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- Unimas plan to have a workshop on Pinger when Les comes in December. Unimas will invite participants from universities in West Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, (Brunei and Kalimantan could be added). The idea is to establish regional agreement for types of studies that can be undertaken, the sharing of data and exploration of future projects.
- Unimas have sent an itinerary. It is at https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/128455354/Tentative+Itinerary+for+Les+Cotrell+Visit+in+Dec+2012.docx?version=1&modificationDate=1352078021290
. - No visa is required.
- My wife will probably accompany me
- I will probably leave San Francisco on Sunday Dec 10th at just gone midnight, arrive KL 1:00pm Monday 10th Dec. Visit MIMOS Tuesday Dec 11th. Fly from KL 7:20pm Tue Dec 11th, arrive Kuching 9:05pm same day. Then start at UNIMAS on Wed Dec 13th. Do you have recommendations on where to stay in KL and near UNIMAS?
- Will UNIMAS send a formal invite to Les to visit Unimas to assist with the visa?
- Les will give 2 talks of 1.5 hours each. One is of general interest, the other is technical. Les will send abstracts.
- Bebo suggested that since the flight to Kuching will go through Kuala Lumpur, Les should visit MIMAS and give a talk. What is MIMAS? Johari has discussed this with Nara.
- The NUST rector sent a memo to the VC of University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur suggesting a collaboration with UNIMAS, NUST & SLAC. Les followed up with an email to the UM folks. UM seem very receptive, Nara is following up. Possible ways to advance would include:
- Inviting to the workshop one or two people from NUST/SEECS who have been collaborating on PingER for some years, have set up a PingER archiving site and manage multiple PingER monitors in Pakistan. Email has been sent to NUST requesting they nominate a person.
- They could make valuable presentations on hands-on experiences (both technical, political and social) with building the archive site, managing multiple monitoring sites, mining the data, engaging customers (monitor sites contacts and decision makers, the network providers PERN (Pakistan Educational and Research Network), the funding agency (Higher Education Commission), preparing reports for the customers, and the benefits ensuing etc.
- Putting together a joint proposal (UNIMAS, NUST/SEECS, SLAC, possibly another Malaysian university such as UM) to a funding source for a joint project to set up a monitoring infrastructure for Malaysia educational sites.
- We could set up a 3 way Skype meeting to discuss this further, this time of day works for all sites.
- Inviting to the workshop one or two people from NUST/SEECS who have been collaborating on PingER for some years, have set up a PingER archiving site and manage multiple PingER monitors in Pakistan. Email has been sent to NUST requesting they nominate a person.
- Johari will need to discuss with Nara and engage the VC to see whether UNIMAS can fund the NUST person(s).
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UNIMAS want to purchase 2-3 ePingER machines. Howver tehy However they have not found a distributor in Asia yet.
Next meeting
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Thursday 8th November 8pm Pacific Daylight Time, Friday 9th November 11am Malay time.