Etienne Wenger (father of the concept community of practice) is in Australia over the next two weeks for various conferences.  Educators may be particularly interested in a seminar that he is presenting July 18th for education.au at the Sydney Hilton. 2005 education.au National Seminars - Transforming Learning through ICT: Building Thriving Learning Communities. This could be a really good networking opportunity for those of us working in educational CoP development (all going well I hope to be there). We also have a Friends of CPSquare dinner with Etienne Wed 13^th  July in Sydney. Anyone interested in joining us should email me for details.