May
22
Reflections on TNC 2008
May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008
Well although I wasn’t able to stay until the bitter end I should sum up my experience of this TNC.
Bruges (Brugge) is indeed a lovely city worthy of its reputation as a beautiful place and well worth the visit. Despite the inevitable hordes of tourists it still manages to remain chilled.
The TF-PR meeting […]
May
22
Combining Real and Virtual Environments
May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008
Jonathon Taylor –CISCO of excellence of virtual works and education
David Wortley – Serious Games Institute, Coventry University
Mr Cisco gave a recap of web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 where web 3.0 represents a totally personalisable environment and the slides for the session can be found here.
The Coventry speaker made the point that what […]
May
22
Towards and Open Secure and Scaleable IPTV
May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008
Enrique de la Hoz - University of Alcala de Henares
His slides can be found on the Terena web site. The abstract for the session went as follows:
“In the last years, the interest about the video streaming over Internet has been increasing. There are some solutions based on open code that provide a good […]
May
19
Terena Conference 2008
May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Opening Plenary
Paul van Binst - Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Unfortunately despite the obvious enthusiasm of Mr van Binst it proved difficult in the overview room to follow his presentation closely - partly due to his charming but dense linguistic accent and partly because the streaming showed him but not the slides that he was referring […]
May
18
MarketingNREN Services - SURFNet and ARNES
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008
SURFNET - Netherlands
Currently product managers are responsible for marketing their services including marketing mix, budgets, encouraging take up etc. Have more recently coordinated comms and marketing work to help consolidate calendars of activity and scheduling.
They are trying to address questions of when in the life cycle comms should be included and what sort […]
May
18
Marketing NREN Services - JANET UK
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008
JANET – Russell Nelson
There are three stages of how marketing takes place in an NREN – one person does it, a team does it, everyone does it. There are also two stages on the sales path - either simply providing the information – shouting at the customer, and secondly trying to persuade people […]
May
18
Making the Case for NREN’s
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008
John Dyer of Terena prepared a discussion document to help answer the question -”What Have NREN’s Done for Us” - or something similar…
Document was started to try and pre-empt any questions about why NREN’s should not exist. In essence the current document covers the following areas:
Historically in 70’s not much was going in, 80’s […]
May
18
Joint TF-FR and TF-MSP Meeting
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008 - Bruges
At risk of sounding like a grumpy old git I am far from convinced that the idea of a joint TF (tasks force) meeting is likely to yield much of substance or consequence. The PR group has taken a long time to get going itself and so the prospect of lining […]
May
2
Oh Yes! That’s How It Is
May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KWiuhDGCVs
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May
2
Libraries of the Future
May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Well JISC’s first proper campaign is off the blocks - Libraries of the Future was launched at the JISC Conference and was swiftly followed up with a special supplement appearing on the Guardian. As part of the deal the Guardian provide a dedicated micro-site with the supplement available in a web version although this […]