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The hard work, discussion and debate carried out by those who attended the Bamboo Planning Workshop 4 on 16-18 April 2009 provided considerable material and guidance to advance the planning effort of Bamboo. Since the end of the workshop that was hosted by Brown University, the Bamboo program staff at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago have been hard at work consolidating ideas and recommendations from workshop participants into a scope of work for the first implementation phase of Bamboo.

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The web page for Project Bamboo's Workshop Four has been updated with details about travel to and around Providence, Rhode Island, as well as information about the room block at our conference hotel, the Providence Biltmore: http://www.projectbamboo.org/workshop-four

Thanks to Elli Mylonas of Brown University for putting this together.

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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.

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Project Bamboo's Workshop Four will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 16-18, 2009. The three-day workshop will begin Thursday morning at 9AM and run through noon on Saturday. The preliminary agenda for this workshop will be posted to the Project Bamboo website by March 6.

Previous Participants
Registration is open for the workshop and will extend through March 6, 2009. Registration is available to all organizations and institutions whose application was accepted for either Workshop Two or Three. We are asking participants to register in advance so that we can plan for meeting space, food, and beverages.

Virtual Participation
If you cannot attend the physical workshop, but wish to participate remotely, please select the appropriate registration form above and click on the virtual participation link.

New Applicants
Institutions or organizations who have not previously applied to Project Bamboo but wish to participate in Workshop Four, please send an email as soon as possible to bamboo_event_coordination@lists.berkeley.edu.

As we process registrations and finalize workshop details, we will update the workshop page posted at http://projectbamboo.org/workshop-four. If you have any questions regarding registration, feel free to contact us at bamboo_event_coordination@lists.berkeley.edu.

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We are pleased to announce that Project Bamboo's Workshop Four will take place April 16-18 in Providence, Rhode Island, with support from Brown University. The workshop will begin at 9AM on Thursday morning. It will end at noon on Saturday, April 18.

As more information about Workshop Four becomes available, it will be posted here: http://projectbamboo.org/workshop-four .

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Videos of plenary talks from Workshop Three are now available for download at http://projectbamboo.org/videos. These include the presentation of Project Bamboo's straw implementation proposal and straw consortial model, as well as multiple perspectives by Bamboo participants who currently lead efforts around scholarly practice, content and information technology.

As previously announced, Project Bamboo's Workshop Three will be held in Tucson, Arizona, on January 12-14, 2009. The workshop is scheduled to begin Monday morning and run through noon on Wednesday. Although the specifics have not been finalized, the agenda will include an update of the planning project, reports from the various working groups, sharing of and discussion around demonstrators, continued refinement of the scope of Bamboo, further exploration of the community and consortial model for the project, and time for working groups to meet.

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