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Minutes
November 18, 1994

Present: Alberts, Allen Burley, Closs, Creswell, D'Angelo, Gray, Greenwood, Hanna, Heeter, Lucas, Olson, Philips, Stacey, Stead, Urban-Lurain, and Wittick

1. Documents--
   1. AFS space for course and students, CD-Mini Grants, FFCC shared facility enhancements

   2. Macintosh upgrade in union

   3. Instructional media center 1995 APPR request

   4. Broadcasting services/instructional television 1995 APP&R requests

   5. Equipment upgrade FFCC multimedia cart proposal

   6. Computers and writing committee APP&R 1994-1995

   7. Printers

   8. Student writable microcomputer file service

   9. Laptop computers for library checkout

   10. Database endorsement request

2. Announcement--9th of December APP&R deadline for ICTC. That rating procedure for items will be similar to last year's procedure where voting members will give a score from one to ten (ten being highest) to each item.

3. Announcements: Mark Urban-Lurain requested e-mail comments concerning computers in writing, and database request.

4. Discussion--Printers in Computing Labs. Members discussed the costs per page of dot-matrix printing and laser printing. Dot-matrix printing was found to still be far less expensive than laser printing.

5. Discussion--Laptop Computers. The wording for the request is the same as last year but the prices are now different, hard drives have been changed to 200 MB, and RAM has been changed to 8 MB.

6. Discussion--AFS recommendation. This recommendation will be folded into another document.

7. Discussion--FFCC Shared Facility Enhancements. 8. Discussion--Software Commercialization and Marketing. A preamble statement addressing the issue will be explored. 9. Discussion--Macintosh upgrade for 24 hour lab. Several minor revisions were suggested to the document.

8. Discussion--IMC Requests. Jim Alberts reviewed specific issues on the document with committee members.

9. Discussion--Broadcasting Services. Kent Creswell reviewed the list and responded to questions from the committee members.

10. Discussion--FFCC Equipment Upgrade. This item may be dropped from the request if no committee member strongly supports this specific item.

11. Discussion--Multimedia Cart.

12. Discussion--Student Writable Microcomputer File Service. The pilot study will be added to the text of the document.

13. Discussion--Increase for Recurring Software Funds. The fund was not increased this fiscal year; however there is a strong demand and the committee may wish to consider suggesting an increase for the nest fiscal year.

14. Announcement--Revisions to documents should be sent by e-mail or as a raw text document in DOS to Mark Urban-Lurain A714 Wells Hall.

Meeting Adjourned

Respectfully submitted,
Jon Bryan Burley, Secretary