Here! Here! Hip, Hip, Hoorah!!
for years of commitment and excellent work and above all a truly wonderful community that I feel fortunate to have been (and still be, if peripherally) part of - I still have on my wall a picture of "Our Friends in the Meadow" that Amado made 7+ years ago. Julie On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Brian Corrie <bcor...@sfu.ca> wrote: > Hi Tom, the Argonne AG Team (past and present), and the AG Community, > > The end of an era! > > I remember the first time I visited Argonne and there were all these odd > characters chatting with each other using this thing called a MUD, always > on line, always connected. Ahh, the meadow! > > The AG was a vision that embodied connecting the global research > community, and is still actively used 15 or so years later... That is > impressive! The AG community was always connected, always on line, way > before that was cool... heck, even before it was possible any other way. > > Many thanks to the Argonne group and the rest of the AG Community. I > consider many of you my colleagues and friends and I am sure my > collaborations with many of you will continue on for many more years... > > Cheers, > > Brian > > > On 3/1/2012 9:51 AM, Thomas Uram wrote: > >> Access Grid community: >> >> The Access Grid was created nearly 14 years ago here at Argonne National >> Laboratory, as an open source alternative to the proprietary >> videoconferencing systems of the day. Our goal was to build the >> videoconferencing equivalent of Linux: a foundation for collaboration to >> which anyone could contribute, and from which everyone would benefit. We >> believe that the Access Grid has achieved this goal by supporting countless >> scientific and administrative conferences in academia and research. >> >> The team at Argonne maintains several servers and services to support the >> Access Grid, and can no longer continue these services. We are drafting a >> transition plan to support the still active Access Grid community. The >> current plan includes the following steps, which will be taken over the >> next 3 months; services will continue until June 1, 2012, when they will >> become unavailable. >> >> • Source code will be migrated to a public repository (e.g. Google >> code, SourceForge) >> • The Argonne Venue Server and associated services (Jabber, Bridge >> Registry) will be turned off >> • The AG-Dev Certificate Authority will stop issuing certificates >> • The accessgrid.org web site will be turned off >> • AG-related mailing lists will be migrated to a public forum >> (e.g. Google Groups) >> >> Thank you for all your support and involvement over the years, >> >> The Access Grid developers >> >> (You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to one of the >> Access Grid mailing lists, either ag-tech, ag-users, or ag-dev) >> >>
