Had a meeting at 10am. I was told all about a Head's ICT meeting with the LEA. The LEA want to implement a central records / email / messaging / eportfolio system by 2010. It doesn't sound particularly feasable with respect to resistance from schools. It wasn't relevant to me but The Big Boss thought I should know anyway.
He then talked about Parent Portal where parents can see all about their kids' behavior / reports / grades online. He mentioned that this isn't going to be hosted by us, nor managed by us, so again another self-admitted irrelevant point.
We then covered what I'd been working on. He'd forgotten the problems we'd had with the backup system, printing and student Internet banning, so I reminded him of that. I was also asked how things were coming along with student remote access - I pointed out that he had told me to bring it up in the larger IT meeting next half term so we can discuss numbers of users on the system. Until then I can't get quotes, so we can't budget, so we can't do anything. I'm not sure what input, if any, the other members of the larger meeting will have on determining the number of users on the system?...
Worked on the backup system - new drives and a SATA RAID controller arrived today. Also started work on the iPhoto server (1000GB of searchable photo storage!). Having problems searching by 'keyword', but otherwise it looks very promising.
Did some work on a pro-sumer A3 printer. I think it's completely broken, so it will have to go back.
Still not being paid the correct salary. Oh - I was asked if I thought the job advert for the new technician was wrong and needed amending to attract applicants. I pointed out that no one will work 52 weeks a year, and have specific web skills for £11k. This point was glossed over, so I don't know what we're doing now.
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