Academic Applications Forum November 2018

Venue: University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU

Room: Templeman Library - Room D/G/01, 

Travel Information: Here is information on how to get the campus by Road or Rail

A map of the campus can be found here

10.30 - Refreshments

11.00 – 12.30 - Ben Watson from the University of Kent will give a presentation on OPERA(Opportunity, Productivity, Engagement, Reducing barriers, Achievement), a university-wide accessibility project.

12:30 – 13:30 - Lunch

13:30 – 16.30 (approx) - AAF Meeting

Agenda

1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of the previous meeting
3. Actions arising from the minutes not covered by the agenda
4. Date and place of next and next‐but‐one meeting
5. Topic for presentation at next meeting
6. Eduserv Chest Agreement Update – Chest Report
7. Report from UCISA Software Procurement Subgroup
8. Microsoft licensing and Office 365
9. Devices (management and application delivery)
10. Applications Software
    1. Bibliographic Software, publishing and authoring
    2. Office Applications
    3. Graphics, Visualisation and Multi‐media
    4. Mathematics, Statistics, Scientific and Engineering Applications
    5. Programming Languages and Applications Development Tools
    6. GIS software
    7. Assistive software
    8. Desktop virtualisation
    9. Server virtualisation
    10. Cloud infrastructure
    11. SAM
    12. Server and back-­‐end software
    13. Other Software (including software associated with data sets)
11. Any Other Business