[Imc] Access Grid Activism & the G8 summit (fwd)

[John Martirano]

There seems to be some interest in somehow engaging the activist
community over the Access-Grid. Briefly, the Access-Grid is a 
global collaboration/video conferencing tool developed at a # of
universities with sites at every major research university in
this country and many in europe.

I've responded to  Don, and indicated that certainly our group
would support such an endeavor and that i believe there would be
interest in the local activist community, IMC, etc

Hes suggested some kind of networked workshop to take place in
conjunction with the G8 Summit & Global Action Summit, while this
is fairly short-notice and has some likelyhood of not happening,
I've suggested that we keep these lines of communication open
for similar future endeavors.

I am sending this email as an FYI, but also to guage interest
in this sort of thing. Feel free to contact me with thoughts,
im also on the sdas and imc lists.
	-john

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| From owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov Wed May 29 16:50:09 CDT 2002
| Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:06:12 -0600
| From: Don Morton <morton at cs.umt.edu>
| Organization: Univ. Montana, Dept. Computer Science
| To: "Sergeant A. G. Tech" <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
| CC: Matthew Hisel <matthewhisel at yahoo.com>, Mark Wolfe <westword at shawlink.ca>,
|    Doug Bowman <bowman at mvoice.com>, williamsonrp at mso.umt.edu
| Subject: [AG-TECH] Using Access Grid for Activism Stuff
| 
| All,
| 
| This is a heads up and a "preliminary call for participation."
| At the end of June, the G8 Summit is being held outside
| of Calgary, and U. Montana (about six hours south) is
| holding the Global Justice Action Summit (www.globaljas.org)
| prior to that, as a forum to promote global justice,
| economic sustainability, etc.
| 
| We're going to try to promote something simple and informal
| for this, mostly in an effort to see if we can make the
| activist communities around the world aware of the Access
| Grid technology.  So, on Saturday, 21 June, from 2100-2300
| UTC, we'll likely be hosting a workshop.  It will start with
| a presentation by one of our folks on fuel cell technology,
| and the hope is to transition from this issue to the issue
| of using technologies like the AG for social activism.
| 
| Apparently, the Chicago bus system uses fuel cell technology
| now, and we had one thought that - if anybody at ANL or other
| sites in Chitown area were willing - it would be cool to have
| someone from the Chicago bus system knowledgeable in the use
| of the fuel cells come on and talk about successes, problems, 
| etc.  Anybody in Chicago area "potentially" interested in 
| arranging this sort of thing?
| 
| We'll also be strongly encouraging international participation.
| After all, the AG will be billed as a tool to facilitate 
| activist collaboration across the Earth and, what better way
| than to get participation from across the Earth :)
| 
| This is just sort of a "feeler" right now, attempting to
| gauge potential interest in the AG community.  If you think
| your site "might" be interested in participating and, even
| better, going out and contacting local activist groups to
| solicit participation, would you please let me know?  Obviously,
| if I get no responses, I'll probably can the whole idea so,
| please let me know.
| 
| I'll be in Fairbanks then, so will have to bribe all my ARSC
| friends with Moose Drool to let me attend from their AGN
| (remember, it's the afternoon before the Midnight Sun Run,
| so what better time to get tanked up on beer, eh?? :))
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| Don 
| -- 
|    Don Morton                   http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
|    Department of Computer Science       The University of Montana
|    Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139