Re: MIGS 1/31/01 Report

[Gregory W Cook <gcook@ecn.purdue.edu>]

Hi Larry & Matt,

> 
> 4. The speaker didn't bring slides - he wanted to use a whiteboard. I
> got him to use the overhead camera, but the camera stand interfered with
> the speaker.  We need a better configuration for this usage. Not sure
> what, but we need to do something.
> 

Well, if money was no object ;-) we have a neat 30 inch "plasma board" here
at Purdue which works pretty well as a white board/video board.  You can
put up PowerPoint slides and write on them with the "pen", and even change
slides by using the pen.  The video
signal from the board can then be displayed on another video device (with
a little aspect ratio manipulation.)  The only problem is that it is a 
bit small so you have to adjust your teaching/lecturing style from a 
real whiteboard.

> All-in-all, a horrible production today.  I'd like to schedule a meeting
> friday at 2.30 with Matt, Peter, and Erik (if he's here) to discuss what
> happened and what needs to be done.  We can meet in the colab before the
> regular friday research meeting.
> 	Larry

Considering the several questions about multicast (Internet2, Berkeley, 
MASH/Windows, etc.) perhaps another round of
"I can see you--can you see me?" might be in order before Wednesday?
Just let me know if you want to set up a test MASH/multicast session.

Greg Cook
cook@purdue.edu