Eyup, I'm in the corner of the playground and I would normally just watch for longer before joining in the fun ;-)

Seems like were getting the hang of this. I've read most but not all the posts as yet. Anyway, I thought I would chime in with a brief introduction hoping not to fray the thread...

I am a researcher based at the University of Leeds in the UK specialising in computational geography (for about 15 years). I practise both face to face and open distance teaching. In the last 10 years I was trained primarily via the UK e-Science program and am reasonably well connected with the group in the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) that interfaced with this. [...]