In this issue:

• eResearch Australasia presentations;
• Improve your EVO experience;
• AAF Mini-grant scheme update;
• VeRSI newsletter;
• About this newsletter.

eResearch Australasia Presentations

Thanks to everyone who attended, presented, convened a BoF, delivered a workshop, displayed a poster, exhibited, or otherwise contributed to making eResearch Australasia 2009 a great event last month.  Presentation slides are being progressively added.  Many are already available at http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/collection/UQ:186782 and the rest (subject to author permission) will be uploaded soon.  The Visualization Challenge entries are available at the same location.

Please mark your diaries for next year's conference in Queensland, 8-12 November 2010.

Patricia McMillan
eResearch Australasia Conference

Improve Your EVO Experience

ARCS is now offering 15-minute group sessions designed to help its customers more effectively use EVO. The short sessions will include testing user settings and providing personalised tips to immediately improve EVO’s reliability and functionality. By solving issues such as cloudy or missing video, echoing or muted sound, ambient noise and screen sharing malfunctions, users can boost EVO’s dependability while garnering all its collaboration benefits. The sessions are designed to assist both regular users and those new to EVO.

• Where: ARCS-AARNet Community “Kangaroo” venue (subject to change).
• Date: Every Monday.
• Time: WA 10 a.m., NT 11:30 a.m., QLD 12 p.m., SA 12:30 p.m. and NSW/ACT/VIC/TAS 1 p.m.

No reservations are required. Personal one-on-one sessions also can be booked. For further information, contact ARCS Help Desk on 1800 862 727.

Susan Roth
Marketing and Outreach Manager, Australian Research Collaboration Services (ARCS)
 

AAF Min-grant Scheme Update

Congratulations to CSIRO who are the first recipients of an AAF Mini-grant. The Mini-grant will be used to allow the Geosciences community to access AuScope Grid Portal and associated services via the user’s home organisation’s authentication system using the AAF.  Round 2 has now closed and applications are currently being assessed by the AAF Mini-grant Selection Panel. 

Please note that dates for Round 3 and Round 4 are currently being reviewed. Refer to the Mini Grants page (http://www.aaf.edu.au/index.php/mini-grants/) for information on key dates as they become available. The application process is outlined in the AAF Enabled Services Mini-Grant Application Package and AAF Enabled Services Mini-Grant Proposal Application Form.

Follow the AAF on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ausaccessfed  or Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ausaccessfed

Glenys Kranz
Change & Communication Manager, AAF Inc

VeRSI Newsletter

The final issue of 2009 of the VeRSI eNewsletter is now available.
It can be downloaded from our new website: https://www.versi.edu.au/publications/enewsletter

In this issue (eNewsletter 9) you’ll read about:

• the VeRSI Showcase at the State Library of Victoria
• OptIPortal teaching to the Australian Synchrotron
• Coppel Lab use of the VeRSI Laboratory Supervisor Management System
• VeRSI storage connected to the particle physics grid
• Melbourne University eResearch Day and
• the VeRSI Annual Survey 

Gaby Bright
eResearch Communications, VeRSI

About this newsletter

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