FINAL townhall list for the rest of '04

[Ivan R. Judson]

July 13, 2004:  Development Tutorial - Developing Network Services
- Discussion of AGTk 2.3 release
- Invited Speaker: Susanne Lefvert 

    Susanne will present the tools, interfaces, and cumentation that
are used to construct rich middleware services that can enhance and
expand typical Access Grid collaborations. This will clude a status
report on the NMI Middleware effort that NSF is supporting the
University of Chicago.

August 3, 2004:  Access Grid Toolkit Status
- Overview of AGTk2.3 functionality
- AGTk 2.3 Testing and Packaging Update

September 7, 2004:  Community Roundtable

    The AG Team Invites all AG Users and Developers to provide
feedback on the AG Toolkit. An exhaustive list of feature requests ll
be shared, and feedback is welcome so that the AG Team can ioritize
tasks the community wants completed.

October 4, 2004:  Development Tutorial - Shared Application
- Invited Speaker: Eric Olson, VenueVNC
- AGTk 3.0 Development Update

November 2, 2004:  The Access Grid and Streaming Media
- Invited Speaker: Thomas D. Uram

    Tom will present the requirements the Access Grid presents to
streaming media solutions, some history of the existing tools, and
some useful libraries for developing new tools. Then he'll esent a
plan for building very high performace, flexible, platform specific
media tools, using QuickTime and Microsoft DirectShow.  Lastly, Tom
will discuss how the combination of data formats choices d network
services have a direct impact on Access Grid collaborations.  

December 6, 2004: XMPP in the Access Grid
- Invited Speaker: Deb Agarwal