Project Bamboo launches on-line Community Design effort
August 2nd, 2008 by Steve MasoverOn August 1, Project Bamboo launched a wiki-centric community design effort open to all comers. The structured activities laid out by Bamboo’s program staff aim to organize thousands of ideas and suggestions offered at four similarly-organized workshops in the months following the inception of Bamboo’s planning phase. Community design participants will synthesize the “Workshop One” artifacts (all available for review on the wiki) into a thematic overview of Arts and Humanities scholarship and a set of proposed directions for the Mellon-funded cyberinfrastructure project. Initial suggestions regarding consortial models appropriate to a Project Bamboo implementation phase are also being solicited on the project’s Planning Wiki, http://wikibamboo.uchicago.edu/display/BPUB/Home. The wiki, built on Atlassian’s Confluence platform, is viewable to the world, and anyone who wishes can create an account in order to join the community design effort. Participation in the wiki-focused work is one of four prerequisites for participation in the next face-to-face Project Bamboo workshop, currently scheduled for the week of October 13 on the west coast of the United States (more info at http://projectbamboo.org/join-us).
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