[Peace] GlobalJAS on the Access Grid

Tue Jun 11 12:02:18 CDT 2002

Are there people interested in attending an international video 
conferencing session in conjunction with the Global Justice Action Summit?  

This event is taking place in champaign on
Friday, 21 June, from 15:00-17:00 Mountain Daylight Time (21:00-23:00 UTC).

there is a network of high-bandwidth video collaboration centers across
the world called "Access Grid Nodes", these AGNs enable multiple sessions
all around the world to see and hear eachother as well as share other 
information, websites, powerpoint, text documents...

anyway... a number of sites have instigated a session in conjunction with
the Global Justice Action Summit... this will be a first in terms of using
the AGNs for anything remotely progressive in nature... so it would be a
shame if there was not some attendance from the cu crowd...

the agenda is very simple...  (from email below...)
"My understanding is that our Paul Williamson Dean of UM College of
Technology, will be speaking on Fuel Cell Technology, then discussion will
migrate towards facilitating activism via the Access Grid."

i think the idea here is to ease into this "scarey activism" idea.
it would be great to see some from the cu crowd push the boundaries of the
discussion... also i imagine for many this session will as much be an 
introduction to this mode of communication as anything...

however, i think this could be the 1st of a new avenue for AGN use...

I've been working on getting a commitment from local AGN people and i
think i have that secured which is why i now am turning to you all for some
attendance. My understanding is that this space only holds 12-20 people 
comfortably.  I will be out of town from the 16th, but i can coordinate an
attendance and make introductions. 

please email me if interested, martiran at ncsa.uiuc.edu
i am also on the sdas and imc lists,
i need to put the attendance together by the end of this week.
	-john

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Don Morton spoke:
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:40:13 -0600
From: Don Morton <morton at cs.umt.edu>
Organization: Univ. Montana, Dept. Computer Science
To: ag-globaljas at sheba.cs.umt.edu
Subject: GlobalJAS on the Access Grid

Howdy all,

You are all members of my list "ag-globaljas."  To send any messages to
this list, please send them to "ag-globaljas at sheba.cs.umt.edu"  If you 
want to be removed from this list, it's probably easiest if you just
ask me to do so (keeping in mind that I'm heading for Fairbanks in a
couple of days and may be slow to react).

I'm appending the members of this list to the end of this message.  At
any time, to find the current members, just send email to 
"majordomo at sheba.cs.umt.edu" with the command "who ag-globaljas" in
the body of your message.

This list is meant to help folks coordinate the use of the Access Grid
for a single event in the multi-day Global Justice Action Summit held
here in Missoula at end of June.  The particular event is scheduled for
Friday, 21 June, from 15:00-17:00 Mountain Daylight Time (21:00-23:00 UTC).
Matt Hisel from UM (email is in below list) is coordinating this event.  I'm
simply the dude who offered up his student and Access Grid Node here in
Montana to facilitate it, and sent a message out to the AG community seeking
participation.  I'll be in Fairbanks during the event and hope to watch from
there but, I don't know if their AGN will be available at that time or not.

My understanding is that our Paul Williamson (great guy who went out to
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory this past week), Dean of UM College of
Technology, will be speaking on Fuel Cell Technology, then discussion will
migrate towards facilitating activism via the Access Grid.  Again, Matt
will be the one coordinating this.  I will be pretty much unavailable but
would like to offer the following suggestions based on experience running
stuff on the Access Grid:

- Decide on a rough agenda and settle on it, then advertise it to the AG
community.
  Sorry Crysta but, in this case, I think lack of agenda will result in people
  just staring at each other and being a little intimidated, given the
technological
  barriers. :)

- Keep people informed - nothing is as unsettling as people wondering what
they're
  supposed to be doing and where they're supposed to be at the last minute.

- K.I.S.S. - Keep It Sweet and Simple - this kind of thing is "sort of"
high-risk,
  so it's best not to get ambitious.  A simple presentation by Paull and a
somewhat
  organized discussion afterwards will be very valuable.  Several who are on
this
  list can't attend the GlobalJAS event but are interested in potential followup
  activities.  Therefore, we want to make this first event simple so that it
will
  succeed and there WILL be more events to follow.

Jeremy Sauer will be the technical contact for this - I assume he'll organize a
test session before the event and let anybody know details about Power Point, 
etc.  His email is also in the following list.

I'm sure I'm forgetting things but, I wanted to send off this email and get
you all together.  From here on, it's pretty much up to Matt and Jeremy.  I'll
do my best to jump in and answer questions where needed but, please address
questions/issues to this list so that all may benefit.

I wish you all great success with this SIMPLE event :) and hope I can attend
from Fairbanks (will be attending the Alaska Goldpanners Midnight Sun baseball
game later in the evening :)).

Best,

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

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