Community

The UF Community

The UF community includes all, students, staff, faculty and external stakeholders. UF IT is committed to sharing and reciprocity through partnerships, two-way communication and a decision making processes that enrich the UF community experience and help improve outcomes.

UF IT is engaged in an on-going effort that focuses on participation and communication with the UF community. Through this process the UF community:

Participates in the decision process that establishes priorities and allocates resources (See Governance).
Becomes aware and knowledgeable of services provided by UF IT and is informed about changes and operational issues.

How do I participate in Governance for UF IT?

Any member of the community is welcome to bring issues and ideas to the unit and/or topical advisory committees. The links below can be used to send an email to the topical committee chairs for discussion by the committee. Also, suggestions sent to UF IT Suggestions will be forwarded to their appropriate destination.

Topical Committee	Email	Committee Scope
Academic Technology (ITAC-AT)	Chair	Advice and direction in the use of IT to support teaching, research and engagement. ITAC-AT addresses issues such as course management systems, distance learning, IT innovation, intellectual property and copyright, web policy, and video and collaboration.
Technology Infrastructure	Chair	Advice and direction in support of a comprehensive infrastructure for voice, video and data. ITAC-NI addresses issues such as connectivity, wireless, data center, device management, wall plate, Bridges infrastructure, and high performance computing.
Enterprise Systems	Chair	Advice and direction for effective data systems that improve access to information. ITAC-DI addresses issues such as Web administrative menu, PeopleSoft implementation, Email policy, UFID, directory implementation, and minimum workstation functionality.
Information Security and Compliance	Chair	Advice and direction to ensure the security of IT resources ITAC-IS addresses issues such as risk assessment, security standards and compliance, physical and virtual security. guidelines and forensic procedures.

Consider talking directly to any of the members of the topical committees.

How Do I Stay Informed about UF IT?

There are several mechanisms that you may elect to choose from to stay informed about UF IT:

Units under UF IT regularly publish newsletters that are used to provide information about UF IT to different interest groups.
High visibility core projects have a website or Wiki that is used for information sharing purposes by the project team members. Also a comprehensive list of IT projects is available. Note: With the exception of project sites that contain information that is related to security or privacy, all web sites are public.
UF IT administration provides reports and engagement activities and presentations on UF IT progress at several venues.
Special interest communities have a listserv or a Wiki. A searchable catalog of Listservs is available.

Partial list of IT Listservs

Listserv	Description
ACTIVEDIR-L	Active Directory issues at UF
CCC	Campus Computer Coordinators
CCC-ADMIN-L	CCC policy discussions
CONSULT	UF Computing & Networking Services (CNS) Consulting
SHIBBOLETH-ANNOUNCE-L	UF Shibboleth Announcements
SHIBBOLETH-L	UF Shibboleth Implementation List
UF-EXCHANGE-L	UF Exchange Support Network
VPN	Discussion of Campus-Wide VPN Service
VTS-ANNOUNCE-L	CNS Virtual Tape Server Announcements
VTS-DISCUSS-L	CNS Virtual Tape Server Discussion
WEB-MANAGERS-L	UF Web Managers

Partial list of IT Wikis

Wiki	Description
Help Desk Wiki	The UF Computing Help Desk provides a central point of contact for faculty, staff, and students to get answers to computing questions.

UF IT Presentations