Attendees:
Heidi Alvarez, FIU heidi@fiu.edu
Julio Ibarra, FIU
Ernesto Rubi, FIU
Kelly Harrigan, UVI
Greg Palmer, MAGPI, UPENN
Curtis White, ACG-COS
Florencio Uteras, RedClara
Cris Seecheran, TATT
Kirk Sookram, TATT
David De Souza, UTT
Francisco A. Evangelista FRANCISCOV@iadb.org
Jocelyn Gerich, Internet2 jgerich@internet2.edu
1) Request for Volunteers to present or provide Heidi with 1-4 slides representing their projects at the upcoming SIG meeting which will be held during the: Fall 2007 Internet2 Member Meetin in San Diego, California October 8-11, 2007 at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego, CA
Heidi - will be in San Diego for Internet2 Fall Member Meeting (FMM)
No response from others as to their attendance or things to present during Emerging NREN SIG
action for all - send one or two slides to Heidi with an update about what's happening in your area (more slides if lots going on) to use in FMM presentation
could be about campus network, any applications which need more network support, etc
Greg - he will offer slides of some opportunities applicable to Caribbean region
Kelly attended the Spring Member Meeting (SMM) with registration fee waived by Internet2
she found it very helpful, especially for:
1. putting faces to names
2. understanding how Internet2 works & Internet2 internal issues
3. learning what other universities are doing, and how
is hoping to attend San Diego, but if not will get to SMM
she really encourages others (especially those new to community) to attend
question - how do we know which classes are useful to attend?
go to http://events.internet2.edu/2007/fall-mm/to view program, workshops, etc
FMM program: http://events.internet2.edu/2007/fall-mm/agenda.cfm
NOTE: Emerging NREN SIG and International Task Force (ITF) meetings are scheduled for Monday, 8 October
Dave De Souza - will email Heidi to be added to group mailing list
Others who wish to be added can go to: https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/subrequest/caribinterestand enter email address
Curtis - will anyone from CKLN be attending FMM? He's eager to get in touch with them there or elsewhere
FMM online roster: http://events.internet2.edu/2007/fall-mm/roster.cfm
Florencio - not aware of anyone attending FMM - will ask Ken Sylvester if he or someone else will be there
Believes their project should be approved by the end of November or so
link to emerging NREN page: http://international.internet2.edu/intl_connect/emergingnetworks_sig.html
If you would like a project featured on the Caribbean Interest page, please let Heidi, Ileana or Jocelyn know
2) International Workshop on Digital Divide on October 24-27, 2007 in Mexico City http://fismat.uia.mx/HEP/ICFADDW2007/
This is sponsored by ICFA - a high energy physics group
CLARA will be there (Michael, Fernando, several others)
event will be streamed
Francisco will let us know when he has further details
Heidi will be there and to date has mainly been in touch with Harvey Newman
3) Member Updates:
Things have been moving slowly in the Caribbean over the summer (summer for some of us...)
Expecting good news re: money from IADB, World Bank, etc to be approved by European commission in next few months
money is for CARICOM countries
eventually to connect everybody, but Franciso doesn't think intitial money will be able to connect everyone
David asked about China and specifically IPv6 -
Heidi said China is running it on both institutional & university platforms
UTT is VERY interested in leaving commercial internet and moving to Internet2 or the merged organization
Also questions asked about the Internet2 and NLR proposed merger
the Internet2 board has voted to approve the merger; NLR scheduled to meet over next couple weeks to discuss
merger site: http://www.internet2-nlr.org/
specific questions should be directed to Tracey Futhey and/or Jeff Lehman
Will schedule another meeting in a month or so
Meeting concluded