Version 0.6 draft of the Bamboo Implementation Proposal has been released and will be available for community comment and feedback through 19 August 2009. This draft incorporates feedback from Workshop 5 as well as a number of post-workshop comments and contributions by members of the Bamboo Community. Although this draft is far from complete, section 4, "Areas of Work," and section 5, "Community & Governance" have been reworked to provide more focus to what Bamboo aims to accomplish, how development and contributions will be managed, and what will be required of institutions become an implementation member or partner.

 

Between Workshop 4 (April 2009) and Workshop 5 (June 2009), the proposal drafting process transitioned from creating an overarching program document, which provides a 7-10 year view of what Bamboo should accomplish, to drafting of a one-year implementation proposal. This focused and narrowed effort has been significantly influenced by comments from the community on the project wiki, via conference calls, and through in-person conversations. In parallel, representatives from over 30 institutions spoke with the project directors to discuss the direction of the proposal and the resources needed for implementation.

 

Individuals from the Bamboo community gathered in Washington, DC on 17-19 June to participate in Workshop 5 of the Bamboo Planning process. The final workshop in the series focused on three major activities: the discussion and refinement of the areas of work as expressed in the draft 0.5 implementation proposal (especially the value proposition); a ratification vote on those areas of work; and the evaluation of a community governance model. At that time participants volunteered to contribute two types of material to the implementation proposal: scenarios of Bamboo's value/potential impact for various communities serving humanities research and teaching, and stories of how the Bamboo Planning Project has impacted work-to-date. Over 20 value and impact statements have been collected from the community, many of which have been incorporated into this draft.

 

To view and submit comments on this draft of the proposal, please visit: 

 

 

If you are not currently registered on the wiki and would like to take part in the discussion and comment on the draft, sign up by clicking on the "Sign Up" link in the upper right corner of the wiki page.

 

Comments on draft 0.6 will be accepted through 19 August 2009.

 

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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.

 

For more information or if your institution or organization would like to become a Bamboo member or partner, send email to bamboo_feedback@lists.berkeley.edu