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Subject: Re: [emergency-adopt-events] Today's Meeting -- Quick Update fromJane
Hi Jane, Everyone, Sorry I got on so late. I have attached my motivational paragraphs. Cheers, Rex At 10:06 AM -0400 6/5/09, Jane Harnad wrote: >Hello Everyone, > >Since I'm going to be a few minutes late for today's meeting, I wanted to be >sure to pass around a few updates and items for your review. I'm hoping to >join the call around 11:15 to discuss all these issues further. Thanks, >Jane > >Venue: > >As you all know, our September dates won't work at the NOAA facility. I >spoke to the conference manager yesterday and discovered two key issues that >are listed below. As a reminder, this facility is located in Silver >Springs, Maryland (outside DC). Location details may be found at: >http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ss_directions.php > >* Dates - No dates available in September; only dates currently available >for both the auditorium & science center at NOAA are the 15 & 16 of October >(Note: Other EM events we're hoping to avoid include: IAEM Annual Conference >(Oct. 31-Nov. 5) in Orlando, FL & NEMA 2009 Annual Conference (Oct 10-13) in >Columbus, OH) > >* Internet Access - Despite what we were initially told, Internet access is >a problem at this facility. The speaker will have access to the internet >via a hard wire connection at the podium. No wireless connectivity will be >available for guests, as well as Interop demonstrators. > >I have put a hold on the space until Monday morning. We need to decide very >by COB Monday if this space will work the event, or if we need to continue >our search. > >Program Development: > >* Event theme & title - the current front runner is: Emergency Management >Interoperability Summit: "Demonstrating Emergency Response Coordination >through Open Data Standards". > >I ran the above through a few folks here at OASIS and they had some concerns >about its length, attractiveness, and redundancy. In addition, it was >suggested that we consider building brand awareness through the title. This >would mean we should consider selecting an event title that could be used >when doing summits, webinars, golf tournaments, or other. > >One suggestion made was to call the event: "Emergency Open" Summit -- >allowing us to do a series of other things relating back to the "Emergency >Open" title. Thoughts? > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: >https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php -- Rex Brooks President, CEO Starbourne Communications Design GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison Berkeley, CA 94702 Tel: 510-898-0670
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