Note taker-Theresa
Theme for the meeting: “Devil Comes Down to Georgia’ Doug Oetter made wonderful "boiled peanuts" and brought Pecan cookies. The warm day made it seem like we were in Georgia. Doug took the opportunity to be Devil’s Advocate throughout the meeting, (that’s where we got the theme). Doug will be posting his ‘boiled peanut’ recipe on the web!
Agenda Items:
* Awards: Awards were given to Deana Pennington and Matt Gregory for leading Arc8.1 sessions. Chocolate was shared by all for the efforts people made to do metadata (some had problems with the program).
* NASA proposal for imagery: Sharon passed around a handout about a pre-proposal being sponsored by several agencies.
* ESRI: meeting (site license passes) Jen Berk, Becky, and Andrea will be using the passes this year and will present a seminar when they return.
* Ideas for Fall Seminar Series Speakers: We held a brainstorming session and several ideas were given to Sharon and Jen for who should speak. There will be five sessions, in the fall on late Thursday afternoons. Sharon and Jen are pulling this together.
* Interest in Tips 'N Tricks workshop: YES! A committee was formed of Doug (the devil) Oetter, Theresa V, and Sharon C. to organize this for the fall.
* Interest in onsite SDE class: Theresa to follow up with ESRI Virtual Campus to see if they are developing a SDE class. (I am attaching the response here:
Thanks for the note. A course on ArcSDE has been discussed for the Virtual Campus but nothing concrete has been decided. There is an instructor-led course available. The biggest obstacles are getting the software set up initially (which is very complex) and giving anyone but the administrator privileges to make changes (to edit is a little risky).
Thank you for your input. I will pass it on to the appropriate people and maybe there are aspects that can be put together into an online course.
Tom Hurst ESRI Virtual Campus Team
It doesn’t sound like it’s going to happen soon. Group
thought that someone should go, but that it should be the Data
Administrator and perhaps another person.
* Issues of and dates for full implementation of geodatabase model:
The group decided to recommend that the Spatial Database Group use
SQL Server as the relational database for spatial data. If anyone
has objections, they should bring them up at the June meeting.
-We have questions about the machine that has been proposed by Sean. What
is the capability of the machine, what is the cost, who will be
paying for it, who will administrate it, etc. LTER has $15K for a
machine, the Tree Coop has $15K for a machine, are we together on
this? Can we get one big machine that works for everyone and support
this level of a machine?
-Database Administrator: We need someone at least ½ time (most likely
need them for more than ½ time at start (with training one
week sql server training and one week SDE training). Question is who
is the right person for this? What are the plans of the computing
group to help us with this level of support? We would like to see an
overall plan for database management that identifies the duties of
the database administrator. We would like to have input on what these
duties are.
* Workshops: