- With
concrete information on how it assists in research and in obtaining
grant funding
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- I'd like
to think more about that. What we're not interested in is Internet2
making an ad hoc decision about marketing within our network. We would
very much want to collaborate on this.
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- Hold
more National I2 Days. Provide demos of projects, maybe highlighting
certain areas (e.g. K-12, humanities, ....)
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- We
should schedule an I2 day in the near future.
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- News of
specific research interest.
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- Make all
past resources available and case studies.
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- [We
have] a large state. We are still struggling with I2 connectivity.
Many state and k-12 education leaders do not understand the need or
value of connecting to I2. There is a direct correlation between our
current state of connectivity and the recommendation in the National
Ed Tech Plan for all schools to have broadband access. Majority of the
700 small schools in [our state] (less than 1500) students only have T1
access.
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- Show
linkage of university functions to national works.
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- Keep
reaching the CIOs and Provosts describing the value of Internet2
participation
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- Seminars/
sessions direct to our researchers
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- Security,
networking technical solutions that are more "local" and
regional.
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- Possibly
schedule conference calls with each corporate member.
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- Internet2
should do more work to promote itself within disciplinary venues,
e.g., Physics conferences, rather than us trying to sell it
internally.
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- Provide
a semi-annual report indicating the value received from corporate
membership in general and [each corporation]'s membership specifically
- other than just funding. Include possible collaborative
opportunities.
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- Currently,
the large majority of the higher administration of [our university]
has a non-technical/scientific background - our current president is a
lawyer - it is therefore somewhat difficult to convey the importance
of Internet2 to this administration, in particular with respect to the
cost benefits of this very expensive infrastructure project - sitting
in the middle of nowhere does not help in this respect. If we could
organize some meetings with peers who could convey the impact of
Internet2 on their organizations, while keeping the perspective on
non-technical/non-scientific issues, this could be of help to promote
the value of Internet2 to our institution.
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- Communications
to the higher level administration of the advantages and practical
utility of I2. This could be done several ways, including I2
participation/presentations at national conferences for CEOs,
University Presidents, Provosts, direct mailings (not "spam"
but targeted letters), etc.
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- 1) Meet
with the primary executives responsible for I2 in focus groups to find
out what we need, to tell us what you are working on, and to keep us
engaged. There is a group in Educause of 20
people who are working on what Educause
needs to keep attracting members; what kind of meetings, what kind of
publications, etc. I2 could set up something similar.
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- Historically,
I2's emphasis has been on the value of the network as a high-capacity,
high-speed transport vehicle designed to facilitate advance research and
support advanced applications. This is important and should not be
diminished, but more comparable emphasis on the value of more broadly
applicable services such as middleware, end-2-end performance, the
Quilt, etc. would help demonstrate the considerable benefit of I2
participation to the larger education community that may not be as
intensely focused on research.
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- More
discipline-specific collaboration. It's more effective for, say, a
meteorologist to hear thru her/his professional organization(s) about
how I2 can help than from someone like me in the central IT
organization.
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- Help me
show how similar institutions have benefited in their research
collaborations.
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- I take
responsibility for communicating all that comes to me of importance to
faculty, students, staff, and corporate partners (e.g. Caterpillar,
start-up and spin-off companies as appropriate. On occasions when I
have forwarded information without some explanation or comment, it has
led individuals to call Internet2 making requests, and in one case
members of one of our W/LAN institutions perhaps unnecessarily
contacting Internet2 Staff and trying to make a case for self-standing
Internet2 membership—even claiming naively of having clout with
Internet2 Staff.
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- How
about producing something akin to the "52 reasons" (or was
it 50 or 51) that NSFNet did?
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- Be less
technical, shorter (succinct, concise). Bring out the important wins
for I2 in a format easily digested and readily dispersable.
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- Promoting
events that would be of interest to students as a way to encourage
faculty to use I2
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- Emailings about news/events have been good and they
can then be forwarded within our institution.
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- There
needs to be a clarification of the difference between the network (Abilene) and the
organization (Internet2). Most people confuse the two and speak about
Internet2 as if it's the network itself. Any message sent to
universities should be unambiguous from the outset. That would be VERY
helpful.
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