• The DE Standards and Guidelines were passed out and reviewed.
• Paul Mogan raised the concern regarding implied "endorsements" of products. The lab which he represents routinely does evaluations of products. The question was if they put their evaluation results on the web, is it deemed an endorsement based on their findings. Their evaluation is based on the government requirements vs. General use of the products. Possible recommendations were to put a disclaimer on the pages to be presented on the WWW, document what the requirements the evaluation was based on and whether they did/did not meet said requirements.
  
  Along the same lines, it was asked if endorsements are implied by linking to various commercial sites such as Adobe for the free Acrobat Reader software. Many of the commercial links to such vendors as Silicon Graphics are to aid the employees in doing their jobs.

• A very preliminary cut of a Engineering Development (DE) Web Guide was handed out. This guide basically summarizes what was documented in the DE Management Instruction , but will also explain the procedure for submitting data for the web, the DE Web structure, Standards and Guidelines. All Team members were asked to look it over. Linda will be putting it on the web.

• Servers:
  • www-de.ksc.nasa.gov - This is the primary DE Web Server
    • KSCDL2 : Alpha 7000-610 (OpenVMS)
    • (KSCDL1 - backup): VAX (OpenVMS)
    • Edsel: Alpha 3000-400 (UNIX)
    • DE-NTS1 System: Alpha Server 2000-4 (NT) **
  • clcs.ksc.nasa.gov - This server is dedicated to the CLCS project
    • DEC Alpha (UNIX)
    • SG (Intranet)
  • technology.ksc.nasa.gov - This server is dedicated to the Technology and Commercialization office.
    • Sparc 20
      

• Restructuring of Web based on functionality not orgcharts
  • It was agreed that the structure based on functionality would be better, however, concern was raised on the impact to existing pages. There will be additional help throughout the transition by both Linda and the contractors supporting the DE Web development.
• Personnel Biography pages auto generated
  • A script is being generated to develop consistent personnel bios for all DE employees. The script will pull the location data from the X-500. Employees can have a picture on the bio and submit job responsibilities.
    

• Java
  • Currently, all of DE is to have active content (JAVA, ActiveX, Javascript) disabled in their browsers. This is based on a NASIRC Bulletin and recommendation distributed from the DE office.
• Personnel Bios (SEE ABOVE)

• Will their be training?
  • At this point, unsure of the training budget. If we determine it is required, Linda can attempt to get training scheduled.
• Will their be publishing packages procured for team members?
  • Not anticipated at this time. There is a procurement currently going through so that we will have validation tools available. The plan is to incorporate the tools into the DE Web so that developers can run the tests when needed. In the interim, email the URL to Linda and she will run the report and store it off on the VAX so you can access it.

NEXT MEETING will be during the week of March 10.

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