Updated website with additional faculty and announcement information.
Sent email confirmation to SB (cc'd SA).
January 13, 2012
January 11, 2012
The mailroom has told us that as of a year from now, we will no longer have PO Box 3045, but will be using PO Box 1700. So, we need to order new business cards and envelopes. Our business cards include the URL to our website, so I figure we should hold off on getting new stationery until we've got the new website (which will have a different URL). That might force us to actually re-do our site, which we've been meaning to do for a couple of years now.
January 10, 2012
The ETCL is hiring a new coordinator. I'm on the hiring panel and spent some time yesterday reviewing the three resumes and then most of this morning on Skype interviews with three candidates then debriefing with RS and CC. RS is to follow up with interviewees. I've agreed to meet with any selected to come here in person.
January 9, 2012
The usual couple of hours was used up trawling through email after the vacation.
January 6, 2012
Both LB of GRS and BT of Dean have been enquiring about using the UVic conference hosting site to process online payments for upcoming events. For one-time events, the recommendation from Accounting Services is to "piggy-back" on their netbeans account rather than go to the cost and bother of creating a new one (e.g. providing a real bank account). There is a 3% charge to cover the VISA transaction fees. In addition, because it's Accounting Services (as opposed to a small entity set up to run the conference) that is legally charging the customer, Revenue Canada requires that the transaction is subject to 12% HST (or whatever combination of GST and PST when that becomes the law again).
So, here are three variations based on a nominal fee of $100 and what you want that fee to represent:
A) cost to customer $100 exclusive of tax : fee to customer $112 (to cover HST), net to host $97 (to cover credit card charge)
B) cost to customer $100 inclusive of tax : fee to customer $100, net to host $86.61 (100/1.12 = 89.29 to cover HST * 0.97 to cover credit card charge)
C) net to conference of $100 : fee to customer $115.36 (to cover HST and credit card charge), net to host $100
Met with RS and CC to specify more precisely the scope of the proposed ETCL and INKE websites project and the proposed INKE archive and ETCL repository project. Specifically:
ETCL site largely an update of the WordPress environment, so headaches likely only if they modified the existing infrastructure somehow.
INKE site in Joomla, so we'll have to port that to WordPress - possible issue there if site relies on service provided by Joomla that can't be replicated in WordPress (not likely).
INKE archive being driven by mandate from funding organization through UVic research - need precise language from them to see what will meet the requirements and be least burdensome
ETCL repository almost certainly subversion as it's for control of access to multiply-authored documents
I revised the proposal documents and sent them to RS and CC for review. Assuming all well, will forward to DH committee for discussion at meeting on January 16th.
January 5, 2012
Received request from SB to relocate a past announcement to
TALKS page.
Website updated with change; sent email confirmation to SB (cc SA)
January 3, 2012
The Yubikeys arrived the last day before the end of year break. This morning I registered both Yubikeys assigned to me to my lastpass account on my mac at work. (Log in to see local LastPass vault, then click "account settings" at top of page beside login name and click Yubikey tab in the window that appears, OR log in to LastPass online vault, click settings, click Yubkykey tab in the window that appears.)
I'll give it a couple of days to ensure that everything is working fine (including getting in without the YubiKey), and if so, will add the LastPass setup to my home machine.
December 13, 2011
PDSA committee meeting.
December 6, 2011
Received from SB request for Announcement(s) updates.
Updated website with changes and sent confirmation email to SB
(cc'd SA)