Re: Rooms at WVU available

Edward Bosco wrote:
> Andrei makes some good points; is there any downside to meeting at WVU?
>
> - Is there parking available?
>
> The WVU location gives rise to other opportunities; I've never seen the
> interface to the Pgh Supercomputer center. Some tours of these might
> well be appropriate.

I agree, tours would be fun.

> SRSH would definitely be limiting as there's a parking issue if we grow
> by much more.

There's quite a bit of parking around the school.

Jonathan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Andrei Smirnov
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:05 PM
> To: Morlug
> Subject: Re: [Morlug] Rooms at WVU available
>
>
> I just received a reply to my offer of rooms at WVU, which I
> accidentally
> erased, but the essence was that the WVU option should be used as a
> final
> resort, when the current option is not available. The justification for
> this was that it will reflect positively on our organization if we are
> seen helping other people or something in those lines.
>
> I would respond to this with saying that there are two things here that
> don't have to be connected:
>
> - Helping people
> - Having a place to meet.
>
> For the latter we need only to look at two things:
> what is convenient and what is appropriate.
>
> WVU is convenient in location and in facilities, including
> presentation equipment Internet etc.
>
> WVU is appropriate because the ESB building, which I recommended
> hosts the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, as
> well as other departments with potential members for our group.
>
> Consider even such "conservative" department as mine (Mechanical and
> Aerospace), where only in my group we run 3 Linux clusters, and use
> Linux clusters at Pittsburgh Supercomputer center, NETL etc.
>
> In fact, we can attract a lot of attention to our meetings by posting
> fliers on all 8 floors of that buildings advertising Morlug, and the
> auditoriums are big enough to accommodate all the newcomers.
>
> Now, if we want to help those folks, we can always do it on a voluntary
> basis, and it will look as a gesture of generosity and good will, rather
> than payment for the service of letting us use their place. I can
> envision
> a newspaper article "Morlug helping schools with computer networks", or
> something like that.
>
> No offense, but the current situation can be interpreted by outsiders,
> like we are a group of punks who were only allowed to meet in a remote
> location under the condition that we fix their equipment problems there.
>
> For me it is really less responsibility if we meet where we meet now,
> but
> I somehow became emotionally involved with this movement, and I think
> that
> we should make choices that will strengthen our position rather than
> weaken it.
>
> Andrei
>
> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Andrei Smirnov wrote:
>
>
>>Just to followup on my suggestion at the last meeting. I can offer to
>
> have
>
>>meetings at ESB (Engineering Sciences Building). There are plenty of
>
> rooms
>
>>available after 18:00. I can officially book a big one on the ground
>
> floor
>
>>- (60 people), soft chairs and wireless. But I will have to do some
>>negotiations.
>>
>>I can also offer access to ESB-355, which is a 40 persons
>>auditorium on 3rd floor. Hard chairs, but wireless access, and
>>multimedia projector if needed. I have a key to that room, and there
>>is no negotiation needed.
>>
>>For a small group meeting 4-6 persons I have a permanent access to our
>>computer lab in Engineering research Building: soft chairs, round
>
> table,
>
>>video-projection equipment, Apple box, local 192.168 network, wireless
>
> (no
>
>>DHCP, sorry).
>>
>>The only problem now is that I'll be out of town for the next two
>
> meetings
>
>>(end of June and July), However, I still can book those rooms and let
>>someone else from the group use them in my name. Or we may consider
>
> this
>
>>as an option starting with August.
>>
>>Sorry I did not come out with this suggestion earlier - I thought
>
> there
>
>>was some political reason to abandon WVU facilities and move to that
>
> place
>
>>we have now, so I did not bother to suggest.
>>
>>Andrei
>>
>>
>
>

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