Community Update

Community Update EDUCAUSE 2011 Philadelphia Convention Center 10/19/11

Member Institutions (62 so far) Brocade, California State University East Bay, Carnegie Mellon University, CENIC, Clemson University, Columbia University, Cornell University, D'Youville College, Dell Inc., Dickinson College, George Mason University, The George Washington University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, Illinois Century Network, Indiana University Bloomington, Iowa State University, Kansas State University, Kennesaw State University, Montgomery College, NevadaNet, New York University, North Dakota State University, NYSERNet, Inc., Oakland University, Oklahoma City Community College, The Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Texas A&M University, Tufts University, University of Alaska, The University of Arizona, University of California Berkeley, University of California Davis, University of California Los Angeles, University of California Riverside, University of California San Diego, University of California Santa Cruz, University of Chicago, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Delaware, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The University of Iowa, University of Kansas, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Nebraska, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Dakota, University of Rochester, University of Southern California, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University System of New Hampshire, Vanderbilt University, Virginia Tech, Yale University

Activities • Virtual Working-Group Meetings • Mostly phone, occasional video • Working-Group Projects • Usually short, ad hoc efforts • All-Hands Meetings • Next: Jan. 2012 • "Product" Dissemination • Best practices, checklists, white papers…

ACTI 2012 January 10-12, 2012Stanford University Palo Alto, CA • Tuesday: ACTI Member Meeting • Wednesday: ACTI/CSG Workshops • Metrics and Dashboards, Reporting How IT is Doing in Your Community • Strategic Planning, Service Portfolios, Project Portfolio and EA • Thursday: ACTI/CSG Workshop • Developing Cloud Applications

Working Groups (5 so far) • Campus Cyberinfrastructure • Communication, Collaboration, and Mobility • Data Management • Mobile Web Frameworks • Optimizing Computing Infrastructure

Three New Groups • Data Management • Access, quantity, administrative, research • Mobile Web Frameworks • commonalities for mobile-consumable web services • Optimizing Computing Infrastructure • separate vs. central, local vs. outsourced

Campus Cyberinfrastructure • Review of NSF ACCI Task Force Reports: • Campus Bridging • Cyberlearning and Workforce Development • Data and Visualization • Grand Challenges • High Performance Computing • Software for Science and Engineering • Data Visualization • Overlap Topic: Data Management

Communication,Collaboration, and Mobility • Integrated Communications Technology Survey • Mobility for Safety/Security • Communication as a Service (CaaS) • Distributed Antennae System (DAS) • Other potential topics: • Mobility and enterprise processes • Separate vs. convergent networks

More Information? www.educause.edu/acti acti@educause.edu Greg Jackson, Vice President gjackson@educause.edu Karen Wetzel, ACTI Program Manager kwetzel@educause.edu

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