We have booked a block of rooms at the Cambridge Marriott in Kendall Square. The registration date has passed, but it is possible that space is still available.
Cambridge Marriott (Kendall Square)
2 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA
(617) 494-6600
The Marriott is between NE18 and NE20 on the following map.
If you need assistance finding other hotel arrangements please contact us.
Note that we recommend that you do not bring a car to campus. The Marriott is accessible by T (Boston's subway system) at the Kendall Square stop on the Red Line (as well as by cab). Much of the available parking will only be slightly closer to the meeting than the Marriott is.
We Will be meeting in the function rooms in Ashdown House. For those who have been around for a while this is the same place the 1998 meeting was held. Map showing the main part of campus, including the Marriott and Ashdown.
Wireless networking (802.11 a, b and g) will be available. At this point we are not pre-registering MAC addresses. You should be able to use MIT's automatic guest registration system when you arrive on campus.
The current agenda is available below.
Wednesday June 23rd8:45 AM:
9:00 AM:
- Leave Marriott: Jonathon Weiss will meet people in the Marriott lobby and lead group on the short walk to Ashdown House.
9:30 AM:
- Introductions
Lunch (Noon - 1:00 PM)
- Security
- Patch management, strategies, etc.
- Access to campus network.
- Authentication and Authorization
- identity management and authentication
- authorizations: groups, roles, rules
- web authentication
- the use of federations
- Directory Services: LDAP et al.
- The Mellon suite of applications?
- OKI, OCW, DSpace etc.
- see http://rit.mellon.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
- "Public" Computing Spaces
- How are they changing?
- How do they interact with laptops?
Thursday June 24th9:00 AM:
Lunch (Noon - 1:00 PM)
- Messaging services
- Instant Messaging
- VOIP?
- Desktop Computing Platforms
- Linux on the desktop?
- MacOS X adoption/support
- Coping with Windows
- File Systems and Services
- AFS
- Web Access to AFS
- CIFS/Dfs
- webdav
- SANs
- others
- Printing
- Authentication
- Billing?
Friday June 25th9:00 AM:
Lunch (Noon - ???)
- Networking
- Wireless deployments
- Service and Support
- Calendaring and Scheduling
- Staffing/People issues and Employee Retention
- Cartel Administrivia Update
There will be some evening activities.