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Jim Phelps, University of Wisconsin - Madison (chair)
Piet Niederhausen, Georgetown University
Chris Mackie, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Michael Enstrom, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Tom Zeller, Indiana University
Duffy Gillman, University of Arizona
Gary Windham, University of Arizona
Steve Massover, University of California - Berkeley
Keith Rajecki, Sun Microsystems
Steve Mullins, University of Alaska
Sue Sharpton, University of Alaska
Dean Woodbeck, Internet2 (scribe)

**Action Items**

Wiki Markup\[AI\] Keith Rajecki will post a summary from Sun's academic advisory committee to the wiki. \
[AI\] Keith Rajecki is interested in collaborating with someone on the call on a white paper concerning approaches to selling SOA on campus. \
[AI\] Jim Phelps and Dean Woodbeck will draft a message for the ITANA list about a white paper concerning approaches to selling SOA on campus. \
[AI\] Sue Sharpton will add an agenda and speaker information to the wiki concerning a meeting being held at the University of Alaska to introduce the concept of Enterprise Architecture.

**Agenda**

(0) Roll Call. Agenda Bash.

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There was a discussion about whether call participants see SOA in their future. Most do, but the time frame varies greatly. There was also a discussion about Kuali and other academically oriented projects that would be candidates for SOA.unmigrated-wiki-markup

Keith Rajecki from Sun reported on an academic advisory council that met at Sun in February. This group advises Sun on direction and projects related to the academic community. The main topic was Enterprise Architecture and SOA. Most of the CIOs in the room were emphasizing a move to SOA, particularly with all the web services architectures, to drive down costs. \ [AI\] Keith will post a summary from that meeting to the wiki.

One of the challenges that remains at many campuses is convincing those who control the budgets that they need to invest in infrastructure even if they don't have a current project; that they will have future projects.

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Gary Windham said he sees a common theme -that trying to accomplish this in a top-down manner and tying it to mission-critical applications is not the easiest path to success. Success may require analyzing the type of strategic IT architecture projects that could benefit from SOA, but don't require investing in an SOA suite or an ESB. The organization could deploy web services up to a certain point. The question then is how you convince the institution of the need to move to the next step. Seems like there is a middle ground between top-down and completely grass roots approaches.unmigrated-wiki-markup

\[AI\] Keith Rajecki is interested in collaborating with someone on the call on a white paper concerning approaches to selling SOA on campus. Chris Mackie mentioned that, if resources are an issue in accomplishing this task, the Mellon Foundation may be in a position to help with resources. The Foundation funded a study last year on ESBs. If the group could identify a strategic plan that demonstrates what needs to be supported and why, there may be a possibility for funding.unmigrated-wiki-markup

\[AI\] Jim and Dean will draft a message for the ITANA list about the white paper concerning approaches to selling SOA on campus and the possibility for some support.

**University of Alaska and EA**

Wiki MarkupAlaska will host several speakers on May 29 to help the university understand Enterprise Architecture. The regular ITANA call on May 29 will include an audio conference with some of those speakers. \ [AI\] Sue Sharpton will add an agenda and speaker information on the wiki.

**Next Call, Thursday, May 1, 2008, 2:00 p.m. EDT**