Chris Wooff commented that there have been problems in the past with organising events which are longer than one day and Paul Wood added that, although the conference led by TLIG had many parallel sessions and was successful, extensive organisation was needed. Tom Franklin could see no benefit from a combined conference and John Steel made the point that there could be the possibility of attending one or more days rather than the complete event. After further discussion it was decided that Alun should report to Executive that although SG was not against the proposal in principle the members were sceptical about how worthwhile such an event would be. The flyers would also act as propoganda to encourage Institutions to have a representative. Select will continue in some form but the new Campus Agreement, only available to HE Institutions, will run in parallel.
Concurrency is still the major issue.
Nigel Lodge had suggested that software could physically be put on a machine, then removed completely and put on another machine - this is perfectly legal. In the same way, software could be put on a machine electronically, then removed from the machine's memory and hard disc and put on another machine instead. In Microsoft's opinion this is concurrency. The Campus Agreement would be based on a 'head-count' and could be bought as a department or collection of departments. The head-count would include academic, academic related, administrative and technical staff but would not include staff such as cleaners.