Location: 607 McByrde
Time: 2:00 PM
Date: 08-08-2000

Attending: Marc Abrams (CRC), Dwight Barnette (CRC), Mir Farooq Ali (CRC),
Dwight Barnette, Sandy BirchChris Arnold, Daniel Hagan

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss requests from faculty and staff for
the ETF funds to be allocated this month, and make a recommendation to the
department head.  Attached to these minutes is the final request sent to the
college.

Chris will be responsible for quoting the lab machines (29), the machine
with scanner (1), and the extra machines for Brodie hall (9).

Sandy will arrange that Brodie 117 will be used as a graduate computing
space similar to 565.  117 is currently occupied by HCI machines which
will move to the ACITC.

Daniel will gather information regarding the maintenance contracts on the
departmental alphas (esp. csgrad) and send a summary to Marc.  He will
also draft a justification for the ETF request for a UNIX RAID and get a
quote from John Haggerty for a replacement workstation for Cal Ribbens and
a replacement system for ei.cs.vt.edu.

The ETF request will include a b&w duplex laser printer for use in 659.
The current printer (a Xerox Docuprint 4517) will move to Brodie 117 for
use with the new machines.

Dr. Henry's request for a laser printer was denied.  The committee felt
that there was no justification for ETF funds when a shared printer is
available to faculty.

Dr. McQuain's request for Curator support was discussed.  ETF funds would
be pursued for a hard drive and a tape backup system (OnStream system).
In addition, it was decided that the curator machine would be placed in
128 (new staff office) for staff support while the development machine
would be placed in an area yet to be determined (possibly McB 529).
Dwight will check with Dr. McQuain to ensure that this is satisfactory.

The color printer requested by Dr. Heath will be purchased under SCHEV
maintenance funds to replace the Xerox Color laserjet which as recently
failed.  It was removed from the ETF request.