Twin Conferences in the Twin Cities

I attended two conferences in the Minneapolis last week. The first was the national ITANA Face-to-Face meeting on Wednesday. The second was the Internet 2 Advanced CAMP (Campus Architecture and Middleware Planning). The CAMP focus was "Registering, Discovering, and Using Distributed Services in Academia." Both were in the same hotel and there was quite a bit of overlap between the attendees. I was on the organizing committee of the Advanced CAMP and that in itself was a very rewarding experience. Each meeting was very interactive both during the formal part of the meeting and also the breaks, lunches, and dinners. It's great to see that many of us have the same problems whether we're a big university like Penn State or some of the smaller private institutions which participated.

I took a bunch of notes... more to follow.