Dear All, Just a reminder that we have a Physics Departmental Computing meeting at lunchtime today. This will be in 532 Blackett and will start at 12:30. Attached are the minutes from the previous meeting, which I had hoped to put on the departmental web site rather than distribute to everybody's inbox however, maybe next time. The agenda as advertised earlier is: - 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. - Actions arising - I wouldn't normally explicitly add this but there are quite a lot from the previous meeting! - 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. The SFTC plans can be found at http://www.stfc.ac.uk/resources/pdf/stfc_scientific_data_policy.pdf and the RCUK documents are appended to the last page of this document. - 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 - The perennial items (ICT status and plans, group round up etc) - AOB Best, david