[ale] Future Meeting space

[Dow Hurst]

I have talked with the College of Science and Math's Dean, Dr. Larry
Peterson, about meeting here at Kennesaw State University in our
building.  He is all for it and even asked if we needed refreshments!  I
had forwarded my email to the CSIS dept. and a professor there, Dr. Max
North, is interested in spearheading the issue.  I think Max would like
to have a group of CSIS students host the meeting.  Anyway, the bottom
line is that we probably can have the auditorium which holds about 150+
people and is wired for video, sound, digital input, and so on.  I'll
get back tomorrow with more specific info from Max, but that is it for
now.  Dr. Peterson is very interested in creating some relationships
between the College of Science and Math and the IT community in
Atlanta.  I'd personally love to have ALE meet here since I'd get to
attend meetings!  I do understand the distance/traffic problems we have
and am interested in helping with a virtual type meeting.  You know we
could easily broadcast the audio and limited frame rate video from here
with no problem.  Our campus backbone is going to Gigabit right now.  We
have, I believe, a T-3 for our Peachnet feed and possible a much larger
connection from Sprint coming in.  The College of Science and Math is
going to a fast switched environment as soon as the campus backbone
upgrade is complete.  So we will be cookin' big time here on bandwidth. 
Everyone please think about this virtual meeting thing combined with
meeting here.  I think that might work.

Another more practical option is to develop a meeting at Emory, a
meeting at KSU, and another meeting place Southwest of Atlanta around
the airport.  That way we would give everyone a chance to come.  Just
rotate around every three meetings.
Dow


Dan Newcombe wrote:
> 
> Back in October, I talked to a Linux fan who worked in Ga Tech's College
> of Computing, and he was mystified as to why ALE left, and said that
> providing space shouldn't be a problem.  Perhaps we should look into
> "returning home"???
> 
> I'm all for anything that moves it closer to the south side of Atlanta :)
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Chris Woodruff wrote:
> 
> > We cannot use HD facilities past August.  So this search is necessary for
> > the group.
> >
> > Chris Woodruff
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "aaron" <aaron at pd.org>
> > To: "ALE list" <ale at ale.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:24 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Future Meeting space
> >
> >
> > Previously, Deb typed into the ether:
> > > I am not sure who to contact regarding this. So, I will post it here.
> > > I spoke with Chris Farris at the ALE meeting on July 12th about
> > > holding future meetings at Emory University School of Law, We have a
> > > few classrooms that would meet our needs. I need to find out soon so I
> > > can put in a reservation for one of the large classrooms. I have been
> > > verbally approved for a room but have to turn in the paper work so it
> > > is official and no one else gets the room.
> >
> > While Emory is literally a couple blocks from my home and holding
> > the ALE meetings there would be -extremely- convenient for me, I have to
> > say that I find the Home Depot facility a very comfortable, very classy
> > meeting site (and well worth the 30 minute drive :).
> >
> > Unless the use of that HD facility is getting somehow problematic,
> > temporary or tenuous, I would raise my hand for staying there.
> >
> > Also, from what I've observed of attendance over the several months I've
> > been a meeting participatant, any alternative site would need to  be big
> > enough to accomodate 50 to 70 people. Having a data/video projection
> > system and, ideally, some PA sound support are kind of a requisite as
> > well.
> >
> > Just my nickle on the topic...
> >
> > peace
> > (after justice)
> > aaron
> >
> > >  Harold Bieber
> > >  Emory University School of Law
> > >  404-727-7193
> > >  hbieber at law.emory.edu
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