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Early registration has been extended one week to March 7 for the Eighth 
Annual SURA/ViDe Digital Video Conference in Atlanta, March 27-30, 2006, and 
then conference registration rates will increase March 8. A block of rooms at 
special SURA/ViDe room rates is being guaranteed at the Georgia Tech Hotel 
and Conference Center through Feb. 28. Register soon with the Hotel while 
these rooms are still available.

There is an advanced topics workshop on Thursday (see below), and the 
registration fee for it will also increase on March 8.

Cancellations: Paid registrants who notify SURA by March 10 to cancel their 
registration will get a full refund. One-half refunds will be available if 
you notify SURA by March 17. No refunds will be given if you cancel after 
March 17.

This year's conference includes the following program highlights: 

  * Keynote speaker Rick Prelinger, founder of the Prelinger Archives and 
President of the Board of Directors of the Internet Archive: "Let the 
Archives Thrive"
  * Tuesday sessions on
        - The Informedia Project
        - BOF's on video preservation, H.323-to-SIP migration, and big video
        - Facetop and other conferencing developments
        - K-12 applications
        - Digital libraries
        - H.264, ePresence interactive media, and innovative streaming of 
online course content
        - Technology in the medical community
        - Collaborative solutions for large-scale world-wide research
  * Wednesday sessions on
        - Living with firewalls and NATs in real time collaboration
        - Public broadcasting
        - Collaboration 
        - Search engines and video searchability
        - Videoconferencing and VoIP applications
        - Big video
  * Thursday workshop on advanced topics in audio/videoconferencing
        - Middleware for voice/video
        - Data/web collaboration/conferencing
        - Debugging and security
        - Numbering, dial plans, and open discussion

For more information and to register now, see the conference website: 
   http://www.vide.net/conferences/spr2006 .  

Dan Kniesner
Oregon Health & Science University
3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road
Portland Oregon 97239

 
503-494-3216
fax 503-494-3227
(ViDe planning committee lead)