Re: [OT] Thank you for letting me participate with NOVA WO
Re: [OT] Thank you for letting me participate with NOVA WO
- Subject: Re: [OT] Thank you for letting me participate with NOVA WO
- From: Daniel Beatty <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:36:08 -0500
Greetings Andrew,
You have nothing to be sorry about. You provided a wonderful service
with what you had and the graciousness of your own heart. The only
thing to be said about improvements is a strive to further the WO
community, two collaborating communities at a time. As a matter of
fact, I need to convince my own university to take a more active role
in these things. How many opportunities does a university get to
participate with real world projects such as what is going on with the
NOVA WO? The strides we took together and the effort on part is to
commended and thanked.
Does the HD video camera have firewire input? If so, then it
automatically is compatible with iChat through the standard firewire
drivers (most likely).
As we get better with this, I am going to guess that other communities
are going to want to participate. It is no substitute for WOWODC,
but it is a contribution for a worthy cause. I think that our HPCC
has some connections to such teleconference service. When we reach
the level of needing it, I think we can ask them to help us.
That reminds me to ask Tom if I can post his presentation on the
Distributed Computing - WebObjects Wiki. It might not be much, but I
hope that we can grow participation here at my university, and little
good news goes a long way to that end. Also, I need to check if
Florijan Stamenkovic would interested in participating with such a
collaboration. I know of a certain HPCC that would interested in
including the concepts and technology learned in JBND into Globus and
SORCER Grid Services, and sharing both HPCC's, SORCER's and Florijan's
experience could go a long way to that end.
Again thank you for your hard work. I hope to continue collaborating
with you and the NOVA WO group. Hopefully, we can get a "Red Raider"
version of a WO group, but we will see.
Later,
Dan
On Mar 25, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Andrew R. Kinnie wrote:
Yeah, sorry about that. I had thought SOMEONE would be able to
share the screen for the presenter, then you would not have had to
rely on laptop cameras.
Maybe next time. The normal presentation-savvy people were not
there, so we had little to go with. I can try and improve things
next time. Perhaps with an actual camera and a tripod, along with
iChat screen sharing. Perhaps some other mechanism can be worked
out for video-conferencing or even streaming. I've never done that,
so it will be a new experience.
I do have a consumer HD video camera and tripod, so assuming the
software is available, it might be fun to try.
Andrew
On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Daniel Beatty wrote:
Greetings Andrew and company,
I would like to thank you for providing an iChat connection to the
NOVA WO group last night. I know that I was ask for a lot, but the
first rule of academic funding does state that those who don't ask
mostly like do not receive. I have to say you have an impressive
bunch, and I could only wish that my colleagues at Texas Tech saw
the wisdom in participating with such groups.
One thing we might do to improve the thing for next time is if
there are two laptops, to have one facing the presenter with its
speakers on, and the other facing a person in the audience whom I
can text questions to. I can certainly relate to Tom's notion
about selection on programmers. While I have posted an Academic
Web Objects wiki with a tutorial from a database class perspective (http://venus.cs.ttu.edu/groups/webobjects/
) , teaching the design patterns that are exemplified by WO seems
to escape the faculty.
There is one paper with references to others that may be useful to
Tom and others. It is posted at (https://venus.cs.ttu.edu/svn/iFITSDocuments/FIREmash/trunk/currentVersion/bridging.pdf
), referenced on the Sky Raider Project, and is paper I wrote
referencing a project that used WO, Project Wonder's ERX Keys and
Google Web Toolkit. There is a subsequent paper/ project that
shows integration with multiple WO apps via the mashup that is far
from ready. I hope to get it ready before mid April.
Of course, one of the things I wish still existed was the old
Marratech teleconferencing software with its "Brady Bunch"
conference capabilities so that the rest of the WO community could
use it similar to what we were trying last night. Believe it or
not, it was true blessing for me to participate with a collection
of WO developers last night. I probably should have done it in
one of my professors offices just to promote collective hope. I
hope next time I can borrow and use one of my professors echo
canceling microphones with good speakers and get a number of
students to participate in the same room. At least there would be
hope that some place could produce programmers who can use WO.
Later,
Dan Beatty, M.S. CS (B.S. EECS)
Ph.D. Student
Texas Tech University
email@hidden
http://venus.cs.ttu.edu/~dabeatty
Dan Beatty, M.S. CS (B.S. EECS)
Ph.D. Student
Texas Tech University
email@hidden
http://venus.cs.ttu.edu/~dabeatty
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