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The Face2Face meeting will be on Tuesday, November 6, as a pre conference seminar (#06F) at the EDUCAUSE national conference in Denver, Colorado. Please be sure to register.

http://www.educause.edu/annual-conference/seminar-06f-itana-face-face-2012-enterprise-business-and-technical-architects-peer-group-separate-registrat^{Image Removed}

Feedback from the 2011 Face2Face meeting
• More case studies
• More Enterprise Architecture 101 for new architects
• More opportunities to interact and meet others (eg, mixing up tables during the session)
• More practical stuff to take home

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Comments on Face2Face Planning

• Would be great to tape the Face2Face so those who cannot attend can see all or parts.

• Abstract submitted to EDUCAUSE on SOA was not accepted for presentation or panel.
• But would like to share findings on SOA at the Face2Face.
• "Using SOA as a model" is on the agenda for the morning.
• Also in the afternoon, in the section on Applied Architecture, we cover "SOA as a way of dealing with disruptive change"

• It was agreed that a section on Leadership (such as Jim did last year at the Face2Face) will be important/valuable.
• A lot of being successful involves taking responsibility and going out and engaging with people

• Use cases are being sought for the afternoon section on Applied Architecture.

• There is some discontinuity to the elements of the program. Would be good to carry the "disruptive change" theme into the afternoon, to pull that through to the case studies if possible.

• Balance of group work versus presentations in the agenda seems good

• In thinking about reference architecture:
  Could be hard to have a focused discussion since we won't have a draft of reference architecture ready yet
  Perhaps get people's input on what they'd expect in the reference architecture
  Would be good to have something to refer to as a jump start (find out what Kuali has?)

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Agenda Build for Face2Face at EDUCAUSE

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A. Disruptive Change in Higher Education - Why does architecture matter?
• Fundamental changes that are coming to higher education
• CIO’s view on Enterprise Architecture and change management
• Break-out session on disruptive change
• What disruptive changes to you see or foresee at your institution?
• See Diana Oblinger’s free e-book at http://www.educause.edu/game-changers^{Image Removed}

— Break —

B. Enterprise Architecture 101 - How do architects get started?
• Architects at all levels are leaders
• Questions you should be asking as an EA
• Case studies as an example of how you get things done
• ** Scott: What is the domain, who are the consumers?
• **Is it for conversation among key stakeholders?
• **Is the goal to create new capabilities?
• **Examples of different ways for an architect to engage, and what gets produced
• **Adapting these tools to specific contexts and consumer needs
• Lifecycle Analysis as a framework for EA
• Starting conversations that wouldn’t normally start
• Connecting people who normally wouldn’t connect
• Linking initiatives that people haven’t thought about the linkage
• Focusing on the customers
• Highlights governance issues
• Forces you to frame your argument in business terms
• Capability Mapping
• A way to bring out the capabilities for a business unit
• A way to think about People, Process and Technology in neutral terms
• Using SOA as a model
• You need to be able to communicate value in each of the tiers of the enterprise
• You need to justify even technical work in business terms
• **Dan: Examples of documentation, tools you use to do your job
• Break Out / Workbook Activity:
• Think of a something that you tried to sell that didn’t go well and how you might have sold it differently. (influence and other dimensions)
• You have seen some higher level artifacts, how would you have used them

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Overall CSG meeting agenda (June 13-15 at the University of Iowa)
http://www.stonesoup.org/meetings/1206/^{Image Removed}
• Workshop on Projecting Institutional Infrastructure Into the Cloud http://www.stonesoup.org/meetings/1206/agenda.html#adda^{Image Removed}
• Workshop on Virtual Desktops http://www.stonesoup.org/meetings/1206/agenda.html#addb^{Image Removed}
• Attendee list in case you want to reach out to someone who presented http://www.stonesoup.org/meetings/1206/att/wrapatt.html^{Image Removed}

Highlights - Cloud
• Most institutions present are executing on a portfolio of cloud solutions with multiple solutions from SaaS to Paas to IaaS
• A few institutions are considering replicating critical infrastructure in the cloud, such as SSO, DNS, email routing – mainly to ensure continuous service
• No good general solutions for provisioning and de-provisioning user accounts and groups across cloud solutions; discussion of OAuth
• Progress on operationalizing cloud services, for example using Boomering and JMeter to monitor user experience

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LINKS:

ITANA wiki is https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/itana/Home^{Image Removed}

Google Docs Whiteboard for this call https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J-WZMKKZauiqeHnuQyzUFNcsMTDyjmz_f0FvtiJJ6A4/edit#^{Image Removed}

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