To: UW GIS folks and WA Public Higher Ed Site license contacts
Some changes are underway at gis.washington.edu that may affect you.
In mid December the hardware hosting gis.washington.edu started to fail.
I've moved the content over to a different machine to provide stopgap
coverage. Some of the content at gis.washington.edu may stay there, but
most, if not all, of the interactive content will be migrating to
depts.washington.edu/arcgis. That includes any forms associated with the
ESRI site license, such as off-campus license requests, virtual campus
(VC) course registrations, and student timeout software requests. There
are some technical issues that will need to be worked out before changes
are complete, and messages will be posted as changes continue.
One of the big changes that should make doing business easier for many
of you is that request forms will use UWNetID authentication, which
means you won't need to remember any additional passwords for license or
VC requests--you'll use the same authentication method as you use for
accessing MyUW, etc.
Unfortunately this means we will only be able to process requests for UW
folks. For those of you who coordinate ESRI site licenses at non-UW WA
public higher ed sites, you will need to establish a system for
processing VC course requests (contact me personally and I can provide
some suggestions).
For now, virtual campus registrations for UW students, staff, and
faculty can be requested at
http://depts.washington.edu/arcgis/pages/training/vc_request
If you find other things that are not working on the currently hosted
site (e.g., dead links), please let me know.
More broadly, the state of gis.washington.edu has remained largely
unchanged since initial development was funded in 2000. I acknowledge
how clunky and user unfriendly the site is, and would like to see the
site become something more useful and easier to navigate, and optimally
with collaboratively designed/produced/managed content. Stay tuned for
more info about that...
-P.
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Philip M. Hurvitz, PhD
Urban Form Lab | 1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 535 | Box 354802
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-4802, USA
[email protected] | http://gis.washington.edu/phurvitz
"What is essential is invisible to the eye." -de Saint-Exupéry
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