Working Groups & Workshops

The planning process was built around a series of five workshops where the institutional and organizational teams entered into a dialogue around the issues, trends, opportunities, and challenges that a shared model poses to the community. 

Between workshops, working groups met to focus on specific details and demonstrators were designed and implemented to illustrate potential uses of services-facilitated technology in the arts and humanities. Possibilities included demonstration or proof of concept projects that explored ideas with individual partners or small multi-institutional groups, existing ongoing projects that were examined from our Bamboo perspective, and entirely new projects. In any case, these pilot projects demonstrated what's possible and acted as a springboard for continued discussion and development.

Ongoing commitment for participants was based on a willingness to continue with the process. For example, if after the third workshop and institution felt it has contributed all it could, it could leave the planning process and continue to follow Bamboo's progress and still be part of the broader Bamboo community even though it was not actively engaged in the planning process.

The face-to-face workshop program will be complete with Workshop 6, however if you are interested in engaging with Project Bamboo we encourage you contact us. We are actively seeking members and partners who are willing to help us implement the vision of Bamboo.