Acknowledgements

The Megaconference is a HUGE activity requiring the enthusiastic and skilled help of many people and organizations throughout the world. The planning and logistics behind the scenes needed to make this happen are staggering, and there are times when we wonder if it can possibly work.  Yet it is amazing how people rise to the challenge and perform incredible tasks, often under great pressure and at the last minute.  Nobody gets paid anything extra for doing this; it is the challenge of doing something that has never been done before, and pushing the state of the art, that makes everyone pitch in and create this premiere event.

The organizations and people listed below have made this possible, and deserve our congratulations.  Thanks are also due to all the others who offered services that turned out not to be needed in the end, and to all those who are participating in any capacity.

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Australian Academic Research Network - for providing Stephen Kingham and crew and MCU resources.

DFN VideoConference Deutsches Forschungsnetz eV - for providing Juergen Hornung, Gisela Maiss and crew.

Hong Kong Baptist University - For providing Ng Tsun Hao and crew and MCU resources.

Internet2 - For providing Ted Hanss, Jonathan Tyman, John Krienke, and Megan Crabb to help plan, publicize, and operate the event; MCU resources; and Chris Goosman for operating the streaming video and chat services.

MOREnet - for providing Jack Slaughter, Pat Hunt, and crew and MCU resources.

Northwestern University - For providing Larry Amiot and MCU resources.

OARNet - For providing Arif Khan and MCU resources to coordinate all the speakers and operate the speakers MCU, John Langkals and the Support Center staff to help organize all the speakers, Bob Dixon to help plan and organize and coordinate the event, network bandwidth and Paul Schopis to help manage that bandwidth, web support and Jason Beekman to provide that support. For providing Scott Weaver to make the world maps of Megaconference.

Ohio State University - For providing Megan Crabb to organize the registration and operate MCUs, Gabe Moulton to organize the MCU network and operate MCUs, Bob Dixon to help plan and organize and coordinate the event, and MCU resources.

ONEnet - for providing Mark Bryan and crew and MCU resources.

Polycom - For donating a Viewstation FX and Visual Concert FX door prize, and for providing extensive technical help in solving traffic and compatibility problems among the various MCUs and end points.

Starbak - For providing Ben Pinkerton to help run the event, and for providing streaming video services.

SURFNet - For providing Egon Verharen to help plan the event and the Game, and Burt Andree and MCU resources.

Tandberg - For donating a Tandberg 1000 desktop video system door prize and an 880 for Megan Crabb to use for all rehearsals and the event itself.

University of Georgia - for providing Art Recesso and MCU resources.

University of Michigan -for providing Erik Hofer and MCU resources.

University of Nebraska - For providing Dan Cotton to help introduce the speakers.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - for providing Tyler Johnson and crew and MCU resources.

University of South Dakota - for providing Steve Weidner and MCU resources.

University of Wisconsin - for providing Jamie Poindexter and crew and MCU resources.

Viewcom - For donating a Sanyo Digital Camera, a Mimio Board, and 3 Sanyo DVD players as door prizes.

Vuports - For donating a pre-owned Viewstation FX with ISDN Interface, and VCON ViGo Professional  door prizes.

Wright State University - for providing Andy Montesano and crew and MCU resources.