SC08:Call Notes - March 31

not yet open – wording on the SC08 conference site (http://sc08.supercomputing.org) needs to be changed from stating deadline is May
may need to push back later, want to keep open as long as possible
last year, took 3 – 4 weeks to contact all participants and confirm registrations
by September 19, need to have all participants passed on to registration people
new “official date” - August 1, but otherwise (for workshop participants) August 15

Brad Armosky will be willing to help configure resources at TACC
- “largest supercomputer in history”
Julia Whites and Kenny at Oak Ridge may be able to help coordinate more resources at Oak Ridge
community codes could be installed in users' directories in order to have access sooner, so we could do setup on their resources
tentatively, Charlie Peck will head this up with help from Kristina Wanous
Henry Neeman will offer new machine if it is in full production by November
can pull back to BobSCed for problems that don't work well with TACC's Ranger
- also want to have a fall back in case of act of God

smaller scale and more focused content – maybe one session per day with valuable content
no room after Tuesday at 2
need to target a specific audience, and will they have time?
Geniene and Laurie are student volunteers coordinators – talk about getting time off for student volunteers
surveying student volunteers?
- how do we know what they want if we can't survey them?
- could we ask last year's volunteers what they would have benefited from learning?
panel on how to apply for HPC job

Tom's presentation last year – half the audience was interested walk-by people, so people were interested
- want to make sure we capture these people
schedule posted for the booth – one overall schedule
projector scrolling upcoming events at the booth
- put at the bottom of a slide show picture like last year
- top two events “fixed”, other ones scroll
what presentations to leverage the space
- LittleFe presentation, PolyCom presentation
- still going to have online streaming/Polycom lectures for classroom at home - have workshop sessions on how to do distance learning
- 3D visualizations – Laura?

need to explain and point more carefully towards which sessions are about what
- need to level of expectations – level (“prerequisites”), foundation required, interests
talk about how to follow up and connect after the conference
launch interactive projects at a summer workshop or at the conference, try to provide gateway to links for K-12 teachers to go
- not just show how tools can be used, but invite teachers into ongoing project using those tools
- maybe even find mentors to help move project into classroom
give teachers time to explore repositories and also have people to help advise them while they're exploring
- want to introduce this fairly early
intro for K-12 teachers (and others) on Web 2.0 collaboration - wikis, etc.
- important to use for fostering community presence
- adding this into the workshop topics as well

change the registration deadline for the SC Ed program on the SC08 conference website (http://sc08.supercomputing.org)
contact the student volunteer coordinators from last year to query the volunteers about what would have been beneficial

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