Fwd: RE: AG at SC00

Rick Stevens stevens at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Sep 21 17:59:10 CDT 2000


Great..

At 05:41 PM 9/21/2000 -0400, Beth Plale wrote:
>Rick,
>
>We're not on the list of people who expressed an interest in
>participating, but we do plan on running remotely during
>SC00.
>
>beth plale
>
>Georgia Tech
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a summary of various ideas that have been proposed for AG events
> > at SC00.  I'd like to get some additional input from the various groups
> > that have suggested activities and in particular confirmations from groups
> > that plan to have AG nodes at SC00 and/or up and running during the SC00
> > conference and that may be planning "private events".
> >
> > Several groups have proposed roving reporters.. with wearables
> > etc.  This has been tried several times (first time I'm aware of was back
> > many years ago in Minneapolis, I forgot the year) in the past and after 
> the
> > first
> > hour or so, the technology novelty wears off and people have to focus
> > on being reporters so it would be great to line up people that have
> > an interest in collecting stories and interviews in addition to showing
> > off the tech.
> >
> > Given the short deadline to SC it is important that groups commit soon to
> > activities they are willing to lead.  Perhaps we should schedule an AG
> > discussion on Friday to try to reach consensus on a plan for the SC week.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --Rick
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>--
>
>Beth Plale                      beth at cc.gatech.edu
>Georgia Institute of Technology 1 404 894 1540
>College of Computing            Fax  1 404 894 9442
>Atlanta, GA  30332-0280  U.S.




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