc.).

Exchange: there are some bugs. Exchange is not talking with FirstClass well. Jef is talking with the University regarding otsd.org (otsd.org is probably an alias). As of July 1st, support won't be given for horde or firstclass. Trying to mesh 3 systems was a mistake. School calendars will be viewable through the web. Training is being planned in each school during in-service to get teachers using this system.

Regarding connections with the city; talks have happened regarding printing, email, etc.; perception is that the city isn't terribly interested in working together on these things.

Printer/copier: PREP is in a bid process; we'll have the opportunity to look at 3 bids. We shouldn't buy any other network printers for now; this needs to be resolved by August.