6 Summary

To use video conferencing more effectively at the NRAO, we should:

• Install permanent video systems and ancillary microphone systems in the auditoriums so that these rooms can be used routinely for video presentations, and install video systems in some smaller rooms to relieve scheduling pressure on the conference rooms. (This expansion is underway, funded by the Data Management budget.)

• Use video to share in-house tutorials, informational presentations and colloquia NRAO-wide, as well as for routine meetings.

• Encourage meeting organizers to become more familiar with the capabilities of the video systems.

• Use direct data links between sites to share computer displays between sites in parallel with the video feed. LCD projectors should be permanently installed in all rooms where we do such ``data conferencing". This would greatly increase the effectiveness of computerized presentations and software demonstrations that are now shared between sites. (Data Management has not allocated funds to purchase additional LCD projectors for all sites).

• Give general guidance to NRAO meeting chairs on how to run meetings more effectively⁴perhaps including points of ``video etiquette and preparation".

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