The complex organizational and technical issues of information technology resources at the University of Florida required the Task Force to spend a large amount of time talking to people and searching for a way to structure the issues. The activities of the Task Force over the last year were as follows: 

November 15, 1990 - Task Force Appointment 
November 15 - December 15, 1990 - Resource Providers Self Study 

Resource providers were requested to submit to the Task Force information about their missions, activities, and resources. These reports are provided in Appendix I. 

December 4, 1990 - Initial meeting of Task Force, Formation of Sub-groups 

The Task Force membership was divided into three subgroups to focus on the issues related to Academic Computing, Non-Academic (Administrative) Computing, and Networking. 

December 13-18, 1990 - Sub-group discussion of providers' self studies 
December 20, 1990- January 7, 1991 Christmas Break 
January 8-10, 1991 - Subgroup Meetings, Formulation of Issues 

Issues were grouped under the headings of Coordination, Planning, Support, Security, Access, Environmental Health and Safety, and Technology for Instruction. 

January 11-15, 1991 - First round of open forum discussions 
January 16-27, 1991 - Subgroup meetings, discussion of open forums 
January 28-29, 1991 - Second round of open forum discussions 
February 8-12, 1991 - Subgroup Meetings, revision and expansion of issues list, -- definition of goals 
February 22-26, 1991 - Subgroup Meetings, formulation of initial recommendation list 
March 11, 1991 - Initial draft of goals and recommendations 

In the initial draft, eighteen (18) goals were proposed, along with seven (7) recommendations on organization of personnel, resources, and services, and fourteen (14) recommendations on management of resources. 

March 11-17, 1991 - Comments solicited on initial draft from campus experts 
March 18, 1991 - Task Force meeting, review of initial draft comments 
March 22, 1991 - Task Force meeting with Provost Sorensen to review initial draft 
March 29, 1991 - Task Force meeting, planning for second stage of study 

The decision was made to discuss issues and proposed recommendations with users and providers in targeted small group settings. 

April 2-20, 1991 - Mid semester busy period, no meetings 
April 22, 1991 - Task Force meeting, new sub-group assignments 

The Task Force membership was divided into six sub-groups with each sub-group given responsibility for obtaining comment from particular segments of information technology resources use (affinity groups). The six sub-groups were (1) Faculty and Graduate Student Computing, (2) User Education (Training) and Support, (3) Administrative and Academic Information Systems, (4) Instruction and Research Information Systems, (5) Technology in Instruction, (6) Networking. 

May 7, 1991 - Task Force meeting, planning for sub-group meetings with affinity 
groups 
May 15-June 30, 1991 - Affinity group meetings 

Faculty and Graduate Student Computing - 6 groups 
User Education (Training) and Support - 8 groups 
Administrative and Academic Information Systems - 12 groups 
Instruction and Research Information Systems - 11 groups 
Technology in Instruction - 10 groups 
Networking- 5 groups 

July 1-5, 1991 - Summer break 
July 10, 1991 - Task Force meeting, sub-group reports 
July 11-18, 1991 - Second draft of goals and recommendations 
July 19, 1991 - Task Force meeting, discussion of second draft 
July 20-25, 1991 - Revisions to second draft 
July 26, 1991 - Task Force meeting, final changes to second draft 
August 16, 1991 - Task Force meeting to consider resource provider comments 
August 27, 1991 - Final report transmittal to Provost Sorensen 
September 6, 1991 - Task Force meeting with Provost Sorensen to discuss final report 
September 6-September 22, 1991 - Resource providers' analysis and comment on final report 

Resource providers given the opportunity to review the recommendations of the Task Force and analyze the impact of implementation on the University computing and networking environment. 

September 23, 1991 - Resource providers meeting with Provost Sorensen and Task Force to discuss final report.