K-20 librarians interactive video conferencing

[James Werle <>]

All,

Below are the details for our Tuesday, April 17 K-20 IVC Librarians Interest 
Group meeting.

Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. Hope you can join us next week!
http://bit.ly/yMEP4f

MEETING DETAILS

Date: Tuesday, April 17
Start time: 8am Hawaii/9am Alaska/11am Pacific/Noon Mountain/1pm Central/2pm 
Eastern 
Duration: 1 hour 

Topics:
1) The "Fiber to the Library Project and building a Gigabit Libraries Network"

Goal Number 4 of the National Broadband Plan states, "Every community should 
have affordable access to at least 1 gigabit per second broadband service to 
anchor institutions such as schools, hospitals, and government buildings."  
Don Means will lead us in a discussion about what activities would 
effectively utilize gigabit connectivity in school, public, and academic 
libraries.  We'll talk about the "Fiber to the Library Project" (see the 
following background doc: https://internet2.box.com/s/acb5f496d3e3ae0af486) 
and building a relationship network of gig-ready facilities cooperating as 
distributed testbed/showcase for high performance applications requiring high 
bandwidth and as primary national metric to achieve the National Broadband 
Plan Goal #4, a gigabit to community anchor in every community.

2) Progress update from the Library VideoConferencing Best Practices working 
group

3) K20 IVC Librarians - discuss collaborative project ideas, goals for our 
group, future meeting topics.


LIVE WEBSTREAM:

A LIVE WEBSTREAM of the K20 Librarians meeting is available at 
http://video.magpi.net/. 
Click on "Live Videos" to view the live stream. 

Please note: If you are behind a firewall and having problems viewing the 
webstream you may need to open port 1935 TCP for video.magpi.net to work 
properly. If you continue to have problems with the webstream, please contact 
your firewall administrator.


PHONE BRIDGE INFO:

+1-734-615-7474 (preferred) or +1-866-411-0013 (use only if free Long 
Distance service is not available) PIN 0176476#

DAY OF EVENT VIDEOCONFERENCE DIALING INSTRUCTIONS:

IP Dialing - Dial 


GDS Dialing Directions - 
1. Register with a GDS-enabled Gatekeeper.
To borrow space see: http://commons.internet2.edu/reggate.html 
2. Dial 001189780 9023 (no spaces)


VIDEO TESTING INSTRUCTIONS:

You can dial either of the following numbers to test your units ahead of time:
GDS: 0011897801234 (If you are not registered, please see above for more 
information)
IP: 


For more information about our Always Available testing facilities, please 
visit: 
https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/I2commons/H.323+Testing+Instructions.

COMMENTS:

For Technical Support please contact Ben Fineman at 1-734-352-4975 or Nick 
Thompson at 1-614-247-8066. Then if needed, call the Internet2 Commons 
Support Desk at +1-800-627-6420 and be sure to reference the following ticket 
number; INC0042398.

Thanks,
James

James Werle
Director, Internet2 K20 Initiative

http://20.internet2.edu
360-499-2069