John Fereira wrote:
> Tim McGeary wrote:
>> The Open Library Environment (OLE, pronounced oh-lay) Project invites 
>> you to apply to participate in a two day Regional Design Workshop. The 
>> purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for representatives of 
>> local research libraries and related institutions to discuss our work 
>> surrounding the current Integrated Library System and ideas on what 
>> this type of core system should incorporate.  Workshops are being held 
>> in a variety of locations in the US over the next 2 months. For more 
>> information and to find a location near you, go to:
>> http://oleproject.org/workshops.
> 
> That's quite a collection of workshops schedule.  I've been interested 
> in the project since John Little first mentioned it here.  On behalf of 
> the Spring 2008 JA-SIG conference committee I invited him (and he 
> accepted) to do a birds of a feather session at the conference.  There 
> are some things that I am working on that I think may fit well with the 
> project (I was also a developer for a piece of Kuali Rice, so I know 
> some of the Indiana folks) but I can't really tell from the number of 
> workshops how the will inter-relate.  Since there were a few dates where 
> there are simultaneous workshops in different cities it would seem to me 
> that some sort of video conference and a real time collaborative system 
> (we used Macromedia Breeze for the Kuali project with developers at 
> Cornell and Indiana) would be useful.
> 
> With the current economy I know that travel budgets are undergoing a lot 
> of scrutiny (I've even heard of a very large university system out west 
> that may be halting all business travel for awhile) attending even one 
> of the workshops may be problematic.

John,

I hear you about the travel elements of this.  That is why this process 
will not just be closed off to these workshops.  We are hoping to have 
enough workshops to gather a wide range of business processes that we 
can sift through to find commonalities to model the core business 
practices.  On top of that, we will model the differences so that 
flexibility can be built into the OLE architecture.

There will be plenty of time and opportunities for public comment on the 
data gathered at the workshops and the models as they are completed 
before the architecture stage is complete.  So if you, or anyone, cannot 
attend a workshop, there will still be opportunity for comment, and we 
want and need it!

Thank you for your interest - and please encourage others who show 
interest to participate in any way that they can.

Cheers,
Tim
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