I'm back

By KEVIN M MOROONEY on July 26, 2007 9:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBacks (0)

I've been away from blogging way too long. I've got lots of posts started and queued up and I'm committed to getting some of them out over this weekend. There was about one week when it seemed like a lot of people went on vacation at the same time and the pace slowed down a little, but things picked up with a vengeance soon thereafter. As I did last time I took an unintended blogging hiatus, I'll try to do a quick, incomplete, informal recap of what's been going on over the last 30 days:

sent 1,483 emails

received 4,504 emails

participated in 61 hours of meetings and phone calls

kept up (mostly) with the 45 feeds in my Google reader

traveled to Ann Arbor for a CIC-CIO meeting (had to drive back - grrrr)

traveled to Denver for an EDUCAUSE Campus Cyberinfrastructure meeting

participated in our first ITS Leadership meeting (formerly called second level)

participated in our monthly ITS Senior Leadership retreat (from Kentucky, on a phone - grrrr)

met with ITS Financial Services

met with DLT

met with MAC

helped host a product demo from Sharestream with the University Libraries
got a face-to-face eLion demo

consumed the new ANGEL tutorial on-line

co-moderated a Googlization brown bag with Mairéad

hosted a Coffee with Kevin breakfast

sat in on a CTSA Steering Committee meeting

met with Peter Schiffer, the relatively new Associate Vice President for Research, Director of Strategic Initiatives

lots of other meetings with lots of other people too

If I missed anything big over the last 30 days that you were a part of, straighten me out by leaving a comment.

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Anonymous said:

I'd really be interested in hearing some details about the Cyberinfrastructure meeting. How did it go? Any particularly interesting takeaways? Did anyone else from Penn State attend?

July 27, 2007 5:29 AM

kevin said:

I was the only attendee from Penn State. This CCI crowd is mostly CIOs or research computing leadership (Vijay Agarwala) mostly because, I think, the first workshop of this group was at SAC and to a certain extent that's who hangs out there.

As usual, I got a lot out of the in between time with people. I'm still very much in the mode of reaching out to new people and new institutions on a variety of topics.

A lot of the meeting was spent in working groups churning out ideas about how to plan and implement campus cyberinfrastructures. It is a conversation I'm familiar with as we have them quite a bit around Penn State, even if we don't (yet?) talk about it in vocabulary like "cyberinfrastructure".

What I hope this group can influence is how agencies like NSF and NIH view campuses and how they can and can't fund what it takes to do a campus cyberinfrastructure. It is an issue that Vijay has worked for years under other nouns in other organizations.

While this workshop, http://middleware.internet2.edu/crcc/ ,
was held over a year ago I think it still frames the issues pretty well (but then again I'm biased :-) ). The summit web site has some good resources on it as well, http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?PAGE_ID=13279&bhcp=1 .

July 27, 2007 7:09 AM

Pam Fuller said:

Hi Kevin,

It's worth mentioning that you met with the entire Finance Team, which includes Financial Services and FA's/Reps from other units.

July 30, 2007 10:23 PM

kevin said:

Yes, Pam - you're right...the meeting was with the *entire* FS team. Thanks for setting the record straight.

July 30, 2007 10:52 PM

Cole said:

I love these posts ... great insight into workload and challenges.

August 8, 2007 1:50 PM