ITANA.ORG IT Architects in Academia

Hi All,
The Face 2 Face survey is now live.  You can fill out the survey here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=585673594090
Jim

As you may know we are holding a one-day meeting at Columbia University 22-May
10AM to 5PM, and we have a small block of hotel rooms reserved (until 7-April)
for Monday night 21-May at a special rate of $250+taxes/fees. This is just
before the CSG meeting, but is completely separate and unrelated to CSG.
Registration for the ITANA meeting [...]

If you will be at the EDUCAUSE MWRC this week, there is a round table lunch on Tuesday for ITANA.
http://www.educause.edu/MWRC07/Program/11326?PRODUCT_CODE=MWRC07/DISC21
Stop by if you are in Chicago for this meeting this week.
Jim

Hi All,
Internet2 (Thanks Steve Olshansky) has created a wiki for ITANA. You can see it here: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/itana/Home. NOTE: You have to have an account to edit the wiki.

Ron Thielen (University of Chicago) gave this presentation describing a proposed program to develop an Enterprise Security Architecture. He describes what Architecture is and what architectural processes might look like. Some of you might find some part of this interesting or useful.
http://home.uchicago.edu/~rthielen/IT-Architecture-June-04.pdf

Apparently the Open Group has made some of the TOGAF documentation publicly available. The IT Architecture Skills Framework can be found at:
http://www.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap30.html

Hi All,
Welcome to 2007.
Internet2 has agreed to support the ITANA working group. They will provide a flywheel, collaboration tools (like a wiki) and web space (thank you Ken Klingenstein for your pushing on this). I’m still working with EDUCAUSE on the constituent group. The EDUCAUSE directors have agreed to host a constituent [...]

I find that I have to explain what is I.T. Architecture and what does we do for the enterprise fairly frequently… actually - everytime I meet someone new. To help with those explanation and discussions in your enterprise, I gathered up a couple presentations on the topic:
Mark Poepping has a presentation about I.T. Architecture [...]