World Wide Web Steering Committee

Old Business

1. Discussion of Access Restriction Issues

Hirby shared an outline of the discussion of the previous meeting. By consensus, the subject is too large and complex to address in a single step. It was agreed to recommend that, by default, minutes of faculty committees and LUCC should not be visible outside the university. Hirby will write to governance with that recommendation.

We discussed privacy issues related to the use of student names and images on the Web site. It was agreed that a good solution to this problem is to provide "fair warning" to students about the possible use of their name and images on the Web and in other university publications as a part of the FERPA disclosure process. Blodgett reminded us that, while a proposal to that effect had been sent to Ad Staff late in the summer, the proposal had been tabled pending further research. Hirby will write to the president to encourage attention to that proposal.

New Business

1. Web server migration

Lowe reported on plans for the relocation of Lawrence's main Web server from the VMS platform to NT. (The server will use Microsoft's IIS server.) He explained that the move to a separate server host is needed in order to install a firewall at Lawrence and noted that several benefits flow from adopting NT as the server operating system rather than sticking with VMS. Robert and Pete Gilbert will be working with the Web working group to effect the migration. Target date for completion is July 1.
 
2. Budget

Hirby reviewed a proposed Web budget for 1999-2000. The group proposed requesting funds for a full-time Web assistant rather than only half-time, and suggested the addition of funds to pay for submission of the site to search engines. Robert Lowe noted that the search engine and Real server costs had already been included in the budget submitted by computer services. Hirby will revise and submit the budget.
 

3. Web education and delegation project

This item was not discussed due to lack of time.

Next meeting

April 4, 1 p.m. in the Sampson House Conference Room

Steve Hirby