Bamboo's focus is on the academic community that typically forms around scholarship enhanced by or enabled through the use of technology. Many times, this community extends beyond institutional boundaries and includes academically-related societies, organizations, and agencies.

TEAMS
Rather than focus on individuals, we've elected to take a team approach to planning. Teams from each participating organization will come together with teams from institutions and industry 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 organization will need to form a team of one to two people who will participate in the first of a series of workshops. If by participating in the first workshop an organization 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. Teams will be asked to attend workshops, share their discipline, domain and organizational 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 organizations associated with the Planning Project. We ask that travel and lodging expenses for organizational teams be covered by the participating organizations.

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)
  

To register your organization, please use our online form. Only one registration per organization. In the unlikely event of duplicate registrations, we will contact you to reconcile the registration details.

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.