- 1. Date / Time: , Monday, February 9, 2008 9:00 am ~ 12:30 pm Eastern Time (41DF)
- 2. RSVP required:Please RSVP to Joan Cole at expedition@nitrd.gov or 703-292-4873 to register for a badge if you plan to attend in person or remotely by teleconference. (41DG)
- 3. Onsite Attendees - National Science Foundation Directions: (41DH)
- 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. (41DI)
- After receiving visitor badge, go to 4121 Wilson Blvd., Room 555 (Stafford II Building) (41DJ)
- Use of laptops - Please bring your laptops. If this is your first visit to NSF with your lap-top go to Room 357 (Stafford I) to have the wireless access key entered by NSF technical staff. (41DK)
- If you already have the access key entered, 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. (41DL)
- If traveling by: (41DM)
- a. Car: Parking lot below the Stafford I and II buildings (entrances on Wilson and N. Stuart) (41DN)
- 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. (41DO)
- Visiting the NSF (41DP)
- Ballston Area Hotels (41DQ)
- 4. Remote Teleconference Access: (41DR)
- a. Conference Call-in number: 866-756-8330 (41DS)
- PASSCODE: 9437984 (41DT)
- Please mute your phone, by pressing "*6" on your phone keypad, when the talk is in progress. To un-mute, press "*6" (41DU)
- Please do not put your phone on hold, you may re-dial into the teleconference at any time. (41DV)
- b. Shared-screen support (VNC session) will be started 5 minutes before the call at: http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ (41DW)
- view-only password: colab (41DX)
- 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. (41DY)
- 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. (41DZ)
- Please review our Virtual Speaker Session Tips (41E0)
- c. Chat room - share resources, questions, comments with other participants (on-site and remote) through this browser-based tool as follows:'' (41E1)
- Point a separate browser to: http://webconf.soaphub.org/conf/room/colab_20090209/ (41E2)
- Once you have access to the page, click on the "settings" button, and identify yourself (by modifying the Name field). (41E3)
- 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. (41E4)
