Sharon Dawes and Derek Werthmuller attended the PACI Alliance "All-Hands Meeting" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. CTG is the government outreach partner for the Partnership. PACI, the Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, is an important initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Sharon presented preliminary results of the Granting Organization of the Future project to the federal Interagency Electronic Grants Committee and chaired a special meeting of the Partnership for Intergovernmental Innovation in which experienced intergovern- mental leaders shared their observations and lessons for success.

As a member of the advisory board of the project to review the National Historical Publications and Records Commission's (NHPRC) electronic records research agenda, Theresa Pardo met with fellow board members in St. Paul, Minn., in a meeting hosted by the Minnesota Historical Society.

Sharon Dawes and Meghan Cook also took part in the 2002 Digital Government Research conference, Dg.O, which focuses on the NSF digital government research program. As part of the event, they participated in a panel devoted to ways to engage government agencies in DG research.

Derek Werthmuller and Jim Costello presented CTG's XML presentation, "XML: A New Web Site Architecture" to three groups: the NYS Webmasters Guild in April, and the 32nd Annual Interdepartmental Committee on Electronic Data Processing (ICEDP) Conference, and University at Albany, Digital Library Steering Committee, in June.