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Brownbag Meetings

Brownbag Meetings

Brownbag meetings are informal question & answer discussions on a variety of topics held by ECS Computing Services that might interest ECS faculty and staff. They're named brownbag after the paper bag lunches that are common to early education. Bring your lunch (virtually) and learn about new tool, feature, service, etc. that may be of interest.

The meetings are often about a new tool, service, or feature that people may have heard about but would like a demonstration of or have more questions about. These meetings are hosted by one or more Computing Services staff; usually the person most knowledgeable about the topic.

Topic Meetings

These meetings usually cover questions like: What is it, how do I use it, and what are the benefits?

Meetings are usually recorded so that other faculty and staff that wanted to attend can see if their question was answered, and to see any demonstrations (which are common).

  • Time and Date: 3rd Friday of each month at 2 p.m.
  • Format: Zoom Meeting (recorded).

Recent & Upcoming Topic Meetings

  • Friday, January 15th, 2021: IRT Alignment and Migration Project - Listen to an update and ask questions as we migrate to the campus domain.
  • Friday, February 19th, 2021: Microsoft Teams
  • Friday, March 19th, 2021: ECS File Migration (from Hades/Homer/ECS Cloud)
  • Friday, April 16th, 2021: ServiceNow - ECS and IRT IT Ticket system.

General Discussion Meetings

These meetings have no particular topic, but serve as a way for faculty and staff to drop in and ask questions or bring up issues with ECS Computing Services that you have been meaning to bring up with us, but didn't feel were urgent. They can also be discussions to suggest future tools, features, and services. They're informal discussions about any topic that any participant may feel like talking about. These sessions are not recorded.

  • Time and Date: 2nd Friday of each month at 2 p.m.
  • Format: Zoom Meeting - not recorded.

Zoom link for meetings

Meeting Archive

Previous Topic Meetings & Video Archive

  • Using Zoom - tips and tricks to make Zoom a better tool.
  • Microsoft Onedrive - What is it? What's the difference between Onedrive and ECS Cloud?
  • Microsoft Teams - A collaborative chat program with video/audio conferencing and file sharing
  • ECS & IRT Alignment Update - Update on the status of the ECS/IRT Migration