[Media] VO handouts -- what tools/services to highlight? Draft for **Dec 19**

[Budynkiewicz, Jamie Anne]

Not sure if I'll be getting in a draft by 6:00 pm EST, but I'll have
something sent out tonight...

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Budynkiewicz, Jamie Anne <
jbudynkiewicz at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> Thanks for the inputs. I'll go with the "general" approach as you pinned
> as the better idea.
>
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Bruce Berriman <GBB at ipac.caltech.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jamie
>>
>> Please see notes below.
>>
>> =Bruce
>>
>> On Dec 18, 2017, at 7:54 AM, Budynkiewicz, Jamie Anne <
>> jbudynkiewicz at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bruce,
>>
>> Thanks for the inputs. And totally understandable Hmm... didn't think of
>> the time restraints for booth materials.  And making sure all IVOA partner
>> institutes' efforts are somehow contained in that handout. Good things to
>> keep in mind.
>>
>> Concerning the booth materials problem, we could still at least hand them
>> out at the Student Reception on Monday night.  If an institute or person
>> wants to take some anyway, they could print out some copies (or grab some
>> from us).
>>
>> Concerning what's on the handout, we could make the information more
>> general than a list of useful tools and services.  We could provide a link
>> to the Tools page on ivoa.net (making sure the page is up-to-date before
>> AAS).
>>
>> Some ideas:
>>   - If we decide to highlight anything, could we highlight the
>> tools/services advertized by the IVOA exhibitors at AAS? For other
>> conferences, we could update the highlighted list to tune to the exhibitors
>> at that meeting
>>
>>
>> >> This might be useful, but this may run into political difficulties if,
>> e.g., all NAVO member partners don’t think they are fully represented
>>
>>
>>     - cons:  it wouldn't be a great representation of all the work done
>> by IVOA partners; it would be localized to the meeting location
>>
>>
>> yes, but please be aware: organization specific exhibits are not about
>> what other organizations have achieved,
>>
>>   - Be general  (e.g., Get Data, Analyze, and Publish -- check out the
>> links. Here's a tiny blurb on what the IVOA is), but point to IVOA partner
>> booths, related presentations (that we know of... this part might be hard
>> at this stage…)
>>
>>
>> Thus might be the safest route.
>>
>
> Great, I'll tailor it this way then. Plus, it gives us the opportunity to
> re-use the general stuff at other conferences.
>
>
>>
>>   - We could have one handout at the undergraduate reception, and another
>> for tables.  I'm thinking, here's a list of tools for getting, analyzing,
>> viewing, sharing data that would be useful to an undergrad student.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone need to approve material handed out at the undergraduate
>> reception?
>>
>
> I haven't asked anyone on the AAS short meeting contact list, but Rodolfo
> Montez had originally suggested the idea, and since he's an AAS organizer,
> I'm thinking it's OK. I remember random people walking around handing out
> business cards / flyers when I attended the undergrad reception in 2013,
> too. But I'll send an email to one of the official contacts just to make
> sure.
>
>
>>
>> One approach may be:  US is part of the IVOA (through the USVOA) , whose
>> protocols are built into services released at NED, HEASARC .. and are built
>> into the following tools used by astronomers worldwide.
>>
> I'll try it, thanks
>
>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll work on a couple ideas and send it out to the media group by the end
>> of the day (~6:00pm EST). If anyone has more ideas/comments today or
>> tomorrow, please share them and we can work them into the handout drafts.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jamie
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Bruce Berriman <gbb at ipac.caltech.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jamie,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the e-mail. Thanks for offering to get this started - I
>>> regret I have a lot of deadlines in the next week (including the NAVO
>>> workshop for AAS) and can’t really take on the role of leading another task.
>>>
>>> There are matters for us to consider though. How would this handout be
>>> distributed?  An obvious answer is from the from exhibits of organizations
>>> involved in VO work. But that may not be that simple. All materials
>>> distributed at the IPAC booth have to be approved beforehand (and there are
>>> always changes!), and our materials are supposed to be complete by this
>>> Friday. I am sure the other organizations have comparable review processes
>>> and deadlines.
>>>
>>> What to include?  Again not trivial - let’s say (just for example) we
>>> decide to talk about TOPCAT and ESASky. Such a handout would never be
>>> permitted at the IPAC booth because IPAC played no part in deploying these
>>> services. Now, I don’t have a answer to what we talk about, but I think if
>>> distributed through several booths, it has to emphasize things that are of
>>> value to the US community that the broader US VO effort was involved in.
>>> Will try to find a few cycles in the next day or so to think about this,so
>>> I’ll get back to you.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 13, 2017, at 12:06 PM, Budynkiewicz, Jamie Anne <
>>> jbudynkiewicz at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> One of the items on our list was to come up with a VO handout for
>>> conferences. We have AAS coming up in a couple weeks (Jan 7-12), plus EWASS
>>> in April.
>>>
>>> So I ask all of us:
>>>
>>>   1.)  What VO tools and services should be highlighted on the handout?
>>>   2.)  Who wants to take the lead on making sure a handout gets sent to
>>> the Exec?
>>>          - (if no one takes the lead by Saturday, I'm happy to take it
>>> and get something together)
>>>
>>> I talked with Pepi this week, and she says it'd be good to have a draft
>>> handout for the Exec telecon meeting next week, **Tuesday, Dec 19**.
>>>
>>> I know it's a bit late in the game, so all inputs are greatly
>>> appreciated.  I'll be on Slack (https://ivoa.slack.com) throughout the
>>> week if people want to brainstorm ideas / show handout drafts.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Jamie
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jamie A. Budynkiewicz
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>>> Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Jamie A. Budynkiewicz
>> Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
>> Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
>> 100 Acorn Park Dr
>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=100+Acorn+Park+Dr&entry=gmail&source=g>.
>> R-377 MS-81
>> Cambridge, MA 02140
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>
>
> --
> Jamie A. Budynkiewicz
> Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
> Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
> 100 Acorn Park Dr. R-377 MS-81
> Cambridge, MA 02140
>



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Jamie A. Budynkiewicz
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
100 Acorn Park Dr. R-377 MS-81
Cambridge, MA 02140
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