[AG-TECH] Virtual AG Tour

[Derek Piper]

	Yes, that sounds like a good idea. I know I got a lot of good 
information on nodes from looking at Jason Bell's webpages about his 
nodes (Thanks Jason!). A 'virtual tour' across a variety of nodes would 
be even better.

	Derek

Cindy Sievers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if there would be any interest in a weekly series of 
> virtual AG tours?
> 
> I'm always impressed when I talk to people on the AG about the cool 
> things they are doing with their facilities, new hardware they are 
> using, or just what kinds of events they are hosting.  I'm wondering if 
> anyone, besides myself, would find a weekly virtual tour of AG 
> facilities interesting......I was thinking that each week we could 
> highlight one or two sites, let them tell us about their facility, what 
> works well for them, what they gear their AG facilities toward 
> (classroom setting, research, general meetings), what other equipment 
> they have integrated (VTC, polycom, etc) and just basic information 
> about their nodes.
> I thought this would be especially helpful for folks faced with the task 
> of designing their own AG spaces,  they could talk to folks about what 
> is working for them and see what kinds of configurations work well.
> This would be different from the Town Hall where sites are highlighting 
> their research....this would be geared more toward the hardware and site 
> specific information a node would like to share with others.  More like 
> a "Parade of Nodes" kinda thing, where we get to "walk through" AG nodes 
> from all over, getting ideas for our own nodes, and providing very 
> useful information at the same time.
> 
> Any interest?
> 
> 
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> Cindy Sievers           Los Alamos National Laboratory
> sievers at lanl.gov        Group CCS-1 MS B287
> tel:505.665.6602        Advanced Computing
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