April 26th is Bring Your Child to Work Day and preparations are already underway here at NIH. I'm posting this message asking people who plan to demonstrate their AG nodes that day to contact me so we can attempt to determine a venue we can use and a schedule of when various sites plan to be online.
If you're not planning to demonstrate your node that day, you may want to consider doing so to give it greater visibility. Every child visiting our node is accompanied by a parent who is also exposed to its capabilities. Granted, this approach hasn't had the impact that the guerrilla marketing of Aqua Teen Hunger Force had on Boston, but we did subsequently talk to several parents about how collaboration technology could be used in their work. We really appreciate all the help we have had from the AG community in doing these demos the last 2 years. The demonstration's success depends on people being at one or more distant end points, especially other kids on the grid to interact with. If you are interested, now may be the time to contact the office at your institution that plans this event so you can be added to the list of activities that they publish. NIH just issued its call for participation today. Please also email me at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> so we can work out the details of connecting our sites. Thanks, Craig Craig Locatis, PhD Office of High Performance Computing & Communications National Library of Medicine Bethesda, MD 20894 301.435.3254 v 301.402.4080 f [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
