2006 NMC Pachyderm Conference

The first annual Pachyderm Users’ Conference was held Dec. 12-14, 2006, in Austin, Texas. This groundbreaking meeting brought together museum and campus leaders, trustees, and educators for a series of dialogs with Pachyderm authors, developers, members of the open source community, students, museum experts, and the Marcus Foundation Board to discuss the outreach and programmatic use of Pachyderm in museums and institutions of higher education. While examples from many disciplines were featured, a special emphasis was placed this year on examples from the arts and arts education.

Keynoters Peter Samis (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and Holly Witchey (Cleveland Museum of Art) provided stimulating conversations on the impact of digital media in museums and higher education.