June 2006 Engineering Report

Conferences

OUCC (Guelph) - co-presented with Bruce on Toilet Tank and MinUWet.

CanHEIT (Halifax) - presented alone on Toilet Tank and MinUWet. A written version can be found here.

Others indicate our wireless is done well - many people were interested in following our lead.

An exciting opportunity is eduroam, which will allow users of other institutions to connect to our wireless network without requiring UW credentials. And of course they would reciprocate for our users at the other institutions. Eduroam is already popular in Europe, but it is also growing elsewhere.

Private Subnets

Each engineering department has been assigned a private address space subnet. We have not yet created a formula for vlan tags so we can avoid collisions with others.

Engineering Vision 2010

After a period of reflection and planning, the Faculty of Engineering has completed its Vision 2010 plan. The computing portion of the plan sets three priorities:

move all possible computers into a managed environment : Nexus
improve organization and operation of computing across the faculty : find efficiencies and improve collaboration between computing units within the faculty. Also, introduce career paths and improvements in evaluation reporting. All of these will help make computing plans coherent faculty-wide and improve time available for higher function service delivery.
monitor and attend to changes, computing is a moving target and we are given the charge to keep up with it.