The first meeting of the COVE Advisory Board occurs at Purdue University. Members in attendance: Dino Felluga, Dave Rettenmaier, Amanda Visconti, Susan Brown, Michael E. Sinatra, Nick Laiacona, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Margaret Linley, Natalie Houston, Carl Stahmer, Michael Widner, Jason Camlot, and Paul Fyfe. The meeting was followed on May 5 by a series of public-facing talks and then a meeting of the ARC group (Advanced Research Consortium). COVE at the time stood for the Central Online Victorian Educator. The original idea was to extend to other fields through an organization dubbed SHORE: Supporting Humanities Online Research and Education. In 2020, the COVE Advisory Board decided instead simply to rebrand as Collective Organization for Virtual Education.