As we have been told by US government leaders, the push must for US metrication must come from US industry, not from the government. In response, I have gotten permission from my company to form a USMA chapter. The USMA - Genentech Chapter aims to progress metrication within our own company, promote metric education in the education community by participating in the USMA Science Fair Awards program, and to network with other corporate chapters that may form.
Our kickoff meeting meeting will be held at the Genentech<http://www.gene.com/> campus in South San Francisco on July 16 at 16:00 Pacific time. This aims to be a bi-weekly meeting of those interested in progressing metrication at Genentech and in the USA as a whole. Anyone who can make it in person is welcome to attend and for those who can't it will be available via WebEx as well as phone conference. We will also post a recording of the meeting at gometric.us for those who are unable to make the meeting at all. *Those planning to attend in person on the Genentech campus will need to contact Scott Hudnall via e-mail (metricnut AT mac com) in advance in order to make arrangements with campus security.* The agenda will be posted once we've got it solidified, but for now here's the details so you can add it to your calendar: - Topic: USMA - Genentech Chapter - Date: Every Thursday, from Thursday, July 16, 2009 to no end date - Time: 4:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00, San Francisco) - Meeting number: 595 742 597 - Meeting password: metricusa Please click the link below to see more information, or to join the meeting. https://genentech.webex.com/genentech/j.php?ED=117182967&UID=1071870327&PW=e383f2b1ee594807160f0947030e Teleconference: Participant Passcode: 331819 Dial-In Numbers - Toll free: 1-888-442-7245 - Toll: 1-719-955-1372 For technical support call: 888-542-5112 or 719-867-1291. Alternatively, during a teleconference using Premiere Conferencing, press *0 to be connected to an operator. To update this meeting to your calendar program (for example, Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes), do the following: - For all calendar programs (except Lotus Notes), click the following link, or copy the link and paste it into your Web browser: https://genentech.webex.com/genentech/j.php?ED=117182967&UID=1071870327&ICS=MRS3&LD=1&RD=2&ST=1&SHA2=sr/k/rs0QUfHi4hWgFcgXoLXwVP85kmHVtMnGRG6Chc= *For Lotus Notes, follow these steps: 1. Right-click the attached iCalendar format (*.ics) file, and then choose View. 2. Click Import All. A new broadcast email message is added to your Inbox. 3. Open the new message. 4. Click Respond button. A menu appears. 5. Click Accept. The playback of UCF (Universal Communications Format) rich media files requires appropriate players. To view this type of rich media files in the meeting, please check whether you have the players installed on your computer by going to https://genentech.webex.com/genentech/systemdiagnosis.php
