AI Identifier |
Person(s) Assigned / Description of Action Item / Status of AI/Comment |
Jun2003.PA.1 |
Person(s) Assigned: Kevin Gallagher -- GIO, Reston,
VA
Issue: DOI hardware procurement,
pricing and technical support for delivery and
warranty Description of Action Item: Kevin to
contact Paul Exter to get ITAC and PA District
information on DOI hardware procurement, pricing and
technical support for delivery and warranty. Status of AI/Comment: Completed |
Jun2003.PA.2 |
Person(s) Assigned: Jessica
Alvarez -- Reston, VA
Issue: SPLUS and G2 Description of Action Item: Jessica Alvarez will
contact Jim Slack to ask him to talk to the PA District (Dan
Galeone) to document which G2 functions are not covered by
SPLUS. Status of AI/Comment: Completed -- Reference
email thread of 9/04/2003 to 10/20/2003. |
Jun2003.PA.3 |
Person(s)
Assigned: Sandy Williamson -- Tacoma,
WA
Issue: Jon Scott's random site selection program. Description of Action Item: Sandy Williamson will
contact Jon Scott regarding Scott Hoffman's comment about Jon
Scott's GIS program and report back to ITAC and the PA
District. During the ITAC town meeting
this week in PA, we had a question about the adaption of your
site selection software for the new version of ARC. I believe
Scott Hoffman, that asked the question, had talked or emailed
you. Could you explain what kind of timeline, if any, exist
for you to be able to do this, or what skills and levels of
effort do you think would be needed to do this? Status of AI/Comment: Completed, 6/13/03 --
Reference Jonathon Scott's
email of 6/13/03. |
Jun2003.PA.4 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned: Sandy Williamson
Issue: HSPF (QW modeling) Description of Action Item: Sandy Williamson will
contact the Office of Surface Water regarding the HSPF QW
model comments from the PA District town meeting and report
back to ITAC and the PA District. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED
During the ITAC town meeting this week in PA, we had a question about
the support for models like HSPF. The person felt like HSPF had some
rough edges and the documentation was incomplete. I know that we do no
have enough resources to support HASS. Could you describe for us a
little of the plans for OSW to support some models, and specifically
about HSPF? -- Reference Steve
Blanchard email of 6/16/03 |
Jun2003.PA.5 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Brian McCallum
Issue: Questionnaire
Description of Action Item: Brian will
wordsmith a recommendation for discipline offices to survey
the Districts regarding software that needs enterprise
support. Katherine will bring this recommendation to the AD
TECH meeting in July. Status of AI/Comment: Reference Brian's email of 6/20/03. |
Jun2003.PA.6 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Katherine Lins
Issue: Awards for outgoing members
Katherine will send non-monetary awards and letters to Grady
Moore and Ruth Thornberg for their services. Description of Action Item: Katherine will send
non-monetary awards and letters to Grady Moore and Ruth
Thornberg for their services. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED |
Jun2003.PA.7 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Katherine Lins
Issue: Process for selection of new members Description of Action Item: Katherine will work on
replacements for the District Chief who is retiring and the
WebMaster representative who is rotating off at the end of the
year. Those two will send recommendations to Katherine. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED
|
Jun2003.PA.8 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned: NTTAC
Issue: Publications, Cyber Seminars Description of Action Item: NTTAC is requested to nominate a
person to work with CAPP regrading the seminar for System
Administrators for issues related to publishing. This is to assist in
validation of content. NTTAC is to provide name to Phil Redman, CAPP
(608.238.9333, x 152) by June 23, 2003. Status of AI/Comment: update on 08/16/03 -- Scott McEwen
clarified that there is need for a Cyber Seminar for Publications for
District Chiefs, Studies Chief, Reports Chiefs and SAs. This seminar
would include best practices for publications information infrastructure
(hardware and software) in the Districts. Issues include font types,
software installation tip sheets, etc..)COMPLETED
|
Jun2003.PA.9 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Brian McCallum
Issue: CDReportWorkshop Lotus abbrev group Description of Action Item: Brian McCallum will add
Greg Allord, Barbara Balthrop, and Ed Fisher to the
CDReportWorkshop Lotus abbrev group. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED
|
Jun2003.PA.10 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Brian McCallum
Issue: Formation of a SLEDS user group or user input process Description of Action Item: ITAC will recommend that
a SLEDS user group or a SLEDS user input process be formed and
that the SLEDS web page be kept current. A direct SLEDS URL
link from the main OSW Web site needs to be built. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED - Reference Brian's
08/15/03 email. |
Jun2003.PA.11 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Tom Wood and Margaret Bunch
Issue: IT security impacts on Districts Description of Action Item: Tom Wood and Margaret
Bunch will generate a correspondence to WRD Site Admin on IT
Security impacts on Districts. Status of AI/Comment: Completed -- Reference Garry Neverdon's
email to SA's from 7/30/03 |
Jun2003.PA.12 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Nelson Williams
Issue: IT security impacts on Districts Description of Action Item: Nelson will prepare a
recommendation from the ITAC to the CTO for a combined public
ftp services (outbound) working with NATWeb staff. Status of AI/Comment: NATWEB cannot offer these services
(consolidated FTP services) per Jessie Alvarez. Manpower is not
available in NATWEB. |
Jun2003.PA.13 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Jessica Alvarez and Tim Brown
Issue: IT security impacts on Districts -- Security
Requirements and DMZs Description of Action Item: Jessie and Tim Brown
will develop guidelines for SAs, to help them prepare for a
DMZ migration, if they determine they will not be able to use
the Bureau consolidated ftp and web solutions. These
guidelines will be reviewed by NWIS Security and sent out by
the RCSers. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED -- Reference Jessie
Alvarez document. |
Jun2003.PA.14 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Ernest Dreyer
Issue: NWIS implementation status -- DECODES status Description of Action Item: Susan will have Ernest
Dreyer send an email to Randy and ITAC to describe the
enhancements to DECODES that are going to be worked on. (This
is because Susan wasn't sure that she understood Randy's
question --so she wanted the expert to give Randy/ITAC a short
summary). This summary will be added to the next official NWIS
status note that is sent out (date to be determined
later). Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED -- Reference Ernest Dreyer email
of 6/30/03 |
Jun2003.PA.15 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Tom Wood
Issue: HTML Editor Description of Action Item: Tom Wood will find out
if WRD can get a better price on Dreamweaver. Status of AI/Comment: 8/15/03 - Reference Greg Allord
email; Garry will send email to SA's |
Jun2003.PA.16 COMPLETED> |
Person(s) Assigned:
Nelson Williams
Issue: HTML Editor Description of Action Item: Nelson will summarize
the HTML editor issues and recommendation and send an email to
WRD Site Administrators. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED |
Jun2003.PA.17 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
ITAC members
Issue: Preparation for upcoming conference calls/meetings. Description of Action Item: ITAC members will send
out highlights of the ITAC minutes to their constituents. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED |
Jun2003.PA.18 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Nelson Williams
Issue: Preparation for upcoming conference calls/meetings. Description of Action Item: Nelson will poll the
ITAC members regarding ITAC cyber meeting(s) dates and having the
ITAC vice-chair organize and conduct the ITAC cyber meetings. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED - 06/23/03 --
Reference Nelson's email of 6/23/03. |
Jun2003.PA.19 COMPLETED |
Person(s) Assigned:
Brian McCallum
Issue: Thank you to the PA District. Description of Action Item: Brian will send thanks
to the PA District for sponsoring the ITAC meeting. Status of AI/Comment: COMPLETED |
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