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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.