This page is created for the Outreach group 

====== Group/Contacts ======

   - Bowler, Jo -- SKA Program Development Office, University of Manchester, UK
   - Colomer, Francisco -- [[:outreach:oan|Observatorio Astronomico Nacional]] (OAN-IGN), Spain
   - Cumming, Robert -- Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
   - Boekhorst, Femke -- ASTRON, Netherlands
   - Mack, Karl-Heinz -- INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italy
   - O'Brien. Tim -- Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, UK
   - Pierce-Price, Douglas -- European Southern Observatory, Germany
   - Salome, Philippe -- LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, France
   - Theureau, Gilles -- Paris-Nancay Observatory, France
   - Varano, Stefania -- INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italy [[http://www.centrovisite.ira.inaf.it/webcam.html|webcam]]
   - Vogt, Corina -- ASTRON, Netherlands
   - Wyputta, Ulrike -- Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Germany
   - Yun, Kristine -- [[:outreach:jive|JIVE]], Netherlands
   - Zanichelli, Alessandra -- INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Italy

===== Meetings =====


[[:outreach:OutreachMeeting1|Meeting 17-19 November 2010 at INAF/CNR in Bologna]]


==== Action Items ====
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SMALL RADIO TELESCOPES

  * Make a list of what is there (how many telescopes, what interfaces, softwares, possible activities) P.Salome
  * Start to consider what activities we can do using those antennas (what observations, create sound, etc..) F.Colomer 
  * Check if there is the opportunity of having students working on the scheduler and the interface. All
  * Reporting about ongoing fund search S Varano
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RESOURCES

  * Flyer about European connections in Radio Astronomy R. Cumming
  * Information and images about radio telescopes/astronomy (create a Creative Commons Licence?) on RadioNet website C. Vogt
  * 4-5 minutes films about Radio Astronomy (history, how radio telescopes work, technology, frequencies, society benefit) J. Bowler, C. Vogt
  * Map of EVN radio telescopes K.Yun, S.Varano
  * VCs overview S.Varano
  * Material for teachers All
  * Networking schools from different countries (EU-HOU) All
  * Wiki page for sharing information C. Vogt --> OK
  * Calendar
  * Sharing postcards
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BIG PROJECTS

  * Travelling exhibition about SKA
  * ALMA panels (now available)
  * Editable materials about international projects
  * LOFAR movie
  * Exchange ideas about how to advertise LOFAR 
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MISCELLANEA

  * Social networks (Facebook, lindedin)
  * connection between VCs (a European scaled astronomical path?)
==== Reports ====

**S. Varano** 
  - **Fund raising**. No success with the fund search for educational activities to be done with our Small Radio Telescope: //the collaboration on this item is crucial//.
  - **Map of EVN telescopes**. We could, as a first step, publish here the links to our telescopes web cams, or a nice picture of the telescope (that could be used in case a web cam is not present). I put the link to the web cam pointing our telescope in Medicina close to my name in the group/contact list. Once we have collected the web cam links (or the images) we can put together a map similar to one of TNA telescopes within RadioNet this, in which every image is a thumbnail (or a miniature) of the web cam view.\\ http://www.radionet-eu.org/sites/radionet-eu.org/files/cms/images/RadioNet_TNA_Aug10.jpg\\ I will need Kristine Yun's help, in order to do it. I think we could put it on JIVE and/or RadioNet websites.
  - **VCs Overview**. I am collecting a brief description of the VCs of radiotelescopes across Europe. I am using the pieces of text some of you sent me for the VC-Net proposal and the abstract to your presentations at the Outreach Workshop. I will send these descriptions to you for checking and updating.
  - **Material for teachers**. As soon as the "Marcello Ceccarelli" Visitor Centre website will be ready, I will put there all our material for teachers. I invite you to put here the link to your material, so that I can check it and see what we can think about translating in english (what to we do about copyright?).
  - **Networking schools from different countries (EU-HOU)**. This is something really hard planning at this stage. I suggest that, for the moment, anytime one of us has contacts with a foreign group of students, he/she should get in contact with the person (or people) working in EPO of Radio Astronomy for that country, should it only be for his/her knowledge.



**F.Boekhorst**

- LOFAR movie: the LOFAR movie is almost finished, it only needs Dutch subtitles. It has become a documentary of about 50 minutes. The film will be shown at ASTRON in June and put on the ASTRON website when it is finished.