To: Region 3 ExCom
Cc: Region 3 Committee 
Fr: David Green, Region 3 ECSC 
Sb: Electronic Communications Systems Coordinator Report 
Dt: 21 September 2007

The OUMgt project has release its first "product" in beta form:  OUMgt.Meetings
which helps prepare a meeting announcement for their web site and for 
other reuse (such as listing in MyIEEE, filing the L31, etc.)  The system is
still being developed with new features being added approximately monthly.
The Alabama Section in Region 3 was the first beta site and you can visit their
web site at https://www.eng.uab.edu/ieeea .  The information about section meetings
on their front page is derived from the OUMgt database and the page rendered when
one follows the link is render from that site. This is a project sponsored by 
IEEE Regional Activities with broad support and participation.  Students from UAB have 
participated in many stages of this activity as several students from University of 
Massachusetts Dartmouth.  Bill Ratcliff and I are members of this project team.

The electronic services used by IEEE volunteers includes E-mail, mailing
lists, Newsgroups, Web services, TWiki Site, IRC, eNotice, Blogs,
aliases, BaseCamp, Region 3 OnLine Community, teleconference services,
Internet Meeting Server, and as well as experimental capabilities like
richer conferencing environments and collaboration services such as
Skype and Gizmo. We are considering which services to retire (and which
to add) to make sure we provide appropriate support for Region 3
activities.

Towards this end, in 2007 we will be replacing the Region 3 Server
(ie3col.eng.uab.edu) and as we do, we will be making decisions as to 
which services to migrate and which to retire.

Bill Clayton's report will give further information about Skype/Gizmo Collaboration
effort.