Workshop Background:
The National Science Foundation, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has recently announced an intention to develop an Initiative called,

“Global Environment for Networking Investigations or GENI to explore new networking capabilities that will advance science and stimulate innovation and economic growth…“The GENI Initiative responds to an urgent and important challenge of the 21st Century to advance significantly the capabilities provided by networking and distributed system architectures. GENI comprises two components: the GENI Research Program and the experimental GENI Facility. It is intended to catalyze a broad community effort that will engage other agencies, other countries, and corporate entities.”

In addition to GENI and Office of Cyberinfrastructure initiatives, it is important to recognize an emerging new strategy, and associated funding, recently announced in the NSF EPSCoR Office to support Strength Based Research Coalitions as part of the on-going NSF EPSCoR RII Program.

Purpose:
The CDI project believes that the timing is excellent to make an effort aimed at bringing together infrastructure and research leaders in the EPSCoR community to promote their competitiveness in these and other NSF emerging programs. This meeting is an opportunity to:
-- Learn about and discuss emerging programs with NSF program directors,
-- Explore issues of acquisition, architecture, research, and human interaction leading to the deployment of state of the art and leading edge networking and cyberinfrastructure technologies, and
-- Interact with potential collaborators and leading performers in the national and EPSCoR domain in order to promote successful EPSCoR community strategies to take advantage of upcoming solicitations in the area of advanced networking and cyberinfrastructure.

Workshop participants:
Organizing Committee [Co-Chairs: Mel Ciment (Senior Associate, CDI) and Greg Monaco (Director for Research, Great Plains Network)]:
-- Amy Apon (University of Arkansas)
-- Ken Bishop (University of Kansas)
-- Joe Evans (University of Kansas)
-- Ray Ford (University of Montana, Northern Tier Network Consortium)
-- Vic Frost (University of Kansas)
-- Doug Gale (IT Associates)
-- Bonnie Neas (North Dakota State University)
-- Henry Neeman (University of Oklahoma)
-- Rich Sincovec (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
-- Gordon Springer (University of Missouri)

External presenters: See agenda

Federal agency personnel:
-- Guy Almes (NSF)
-- Rita Rodriguez (NSF)

Participants:
-- Guy Almes (National Science Foundation)
-- Rick Anderson (South Dakota State University)
-- Amy Apon (University of Arkansas)
-- Bill Ashmore (University of Arkansas Main Campus)
-- Dar Bales (Little Priest Tribal College)
-- Kenneth Bishop (The University of Kansas)
-- Jay Boisseau (The University of Texas at Austin)
-- Kristin Bowman-James (University of Kansas)
-- Kyle Camarda (The University of Kansas)
-- Coskun Cetinkaya (Wichita State University)
-- Fred Choobineh (Nebraska EPSCoR)
-- Berthe Choueiry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
-- Melvyn Ciment (EPSCoR Foundation)
-- Xiaojiang Du (North Dakota State University)
-- Joseph Evans (University of Kansas)
-- Ray Ford (university of montana)
-- Victor Frost (University of Kansas)
-- Douglas Gale (Information Technology Associates, LLC)
-- Claude Garelik (South Dakota Board of Regents)
-- James Griffioen (University of Kentucky)
-- Michael Grobe (Kansas Board of Regents)
-- Don Gruenbacher (Kansas State University)
-- Rand Haley (EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation)
-- Doug Heacock (Kansas Research and Education Network)
-- Gwen Jacobs (Montana State University)
-- JJ Jamison (Cisco)
-- Jesse Johnson (University of Montana)
-- Jun Liu (Univ. of North Dakota)
-- John Louis (University of Kansas)
-- Deep Medhi (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
-- Greg Monaco (Great Plains Network)
-- Johnnie Moore (The University of Montana)
-- Kamesh Namuduri (Wichita State University)
-- Henry Neeman (University of Oklahoma)
-- Barbara Paschke (University of Kansas)
-- Prem Paul (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
-- Janet Poley (American Distance Education Consortium)
-- Byrav Ramamurthy (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
-- James Roberts (University of Kansas)
-- Rita Rodriguez (National Science Foundation)
-- Caterina Scoglio (Kansas State University)
-- Richard Sincovec (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)
-- Gordon Springer (University of Missouri)
-- Denise Stephens (University of Kansas)
-- Randy Stout (Kansas Board of Regents)
-- Rick Summerhill (Internet2)
-- David Swanson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
-- Xinwei Wang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
-- Warren Wilson (South Dakota Board of Regents)
-- Richard Wolff (Montana State University)
-- Lisong Xu (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)