Nope, not a conference about a new pharmaceutical molecule.
Had the pleasure of being invited to two days of discussions about IT among English educators - a first time for me, hopefully not the last! This is fun, wall to wall folks who thoroughly enjoy a good discussion, remarkably free from any entrenched viewpoints about IT.
Joint Information Systems Conference Committee - Centre for Educational Technology & Interoperability Standards. Quite a mouthful. JISC by the way is the body who allocates funds for IT all through the English higher education system.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining the Business Process thread (what else you might add) led by Scott Wilson of JISC.
Four hours of discussions (and I had the opportunity to bounce a beach ball around - thanks Jyri for the idea - and talk about singular objects and object-drivenness) - all expertly shepherded by Scott into a nifty action list of processes worth spending some time on, and perhaps one day build systems for.
Next few days I might be found prototyping a few of these... ;)
Logging off, have to join to the next one, Semantic Web and learning no less, goodness.
Hi Sigurd
It was a good event, wasn't it.
For info, a summary of the session myself and my colleague Paul Walk ran is available at
http://animoto.com/play/e528929409157c05e8f5018751049017
More importantly, before the JISC corporate identity police start chasing you JISC stands for Joint Information Systems Committee and not
Joint Information Systems Conference
Brian Kelly, UKOLN
Posted by: Brian Kelly | November 22, 2007 at 00:21
Brian, thanks!
Fixed... too many acronyms, almost as bad as in France... hehe :D
And thanks to you and all the others, had a grand time!
Posted by: sig | November 22, 2007 at 10:48
Thanks for your comments Sigurd, weve had a good response to the conference , wish I had had more time than the two breakfast meets to chat with you I heard great things about your contribution to the sessions.
ps glad Brian got the corporate police poke in early..
Posted by: Paul Hollins | November 23, 2007 at 12:54
Thanks Paul,
really appreciated the invite!
And in a sense why not say "and now it starts" ;)
Scott put together a list of processes that "could need" some structure and sorting out - a perfect intellectual and practical challenge, so now I'm tinkering with some prototypes.
Such discussions becomes much easier and fun the moment you actually can click on something, fill in stuff, get workorders and create reports - right up my alley that!
Posted by: sig | November 23, 2007 at 14:00