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Monday, October 15, 2007
IT and Computer labs
Questions about printers, computers, equipment, lab scheduling and IT support.
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The present system to create and update student groups' websites requires all updates and changes to go through Harpreet Mahajan. Is it possible for student groups to get more autonomy when creating the group's website? Allowing us to create, update and maintain our own websites, with the guidance and support of SIPA IT if needed, would allow us to reflect through the website the real identity of the student group rather than the one that SIPA IT could update easily. Also, it promises more frequent and accurate updates.
1. Would it be possible to have more than 2 printers for 40 computers in the CAIN lab on he 3rd floor?
2. Would it be possible for us to print from laptops without having to go through the rigmarole of setting up printers on personal computers? In theory, you could make it so people emailed their documents to the print queue and created business rules that, say, wouldn't allow more than two jobs from an email in the queue at once . . . It's something that would make printing much easier.
3. Would it be possible to merge the CAIN/SIPA computing bureaucracy into one hulking bureaucracy? from an end-user standpoint, it makes no sense that there should be different logins to different machines across campus -- as well as varying printing quotas depending on whose machine you're using. The better experience would be to make it all a single system where different users had different privileges and the bureaucratic issues of what department controls what aren't pushed off onto the end-user to have to manage.
Disproportionate number of printers for computer. (always a big queue for printing jobs)
Disproportionate number of computers for students. (always lack of free computers in the labs--specially in Lehman and on the 6th floor)
Disproportionate number of maintenance staff for printers and computers. (there are always computers and/or printers that are out of order and they often remain like that for days)
Why has the hole puncher in the 4th floor computer lab been broken since last semester? Why are are both the 6th floor and the 4th floor computer labs always out of staples?
Other graduate programs in New York City have unlimited copying privileges. Why do we have a 1000 page quota? Surely if the New School and the CUNY Graduate Center can afford unlimited copies for their grad students, SIPA can as well.
Why must Harpreet Mahajan control all aspects of every single SIPA computer and website? It takes so long to get anything done because everything must go through her first. (i.e. software downloads, website postings, etc.) It stifles technological innovation that SIPA's clubs and offices could use to facilitate various processes.
Additionally, there is a general consensus that she is incredibly hard to work with.
Can we have a computer room where all groups who need to do computer work together can go? The groups are really disruptive even when they are whispering and trying to be quiet.
The individual workers who want to work alone and in peace can go to the main area.
7 comments:
The present system to create and update student groups' websites requires all updates and changes to go through Harpreet Mahajan. Is it possible for student groups to get more autonomy when creating the group's website? Allowing us to create, update and maintain our own websites, with the guidance and support of SIPA IT if needed, would allow us to reflect through the website the real identity of the student group rather than the one that SIPA IT could update easily. Also, it promises more frequent and accurate updates.
A few things:
1. Would it be possible to have more than 2 printers for 40 computers in the CAIN lab on he 3rd floor?
2. Would it be possible for us to print from laptops without having to go through the rigmarole of setting up printers on personal computers? In theory, you could make it so people emailed their documents to the print queue and created business rules that, say, wouldn't allow more than two jobs from an email in the queue at once . . . It's something that would make printing much easier.
3. Would it be possible to merge the CAIN/SIPA computing bureaucracy into one hulking bureaucracy? from an end-user standpoint, it makes no sense that there should be different logins to different machines across campus -- as well as varying printing quotas depending on whose machine you're using. The better experience would be to make it all a single system where different users had different privileges and the bureaucratic issues of what department controls what aren't pushed off onto the end-user to have to manage.
Printers --- Computers --- Maintenance
Disproportionate number of printers for computer. (always a big queue for printing jobs)
Disproportionate number of computers for students. (always lack of free computers in the labs--specially in Lehman and on the 6th floor)
Disproportionate number of maintenance staff for printers and computers. (there are always computers and/or printers that are out of order and they often remain like that for days)
Why has the hole puncher in the 4th floor computer lab been broken since last semester? Why are are both the 6th floor and the 4th floor computer labs always out of staples?
Other graduate programs in New York City have unlimited copying privileges. Why do we have a 1000 page quota? Surely if the New School and the CUNY Graduate Center can afford unlimited copies for their grad students, SIPA can as well.
I reiterate, why do we have a 1000 page quota?
Why must Harpreet Mahajan control all aspects of every single SIPA computer and website? It takes so long to get anything done because everything must go through her first. (i.e. software downloads, website postings, etc.) It stifles technological innovation that SIPA's clubs and offices could use to facilitate various processes.
Additionally, there is a general consensus that she is incredibly hard to work with.
Can we have a computer room where all groups who need to do computer work together can go? The groups are really disruptive even when they are whispering and trying to be quiet.
The individual workers who want to work alone and in peace can go to the main area.
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