Bamboo's focus is on the academic community that typically forms around scholarship enhanced by or enabled through the use of technology. On a campus, this community is often thought of as faculty, librarians, and discipline-specific technologists who work together to share research or bring an idea to fruition. Beyond that, projects often depend on the institution's infrastructure (networking, servers, electronic communication, etc.), research of other units (computer science, for example), and support from other academic services (repositories, archives, academic presses, etc.). Together, these groups contribute to the success of an individual campus effort. We aim to draw upon these campus communities as sources of input and direction.

TEAMS
Rather than focus on individuals, we've elected to take an institutional team approach to planning. Teams from each participating institution will come together with teams from industry and organizations to share ideas, perspectives, challenges, options, and solutions that will be collected, distilled, and disseminated over the 18-month period of the Bamboo Planning Project.

To participate in the planning effort, each institution will need to form a team of between two and four people from their campus who will participate in the first of a series of workshops. If by participating in the first workshop an institution finds the collaboration and work valuable, it will have the option of continuing to participate in subsequent workshops and further its engagement in the planning process.

Each team will require at least one faculty member in the arts, humanities, or interpretative social sciences, and one institutional technology leader. Additional team members might include library professionals, computer science faculty, academic press representatives, or others on campus who have a material interest in supporting and advancing arts and humanities research and scholarship. Teams will be asked to attend workshops, share their discipline, domain and institutional perspectives, complete pre-workshop reading assignments and short data gathering exercises, and above all, actively contribute to the planning effort through constructive dialogue and open discussion.

TRAVEL AND FEES
The grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is covering a substantial portion of the cost of hosting the workshops (including workshop-related meals and group ground transportation, as appropriate) and as such, there are no registration or participation fees for academic institutions associated with the Planning Project. We have limited funds for travel support and are asking institutions to cover as much of their team's travel expenses as possible. If your team requires travel assistance, please contact us to discuss your needs.

REGISTRATION
To formally express your institution's desire to participate in the project, we ask that you register your team for the first workshop, "The Planning Process: Understanding Arts and Humanities Scholarship," which will be held four times:

• Workshop 1a, April 28-30: WORKSHOP COMPLETE
  Univ. of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
  
• Workshop 1b, May 15-17: WORKSHOP COMPLETE
  University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
  
• Workshop 1c, June 9-11: WORKSHOP FULL -- Registration Closed
  University of Chicago Center in Paris (Paris, France)
  
• Workshop 1d, July 14-16: WORKSHOP FULL -- Registration Closed
  Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
  

UPDATE: Registration for all instances of Workshop 1 is now closed. Because all of the workshops currently full, we are currently exploring ways for those who were unable to obtain a slot at one of the workshops to join in the conversation at a later date or in a different manner. Please feel free to fill out the registration form to indicate your interest in being part of the project and to be placed on the waiting list.