We are new to AG and went through the questions that you currently have brought up. If we are the ones presenting, then we will always have a monitor to make sure our broadcast is good. If we are just viewing (depending on the viewers), we may fire it up and leave. It all depends on the circumstances. I am aware of another site that we broadcast to that will complete a mini-orientation with the students and then the viewers are responsible for system. I have set up a couple of smaller stations that work decently with "lower end" audio and video - but they are for viewing only - and the cost was not that much.
The tipping point for us joining was the colleagues that are on AG. We were missing out on so many seminars. Since we have gone live, the demand for AG keeps getting larger, which to me means we have done the correct thing. The final blessing was all the help from the other operators when we had trouble and could not put our fingers on it. This is just the perspective from a new node operator - good luck determining which way you would like to venture. Dawn M. Kelly -----Original Message----- From: ag-tech-boun...@lists.mcs.anl.gov [mailto:ag-tech-boun...@lists.mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of ag-tech-requ...@lists.mcs.anl.gov Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:00 PM To: ag-t...@lists.mcs.anl.gov Subject: ag-tech Digest, Vol 16, Issue 10 Send ag-tech mailing list submissions to ag-t...@lists.mcs.anl.gov To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ag-tech or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ag-tech-requ...@lists.mcs.anl.gov You can reach the person managing the list at ag-tech-ow...@lists.mcs.anl.gov When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ag-tech digest..." Today's Topics: 1. What is the advantage?+ (Miller, Scott E.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 List-Post: accessgrid-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:26:54 -0800 From: "Miller, Scott E." <mille...@llnl.gov> Subject: [AG-TECH] What is the advantage?+ To: "ag-t...@lists.mcs.anl.gov" <ag-t...@lists.mcs.anl.gov> x-mailing-list: accessgrid-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <cce82d00ebd8334ea176db98b9c24d23012c5148a...@nspexmbx-d.the-lab.llnl.go v> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" AGN community, Sorry for the apparent apathy of the following message but I do have some serious question. I work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and we are considering building another node for our users here. I was involved in the first version we had years ago and pretty much drifted away from any involvement. I am now part of a group that is being asked to put this together and I have a few questions. I hear the advertisements on the radio about "GoToPC.com" as a web conference meeting place. It seems rather simple to login enable your webcam and microphone and go to town. What I am trying to figure out what is the advantage I get from using the AGN? From my past experience (admittedly dated) we had to have an operator there for the entire meeting to monitor and tweak problems as they came up. Is the new version more independent? I would like to be able to go in fire the system up give the user the quick speech of here is your microphone your video images are here and give me a call when you're done. Has the AGN evolved anywhere close to this yet? Again please don't take these comments a derogatory I am actually trying to justify the expense of purchase and installation by asking these questions. Thank you in advance for your responses. Scott Miller 925-424-2746 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/ag-tech/attachments/20100311/c1b8911 4/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ag-tech mailing list ag-t...@lists.mcs.anl.gov https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ag-tech End of ag-tech Digest, Vol 16, Issue 10 ***************************************
