Dear All, I know that Ray has been extraordinarily busy since our meeting last week and so has not had time to write up the minutes so I have decided to send out a brief reminder of the actions so that we can make some progress. The first action has been augmented following an exchange of email with Arthur Spirling (ICT director) and so is not exactly as it was when we discussed it. 1. Mathematica ================ a. It is important that we stop all illegal use of this program within Physics. Wolfram believe that there are many illegal copies in use here (although will not tell us who they are). I know that Jo has emailed all staff saying that this must stop but we should publicise that it needs to stop to all members of our group. b. Legitimate use - we should asses how many licenses are needed in physics and purchase the best deal available. Apparently, physics already has three license servers and our options are to either increase the number of licenses that they serve or to by a license for the department and which is most cost effective depends on the numbers. So please could each of you survey your group as to how many people do already use mathematica and how many would like to use it so that we can take this forward. *** I would be grateful if you could do this by next Monday. 2. UG Project Servers ====================== There was a suggestion that the department should buy some dedicated hardware for MSci (and other?) UG projects as there were often machines in the UG computing suite with notes asking people not to use them as they were running projects. Please could you survey the people who supervise projects in your group asking if they really think that dedicated hardware would be useful and if so how much and running what OS. *** I would be grateful if you could do this by next Monday. 3. List of technical people who should receive the Daily ICT bulletin ======================================================================= I receive the daily ICT Bulletin and it as agreed at the meeting that while the people at the meeting where not all the correct people to receive the this level of information there usually is somebody more technical in each group who should receive it. I will ask ICT to set up an email list for these people and automatically forward a copy to this list as it comes into my inbox. Please could you send me the email addresses of people who should be on this technical forum. *** this is going to be ongoing. There were was also an action on me to forward Adrian's email (which I have only just done). My apologies for asking to carry out points one and two at reasonably short notice, but I am hopeing that this just involves sending an email out to your group and collating the answers and so is not too much work. All the best, david