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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 13:13:29 -0800


From: Engelbart Colloquium Admin2 Organization: Bootstrap Institute

To: Engelbart Colloquium Webcast Registrants All registered online attendees

Subject:   Engelbart Colloquium at Stanford on Webcast Today!

Dear Colloquium Attendees and Guests,

Happy New Year!

This serves as a reminder that the Engelbart Colloquium will be opening today. You have been properly registered to access either the Live webcast or the async webcast (i.e. the archived seminar-on-demand webcast).

The first seminar, "The Next Frontier - How Big is Big?" will be in session this afternoon Jan 6, 2000 at 4:00-6:30pm US Pacific Standard Time (i.e. GMT Jan. 7, 2000 - 0:00-2:30). The archived webcast will become available 2 hours (or sooner, if we can manage it) after the live event. We are all looking forward to the session and to your participation.

As we are broadcasting and are capturing the entire colloquium and its extended activities on video, onto the Internet, etc., for archival, reference and various other purposes, your participation is subject to the terms and conditions on the "Permission to Use" release (see

http://www.bootstrap.org/colloquium/permission.html

...which each participant accepts to grant. Please ensure that they are acceptable to you before you join us at the colloquium and in those extended activities.

Some registrants might have missed bookmarking the webcast access page (which was presented right after you submitted your registration information), and we also understand that some browsers may have bookmarked the wrong page. Therefore, please update your bookmark to capture this URL as being your new webcast access page...

http://171.64.30.146/proed/online_reply.html

When the time comes for the webcast (either live or at the time of your choice), just go to the above URL, click on the Web Access Page link, which will then connect you the page where the seminar will be webcast, select the stream rate that you want to view the colloquium at and it will prompt you for the password.

The webcast streaming video will be offered at two speeds -- 128Kbps and 28.8Kbps. Due to overwhelming interest in this colloquium and the physical bandwidth limitations we have, a cap has been set on the number of 128K streams that we could offer (which is on a first-come-first-served basis). If you try to access the higher speed (128K) stream and found that it has already maxed out, you should still be able to access at the lower speed (28.8K).

To be sure that you will be ready for the session, especially if you attending an SCPD live session for the first time, I strongly suggest that you test out your system to ensure that everything is working properly, prior to the event. See details below at the bottom of this message. NOW, is as good a time as any, to do it.

We look forward to your joining us at the colloquium and in its extended activities which Doug will tell you as the colloquium progresses.

Best regards.

Sincerely,

Engelbart Colloquium Admin.



Douglas C. Engelbart, Ph.D.
doug@bootstrap.org


Post Script

GETTING READY FOR THE WEBCAST From your browser, click to the webcast access page at <

  1. Check that your browser is updated enough. Netscape Navigator 3.x, Netscape Communicator 4.x, or Internet Explorer versions 3.0 or above would suffice. [Links to downloaded updated versions of the browser are available in the above page.]

  2. Make sure you have downloaded an updated version of the Microsoft Media Player. A link to downloading this software is also available in the above page.]

  3. Now, let's try testing out the setup with some archived material. Let's use video files from "UnRev-I", the one day symposium Doug Engelbart gave at Stanford on 12.9.98. Click to the URL < and scroll down towards the lower part of that page. You will see, under "View Video", 8 icons. Clicking on one of them should let you access one of the four sessions from that event, at either one of the two speeds offered. Try that out and make sure you get both video and sound.

  4. If the above tests out properly, and you have the access "password", you are READY!

We look forward to your joining us virtually at the colloquium.