Administration

Long meeting looking at the implications and possibilities of moving some of the DHSI organization work over to HCMC. This will eventually result in a proposal for the committee, but in the meantime the urgent requirement is to evaluate regonline and its competitors, and produce a possible plan for forking the website into an information-only site at UVic, and a registration/financial management/user management component hosted externally. We must have a clear plan for this, agreed on by all of us, before my vacation.

Variety of stuff: expenses claim, timesheets for RAs, arranging/discussing classroom workshops for next semester, etc.

Confirmed meeting with SB, GN for July 20th; 11:00am in HCMC
re website updates.

Sent email to Accounting requesting work flow change as directed by
Purchasing in order to make invoice payment.
Delivered signed invoice to purchasing.
Copied AS, MH,GN & Purchasing.(EW)
Filed copies.

Memo to AS with documentation for second purchase against our Academic Equipment Allocation. JN has a copy to file.

Met with BAK,GN to discuss changes to Latin American Studies website.
Decisions:

Index page:
-Remove specific text in Right Navigation
-Increase image quantity
-Rearrange left navigation to accommodate LARG logo and new text

Website:
-Increase color saturation
-Add new images
-Reduce image display time

Establish within Latin American Studies Website:
-New Page for LARG
-Extract, archive existing LARG info.
-Set up new layout
-Input new text

To be done / Input coming:
-Additional images
-More text re LARG
-New page for LARG

I had a lot of outstanding tasks in the blog which were actually completed, or were simple, or were superceded by subsequent changes. I've been going through those, and I'm now down to only three outstanding tasks (in the blog -- lots not in the blog, of course).

Inordinate quantities of admin-related emails and tasks today, covering: stats for web.uvic.ca sites; HCMC participation in DHSI organization; printing of the Calico volume; FAST access; an IDG application; IALLT Journal domain name resolution; Cascade; and other stuff. Just posting the time that's getting eaten up by this kind of thing, which seems to be growing.

Had to walk them over to HRIS -- getting a bit close to the deadline.

Course updates for Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 entered on Religious Studies
website.
Email sent to SA in RS advising website updated.