Much to the surprise of most members of the Bamboo team, response to the call for participation has been far greater than expected. To date, well over 80 institutions and organizations have agreed to participate in one of the four instances of Workshop 1, "Understanding Scholarly Practice." With the Berkeley workshop complete, both the Chicago and Princeton workshops full and the Paris workshop filling fast, the Project Team will be taking a closer look at the workshop program to figure out how to capture and incorporate the broad interest across institutions and organizations without slowing the planning process.

"A lot was learned during Workshop 1a, and we've made some changes to future workshops in response to the feedback we received from the Berkeley participants," says Chad Kainz, Co-Director of Project Bamboo. "Our model is based on group discussion that provides material for subsequent workshops. However, with so many interested parties, we may need to get a bit more creative in figuring out how to incorporate input from the ever-growing list of institutions and organizations that want to take part in the project."

Given the tight scheduling early in the project, the focus right now is moving ahead with both the Chicago and Paris workshops and keeping the project on track. "After Paris, we will take a good look at what we've done and adjust the plan accordingly."