Co-PI Change at the University of Chicago
The fall of 2009 saw a leadership change within the Bamboo Planning Project. The University of Chicago's co-principal investigator, Gregory A. Jackson, left the institution to become the Vice President for Policy and Analysis at EDUCAUSE, thus leaving a critical vacancy within Bamboo. Shortly before the end of year, Chad J. Kainz stepped into the co-PI role vacated by Jackson to continue the collaborative and joint leadership of the project with the Janet Broughton, Dean of Arts & Humanities, at the University of California, Berkeley. Kainz has been with the planning effort from the beginning and will continue as co-director of Project Bamboo. He is the Senior Director for both Academic Technologies and Client Relations within the campus information technology organization at the University of Chicago.
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Bamboo is community-driven cyberinfrastructure planning project for the arts and humanities led by the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley. Bamboo strives to create a consortium of universities, colleges, libraries, organizations, and industry partners committed to supporting research, teaching and learning in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences. The approach central to the planning project is one rooted in creating, reusing, remixing, and sharing technology services across project, institutional, organizational, regional, and national boundaries. The fundamental thought behind this approach is that if we can share technologies and content in common ways, we will be able to reduce the overall effort in the long term to create new digital projects, increase the potential for greater innovation as more effort can be placed on new ideas rather than recreating existing solutions, take best advantage of specialized skill sets across the various communities to solve problems, and leverage institutional and community-wide economies of scale to tackle problems and sustain critical projects.
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