Reporting back from IT Strategy Meeting
Hello everyone,
There were a few things mentioned in today’s strategy meeting that I’d like to report back to the group. Comments and feedback are always welcome.
1) MCR Website homepage on public computers
I put forward our request for having the MCR Website as the home page on public computers in Wolfson Court. This was taken very well and Andrew Leader agreed to do it. He raised the concern that JCR might object to such a move and everyone the matter could also be discussed at the Wolfson Court Committee. My argument in favor of our request was that most undergraduates that live in Wolfie are non-first year students (unlike the postgraduates) which are already aware about the available electronic resources.
Further discussion took place about having a different homepage depending on whether one’s an undergraduate or a postgraduate which is technically a bit challenging and the last proposal was having a random choice between the two websites which seems like a very interesting idea. These ideas will be investigated and could potentially be rolled out college wide.
2) Formal Dinner & MCR Dinner online booking
Both ideas we very well received by the attendees. All agreed that they will help reduce the workload and paperwork involved. We were given the ‘blessing’ to create such a system in cooperation with the conference office that takes the reservations. Andrew Leader kindly offered his technical expertise if required by this project.
These were the two issues that were of relevance to the MCR community. For more details or other issues feel free to go through the minutes.
Best regards,
Yiannis