AI Identifier |
Person(s) Assigned /
Description of Action Item / Status of AI/Comment |
MAY2000.MN.1
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned:
Bill Carswell & Lew Wade will communicate to the USGS
Associate Director for Water.
Bill Carswell & Carl Goodwin will communicate to the
Eastern Regional Director and to Wanda Meeks.
Mike Slifer & Scott McEwen will communicate to Central
Region Director and Jim Kircher.
Lew Wade, Barry Hill, & Pat Vallance will communicate
to the Western Region Director and Conomos.
Description of Action Item: The designated CPAC members meet with the Regional
Hydrologist office after the CPAC meeting to communicate issues that are important to CPAC.
(Lew Wade and Carl Goodwin will provide talking points at Thursday (5/18) closing of
meeting.)
Status/Comments: Bill Carswell gave a General Briefing to the Eastern Regional
Director; and he talked with the Water discipline managers about the kinds of DIS testing that is
required before field installation. Mike Slifer reported that Jim Kircher recommended that this
discussion be postponed for now in the Central Region. {insert the talking points here}
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MAY2000.MN.2
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned:
Bill Carswell will talk to Regional Hydrologists.
Description of Action Item:
Cause Regional Computer Specialists to attend next CPAC meeting and then see what happens.
Status/Comments: Completed.
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MAY2000.MN.3
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: CPAC PLANNING
Description of Action Item: Discuss grass roots goals rather than strategic goals
method
- Discuss grass roots issues at this CPAC meeting
- Continue discussion of the grass roots issues in August meeting
- In November, will set goals for the next fiscal year's goals.
Status/Comments: Not completed. In progress as of August, 2000 CPAC meeting.
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MAY2000.MN.4
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Carl Goodwin & Charlie Merk
Description of Action Item: Approach:
- We sill take a bottom-up approach to planning consistent with strategic directions.
- Use FY number approach to numbering.
- Close "if possible" existing goals (Carl/Charlie).
Status/Comments: The naming/numbering convention we've starting using is
AUG2000.VA.5 -- which gives the month, year, meeting location, & action item number
from each CPAC meeting. There is an index web page off the main CPAC web page that provides a
history of CPAC action items. URL:
/cpac/docs/ai_history_index.html. (Note that this numbering
has been applied to CPAC action items for meetings from the present through November 1998 Miami
CPAC meeting; any meeting notes prior to that time has the scrattered through an ascii flat-file
of text.
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MAY2000.MN.5
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned:
Alan Lumb
Description of Action Item: Link into "dead" NWIS links and get back to CPAC.
Status/Comments: Completed by John Briggs
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MAY2000.MN.6
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Jim Slack
Description of Action Item: HASS to issue note on on current activities,
such as HSFP.
Status/Comments: NOT COMPLETE
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MAY2000.MN.7
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Scott McEwen & Tom Wood
Description of Action Item: CPAC considers "training" as future issue at August
meeting.
Status/Comments: In Progress
- Computer Support Staff Training
- Sun/Solaris administrators:
- "Solaris, the WRD/USGS Way". course does not exist in WRD.
Other sources?
- Status. Some untrained staff in districts (new employees).
- Windows administrators:
- Windows administrators:
- Intel LANDesk Training (C1239TC). NTC, 5 days
- Status:
- Trained to-date: AK, AR, CA, CO, FL (Miami, Tampa), LA, MA, MD,
ME, MN, MS, ND, NE, NY, OH, OK, PR, TX, UT, WA, WI, DIS (2), HIF, WRO
- Not trained yet in CR alone: IA, KS, MO, MT, NM, SD, WY, CRO, BRR, NTC
- Future courses: 9/11-15/00
- Ingres database system administrators:
- NWIS Ingres DBA Course - ?
- E-mail administrators:
- Local Lotus Mail Administator course.
- Status . Nearly all trained. Any future offerings for new LLMAs?
- Webmasters:
- Mastering a Website (C2189TC), NTC, 3-5 days
- Status. Many trained. Future offerings?
- User Training
- Lotus Notes, MS Office, and other Windows:
- LearnItOnline. No cost. Available until 11/9/00
- S-Plus:
- On-line. No additional cost.
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MAY2000.MN.8
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Lew Wade & Scott McEwen
Description of Action Item: Lew & Scott will
work with Greg Allord to raise the PUBS (computer) tools issue at USGS level - is raised to the Bureau
level and bring back as an agenda item Pubs 2000 meeting.
Status/Comments: As per the Bureau.s Publishing Issues Group (PIG) July 6th
meeting, Greg Allord and CAPP members have accomplished the task of raising software solutions to the
Bureau level. Ref:
http://internal.usgs.gov/publishing/07062000.html
Also, DIS reports on Pubs 2000: "David Boldt and Terry Reinitz represented the DIS Program
Office at the meeting. Representatives from GPO, experts from industry and across disciplines
presented seminars and poster sessions. Open forums encouraged questions and proposals with the
intent to coordinate bureau wide publications solutions in print and digital mediums. There was
wide agreement that there should be a universal set of publications tools for all USGS, with funding
to support this goal. DIS staff will be working closely with the Publications staff as part of this
bureau wide team to address some of the software issues raised at Pub 2000."
Contact is David Boldt.
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MAY2000.MN.9
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Alan Lumb
Description of Action Item: Report on Log Pearson scripts status.
Status/Comments: Ref:
Kate Flynn response 5/23/00
- to David Lorenz, MN District. When the testing and acceptance is complete, ALan Lumb will send an email
announcement of the availability.
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MAY2000.MN.10
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Tom Wood
Description of Action Item: Report on release date of new Lotus Notes Web tool.
Status/Comments: Release date is uncertain and TBD.
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MAY2000.MN.11
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Carl Goodwin to check with
District Chief on date.s
Description of Action Item: Develop Location for Next Meeting -- Next CPAC meeting
on schedule in Hawaii .
Status/Comments: Completed.
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MAY2000.MN.12
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Alan Lumb & Tom Wood
Description of Action Item: Gather together a group to look at Linux/LRGS issues
including Installation, Backup and Security support. Group will be comprised of Ernie Dreyer, David Boldt,
Greg Shank & others.
Status/Comments: Completed.
Reference email
from Greg Shank on 7/27/2000 and
email from Garry Neverdon
on 2/26/2001
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MAY2000.MN.13
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Tom Wood
Description of Action Item: rewrite: Tom will develop a proposal for a Fiscal Year
2001 funding for HW/SW support to bring back to the August CPAC meeting. Proposal will be sent out 2 weeks
before the meeting. (Originally stated as: Tom will lead the evaluation of FY 2001 funding for HW/SW support
at August meeting; create software by end of June. CPAC members will give cluster feedback.
Status/Comments: Completed.
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MAY2000.MN.14
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: CPAC
Description of Action Item: RE: Goal One Document. All CPAC members will review
the numbers tonight and look for big PROBLEMS; then CPAC will review tomorrow morning at the CPAC meeting.
Status/Comments: Completed.
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MAY2000.MN.15
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Alan Lumb & Tom Wood
Description of Action Item: Develop a narrative description of each package.
Status/Comments: Completed.
Reference
FY2000 Software
Analysis spreadsheet from Tom Wood, 8/24/2000
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MAY2000.MN.16
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Nelson Williams, Alan Lumb, &
Mark Nilles
Description of Action Item: The next step is for Nelson to develop a product
by mid-June to that includes a bulleted list of specific NWIS database management duties that could be
used in a position description. One or two paragraphs of background would be in the preface. Alan
Lumb will provide NWIS comments to Nelson Williams. All CPAC members will review by mid-July.
Mark Nilles will pass this document for comments to the Discipline Offices by August 1.
Status/Comments: Completed.
Reference
draft of 8/21/00:
Management Duties for NWIS
Databases
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MAY2000.MN.17
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Mark Nilles
Description of Action Item: Mark will see that table of model refreshment
efforts will get wide distribution.
Status/Comments: NOT COMPLETE.
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MAY2000.MN.18
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Lew Wade
Description of Action Item: Lew to bring proposal to next meeting to "fix"
HASS/discipline offices interaction.
Status/Comments: NOT COMPLETE.
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MAY2000.MN.19
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Loren Kloft
Description of Action Item: Form a working group and develop a "charge" for
data archival for August meeting.
Status/Comments: Completed
Reference
Electronic Data Archival - Recommendations for NWIS- and project-related data files,
presented by Loren at the CPAC Reston meeting, 8/22-24, 2000.
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MAY2000.MN.20
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Scott McEwen
Description of Action Item: Scott will get a CRACD NWIS "Top 10" list of
enhancements to the SW, WQ and GWSI NWIS user groups by the end of June.
Status/Comments: Completed
Reference
URL:
/cpac/docs/mn_ai20_000720.htm
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MAY2000.MN.21
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Alan Lumb
Description of Action Item: Alan will report back by email on the status of
GINO to replace the NWIS DISSPLA calls. A list of the NWIS DISSPLA calls will be attached.
Status/Comments: Completed
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MAY2000.MN.22
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Scott McEwen
Description of Action Item: Scott will draft a memo by August 1 from CPAC to
OSW suggesting that there needs to be a plan for non-DCP real-time data acquisition software. The next
step is to suggest that OSW take the lead and get a group from some of these States together and make
recommendations for software support.
Status/Comments: NOT COMPLETE
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MAY2000.MN.23
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Tom Wood
Description of Action Item: Mike McNally and Loren Kloft will prepare information
about WRD security plans for WRD District Chiefs and Site Administrators.
Status/Comments: MEMORANDUM sent on August 1, 2000
TO: All Water Resources Division Employees
FROM: Thomas C. Wood, Acting Chief,
DIS Program Office
DIS Infrastructure
Direction Memo #13,WRD Information Technology Security Infrastructure (Firewall Implementation)
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MAY2000.MN.24
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Alan Lumb
Description of Action Item: Develop a short wrap-up document for the CPAC
web page on the ORACLE RDBMS issue.
Status/Comments: HOLD and EVALUATE
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MAY2000.MN.25
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: CPAC
Description of Action Item: To send comments to Tom Wood by May 24,
on the technical specs for the desktop replacements.
Status/Comments: Completed.
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MAY2000.MN.26
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Lew Wade
Description of Action Item: Critical to get GIO to the next CPAC
meeting after she comes on Board.
Status/Comments: The following Invitation sent To: Karen Siderelis,
Cc: Steve Blanchard, Charlie Merk, and Bill Carswell, on 01/31/2001, from Katherine Lins,
Acting Chief, OI
The USGS Water Resources Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC) would like to offer
an open invitation to you or a representative of your choice to visit any of their regularly
scheduled meetings. The ITAC has served to advise Water in information technology decisions and
in understanding the specific needs of the field-based water professional the technology serves.
As you may be aware, ITAC meetings are held quarterly at a different Water office location
throughout the country. This pattern has been adopted to meet our charter requirement for
maintaining contact with grass-roots computer users. In this way ITAC can identify and respond
to needs before they become large problems and also become aware of innovative computer
activities and applications that may be of general interest. A common element of each meeting
is an informal town-meeting session with all office staff invited to interact with ITAC
members.
The next meeting is the first week in May in Tennessee. I am happy to extend to you this
invitation as well as to offer you the assistance of any ITAC member. We are justly proud of
the ITAC and its conduit for information and would want you to take advantage of the opportunity
it affords you as you develop your IT management plan.
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MAY2000.MN.27
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Lew Wade, Graig McHendrie,
Tom Wood, Loren Kloft, Scott McFarlane, & Greg Shank
Description of Action Item: To have a teleconference next week (week of May 22)
to discuss the LOTUS Notes POP issues.
Status/Comments: Overcome by Events -- Related Documentation:
from Gloria J Stiltner, 05/30/00 (Subject: Lotus Notes of Interest, for LLMAs: POP and IMAP)
The POP3 protocol will continue to be available through September 30, 2000. Additionally, the
Implementation Team is assessing a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) implementation of IMAP. Over the coming
months, users should finish moving to the use of Lotus/Domino as their primary mail server using the
Lotus Client or Web based mail as their primary mail interface. The Implementation Team is also
exploring the advantages of providing a suite of mail protocols (including POP3 and IMAP) after
September 30, 2000 to provide a secondary method of access to user mail files. If as we near the
September target, we still don't see either an improved Notes browser client, or other alternative
Notes client solutions for our Unix users, we will make sure the POP capability stays operational...
even if the exploratory work has not been completed.
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MAY2000.MN.28
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Sandy Williamson
Description of Action Item: To lead the effort to pick out two emerging
technologies and present a case for this at the August meeting.
Status/Comments: Completed.
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MAY2000.MN.29
St Paul
meeting
5/16-18/2000
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Person(s) Assigned: Alan Lumb
Description of Action Item: NWIS note to SA's on AWUDS and SWUDS
requirements (Action Item 5 from Columbia meeting)
Status/Comments: AWUDS portion completed. See
Email/Memo sent by Alan,
7/13/00 on AWUDS Requirements. Another email will be sent shortly describing the
SWUDS hardware and software requirements.
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