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AI Identifier |
Person(s) Assigned / Description of Action Item / Status of AI/Comment |
Person(s) Assigned:
Kevin Gallagher -- GIO, Reston, VA
Issue: DOI Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft Description of Action Item: Kevin to request that FIP
guidelines be modified to state that servers should be purchased without
an "08". Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Nelson Williams, Grady Moore, Scott McEwen, and Sandy Williamson
Issue: DOI Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft Description of Action Item: Nelson, Grady, Scott, and Sandy
- will work up numbers to show that we did not have real savings
[cost avoidance]. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Greg Allord
Issue: DOI Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft Description of Action Item: Greg - Geodatabase support for
GIS by either MS SQL or Oracle needs to be addressed by some WRD group.
Greg will nominate people for the group. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Paul Exter -- Baltimore, MD
Issue: DOI Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft Description of Action Item: Paul - will provide his draft
recommendation to ITAC. Jim Bettandorff and others will modify it for
ITAC ratification. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
All ITAC Members
Issue: Consolidating ftp servers. Description of Action Item:
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Person(s) Assigned:
Tom Wood
Issue: Consolidating ftp servers. Description of Action Item: Tom will send a "request
for comment" (RFC) to district SAs and Webmasters including the problem,
draft ftp requirements list, and solicit district comment on the
requirements. ITAC members will share the RFC with their constituents
as well. DIS will consolidate all input and coordinate results and
funding needs with Kevin Gallagher. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Kevin Gallagher
Issue: Consolidating ftp servers. Description of Action Item: Kevin will share Jessie's
presentation with Stu Mitchell, will seek clarification for our
assumptions and proposed solutions, and will report back to GS-W ITAC
and others, as appropriate. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Kevin Gallagher
Issue: Consolidating ftp servers. Description of Action Item: Kevin will have Mike McNally
request that DOI allow USGS to use anonymous ftp "read-only" from a DMZ,
without having to request waivers. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Lorna Schmid, Tom Wood, Jessie Alvarez, & Kevin Gallagher
Issue: Consolidating ftp servers. Description of Action Item: Lorna, Tom, Jessie, and Kevin
will coordinate the groups that need to come together to provide the
technical solutions to the anonymous FTP, ArcIMS, and related issues. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Katherine Lins
Issue: WRD Publications Update Description of Action Item: Katherine will send a June
e-mail to districts presenting Greg's cost savings research and recommending
that districts purchase of maintenance with/for all CLP publishing software. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Tom Wood
Issue: WRD Publications Update Description of Action Item: Tom will pursue a discounted
contract for DreamWeaver. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Kevin Gallagher
Issue: WRD Publications Update Description of Action Item: Kevin will ask Alan Davidson
to work with Greg Allord, Harry House, and Sandy Williamson to explore Oracle
solutions for needs that Greg and Sandy envision. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Jessie Alvarez
Issue: Future meetings and/or conference calls Description of Action Item: Jessie will prepare an
issues/solutions presentation for the February ITAC conference call. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Debbie Tracy and Grady Moore
Issue: Future meetings and/or conference calls Description of Action Item: Debbie and Grady are assigned
the task of defining issues with TMS and proposing correction. Consider
involving Diane Jeffries and inviting her participation when this issues is
brought before ITAC in the April conference call. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
All ITAC notetakers
Issue: Future meetings and/or conference calls Description of Action Item: All ITAC notetakers will send
their minutes for the PR meeting to Ruth for posting. Presenters are to
send their powerpoint files to Ruth for posting. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
All ITAC members
Issue: Future meetings and/or conference calls Description of Action Item: All ITAC members are to
share ITAC meeting highlights with their constituents. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Jessie Alvarez and Margaret Bunch
Issue: Future meetings and/or conference calls Description of Action Item: Jessie and Margaret will
help create Lotus abbrevs for ER and WR studies chiefs, respectively. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Katherine Lins
Issue: Lotus Notes Description of Action Item: Katherine will forward, to
Kevin Gallagher, through Bob Hirsch, Sandy's "Draft Recommendations from
ITAC about Lotus" with modifications as stated by Katherine and agreed
to by ITAC. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Nelson Williams & Lorna Schmid
Issue: NatWeb Migration by WRD Description of Action Item: Nelson and Lorna will draft letter
for Katherine to review and send, informing districts of ITAC's endorsement of
the "NatWeb Migration by WRD" proposal. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Jessica Alvarez
Issue: IT competitive sourcing. Description of Action Item: Jessica will write down 6
questions from the Town Hall meeting and provide the answers (after
verification) to District (during this PR meeting) Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Tom Wood
Issue: Oracle Possibilities in WRD. Description of Action Item: Tom will get costs
and a handle on what we are paying for data bases. We already
own SQL servers, Ingres, Oracle, and Access. Do not buy another and
until we understand what we already own. -- Start talk about what should
be communicated ... who supports Oracle at the Bureau level? Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
Tom Wood & Jessica Alvarez
Issue: Oracle Possibilities in WRD. Description of Action Item: Tom and Jessica need to get
the word out to Project Chiefs as they are relying on local resources. Status of AI/Comment: |
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Person(s) Assigned:
ITAC members
Issue: Oracle Possibilities in WRD. Description of Action Item: ITAC members will consider
a standard data model for the simple things (date, time, etc.) Status of AI/Comment: |
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Jan2002.Cyber.2 |
Person(s) Assigned: Jessica Alvarez
Description of Action Item: Jessica will work with Ohio in
setting up a depot for communications to the districts (after the deployment
of NWIS-RT). Status of AI/Comment: |
Jan2002.Cyber.5 |
Person(s) Assigned: Greg Allord
Description of Action Item: Greg and administrative officer
will compose an agenda item by Friday to talk about the "integration of PUBs
processing for the Florida office and other districts"; with a preliminary
action item (for the expected outcome). Status of AI/Comment: |
Sep2002.AL.8 |
Person(s) Assigned: Joel Johnson
Description of Action Item: As part of staff development
plans/planning, NWIS will work with the Regional Computer Specialists and Joel
Johnson to develop a list of needed Computer Training for Water Database
Administrators. -- the audience is intended for District Chiefs and Managers.
The product would be an Office of Information memo???
Status of AI/Comment: Update 10/18/02 conf call:
DBA training- (PENDING) Scott: has been talking to Joe. They will work on it as
soon as NWIS 4.2 conversion is done. Scott asked Colleen if the goal is to develop
training for DBA. She agrees that this issue is on their radar screen. They hope
to spread out the load of putting this training together. Colleen does not know
how much time Greg Shank will have to work on this because his top priority is
to handle NWISRT implementation. Colleen needs to find someone other than Greg
to teach the course. She has someone in mind but has not discussed it with the
person. Update 1/27/03 conf call meeting: Still pending/work in
progress. |
Sep2002.AL.20 |
Person(s) Assigned: Jessica Alvarez and Loren
Kloft
Description of Action Item: Jessica and Loren will will send out
instructions through Mike McNally (Security, Reston, VA) on implementing wireless
access points. Status of AI/Comment: Update at 10/18/02 conf call:
IN PROGRESS. Jessie: I have a 2 page draft that will be sent out to RCSers and the
security team by the end of the day -- PENDING. Update at 1/27/03 conf call meeting: "still pending" but will try
to complete before the February meeting. |
Jul2002.Cyber.2 |
Person(s) Assigned: Kentucky and Iowa
sediment labs personnel led by Loren Kloft
Description of Action Item: will supply Dan Gooding the SLEDS
pipette requirements by August 15, to include an example input screen, output
report, and equations. Status of AI/Comment: Not Completed as
of Sep ITAC meeting.
1/27/03 update: Scott McEwen will look into the status
of SLEDS and report back to the ITAC group. |
Jul2002.Cyber.3 |
Person(s) Assigned: Dan Gooding
Description of Action Item: Dan will schedule a SLEDS team conference
call in late August to report on SLEDS enhancements status. Status of AI/Comment: No progress as of
Sep ITAC meeting. Scott will ask that the deadline be extended until mid-October.
1/27/03 update: Scott McEwen will look into the status
of SLEDS and report back to the ITAC group.
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Jul2002.Cyber.4 |
Person(s) Assigned: CVO
Description of Action Item: CVO will set up a SLEDS test environment
in KY, MO, and IA. Status of AI/Comment: No progress as of
Sep ITAC meeting. 1/27/03 update: Scott McEwen will look into the status
of SLEDS and report back to the ITAC group.
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Jan2002.NV.1 |
Person(s) Assigned: Scott McEwen & Charlie Merk
Description of Action Item: Scott & Charlie will address the issue of
Handar and Sutron 8200A instruments not interfacing to the Windows 2000; and report back to
ITAC on these instrument issues. Status of AI/Comment: Vaisala (Handar) has a beta version of Windows software
that runs on Windows 2000 that eliminates the communication problem. Contact is Larry Weaver. |
Jan2002.NV.2 |
Person(s) Assigned: Sam Martinez
Description of Action Item: Sam will clarifiy the Active Directory
benefits to Bureau, cost centers, and the site administrators. Status of AI/Comment: 4/1/02 update -- the Lighthouse Team has proposed
a cost/benefit analysis edit/review process to the CR GIO for consideration by the GIO LT.
Awaiting GIO LT's approval/support. |
Jan2002.NV.6 |
Person(s) Assigned:
Scott McEwen, Loren Kloft, Jessie Alvarez and Brian McCallum
Description of Action Item: Scott McEwen, Loren, Jessie, and
Brian, will find out status of the technical office's data archival report
if not completed, will draft a data archival model, including checklists,
of what needs to be archived by the next meeting. Gene Summerhill, Office
of Information has on his place the job of developing policy and guidelines
for WRD to comply with NARA. Status of AI/Comment: 4/1/02 update from Scott McEwen
-- Jessie and Loren are making progress. Guess McEwen and Brian need to get
it in gear. Actually, I'm working with Colleen and Alan Burns (CR GW
Specialist) on a survey of district NWIS archival and backup processes. I
forgot to include the others in my efforts, but will correct. 4/1/02 email - details from Jessie Alvarez -- I emailed the SAs and
have received links or copies of 3 District archival plans so far. |
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