Agenda

RIT/SC Retreat Agenda, 28-29 Feb 2008

Please note the topics and abstracts of the breakout sessions. We will be seeking your input into how we can/should shape our program investments over the next several years. Please give the questions some advance thought, and be ready to contribute. Please also read in advance the project briefing reports, available in Project Descriptions.

Thursday 28 February      

8-9 am – Breakfast

9-9:15 am – Introductions & Remarks

9:15-10:45 am – Kuali Student, FLUID

10:45-11:00 am – Break

11:00 am-12:30 pm – Zotero/IA, SEASR/NEMA

12:30-1:30 pm – Lunch

1:30-3 pm – New/Upcoming Projects: Bamboo, OpenCollection

3-3:15 pm – Break

3:15-4:30pm – Breakout Sessions: “Leveraging Distributed Computing/SOA to Promote Reuse and Interoperability: Opportunities and Challenges”

• Session 1: Administrative Systems (Facilitator: Haeusser)
• Session 2: Repositories and Collections (Facilitator: Payette)
• Session 3: Research, Teaching, and Learning Tools and Platforms (Facilitator: Norman)

Several Mellon-supported projects are leveraging recent developments in distributed computing, business process modeling, and services oriented architecture--and in the process creating/refining a model for other prospective community source software projects. What have these projects learned about the potentials and pitfalls of community design and SOA in open source?  When is/isn’t this the right model for a project? What remains to be learned, in order to help these projects and others like them succeed? What are the likely adoption and sustainability challenges, technological or organizational? How can we codify what we’ve learned and make it accessible to others wanting to create similar projects? What does someone contemplating a project like this need to know? What does that person need to be able to do? 

4:30-5:15 pm – Breakout Reports

6-8 pm – Cocktail Reception

Dinner on your own in Princeton

Friday 29 February

8-9 am – Breakfast

9-10:30 am – New/Upcoming Projects: ORE, FAS, ILS (Duke)

10:30-10:45 am – Break

10:45 am-12:15 pm – Breakout Sessions: “RIT/SC in the Next 3-5 Years: What Does the Future Look Like?”

• Session 1: Administrative Systems (Facilitator: D’Souza)
• Session 2: Repositories and Collections (Facilitator: Lagoze)
• Session 3: Research, Teaching, and Learning Tools and Platforms (Facilitator: Kahle)

What do you see as the major trends over the next 3-5 years that will affect the domains in which RIT and SC operate? What opportunities are likely to emerge, and how can RIT/SC help you to seize them? What problems or obstacles can you identify, and what remedies can you imagine RIT or SC supporting? We ask that you step back from your project and view the domain in which you work as broadly as possible, to help us understand what we should be doing in 3-5 years that we’re not doing now—and what we should have discontinued doing by then in order to make room.

12:15-1:15 pm – Lunch

1:15-2:45 pm – Breakout Reports (from the morning)

2:45-3 pm – Feedback and Final Remarks

3pm – Adjourn

Breakout Session Rosters

Administrative Systems

Clark/Treviranus
D'Souza
Fairlie
Guthrie/Kiser
Haeusser
Kelley
Klingenstein
Levine
Markow
Waggener
Walsh
Wheeler

Repositories/Collections

Auvil/Welge
Davis
Forbes
Frueh
Goodman
Guthrie
Hyde/Smith
Kimpton
Kiser
Lagoze
Little
O'Brien
Owens
Matelan
Mueller
Payette
Roper/Schlager
Snyder
Ying
 

Learning, Research, Teaching

Auvil/Welge
Choudhury
Clark/Treviranus
Cohen
Crane
Daley
Fujinaga
Greenbaum
Hancock
Hyde/Smith
Kahle
Kainz
Little/O’Brien
Lombardi
Matelan
Norman
Roper
Schlager
Stein

Floaters:

Cullyer/Rutimann/Waters
Fuchs/Mackie
Lynch
Zia