Hi all,
One of the many exciting things that have been going on in the last week
is a discussion among a number of the Canadians who were at the INKE
meeting in Cuba last month picking up the question of computing
infrastructure, and working with minimal resources (this is a discussion
that was started in the Cuban meeting).
Not everybody in the discussion was on the globaloutlook list at the
time, so it was happening off list. But since this is a topic on which
different perspectives are absolutely constructive, it would make a lot
of sense to move it here, at least initially, so that others who are
interested can get to know each other.
We don't really have a model for conducting such discussions. Should
people work things out on this list, for example, or instead invite
people to participate off list and report back so as not to flood
people's inboxes?
It seems to me that once the executive is established, we may find that
we want to set up working groups on specific projects and regions who
could initiate projects and report back periodically. Maybe this is one
of those.
Anyway: I'll had the floor over to John Simpson at Alberta and Jentery
Sayers at UVic to explain more about the discussions they've all been
having on this topic.
-dan
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
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