WEB STEWARDS TO MEET AS KEYSERVE DEADLINE APPROACHES

An important meeting of the College's Web Stewards will take place on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 11 a.m. in Campus Center 105. On the agenda is a discussion of the impending change in Web-editing software supported by the College.

Macromedia's Dreamweaver, a product used by many of the people who maintain pages on Bryn Mawr servers, is among the applications that are currently distributed through KeyServer, an license-metering product that allows a finite number of software licenses to be shared by users all over campus. This arrangement, however, will soon come top an end. As Mark Colvson, Information Services coordinator for curriculum and research support, explained in a recent e-mail, “A confluence of factors - licensing restrictions, operating system conflicts, and a cost increase of more than $9,000 - no longer permit us to distribute software in this manner. Effective Sept. 30, 2004 , these applications will no longer be ‘keyserved.'”

Information Services will provide a variety of options for replacing the keyserved version of Dreamweaver. The Webhelp group has called the Sept. 23 meeting to help stewards prepare for the transitions from the keyserved applications and to ensure that all the Web stewards on campus know how to get access to Web-editing software. The Webhelp team will demonstrate Contribute 2, the current version of the application that will replace Dreamweaver as the recommended Web-editing software on campus. Web Applications Developer Mike Zarro will show the group a screen reader, a device that makes Web pages accessible to blind and low-vision users, explaining how pages can be constructed to be read more easily by this kind of hardware.

Web stewards who need to schedule an appointment to install new software before the KeyServe cutoff date of Sept. 30 or are unsure of the status of their Web-editing software should e-mail webhelp@brynmawr.edu as soon as possible.

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