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Distilled from data gathered at Workshop One and community input between Workshops One and Two, the Bamboo program staff asked the over 140 participants who represented 60 institutions and organizations to consider seven initial directions for the Bamboo. One of the results of Workshop Two was a proposed set of eight working groups and recommendations for moving forward with planning activities.

Acting on the recommendations of the community, the Bamboo Leadership Council and program staff have initiated activity in six areas: education and professional development, scholarly networking, tool and content interoperability, building and sustaining partnerships both within institutions and across the Bamboo community, and the services framework that is fundamental to Bamboo. Each of the six areas map to specific working group activities that shall occur before Workshop Three in January 2009. Two additional working groups, Principles for Leadership and Standards & Best Practices, were also identified, but after reviewing their outlined scope it seemed best to postpone these working groups because feedback from the other working will be required to move forward on these topics. For detailed information regarding the working groups, charters, and participation requirements, visit:

http://projectbamboo.org/working-groups-ws2-ws3

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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 on Bamboo, send email to bamboo_feedback@lists.berkeley.edu

Project Bamboo, a cyberinfrastructure planning effort funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, announces the preliminary scope of the planning project. The project launched in April 2008 using the initial ideas outlined in the Bamboo Planning Proposal by the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley, and through extensive workshop-based and online input from over 100 institutions and organizations over seven months, the community of participants worked to better shape and define the scope of Bamboo.

Based on the work to date, the preliminary focus of Bamboo includes education and professional development, scholarly networking, tool and content interoperability, building and sustaining partnerships both within institutions and across the Bamboo community, and a services framework that is fundamental to Bamboo. Each of these areas map to specific working group activities that shall occur before Workshop Three in January 2009. For detailed information on the scope, visit:

http://projectbamboo.org/preliminary-scope-october-2008

The scope will be further refined over the next several months with the intent to finalize the definition and direction of Bamboo by June 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 on Bamboo, send email to bamboo_feedback@lists.berkeley.edu

Project Bamboo has established a presence on a number of social networking sites, where we share behind-the-scenes materials and perspectives that don't appear on the Planning Wiki. We also use our social networking sites to solicit feedback and resources from the community. You can find the information for our various accounts here: http://projectbamboo.org/connect-bamboo

Look for us on:

del.icio.us - user projectbamboo
If you know of related resources that we should add to the wiki, recommend the link to us using the tag 'for:projectbamboo'

Facebook - ProjectBamboo group
The home of behind-the-scenes photos of the Project Bamboo team at work. We're also happy to answer questions on the discussion board

Flickr - user projectbamboo
All the photos taken at the workshops, as well as photos of all the flipcharts.

Twitter - user projectbamboo
Frequent updates about the project, and day-to-day life as part of the Project Bamboo program staff.

Twine - Project Bamboo group
Another place for adding related links; if you're suggesting one for the wiki, we ask that you use del.icio.us