For the upcoming RIPE meeting we plan an audiocast again. This time this will be slightly more reliable than the last attempts! We have had time to prepare the proper equiment on site so that the analog audio feed will be of high quality. In fact we have just rigged the PA in the meeting room, so we know it is going to work. Also the network Internet bandwidth available at the meeting site is expected to be sufficient. The SARA EBS and EUnet central nodes are both in the same building. We were very much tempted to try video as well but there is not enough bandwidth for that. There will be one channel of GSM encoded audio only. The session will be advertised in sd as "15th RIPE Meeting Amsterdam". If there is anyone not able to use sd, please contact us. The approximate shedule is: April 27th 1400 to 1800 plenary April 28th 0900 to 1800 "biggest" working group session, if the working group using the main auditorium agrees. April 29th 0900 to 1600 plenary The definite shedule will be posted as soon as it becomes more clear. Times are Central European Time (UTC+2). We do not plan time shift reruns since we estimate this is interesting mainly to a European audience. Qestions from the net: We will not have audio piped into the room. If you would like to ask a question or give us feedback please use "talk(1)" to question@audio.ripe.net. Testing ------- We will be running tests during next week 19-25 April. Fortunately there is a HEP meeting shelduled in the same auditorium during this week. They have kindly agreed to be audiocast both as a test for the upcoming RIPE meeting ad as a test within their own community. The meeting is called HEPMiX and is about HEP computing using Unix as well as VM. More information about that meeting can be found in ftp.nikhef.nl:pub/hepmix. During Friday we will broadcast periodic test announcements. You should thus be able to test your connectivity the whole week before the RIPE meeting. Preliminary agenda for HEPiX and HEPVMx Amsterdam, 19/22 April 1993 Version of March 24, 1993 HEPiX HEPVMx Monday April 19 am Site reports pm .Common Unix TMS technical Environment meeting .X11 packaging .Keyboard mapping Tuesday April 20 am .Software support .ASIS .AFS pm Batch/distributed computing Social event Wednesday April 21 am Batch/distributed computing pm VM session Thursday April 22 am HEPOPS