The planning process is built around a series of five workshops where the institutional and organizational teams enter into a dialogue around the issues, trends, opportunities, and challenges that a shared model poses to the community. The workshops build upon each other and toward determining a roadmap of goals to pursue, tools to provide, platforms on which to run, and architecture to use.

Between workshops, working groups meet to focus on specific details and demonstrators are designed and implemented to illustrate potential uses of services-facilitated technology in the arts and humanities. Possibilities include demonstration or proof of concept projects that explore ideas with individual partners or small multi-institutional groups, existing ongoing projects that are examined from our Bamboo perspective, and entirely new projects. In any case, these pilot projects will be used to demonstrate what's possible and act as a springboard for continued discussion and roadmap development.

Ongoing commitment for participants is based on a willingness to continue with the process. For example, if after the third workshop and institution feels it has contributed all it can, it may leave the planning process and continue to follow Bamboo's progress and still be part of the broader Bamboo community even though it is not actively engaged in the planning process.

If you are interested in engaging with Project Bamboo we encourage you contact us, even if your institution has not been involved up to this point.