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Current Status of Minutes: Final
Date	October 21, 2010
Time	1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location	HBC - 301.0

Members Present
Steven Christopher, Samantha Davis, Marie Fofi, Vanessa Garza, Jennifer Gray, Theresa Harkins, Howard Hawhee, Rodney Hermes, James Malmros, Antonio Martinez, Christopher Mielke, Lara Niles, Mary Parker, Margaret Peloquin, Stanley Pushkarsky, Geoffrey Schulman, Derek Thomas, Maria Youngman
Guests Present
Derek Posey, Lori Blewett

Item # 1:	APPROVAL OF SEPTEMBER MINUTES
Presenter	Theresa Harkins
Discussion	Minutes approved

Item # 2:	UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS PROJECT (GOOGLE MAIL)
Presenter	Theresa Harkins
Discussion	Currently Beta testing. Will test for 2 to 3 weeks. IT and IRT will be the first departments to go live while fine tuning processes and unresolved issues. A Roll-Out plan will be communicated as soon as it is time. Google responds that a "good amount of code is scrubbed when users try to enter it via HTML" to google Sites to help mitigate malicious code. Ed Terry is working on providing an ACC template/theme for users of Google Sites. We recommend using google Sites for web pages unless they contain perl or php Will report status at November meeting

Item # 3:	TUTORIALS FOR NEW WEB TEMPLATES
Presenter	Edward Terry
Discussion	Committee members were asked to test Edward's new WEB templates at the September meeting. Geoffrey Schulmann stated that he had tested them and thought they were very well done and the documentation was easy to use. Edward will implement a plan to get web page owners to switch to the new templates

Item # 4:	WEB DOMAIN RE-STRUCTURE PROJECT UPDATE
Presenter	Edward Terry
Discussion	A package of material, prepared by Edward Terry was presented to the committee for review and feedback. The WAC goals for this year are to fully implement the new WEB templates; complete the domain restructure; have old web pages updated or deleted and the remainder moved to appropriate sub-domains.

Item # 5:	PROCEDURE TO REQUEST A DATABASE for a website
Presenter	Theresa Harkins
Discussion	Email helpdesk@austincc.edu to request a database to accompany a web page. Provide as much information as you can about the database you are requesting. You will receive a call from one of the DBAs to follow up on your request.

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