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December 2011

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Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] FW: Computing committee meeting Wednesday 30 November
by David Colling 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hi Harry, This is a good point. I am forwarding this to the list to see how many people it effects. I also need confirm the arrangements for my own children. Please let me know if this means you will not be able to make the meeting. Best, david On 21/11/11 10:21, Vine, Harry A wrote: > Hi David, > Wednesday 30^th November. > Do you wish to suggest changing the date of our Computing Committee > meeting as some may not be here and those with children may have to be > away because of school closures suggest definetely check again with Kenny > /-//Trade unions have called a collective day of strike action on 30 > November, warning the government that Britain faces the "biggest > mobilisation in a generation" unless ministers rethink "hugely damaging" > changes to public sector pension schemes./ > /Up to 3 million public sector workers, including nurses, teachers and > careworkers, are expected to take part in industrial action, with at > least 14 unions committed to strikes over government pension reforms./ > Best wishes > Harry > -----Original Message----- > From: physics-departmental-computing-bounces(a)imperial.ac.uk > [mailto:physics-departmental-computing-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] On Behalf > Of David Colling > Sent: 08 November 2011 09:52 > To: Weir, Kenny > Cc: physics-departmental-computing; Williams, Matthew A; Roberts, Chris > Subject: Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Computing committee meeting > Thanks Kenny, > Lets make the date Wednesday the 30th of November at 12:30. I will book > a location (I expect it will Blackett 532 but will check when I get back > from Brussels tonight). > Best, > david > On 07/11/11 15:53, Weir, Kenny wrote: >> Dear David, >> >> My apologies that I hadn't responded to your request. >> >> At present I can make either of the dates you suggest. >> >> Regards, >> >> Kenny >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David Colling [mailto:d.colling@imperial.ac.uk] >> Sent: 07 November 2011 14:53 >> To: physics-departmental-computing; Weir, Kenny; Roberts, Chris; > Williams, Matthew A >> Subject: Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] Computing committee meeting >> >> Hi All, >> >> The doodle poll has either Monday the 14th or Wednesday the 30th as the >> clear winners. I have a slight preference for Wednesday the 30th but can >> manage either. However there is no reply from Kenny Weir and I think >> that we need Kenny (or somebody to represent him) for the machine room >> update. >> >> So Kenny, can you make either of these dates? >> >> Best, >> david >> >> >> On 01/11/11 21:24, David Colling wrote: >> > Dear All, >> > >> > I think that now the start of term is a distant memory and Christmas is >> > not yet in our sites, we should have a Physics Computing Committee > meeting. >> > >> > I have created a doodle poll at http://www.doodle.com/nhkdwga64sh926ig >> > >> > Clearly meeting times evolve and so I would rather have this meeting as >> > soon as is reasonable so that people don't become unfree on days when >> > they have said that they are free. The meeting will be held at lunchtime >> > (I am easy as to whether we start 12:10 or 12:30 we can discuss). I >> > would like to keep this reasonably short but I think that we actually >> > have quite a few things that I would like to cover this meeting - so a >> > business like approach will be essential. These include: >> > >> > - Actions arising - I wouldn't normally explicitly add this but there >> > are quite a lot from the previous meeting! >> > >> > - Status and plans for the Huxley machine room replacement. I have cc'ed >> > Kenny specifically for this item so we shall try to do it early in the >> > agenda. >> > >> > - Security (similarly early in the agenda). Chris Roberts gave a talk to >> > the faculty IT committee and I think that something similar would be >> > useful here. Matthew Williams is taking over the security brief (along >> > with others that he has) from Chris. I have cc'ed both on this mail but >> > have only asked Matthew in advance (sorry Chris). >> > >> > - Data preservation and access. This is becoming increasingly important >> > in RCUK policy and is something that we have to make sure that we comply >> > with. I will post the RCUK rules in an appropriate place (see some >> > comments below). >> > >> > - A report on the current discussions of the computing part of the >> > teaching review. This will be very limited as it is far from finalised >> > but it will be good to get informal feedback from this group. It is of >> > course up to other bodies to ultimately decide what happens here and so >> > this will be informal. >> > >> > - Lecture theatre AV facilities >> > >> > - Then there will agenda items suggested by others - please send items >> > that you want discussed. >> > >> > - The perennial items (ICT status and plans, group round up etc) >> > >> > Vivienne has sent me the minutes of the previous meeting. I would like >> > to post these and other documents on a web site rather than fill >> > everybody's inbox. We used to have a web page for the departmental >> > computing committee (which was rather out of date) but this has >> > disappeared - or rather I cannot find it any more. Does it make sense to >> > move this to sharepoint or would people rather see the old website >> > resurrected? >> > >> > Best, >> > david >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list >> > Physics-Departmental-Computing(a)imperial.ac.uk >> > https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing >> > _______________________________________________ > Physics-Departmental-Computing mailing list > Physics-Departmental-Computing(a)imperial.ac.uk > https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/physics-departmental-computing

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Move out of Huxley machine room
by David Colling 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

Dear All, I was slightly concerned at yesterday's meeting about the proposed proliferation of small machine rooms. I feel that it would be much better, for many reasons, if we could have one medium sized room - perhaps half or a third of the size the current machine room. The problem then (obviously) is finding such a room. Surely there must a student common room that we haven't shutdown already that we can use? Best, david

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