A question came up about the Kids on the Grid event in the NCSA venue server lobby this day. No one has to formally sign up to participate and there is no formal agenda. Just show up. If you happen to pop in when two or more sites are already in the middle of a conversation and/or interacting with the white board, just wait for an appropriate time to interrupt and introduce yourselves.
Information about Kids on the Grid was posted to this list before and it appears again below. Craig Bring Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day "Kids on the Grid" Access Grid Event List-Post: accessgrid-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Date: April 28th, 2005, 9:00 a.m. to 8 p.m. eastern time Venue: Lobby of the NCSA Venue Server https://venues.ncsa.uiuc.edu:9000/venues/default Description: This meeting is for persons demonstrating the Access Grid during Bring Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day. The time of the meeting has been set to accommodate a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. time span in all four time zones of the continental United States. The meeting is open to anyone, including those outside the United States and those who will not have children visiting and who just may want view what's happening. Northwestern University will be providing a white board children can use to interact with during the demo from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. central time. Nodes wishing to use the white board will need to run a VNC client (a free client can be downloaded from http://www.realvnc.com) and connect the client to Northwestern's VNC server at ag4.mccormick.northwestern.edu. This meeting is posted on the Access Grid Schedule Server for April 28. Last year 8 to 10 different sites participated throughout the day. Sites would enter and exit the venue throughout the day and even when a participating site was online, there weren't always children present at the site because of how different institutions scheduled their demos. Consequently, this is one reason the meeting is being held in the NCSA Lobby, where many nodes tend to lurk, and why we are encouraging other AG nodes to participate, even if they are having children visiting their site. We apologize in advance for the audio we will be transmitting in the NCSA Lobby that day and we are grateful to NCSA for giving us permission to use this venue.
