First a thanks for all of you for hanging in!! Having 356 messages- (make that 357 messages with this one), descend into one's email or RSS box, can be a bit overwhelming. We were a bit "all over the place" but we wanted to keep the discussion as open as possible, and so did very little overt or heavy handed moderating. Thanks for your contributions, your attention and your patience!
Thanks as well to Sylvia, George and Paul for their energies and talents facilitating the show, to SCoPE and BC campus for hosting us and Elluminate for the real-time room. And finally a big thank you to our 6 key note presenters!
We didn't get a complete and polished Research Agenda (yet!) but we didn't spend nearly the time or MONEY that the Irish did , and I think we made progress. I have a better understanding of the issues and complexity of developing and coordinating work among a wide group of committed yet divergent researchers and practitioners. As well we leave a legacy of an agenda in progress (still time to edit those WIKI pages
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We intend to leave the wiki and this site operational for at least a few more weeks, but wanted to formally end the conference after three weeks as promised. Thus, we plan to close the discussion forums early next week.
We would like to ask each of you to take the time to complete the online survey. It will help us get a sense of who we are as a community and of your suggestions, interests and priorities. If you have comments or thoughts outside of the survey questions, which you would like to share with the organizers, just use any open ended question to voice your ideas. They will be read!
Till tomorrow!
Terry