- 1. Date / Time: , Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:00 am ~ 3:30 pm Eastern Time (40UO)
- RSVP required: Please respond to Angela Carter at to register for a badge if you plan to attend in person or remotely by teleconference. (40UP)
- 3. Onsite Attendees - National Science Foundation Directions: (40UQ)
- Go to main NSF bldg. at 4201 Wilson Blvd.(Stafford I Building). Go around corner to the NSF visitor entrance at N. Stuart and Ninth Sts. Get visitor badge here. (40UR)
- After receiving visitor badge, go to 4121 Wilson Blvd., Room 555 (Stafford II Building) (40US)
- Use of laptops - Please bring your laptops. From 8:30 - 9:30 AM NSF technical staff will be available in Room 555 to enter the wireless access key needed to connect to the NSF wireless network. (40WC)
- Your laptop will be scanned automatically when connecting to the NSF wireless network. To ensure access to the Internet please prepare your laptop in advance with the latest DAT files and Service Pack updates. (40UV)
- If traveling by: (40UW)
- a. Car: Parking lot below the Stafford I and II buildings (entrances on Wilson and N. Stuart) (40UX)
- b. Subway: Ballston metro station - exit to right along N. Stuart. Walk one block to main NSF entrance at N. Stuart and Ninth Sts, Ballston, VA. (40UY)
- Visiting the NSF (40UZ)
- Ballston Area Hotels (40V0)
- 4. Remote Teleconference Access: (40V1)
- Conference Call-in number: 800-857-9370 (40WD)
- PASSCODE: 15311 (40WE)
- Please mute your phone, by pressing "*6" on your phone keypad, when the talk is in progress. To un-mute, press "*6" (40V4)
- Please do not put your phone on hold, you may re-dial into the teleconference at any time. (40V5)
- Type questions or comments through the browser-based chat tool as follows:'' (40XJ)
- Shared-screen support (VNC session) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ (3Q3O)
- view-only password: "colab" (40XK)
- if you plan to be logging into this shared-screen option (which the speaker may be navigating), and you are not familiar with the process, please try to call in 5 minutes before the start of the session so that we can work out the connection logistics. Help on this will generally not be available once the presentation starts. (40XL)
- people behind corporate firewalls may have difficulty accessing this. If that is the case, please download the slides and run them locally. The speaker will prompt you to advance the slides during the talk. (40XM)
- Use this chat room http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/colab_2009_01_05 (418X)
- Once you have access to the page, click on the "settings" button, and identify yourself (by modifying the Name field). (40V8)
- You can indicate that you want to ask a question verbally by clicking on the "hand" button, and wait for the moderator to call on you; or, type and send your question into the chat window at the bottom of the screen. (40V9)
