SIP in higher education

[Steve Blair <>]

Ben:

 My personal opinion is to have a longer workshop with the opportunity
hands-on "stuff". I'm not sure VON is the place for such a workshop.

-Steve

Ben Teitelbaum wrote:

> At the Philly workshop, there was a lot of interest in a follow-on
> workshop.  Some folks suggested that the next workshop be more
> hands-on and last at least a day and a half to allow folks who have
> traveled from afar to have at least one evening for informal
> socialization with colleagues.
>
> The good folks at Pulver.com, who become Internet2 members next week,
> have offered to host an Internet2 workshop in conjunction with a VON
> (http://www.pulver.com/von/).  Attendees from Internet2 regular
> members (i.e. universities) would be offered a steeply-reduced
> registration rate for the full VON program.
>
> Within the busy program of VON, we probably could not squeeze a 1.5
> day workshop.  We could, however, easily do a half-day workshop with
> informal time during lunches and evenings for info-exchange and
> socialization.  And, there would be the benefit of the
> usually-excellent VON program and the crowd it attracts.
>
> Should we...
>
> A) Accept the Pulver.com offer and work to plan a half-day SIP.edu
>   workshop at Fall VON 2004 (Boston, Oct. 18-21); OR
>
> B) Begin planning a distinct 1.5-2.0 day SIP.edu workshop to be held
>   sometime in the Fall at an as-yet-undetermined location?
>
> -- ben
>  

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