[GLIMS] GLIMS Update: Virtual workshop capability?

[Bruce RAUP]

Jeff,

At NSIDC we used this kind of virtual conferencing on occasion.  We have 
used WebEx, which allows all participants to see the same presenter's 
screen over the Internet.  This works quite well, especially where there 
is a well defined agenda, or some sort of demonstration.

There is precedent for making GLIMS presentations available online, and we 
can certainly continue this.  See for example

http://glims.org/Workshops/2008_Boulder/glims_boulder_2008.html

In that case, we password-protected the site for people outside the NSIDC 
subnet.  I think we initially gave the password out only to workshop 
participants.  I think we could do similarly for future workshops, if 
necessary.

I guess GLIMS meetings since that 2008 one have been sufficiently informal 
that we haven't created the same kind of Web presence for them.

Cheers,
Bruce

2011-08-19, 20:45:  Jeffrey Kargel wrote:

> --> Dear all,
> GLIMS colleagues: Currently we have planned a GLIMS miniworkshop at Fall AGU, and a GLIMS workshop in association with an IGS meeting in
> Fairbanks, Alaska, next June (with optional self-funded field trips).  Presumably we can have a presence at spring's EGU. 
> 
> We should add a real-time teleconference and recorded capability to these meetings, so that we can move into a more aggressive post-GLIMS Book
> period and keep far-flung people involved and moving.  For each virtual meeting, there would be a host institution and a physical meeting place
> for those who wished to meet that way.  I do not think that movement toward pure virtual meetings would be a good substitute for physical
> meetings.  However, most of us are experiencing increasing funding constraints.  A teleconference capability would also help to show our funding
> agencies and an increasingly skeptical and tight-fisted Congress and Parliaments that we are doing our best to keep costs down and still allow
> more limited funds to provide critical science. Furthermore, it could enable some people who may have an interest and a need to keep abreast of
> GLIMS, but can't dedicate a week and couple thousand dollars to go to a workshop, to tune in at their convenience.
> 
> I also think we should start making video data records and powerpoint records (for those willing to contribute their talks, or versions of them
> in case there is something proprietary they don't want to let loose into the Universe) of our meetings and make them available via the GLIMS
> website. I am just anticipating that GLIMS will start getting heckled by certain oversee-ers in Congress, and we could have something very
> specific to point anybody to if they should inquire.  Parts of the public also might want to check it out.  
> 
> The downloadable records of meetings would be hosted at the University of Arizona (or NSIDC if they prefer) and linked through the usual GLIMS
> website.
> 
> Comments? Experiences with this type of thing? 
> 
> --Jeff
> 
>

-- 
Bruce H. RAUP
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado
449 UCB,  Boulder, CO 80309
Phone:  303-492-8814
http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/