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As a staff member, what technical groups should I consider joining on campus?

Here is some information about some technical groups staff members at UCLA might want to attend, join, or at least monitor.

  • Campus Web Publishers Meets irregularly to give demos and talk about web technology and issues. Listserv can be found at

    http://www.ucla.edu/cwc/

    • sign up for listserv
    • check out website
    • send interesting questions to listserv
    • suggest topics for meetings
  • CCLE – Common Collaborative and Learning Environment Technical Community 
    UCLA is starting to work toward a common, opt-in platform for both course websites and collaborative websites. The CCLE Technical Community consists of those interested in working together to build and test this vision.
  • Course Management Consortium – WeBeing arereplaced aby groupCCLE. But the site is still useful for documentation of peopleshared whodatasources wantamong toother build
    a course management system using the best of what has been done at UCLA 
    and elsewhere, connecting different campus services, course management
    systems, platforms and technologies via web services. We believe in using
    technology standards. wherever possible, working in collaboration, and in
    publicly documenting everything we do. If we get this right, the
    technology and collaborators may change over time, but the process will
    continue.things. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/classweb/consortium/
    • check out website and meeting notes on blog
    • sign up for listserv
  • Instructional Technology Forum – This is a group for those who support
    course management systems and other instructional technology applications
    here at UCLA. This is less about the programming and more about policies,
    user support techniques, faculty outreach, training, common problems, and
    interesting solutions. It should be forum for talking about instructional
    technology at UCLA. http://itf.ucla.edu/ (part public, part private, email franks@ssc.ucla.edu for password)
    • sign up for listserv
    • check out website (not a lot there)
    • look for what you might want to add to wiki
    • attend or host Brown Bags on topics that interest you
    • suggest something you might want to demo
  • UCLA Programmers Exchange – We are looking for a quick and easy way to
    spur coordination and sharing among UCLA programmers. So far we’ve had two
    parties, built a public/private (UCLA IP-only) website with wiki for
    programmers on campus to share their notes, set up a campus CVS and a
    self-registration Programmers Directory. We would like to sponsor meetings
    or focus groups on different topics. http://programmers.ucla.edu/
    • sign up for listserv
    • check out website
    • add notes to wiki, feel free to create whole new sections on things that interest you
    • add yourself and your interests to Programmers Directory
    • send interesting questions to listserv
    • suggest topics for focus groups
  • Campus Web Publishers Meets irregularly to give demos and talk about web technology and issues. Listserv can be found at
    http://www.ucla.edu/cwc/
    • sign up for listserv
    • check out website
    • send interesting questions to listserv
    • suggest topics for meetings
  • Computer Support Coordinators (CSC) shares information among computer support people around campus. http://www.csc.ucla.edu/
    • add yourself to CSC Directory (on campus or VPN only)
    • add yourself to listserv
    • come to quarterly meetings
  • Plone Users Group is a development and community support group for those using the Plone Content Management System. http://plone.oid.ucla.edu/
    • add yourself to listserv


      I know there are others, so please add groups that haven’t been mentioned.

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