Great MCN conference! While we are all charged up with all these ideas from this conference, it is time to apply that energy to next year's program. Let's not think about next year's travel budget and just throw out some ideas of what you would like to organize, what you would like someone else to organize, or general ideas. Maybe if we get started now, we can pull a couple things together.
The sessions generate a lot of nuts and bolts discussion over lunch/dinner/drinks. Everyone is generating lots of content. What do we do with it? How do we deliver it cost effectively? How do we integrate different systems? Storage, backup, integration, virtualization, wireless solutions. There was some requests for more nuts and bolts IT sessions. Is this a general consensus of others? The IT sig has some great conversation at our meeting. One thing that was mentioned was the possibility of a half-day workshop format the day before the conference. We could come up with the three major issued faced by IT Directors in Museums, and have an open discussion around those issues. Perhaps getting someone (or more than one) who has a good solution to demonstrate their solutions. So, I am throwing this out there. Let's get some discussion going before we lose momentum over the holidays or get wrapped up into other projects that take all our time. Janice Craddock, MN IT SIG Chair Information Technology Manager Amon Carter Museum of American Art 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107 t. 817.989.5152 f.817.665.4333 http://www.cartermuseum.org
