ÿþFrom: "James O. Whitlock" <whitlock@buffalo.edu>

To: "WNY-PRI" <wny-pri-list@listserv.buffalo.edu>; "WNY-HPNVI-General-Membership" <sw-vcp-supporters-list@listserv.buffalo.edu>

Subject: Megaconference to be Small Part of Larger Internet2 On-Line Conference

Date: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:16 PM



Internet2 Conference & Megaconference-III Combine On-Line

Internet2 planning groups are at this moment working on the details but it is 

now clear that we will be attempting to convert as much of the Fall Internet2 

Membership Meeting (that was scheduled for the week of 10/1) as is possible

to a completely non-physical on-line conference.  I'm in one of those discussions

now and have seen no published details but will post any/all links and material

on our Megaconference site pages.  There are likely to be Internet2 Conference

sessions and BOF meetings from Tuesday 10/2 through Friday 10/5.  Supporting

technologies will range from live massive H.323 real-time conferences to 

very high quality MPEG-2 live multicast streams.  Telephone conference bridges

will also be available for those without appropriate video technology available.

Most presentation materials will be posted to Web sites as well.  



Local Public Sites Sought

At this time, Peter Jörgensen, is working on a public site at the UB School of

Informatics.  Details will be posted as they emerge on our local Web pages.  There

are no other known public sites at this time in the WNY region.  Please consider

this as an opportunity to shake-down your systems & procedures and to get 

involved in both the Megaconference and the Fall Internet2 Membership Meeting.

Contact me directly if you have interest & capability.



Duplicate Postings

Those of you who are on both the WNY-PRI distribution listserv and the WNY-HPNVI

will be getting duplicates of event summaries like this for awhile.  If you are not getting 

duplicates and want to be receive notices of IP-video events and projects that may be 

relevant to the region, please email me and ask to be included in the WNY-HPNVI 

distribution.  I'm sorry for the cross postings but know of no other way at this time to

keep everyone informed.  





Regards,



Jim