Hi Janice, Regarding what to do with all those great ideas, it seems as though the 2011 committee has started a wiki page to gather ideas.
http://mcn2010.pbworks.com/w/page/31852717/2011-Conference-Ideas Richard Urban rjurban at illinois.edu On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Janice wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
