[ale] Future Meeting space

[Jonathan Rickman]

Why not host the meeting at multiple sites with video/audio links between?

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Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Dow Hurst wrote:

> I have talked with the College of Science and Math's Dean, Dr. Larry
> Peterson, about meeting here at Kennesaw State University in our
> building.  He is all for it and even asked if we needed refreshments!  I
> had forwarded my email to the CSIS dept. and a professor there, Dr. Max
> North, is interested in spearheading the issue.  I think Max would like
> to have a group of CSIS students host the meeting.  Anyway, the bottom
> line is that we probably can have the auditorium which holds about 150+
> people and is wired for video, sound, digital input, and so on.  I'll
> get back tomorrow with more specific info from Max, but that is it for
> now.  Dr. Peterson is very interested in creating some relationships
> between the College of Science and Math and the IT community in
> Atlanta.  I'd personally love to have ALE meet here since I'd get to
> attend meetings!  I do understand the distance/traffic problems we have
> and am interested in helping with a virtual type meeting.  You know we
> could easily broadcast the audio and limited frame rate video from here
> with no problem.  Our campus backbone is going to Gigabit right now.  We
> have, I believe, a T-3 for our Peachnet feed and possible a much larger
> connection from Sprint coming in.  The College of Science and Math is
> going to a fast switched environment as soon as the campus backbone
> upgrade is complete.  So we will be cookin' big time here on bandwidth.
> Everyone please think about this virtual meeting thing combined with
> meeting here.  I think that might work.
>
> Another more practical option is to develop a meeting at Emory, a
> meeting at KSU, and another meeting place Southwest of Atlanta around
> the airport.  That way we would give everyone a chance to come.  Just
> rotate around every three meetings.
> Dow
>
>
> Dan Newcombe wrote:
> >
> > Back in October, I talked to a Linux fan who worked in Ga Tech's College
> > of Computing, and he was mystified as to why ALE left, and said that
> > providing space shouldn't be a problem.  Perhaps we should look into
> > "returning home"???
> >
> > I'm all for anything that moves it closer to the south side of Atlanta :)
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Chris Woodruff wrote:
> >
> > > We cannot use HD facilities past August.  So this search is necessary for
> > > the group.
> > >
> > > Chris Woodruff
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "aaron" <aaron at pd.org>
> > > To: "ALE list" <ale at ale.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:24 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] Future Meeting space
> > >
> > >
> > > Previously, Deb typed into the ether:
> > > > I am not sure who to contact regarding this. So, I will post it here.
> > > > I spoke with Chris Farris at the ALE meeting on July 12th about
> > > > holding future meetings at Emory University School of Law, We have a
> > > > few classrooms that would meet our needs. I need to find out soon so I
> > > > can put in a reservation for one of the large classrooms. I have been
> > > > verbally approved for a room but have to turn in the paper work so it
> > > > is official and no one else gets the room.
> > >
> > > While Emory is literally a couple blocks from my home and holding
> > > the ALE meetings there would be -extremely- convenient for me, I have to
> > > say that I find the Home Depot facility a very comfortable, very classy
> > > meeting site (and well worth the 30 minute drive :).
> > >
> > > Unless the use of that HD facility is getting somehow problematic,
> > > temporary or tenuous, I would raise my hand for staying there.
> > >
> > > Also, from what I've observed of attendance over the several months I've
> > > been a meeting participatant, any alternative site would need to  be big
> > > enough to accomodate 50 to 70 people. Having a data/video projection
> > > system and, ideally, some PA sound support are kind of a requisite as
> > > well.
> > >
> > > Just my nickle on the topic...
> > >
> > > peace
> > > (after justice)
> > > aaron
> > >
> > > >  Harold Bieber
> > > >  Emory University School of Law
> > > >  404-727-7193
> > > >  hbieber at law.emory.edu
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