University of Waterloo
 
             Electronic Data Service Task Group
 
          Minutes of the Meeting of December 7, 1994
 
Present   Doug Morton (chair), Richard Pinnell, Albert Kemp,
        Susan Moskal, Bill Oldfield, Shabiran Rahman, Carol Vogt
        (secretary)
 
cc:  Bruce MacNeil, Mike Ridley, Boris Bruder, Charles Woods
 
1.   Minutes of Previous Meeting:
   no corrections
 
2.   Business Arising
Item 8:
   Bruce Mcneil wants the opening moved back to Jan 1.
 
item 2.2.7 from Nov. 23:
   the EDS computer: should we buy a Pentium even though it has problems, or
should we buy a 486 instead. After some discussion it was agreed to
purchase a 66 MHz 486.
 
Item 7 from Nov. 23: Room 222:
   the things that are currently in boxes need to be put on the shelves. Who
will do this?
 
3.   Additional Agenda Items
   help with survey
   booking meeting room
 
4.   CANSIM/EPAS
   Doug distributed a draft of a quick guide to CANSIM. The preliminary
screen shows Department of Economics. We must ask how to change this.
Everyone will read this, and send their comments to Doug. We also need this
in electronic format. Doug has not heard back from Andrea, but Bill reported
that her priorities are:
        must get GSS and VAW up and NFS mounted
        get CANSIM running
        get census up and NFS mounted
 
5.  Census:
   All 17 tapes are here from U of T. DCS weekend operators will
start transferring data from tapes to Library. Will need userid and disk
space on Library. Albert will arrange this with Charles Woods.
 
6.  GSS Cycle8:
   Albert will convert the WordPerfect file so Shabiran can produce the About
file.
 
7.  Opening Date:
   Will open January 3rd. What needs to be done?
     a)   CANSIM:
                i)   telnet access
                ii)  mail return
                iii) Gopher and Web access
                iv)  fix up manuals
     b)   GSS and VAW
                i)   need to be NFS mounted in correct spot
                ii)  modify SAS and SPSS programs
                iii) test a sample of both SAS and SPSS
     c)   Census
                i)   needs to be structured and NFS mounted
                ii)  modify SAS and SPSS programs
                iii) test a sample of both SAS and SPSS
     d)   Pull EDS into appropriate spot on Gopher
 
8.  Survey help:
   Shabiran asked for volunteers to assist with data manipulation for survey.
No volunteers were forthcoming.
 
9.   Booking of Meeting Room:
   Shabiran has booked the room through until the end of May.