UNYSAG Meeting, Thursday, May 28, 1998
The second meeting of the Upstate New York
Systems Administrators Guild is scheduled for Thursday, 28 May
from 3:00 to 5:00 PM in room 4034 in the Center for Industrial
Innovation (CII) located on the RPI campus in Troy. Light
refreshment will be provided.
The first meeting went well, and the attendies all thought it would be a
good idea to have another one. We are already seeing benefits from
UNYSAG, Deanne from Skidmore told us about another group starting
(which we have contacted) and about a seminar on securing networks
(which was attended by a number of folks from my group and we found it
quite interesting and usefull - Thanks Deanne!)
Agenda
At the first meeting, we decided to defer organizational issues to the
next meeting, so once again, we have organizational issues on the
agenda. I am still looking for additional topics and suggestions for
the agenda. Personally, I am looking for someone who can speak with
authority and safe and secure ways to remotely access NT servers.
Other presentation topics could include "How to conduct an information
security audit", or other security/privacy issues. We could also get
into more technical areas like enterprise wide printing (with
accounting and billing).
Ideally we can
expand this agenda based on comments from people prior to the meeting
(email them to me at finkej@rpi.edu).
We will also have a presentation from Kathy Bursese, the Assistant
Director of Service Support Services at RPI on RPI's new "Electronic
Citizenship" policy which outlines what we expect from our users, and
what obligations we have to them (in terms of use and abuse of the
network.) While this will definatly be of interest to the academic
sites, I would bet that other sites will also get some good info.
Travel & Parking
The CII is located on the RPI campus directly across the pedistrian
bridge from the Visitors Information Center and Visitors Parking
Lot. Room 4034 is located in the lower part of the CII (North). After
you cross the pedestrian bridge, the CII will be directly ahead of you
(large white building, with a smaller section attached via a walkway)
to the right. Go into the smaller section under the walkway, and go
up one flight. (If you happen to go into the larger section, go to
the 4th floor and take the walkway over to smaller part of the
building - note: from the pedestrian bridge, you enter the CII on the
third floor.)
You can find directions to RPI at http://www.rpi.edu/CampusInfo/travel.html.
Parking is available on 15th street, or in the Visitors parking lot.
There are hourly charges for the visitors parking lot. You may want
to avoid parking on campus - most campus spots require a parking
permit. There are a few metered spots, but they are generally pretty
short term. Parking enforcement is rather agressive, with a majority
of the parking office revenue coming from fines rather than
permits. More information about the wonderful and wacky world of
parking at RPI can be found at http://www.rpi.edu/dept/parking.
finkej@rpi.edu