Y2K events are produced by the campus Y2K Sub-Committee on Communications to heighten awareness, provide status reports and field questions.

Suggestions and comments are welcome, and should be sent to Gayle Gonzales, gaylgonz@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Campus Y2K events held to date

During the Fall 1999 semester, the following campus Y2K-related events have so far been held:

• October 12, 1999
  Y2K technical issues.
  For Micronet members and other campus computing support staff. (Third in a series of three Micronet meeting sessions focusing on Y2K.)
  
  
• September 15, 1999
  Finding a Personally Comfortable Balance Between Under-reacting and Overreacting to the "Year 2000 Computer Bug"
  For campus staff, co-sponsored by CARE Services for Faculty and Staff.

During the Spring 1999 semester, a series of seven Y2K informational forums were conducted for faculty, students and staff. Topics varied depending on the audience of each forum, and included computers, databases, off-the-shelf and customized applications, research and research equipment, and building and safety systems. Brief presentations by a panel of subject experts were followed by a question and answer period. These forums included:

• June 17, 1999
  Computers, customized applications, research equipment.
  For research administrators.
  
  
• June 15, 1999
  Research equipment.
  For faculty, research associates/assistants, graduate students, and staff. (A second, repeat session of the April 28, 1999 forum on this topic, below.)
  
  
• May 13, 1999
  All Y2K-related areas.
  For Academic Business Officers Group, BAS Business Officers Group, Undergraduate Affairs Business Officers Group.
  
  
• May 11, 1999
  Y2K technical issues.
  For Micronet members and other campus computing support staff. (Second in a series of three Micronet meeting sessions focusing on Y2K.)
  
  
• May 3, 1999
  Computers, research equipment, building systems.
  For Chief Administrative Officers
  
  
• April 28, 1999
  Research equipment.
  For faculty, research associates/assistants, graduate students, and staff.
  
  
• March 31, 1999
  Y2K Informational forum, covering all Y2K-related areas.
  For campus staff and all other members of the campus community.
  
  View questions and answers from the March 31st general information session co-sponsored by the Berkeley Staff Assembly (BSA) and the Y2K Steering Committee.

During the Fall 1998 semester, the following Y2K event was held:

• December 8, 1998
  Y2K technical issues.
  For Micronet members and other campus computing support staff. (First in a series of three Micronet meeting sessions focusing on Y2K.)