CSG - May 2017 (Yale University)

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1	Brief Title	Proposer(s)	Volunteers	Explanation/Rationale	Session Type (D=Discussion, W=Workshop, E=Either)	Workshop Votes (3/mbr, single-word ID sep by space or comma)	Discuss Votes (3/mbr, single-word ID sep by space or comma)	Wshop Vote Count	Discuss Vote Count	Highest vote count	Total count	final decision

2	Polly want a Cracker - Voice enabled applications using AWS	Guy Falsetti/ Tim Evans	Lec Maj (Yale)	At Re:Invent 2016 AWS introduced Polly with a rich set of API's that allow developers to leverage AWS Alexia for voice recognition. This is a initial look at how organizations are now voice enabling either new or existing applications.	E	Yale, Chicago		2	0	2	2
3	Frictionless Architecture for Web (Short Discussion 3)	Lec Maj	Franz Hartl (Yale), Chris Keith (Brown)	Many of us have large-scale web and content management Drupal footprints deployed in modern infrastructure. Recognizing common challenges that we share in higher education, would we benefit in developing a shared code base and DevOps process that would optimize our efforts and allow us to easily switch infrastructure across providers such as Acquia, Pantheon, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud? Could we reduce cost, improve user-centered design, advance ADA Compliance and more? Yale, Princeton, Cornell began with OpenIvy as prorotype https://www.drupal.org/project/ivy	D	Duke, Columbia	Yale, Brown, Penn, Columbia, Internet2, VT, CMU, UMich, Colorado	2	9	9	11
4	Effective ways to change the environment rather than the flower - Merged with 11	Jim Phelps	Louis King (Yale)	As IT, we are often focused on changing the technology. Often the issues are actually on the business side (silos, business processes, etc). How do we effectively drive change in the business environmnent.	E			0	0	0	0
5	Rationalizing IT Enterprise data across service delivery and operational/DevOps tool sets	Louis King	Lec Maj (Yale)	On one hand, we are using systems to manage our service delivery. On the other hand, we use other tools to manage our operations/DevOps delivery. Many of these tools hold critical data that we need to fully understand current state, support change, drive reliability and inform strategy. How are we rationiling these data points and making them useful across the IT Enterprise?	D		Yale	0	1	1	1
6	Automating Campus Network configuration, provisioning, and monitoring (Short Workshop 1)	Mark McCahill	Charley Kneifel, William Deigaard, Kemal Badur, Andy Palms, Jim Jokl, Scotty Logan	Campus networks are one of the most complex systems IT runs, but most tools for managing and monitoring the network are limited and/or proprietary + very expensive. How can DevOps approaches and open source tools be applied to automate network operations and provide users with a better, more consistent experience? With most user campus network access taking place via wireless, are our staff and tools up to the challenges?	W	Internet2, UCSD,Duke, NYU, Rice, UMich, Columbia, Brown, UIowa,Stanford, Wisconsin UMN, VT, ND, Virginia, Princeton, UNL, PSU USC		19	0	19	19
7	CRM impact to the Enterprise	Todd Hill		How are other organizations trying to optimize CRM in the sub-optimized world of Higher Ed? With a solution that derives much of its value from coordination and sharing of constituent data across the organization, how are others dealing with departments that still tend to view CRM through their parochial lens?	W	Cornell, Wisconsin, CMU, Colorado, Educause		5	0	5	5
8	Tools and Infrastructure for analytics, cloud and on-prem (Short Discussion 2)	Kelli Trosvig, John Board	Tom Lewis, Paul Erickson, Becky Joffrey (Cornell)	What infrastructure and tools are we using (hosted or on-prem) to support analytics efforts on our campuses? Are there best practices some of us might move to adopt? What is coming down the road?	D		Duke, Cornell, UCSD, NYU, Rice, UWash, Penn, Columbia,Stanford, UMich, Brown, Wisconsin,UIowa, Internet2, VT, UMN, Chicago, Virginia, ND, UNL, Colorado, Educause, PSU	0	23	23	23
9	Shifting from a strategic plans to strategy management	Jim Phelps		At UW, we are trying to shift to a strategy management practice where we revise our strategies, vett with business and then do our annual investment planning based on these strategies. This is different than the 3 year strategic plan. Are others doing something similar? How would you go about this? Value? Risk?	D	UWash, Cornell, Yale, NYU	Duke, UCB, Harvard, USC	4	4	4	8
10	NSF Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs Update	Florence Hudson		Short topic: NSF has invested $6M to fund 4 regional Big Data Innovation Hubs, plus $11M in spoke awards, EAGERs and planning grants. Many of our institutions are involved and leading these efforts. This session will update us all on the activities of the hubs, spokes, researchers, and related infrastructure. We can discuss how we all might support these efforts together. We can invite one of the BDHub leaders to present. (e.g. René Bastón, NE BDHUb leader at Columbia University.)			UWash, VT	0	2	2	2
11	Challenges of shifting IT to be a trusted business transformation partner Merge with 4 (Short Workshop 2)	Jim Phelps	Tom Lewis, Louis King, Paul Erickson, Christina Tenerowicz, Erik Lundberg	We need to enagage with campus to help lead and drive business transformation This has impacts on the services we offer, how we describe them, the staff skills. From 4 "As IT, we are often focused on changing the technology. Often the issues are actually on the business side (silos, business processes, etc). How do we effectively drive change in the business environmnent."		Yale, NYU, UWash, Penn, Uiowa, Wisconsin, PSU, UMN, UCB, CMU, Chicago, Harvard, Rice, UNL, UMich, Virginia, VT, Colorado, Educause, USC		20	0	20	20
12	Protecting the campus from distributed denial of service attacks.	William Deigaard		Security is obviously a key strategic activity for all of our campuses, and we're all investing more resources to ensure that we are properly protected. It seems to me, however, that we're not spending enough time thinking about the risks we face with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Increasingly, new service providers and business models are coming into play that can help with these things, but it does not seem that higher-education has a good set of best practices in this area. Additionally, we need to work on this as a community rather than as silos. Internet2 has done some recent work with developing a service in this area, but that is mostly around protecting our physical campus networks. We need to be thinking about our cloud resources as well.	D		Rice,Brown, Wisconsin, Internet2, Harvard, Princeton, PSU	0	7	7	7
13	Where should my app go?	Lec Maj	Louis King, Kemal Badur	Categorization and practical matrix every CTO will want of best fit cloud platforms: SaaS solutions like Salesforce, PaaS solutions like Heroku, Web Accessablie Storage S3, IaaS AWS Containers and VMs, finally raw hardware.	D		Yale, Cornell, Penn, Stanford UMN, UCB, ND	0	7	7	7
14	Around the CSG - Lightning Round	Bill Wrobleski		Use lightning round format to allow each university to highlight one or two critical initiatives or innovations at their institution. Purpose of the session would be to get a quick overview of what's going on around the CSG, and hopefully this would spur more conversation afterwards. (Lightning rounds feature ~5 minute sessions by each speaker in rapid succession.)	E	Duke,UCSD,Brown, Penn, Stanford, UCB, Virginia, ND, USC		9	0	9	9
15	Product management, service ownership, etc. (Short Workshop 3)	Oren Sreebny	Erik Lundberg, Tom Lewis, Tim Evans, Sharon Ramallo, Chas Grundy (ND), Paul Erickson, Louis King, Jim Behm	From the discussion this morning: Organizing and nurturing product management in our IT orgs. How does that differ from service ownership? Where are the clashes (if any) between a startup / agency approach to this vs. an ITIL approach? How do we empower product management without getting in its way?	E	UWash,UCSD, Cornell, Penn, Chicago, PSU, Internet2, UIowa, UMN, Harvard, CMU, UCB, ND, UNL, Colorado, Rice, Educause		17	0	17	17
16	Technical Innovation and Organizational Change (Short Discussion 1)	Ben Maddox	Tom Lewis, Marin Stanek, Lec Maj (Yale), Denise Cunningham	How does fostering a culture of innovation translate into organizational change? Does it have to? Does endemic resistance to change also constrain innovation?	E	VT, UMich	Duke,UCSD, Cornell, NYU, UWash, Columbia,Stanford, Chicago, Uiowa, PSU, UCB, Harvard, CMU, Rice, Virginia, ND, Colorado, UNL, Educause, USC	2	20	20	22
17	Creating physical space for innovation	Jim Phelps		What have schools done to create physical space for IT staff to gather to innovate and learn together	D		UCSD	0	1	1	1
18	Maker Spaces	Jennifer Sparrow		Is there a sensible way to support and manage maker spaces and 3D printers centrally? Could central IT provide some value add and/or economy of scale here? What does the educational support for these spaces look like?	D			0	3	3	3
19	Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, 360 video support and growth	Jennifer Sparrow		How is IT supporting the development and delivery of virtual reality, augmented reality, and 360 video? Are there opportunities for collaborations across universities in the development of media for VR, AR, 360 delivery? What are the technical challenges with VR/AR/360 development and delivery?	E		NYU, Chicago, Virginia	0	3	3	3
20	A Post-Password World?	Scotty Logan	Tim Gleason, Paul Erickson	Everyone knows passwords are terrible, but what's the alternative? Universal 2nd Factor? Human-unreadable passwords with password managers? Is it time (again) for certificates?	E	Stanford, Columbia, Brown, Harvard	UIowa, Wisconsin, CMU, UMich, UNL, Educause, USC	4	7	7	11
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