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Years:

	10.03.08	Congress Passes Higher Education Act (HEA)
		Just before breaking for the summer recess, Congress has passed a version of the Higher Education Authorization Act (HEA).

	10.02.08	Data Storage Project
		This fall has found the Data Storage Working Group (DSWG) very active in exploring options for providing a shared data storage service to our members.

	09.29.08	OSHEAN 2008 CIO Meeting
		On July 24, 2008, OSHEAN held its annual CIO Round Table at the Squantum Association in East Providence, RI. Despite some very stormy weather and choppy seas, the event was well attended with 20 attendees representing 14 members.

	09.29.08	RI Innovation Awards and Tech Laureate Night 2008!
		Thursday, September 18th marked the celebration of this year's RI Innovation Awards and Tech Laureate Night, hosted by Providence Business News (PBN), Tech Collective, and The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC).

	09.26.08	OSHEAN Welcomes Morgan Morrone
		Morgan Morrone recently graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. As a student, Morgan acquired extensive knowledge in leadership, management, marketing, and law from the rigorous business curriculum at URI.

	07.30.08	OSHEAN Welcomes Michael Marseglia
		Michael (Mike) Marseglia has approximately eight years of experience in Information Technology and Systems Administration. Michael has spent several years as Network Administrator for the Foster-Glocester Regional School District. While there, he transformed a disparate network of multiple sites into a single Wide Area Network and centralized network services.

	06.30.08	Newly Elected OSHEAN Board Members!

	06.17.08	OSHEAN Board of Directors Candidate Slate

	06.10.08	OSHEAN Community Forum - May 29, 2008 The Digital Citizen - Rights, Responsibilities, and Impacts
		The Digital Citizen - Rights, Responsibilities, and Impacts

	04.16.08	Quilt Talk - April 2008 Edition
		The OSHEAN Staff would like to share with you this month's edition of Quilt Talk, the monthly e-Newsletter from The Quilt.

	04.08.08	Presented by Tech Collective - All Aboard! Use Networking to Navigate Through a Sea of RI Tech Companies
		Tech Collective's ALL ABOARD speed networking event will provide a setting to network, gain industry-focused knowledge, and build peer-2-peer relations.

	04.07.08	OSHEAN is Hiring
		We are currently looking for a Network Security Analyst with an outgoing personality with strong security & networking skills. Main responsibilities are to support our security services operational infrastructure and internal networks, which support member services.

	03.10.08	Cisco Catalyst 6500 – Leading the Campus Communication Fabric Evolution
		On Thursday, February 28th, OSHEAN members and Cisco representatives gathered for an information session on the vision and roadmap for the Catalyst 6500, dubbed as the solution leading the campus communication fabric evolution.

	02.12.08	OSHEAN Announces Network Security Training Schedule for Winter/Spring 2008
		It is our intention to continue to foster the network security training program that we started in 2006 with the training we were able to offer our members as a part of our Governor's Workforce Improvement Grant.

	01.29.08	A Blueprint for Big Broadband - An EDUCAUSE White Pape

	01.23.08	Motion Picture Association Admits to Erroneous Results in Report

	01.22.08	Disaster Recovery Luncheon Series Presented by NetApp and VMware

Years:

	10.02.08	OSHEAN New Member Update
		The Rhode Island Disaster Medical Assistance Team (RI DMAT) founded in 1999, is a non-profit dedicated to disaster and emergency medicine, serving our local communities, the State, and the Nation.

	10.01.08	UMASS Dartmouth Success with Accordent Video Services
		Distance learning, lecture capture, and video on-demand, while still in fledgling stages on many college campuses, has been revolutionized on the UMass Dartmouth campus through the use of the Accordent Media Management System.

	09.01.08	September 2008 OSHEAN Member of the Month - Rhode Island Judiciary System
		In 2005, under the new leadership of Robert Baynes, Assistant State Court Administrator and Executive Director at the Judicial Technology Center (JTC), the Rhode Island Courts recognized the emergent digital need and prepared to make a giant leap from an archaic T1-based network to one utilizing fiber optics as the new medium, maximizing high speed connectivity and launching them into the 21st century.

	08.01.08	August 2008 OSHEAN Member of the Month - Brown University
		For nearly a decade Brown has provided cable TV programming to students in the residence halls. But the aging system as well as student and faculty demands for expanded video services prompted an examination of how our newly upgraded data network could be used for distribution of entertainment and academic contend. Enter IPTV.

	04.09.08	Bryant College Receives Recognition for its Innovative Work with IPICS
		OSHEAN would like to congratulate Rich Siedzik and Bryant University for receiving not one but two honors for the work that they are doing with IPICS!

	04.02.08	CampusManager - Announcing XCHANGE 2008
		OSHEAN member, Bryant University, we will be hosting a user conference for Campus Manager on Thursday May 22nd, 2008. Campus Manager is a network access solution that several OSHEAN members use in their networks.

	02.28.08	Bryant College - Emergency Response Network: Community Partnerships
		Rich Siedzik, Director of Computer and Telecommunications Services at Bryant College made a presentation on the College's emergency response network at the recent NET@EDU Conference in Tempe, Arizona.

	02.12.08	Legislation to Facilitate and Safeguard Sharing of Patient Information
		Rhode Island Health Information Exchange Act of 2008 will help improve care and make RI a national leader in effective use of health information technology.