G'day Ben This is an interesting topic and personally I don't think there is a "right" way of doing things. One of the issues I see it that Venue Servers are dynamic and things change. For example, the host name might change, etc.
I know with the "All-in-one-installer", it creates shortcuts to various "popular" Venue Servers, which I think is quite useful. I guess the other issues is that some Venue Servers are private and don't wish to be published. Hopefully, having a list of publicly listed Venue Servers under the AG Community will be a good start for locating other Servers when needed. To answer you other question, to my knowledge, there is no " block of venues that everyone is told to maintain on their venue server". Thanks for your email, Jason. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Green [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 4 June 2008 06:46 PM To: Jason Bell; [email protected] Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] List of Venue Servers Hi Jason, Thanks for making that list. I'm currently writing up a document on 'international meetings' to give to our users. This obviously isn't all that straight forward for new users, as it usually involves getting everyone using the same venue server to ensure the same list of virtual venues. So here in the UK, we usually ask people to use our server, sam.ag.manchester.ac.uk, so that when the UK participant announces the virtual venue to be used, they know that all international participants will have that same venue available. Ideally, all Toolkit venue servers worldwide would share a block of international venues so that anyone using any server will have the same choice of virtual venues. I'm sure I'm going to get loads of replies now telling me this does exist already ! Perhaps this is what the 'Original Venues' list is for. But is there a block of venues that everyone is told to maintain on their venue server? Regards, Ben. ----------------------------------------- Ben Green Access Grid Support Centre Research Computing Services University of Manchester Room G49-H, Kilburn Building Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 306 6621 fax: +44 (0)161 275 0637 email - [email protected] web - www.agsc.ja.net ----------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Bell Sent: 04 June 2008 00:40 To: [email protected] Subject: [AG-TECH] List of Venue Servers Dear Colleagues I have listed a few of the known "Global Public Venue Servers" on the AG website, which can be found under the Community section. See http://www.accessgrid.org/community. If you would like to see your venue server listed (or changed), please contact me and I will modify the list. Regards, Jason. -------------------------------------------- Jason Bell, B.I.T. (Honours) Research Systems Support Officer Information Technology Division Central Queensland University Australian Research Collaboration Service http://www.arcs.org.au/ E-mail : [email protected] [email protected] Work : +61 7 4930 9229 Mobile : 0409 630897 Postal : Building 19 Central Queensland University Bruce Highway Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 4702 -------------------------------------------- Patience is a virtue. But if I wanted Patience, I would have become a Doctor. --------------------------------------------
