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<br>All,
<p>Our greatest thanks and appreciation to all - especially the Argonne
team and especially Bill Nickless and to all who worked the AG on Sunday.
I can't express thanks enough to the entire AG team and especially to Argonne.
This was a great opportunity, which was chancy from the beginning as we
were not on the original WH schedule. The Dine' and UNM teams
need to know they were exceptional especially when faced with mounting
hurdles as the weekend progressed.
<p>We have many to thank everywhere for getting this ready and many personal
debts to pay. We may be doing a discussion with Dine' from UNM tonight
if we can, but at this point see no need for anyone else to get further
involved. This is very very hard and very disappointing. The
WH did ask us to set up a camera and broadcast video of the President's
NetMeeting session to the gym so others could see. I guess we are
going to do that for them at this point.
<p>Unfortunately the opportunity for the President to see a NetMeeting
interaction on a slow connection and 16 hops won out - a private company
set it up on Thursday. That was the original plan of the WH. Unfortunately
we were encouraged by many including the WH that they would add AG to the
schedule. They did not and so we were left with lots of debts to
many many people.
<p>In the end, the WH group made our job of setting up the grid impossible
and I am told they will seal off the part of the building containing the
visz lab and the AG node. We did put in 6 T1 lines and Dine' is AG
enabled. That we will work on this month to keep going.
<p>We learned a lot. However we have a good collaboration of native
American groups in the SW firmly established and this further cemented
some key working relations.
<p>Again thanks and many many apologies.
<p>On a very positive side many learned about the great IT needs
in the remote areas of the country. The President is making an appeal
for networking and other IT support for groups left out of the IT revolution
- here especially Native Americans - so much good will come from
the greater event.
<p>Sincerely,
<p>Frank
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<p>Robert Olson wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> At 10:18 AM 4/17/2000 -0500, Allison Clark
wrote:
<blockquote type=cite cite>Hi,
<br>Do we know who the pre-Clinton audience is? Is it just us or will it
<br>include government types, the press etc.?</blockquote>
<p><br>As per Ernie's latest mail, this is a moot point. No demo before
tlaking circle. Unclear to me whether there will be a demo it all; my read
is that it depends on if they drag the president to the vislab.</blockquote>
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<br>Frank Gilfeather
<br>Executive Director
<br>High Performance Computing,
<br>Education and Research Center
<br>and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
<br>1601 Central Ave. NE
<br>University of New Mexico
<br>Albuquerque NM, 87131
<p>Ph 505-277-8249, Fax 277-8235
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