The EROS collective has been bumbling along for a few years in a more or less semi-organised manner. The creation of this new EROS site offers a chance to revisit some of the things we said about each other in the past. The following presentation was given in early 2006, the rest of this post reflects on some of the content of that presentation and how the group has progressed since then.

(slide 2) First of all, the presentation never really broke down any silos or encouraged other folk to work with the group. In fact, the group itself has only worked together in a loose, supportive way since 2006. We haven’t really done any truly collaborative work. The conference presentation that was tested went over okay, but still needed some work.

(slide 5) Since 2006 we’ve added one journal paper, 1 book chapter and 7 conference papers to our publication list. One of those conference papers was nominated for best paper at ICIS’2007 and the journal paper was the best paper of 2007 for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

(slide 7) I might be somewhat hazy on the details here, but I believe 2 of the 4 PhDs have been completed. The MISQ article never got started, let alone submitted. I think the book chapter got up. The EdMedia and ANZAM papers never got written.

(slide 52) Sandy’s PhD has moved a long way away from Shadow Systems and ERPs. Though she has published in that area.

(slide 54) Kieren is now Dr Jamieson, is well published and is happy living by the sea.

(slide 55-) My website has moved to here. I’m still doing stuff other than the PhD (e.g. writing this post). Not the least of is looking after the newest member of the family.

(slide 66) Jo didn’t submit her PhD in July. But it is submitted and she is now Dr Luck.

The EROS group has been going for a number of years in an ad hoc, rambling sort of way. For various reasons we’re moving from our previous home on the web to this one. We’ll wait and see if it means any change in how the group operates.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be moving much of the content from our old web home to this one and start figuring out how we can use this platform to achieve our goals.