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*Carryover Action Items*
AI (All interested) in the higher-ed peer group, contact Chris Eagle.
AI (All) Think about topics for potential Educause session(s).

*Discussion*

• New to Higher Education Peer-Group
• First Google+ Hangout Tue 13-March 11:00 AM EST
• every 4 weeks, coincident with the ITANA call weeks
• 1st topic: collaborative approach v. directive approach
• all are welcome, even if not new to higher ed
• must have Google+ account, and add Chris, Jim and ITANA pages to your circles
• can join audio only if you don't have a camera
• instructions will go out to the list in advance

• SOA WG Survey Go-live
• questions are on the wiki: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/itana/Questionnaire+for+institutions
• testing with a few institutions initially

• Archimate - two panels coming up, dates TBDhttp://www.opengroup.org/archimate/http://www3.opengroup.org/subjectareas/enterprise/archimatehttp://archi.cetis.ac.uk/ – the opensource Archi modeling tool

• CoRA Model (http://www.coramodel.com)
  This looks to be an attractive framework, and easy to communicate to others...

• Perhaps this could be used in conjunction with the SOA survey.

• CORA and TOGAF in Ph D and E of TOGAF : http://www.coramodel.com/connection/enterprisearchitecture/cora-and-togaf.htm

– Future Call Agenda Items:

• Does a heavy-weight EA Tool add enough value to outweigh the price and heaviness of the tool itself? Can we find a case-study or two?
• Rolling out a new SIS
• Why would you use an EA tool? What are the goals of making artifacts? What is the purpose of these artifacts?
• Defining and promoting the architecture brand (suggested by Scott F.)
• OpenStack.org - Open Cloud Platform - UC Berkeley and UW-Madison

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