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All,
<p>Latest information is Clinton arrives at Dine' College in Shiprock at
8 PM on Monday evening. So we have all day Monday to get the AG running
there and the network and studio set up. We hope we can get a studio
set up in the lobby of Dine' - if possible - as that is at this time the
primary stop at the college. If the lobby is not possible, we will
be set up in the visz lab - I am told. It then depends on Neal Lane
and local college leaders to get the President to walk the distance to
the lab and see the AG demo and other lab features there.
<p>My understanding at this time is that a "talking circle" on the issues
of serving remote sites and related topics such as applications of the
AG, the EPSCoR Alliance activity, plus EOT activity will be taking place.
Who is speaking when the President walks in - if he does - will be strictly
by chance. The floor should revert to Al or whoever is at the Dine'
site for any local comments if the President arrives.
<p>Everyone at this end is on 24x7 mode and very eager to make this a premier
show.<b></b>
<p><b>*** This effort is to be billed as a demo of a key capability, which
the Alliance along with others, is developing, deploying and applying to
the real world of research, education and community needs. ***</b><b></b>
<p>Thanks to ALL who are engaged and all who are supporting this effort.
<p>John Connolley, We wish you to be on from Kentucky noting the
EPSCoR proposal to put these in each EPSCoR state and you will be pleased
that NM is joining EPSCoR. Also please forward this to Dan
Vanbelleghem
<p>Dan VanBelleghem, We need you on from ACCESS/DC representing EPSCoR
efforts and that EPSCoR is by nature working hard on DD issues. Also pleas
let me know if you get this message.
<p>Roscoe, We invite you to be on representing EOT and efforts
at addressing the digital divide as a special focus of EOT (however
I am very sensitive, because of our lack of inclusion, for this to be a
forum to extoll the EDUcause award).
<p>I feel this effort is a demo of a technology to ease the digital
divide effect and especially ease the isolation of colleges such as Dine'
. This message needs to be our thrust in the talking circle
- how do we apply the AG to bring places like Dine' into closer contact
with other institutions and organizations so to participate in research,
training, education and eventually commerce.
<p>Finally I know this is late on Monday and there is a chance it will
not be seen by the President. However it will be a "Talking Circle"
and a solid Alliance accomplishment to have achieved this demonstration
for a Presidential visit focusing on the Digital Divide. Again I
reiterate we have previously run AG sessions involving both campuses of
Dine' and UNM so this is not a contrived demo. It is an integral
part of our Alliance efforts in the SW both in the PACS and EOT.
In this regard there will be lots of Indian Press coverage and we need
Alliance press coverage as well - and we need to coordinate with them as
the lead (Margaret - please pass this on to Karen Green).
<p>Sincerely, thanks and good luck to the technical teams,
<p>Frank
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<p>Frank Gilfeather wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>All,
<p>"Digital Talking Circle" - symbolically my guess is that we will pass
the floor around the screen without jumping back to the modertor - so we
need to pass the virtual right to speak from site to site - perhads west
to east or something - it will be agreed to on Sunday's call .
Ironically this is basically how the AG functions anyway. We need
to add this language and the context to the lore of the AG. See we
gained something already from this exercise. Evan's extended description
of a talking circle is at <a href="http://www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/DTC.htm">http://www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/DTC.htm</a>.
Clinton will not participate but would look in on it in progress - our
hope.
<p>We are still organizing this and feel there is a home run if we pull
it off. Neal Lane will be in NM with Clinton so we feel there is
a good chance this will be seen by the President.
<p>For Monday, we would like to have Larry and Dan if possible at NCSA,
a group, yet identified at NSF at ACCESS/DC along with Phil, ANL of course,
BU, UK, MHPCC, UNM of course . We need to test on Sunday and stand
by for a period on Monday. Times will become better focused closer
to Monday BUT I personnally fear time will overtake the President and he
may miss Dine' altogether (Dine' is the third stop on his 2.5 hr visit.).
NSF has not been notified so I am including Elbert.
<p>Currently we may set up in the visz lab where the president may go (this
depends on Neal Lane getting Clinton from the lobby to the visz room) to
see a PicTel demo by Livermore The idea is to still do the talking circle
from the visz lab. I note that the two other demos the president
may see are PicTel - so if we can pull it off it is a big step foreward
for the Alliance AG program. Lane is aware that the current agenda
has the president in the lobby of Dine' only and that he wants to take
Clinton to the visz lab.
<p>Everyone on site - the Navajo group (represented by Al Kuslikis)and
the UNM group are working hard - other agencies are joining in. Bill
and our team(s) here have been doing tremoundous things. We
are greatly indebted to many of committed folks.
<p>Frank
<p>A web site with a reference to the trip is
<br><a href="http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/4/5/10.text.1">http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/4/5/10.text.1</a>
<p>PS
<p>Unfortunately i will probably not be present as a family health matter
takes presidence.
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<p>Bill Nickless wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>At 09:09 PM 4/11/2000 -0500, Robert Olson wrote:
<br>>There is a plan in the works to use the AG in a Digital Talking Circle
<br>>with President Clinton, president of Dine' college, Frank G, Rick,
Larry,
<br>>Dan Reed, folks at ACCESS-DC.
<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://www.uccan.org/global/interfaith01.htm#5">http://www.uccan.org/global/interfaith01.htm#5</a>
we read:
<p>>5. Talking Circles
<br>>The initial challenge in interfaith work is how to establish trust.
<br>>Without trust, conversation soon grinds to a halt. How the conversation
is
<br>>conducted reflects power structures. A guest speaker is still a guest,
one
<br>>voice among many. How do we break out of the Western Christian model
of
<br>>conversation? Asked another way, the question becomes "How should
we meet
<br>>each other?" When this question was posed to Aboriginal communities,
the
<br>>response was the talking circle. In the talking circle, a sacred emblem
is
<br>>passed from person to person, and the holder bears the right to speak
<br>>without interruption. In such a way, the voices of all those present
are
<br>>honoured.
<br>>· The talking circle takes
time, which may at first be perceived as
<br>>a limitation but is actually a strength. It is a model based on completion
<br>>and respect, rather than reliance on "authoritative" perspectives.
<p>For context, the source of the quotation is the United Church of Canada.
<p>I don't know how a Digital Talking Circle would operate on Monday.
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<br>Bill Nickless <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/people/nickless">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/people/nickless</a>
+1 630 252 7390
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Frank Gilfeather
Executive Director
High Performance Computing,
Education and Research Center
and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
1601 Central Ave NE
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM, 87131
Ph 505-277-8249, Fax 277-8235
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Frank Gilfeather
Executive Director
High Performance Computing,
Education and Research Center
and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
1601 Central Ave NE
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM, 87131
Ph 505-277-8249, Fax 277-8235
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