Just wanted to add my thanks to Tom and the gang for the years of work
and support for this great project. WestGrid and ComputeCanada have
used (and continue to use) AccessGrid for many seminars and events that
would not have been possible with any other technology. AG was my first
taste of collaboration software and continues to drive my opinions and
views of what truly advanced collaboration could (and should!) look like.
As many others have already mentioned, one of the best aspects of AG was
the fantastic community. I met a lot of great people and had many good
times both in person at SC/Retreats and online.
Thanks again all!
Todd
On 03/01/2012 09:51 AM, Thomas Uram wrote:
Access Grid community:
The Access Grid was created nearly 14 years ago here at Argonne
National Laboratory, as an open source alternative to the proprietary
videoconferencing systems of the day. Our goal was to build the
videoconferencing equivalent of Linux: a foundation for collaboration
to which anyone could contribute, and from which everyone would
benefit. We believe that the Access Grid has achieved this goal by
supporting countless scientific and administrative conferences in
academia and research.
The team at Argonne maintains several servers and services to support
the Access Grid, and can no longer continue these services. We are
drafting a transition plan to support the still active Access Grid
community. The current plan includes the following steps, which will
be taken over the next 3 months; services will continue until June 1,
2012, when they will become unavailable.
• Source code will be migrated to a public repository (e.g. Google
code, SourceForge) • The Argonne Venue Server and associated services
(Jabber, Bridge Registry) will be turned off • The AG-Dev Certificate
Authority will stop issuing certificates • The accessgrid.org web
site will be turned off • AG-related mailing lists will be migrated
to a public forum (e.g. Google Groups)
Thank you for all your support and involvement over the years,
The Access Grid developers
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