The third bi-annual CSCL (Computer Support for Collaborative Learning) conference took place at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California and was by European standards a huge conference, but apparently by American standards it was considered to be small. It was my first attendance at an International conference in the USA and I was quite overwhelmed by the size and beauty of the Campus at Stanford, but also by the very smooth organisation of a conference where everything, from registration, payment and paper submission to the publication of all papers was done on-line. The theme of the conference was ‘Designing New Media for a New Millennium: Collaborative Technology for Learning, Education and Training’.