age-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Ross Singer
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 11:51 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?
>
> I kind of agree with Shaun's point: why on eart
I kind of agree with Shaun's point: why on earth would some organization
want to assume this?
In the interest of not limiting ourselves to one solution to this problem,
I'll throw another possibility that I haven't seen raised (and definitely
has downsides, but they all do): what if we to set
Sorry about the delay in moderating that: Google jumped into the moderation
screen with my work account (which doesn't have permission for that) which
was then empty (but didn't obviously say "you're in the wrong account and
don't have permission to do this, dummy") so I assumed it was Francis'
For future reference:
https://rossfsinger.com/blog/2010/09/a-proposal-to-serialize-marc-in-json/
A series of missteps and ambivalence is causing the code4lib domain to not
redirect.
Anyway, good to see the community work around that!
-Ross.
On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, LeVan,Ralph
BEST PROPOSAL EVAR
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Mary Jinglewski
wrote:
> On behalf of our proposal committee, I am pleased to confirm that
> Chattanooga has now submitted a bid to host Code4Lib 2017.
>
> Our proposal can be found at http://lab.lib.utc.edu/c4l-cha
>
Rachel, for what it's worth, it had nothing to do with your email (we were
notified of it a couple of weeks ago, I guess because we were one of the
few paying customers of the service).
-Ross.
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Maderik, Rachel A
wrote:
> Yes, thanks Bill for
Actually it doesn't seem like a terribly obvious use case: how would a user
be in a position to send multiple things for enrichment? What happens after
they're enriched?
Ümlaut seems kind of a perfect intermediary for this, but you'll need to
work out the before and after (mainly the use case!)
We have taken a somewhat different approach to how we manage our RDF data:
after years of using a native triple store, we found that it was actually
extremely impractical for the way we actually used our data. Triple stores
are fine for ad-hoc queries over arbitrary data, but that didn't reflect
On Jan 6, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Cindi Blyberg cindi...@gmail.com wrote:
Based on previous experience, I doubt this truly captures whether someone
thinks of themselves as a librarian. I've always found those categories
arbitrary (an MLS does not a librarian make) and sometimes divisive.
An MLS
I guess there’s “what do you mean by ‘C4L'” and “what do you mean by
‘standards’” that need to be clarified here.
Cary is right, this list/community/whatever is definitely well represented by
people who sit on formal standards committees or are involved in the
organizations that create them,
On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:25 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote:
I think some of these issues are distractions as they aren't specific to
libraries, aren't really different than any IT work involving private
information (i.e. virtually all IT work), and don't require library
If you want to be a systems librarian, I wouldn't bother with the MLIS,
honestly. Yes, it's still a requirement on a lot of job postings _now_,
but more and more that's being dropped from systems roles in lieu of
relevant experience.
The other sad reality is that an entry level systems librarian
THIS IS NOT EXACTLY WHAT WE AGREED TO
On May 29, 2014 7:38 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote:
YAY FULL JOB POSTINGS
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:40 PM, BWS Johnson abesottedphoe...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Research Analyst I
Royt's Treehouse
The prestigious Tennant's Treehouse is
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Ross Singer RE: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest
I would request a third option in the poll(s):
[ ] I prefer to receive both the old and new formats of job emails
(And no, this isn't a joke. I mainly like the old, individual format;
however I also like the digest offering
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote:
designate someone to be the copy editor,
Well, I kind of got the impression from the original question that this was
kind of out of the question.
However, I think it might be useful to look at development practices
http://vote.code4lib.org/election/30
Runs until next Monday at ~11:45PM PDT
-Ross.
On Mar 31, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Sarah Shealy sarah.she...@outlook.com wrote:
Anyone know how to do that? I could make that Google survey, but the
Diboldatron is beyond me.
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:01:11
On Mar 31, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote:
rsinger++
Runs until next Monday at ~11:45PM PDT
Though I am a bit curious why an East coast meeting gets a PDT deadline...
:-)
Well, that's because that's where my shared hosting server is and I'm too lazy
to do
I can set up diebold-o-tron ballot, if we have some candidates.
(I'd also probably be in for Greeneville or vicinity).
-Ross.
On Friday, March 28, 2014, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com wrote:
Does anyone know how to setup a vote?
Riley Childs
Student
Asst. Head of IT Services
While certainly every conference attendee's thoughts are of Who is he or
she wearing?, it's not uncommon for delegates to opt for a sporty and
sassy pret-a-porter look from Levi Strauss, perhaps paired with a top from
American Apparel. Depending on the weather or temperature at the conference
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:
We will also be distributing index cards at the event and monitoring the
Twitter stream (not IRC!) for questions as well
You've changed, man.
-Ross.
Vine or GTFO.
-Ross.
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com wrote:
It零 will be recoreded an streamed in 15 sec intervals on instagram ;P
On 3/19/14, 10:41 AM, Michael Schofield mschofi...@nova.edujavascript:;
wrote:
It's the video feed with some sort of
When you're alone and you think you hear the tinkling of ice cubes in a
glass and the faint smell of Scotch,
that was Roy.
That person building a treehouse as you drive past,
that was Roy.
Out of the corner of your eye, there was a mustached man,
that was Roy.
When you delete a MARC record,
But what is the status of roy4lib.org?
-Ross.
On Friday, February 21, 2014, Wick, Ryan ryan.w...@oregonstate.edu wrote:
We should be back up now.
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU javascript:;]
On Behalf Of Rosalyn Metz
Sent: Friday,
Move over, Worldcat, I want something leaner!
-Ross.
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote:
http://bacolicio.us/http://oclc.org/en-US/home.html
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:
On the contrary, this discussion
Not only that, but it's also expressly designed for the purpose of reverse
proxying subscription databases in a library environment. There are tons
of things vendors do that would be incredibly frustrating to get working
properly in Squid, nginx, or Apache that have already been solved by
This is amazing!
Maybe a github repo for config blocks is in order? I figure the only way
to work out the myriad kinks in this would be scale.
-Ross.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Andrew Anderson and...@lirn.net wrote:
When OCLC first announced their purchase of EZproxy, we started a low
I hate to say it, but Squid will not be simple to get the kind of results
EZProxy gets. Shibboleth can take care of a handful (of probably some of your
larger, more commonly accessed?) resources. Maybe Squid can take care of the
rest, but my guess is it's the smaller, more niche resources
HELLO, IS THERE AN OPTION FOR TELECOMMUTING.
ASKING FOR A FRIEND WITH LOTS OF EXPERIENCE AS A TEST POSTER.
-ROSS.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:51 AM, j...@code4lib.org wrote:
Test Post
Anonymous
New London
This is a test post.
Brought to you by code4lib jobs:
No, it's cool. I've learned about mocking objects since then.
-Ross.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Michael B. Klein mbkl...@gmail.comwrote:
I am interested in the post testing job. Please send details. Do not be
fooled by Ross Singer; he is dangerous. The last post he tested caused
Eric, I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what you're hoping to get.
Going from MARC to RDF was my great white whale for years while Talis' main
business interests involved both of those (although not archival
collections). Anything that will remodel MARC to (decent) RDF is going be:
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote:
“There is more than one way to skin a cat.” There are advantages and
disadvantages to every software solution.
I think what Mark and I are trying to say is that the first step to this
solution is not by applying
I'm not going to defend API keys, but not all APIs are open or free. You
need to have *some* way to track usage.
There may be alternative ways to implement that, but you can't just hand
wave away the rather large use case for API keys.
-Ross.
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Kevin Ford
I generally agree that hours have unnecessary complexities, I would also
say that some of that is because libraries (at least, large, research
academic libraries) are fairly complex organisms with *lots* of disparate
services.
I think it's more analogous to a shopping mall: the stores generally
I went to the code4lib list
To get my share of abuse
asked about the conf registration
Or any information of use
Now John, you can't always get what you want
No you can't always get what you want
But with a pull request
Or thoughts on https
You get a disturbing image of rainbows shooting from
That's still not a serialization. It's just a similar data model.
Pretty huge difference.
-Ross.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure that I agree that RDF is not a serialization. It really
depends on the context of the system and intended
that serialization has a different definition in computer science
than I thought it did.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com
wrote:
That's still not a serialization. It's just a similar data model.
Pretty huge difference.
-Ross.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:31
I've used Fuseki a lot and really like it, although configuration for
things like LARQ (full text indexing) historically has been a little
underdocumented (and it can be a little difficult to understand what
component is in charge of what task).
4-Store is super simple to get up and running with,
OK! Uncle! Just let's do something! I don't care *that* much about it!
-Ross.
On Nov 6, 2013 11:34 PM, Chad Fennell fenne...@umn.edu wrote:
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess I just don't see why http and https can't coexist.
They can
I assume it's not about speed, but about the PATRIOT Act.
For example, we don't host any of our customer data in the US (and aren't
allowed to).
-Ross.
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Riley Childs ri...@tfsgeo.com wrote:
I take that back, did a bit more research, I think there are plenty of
Hugh, I don't think you're in the weeds with your question (and, while I
think that named graphs can provide a solution to your particular problem,
that doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't raise more questions or
potentially more frustrations down the line - like any new power, it can be
used
the way down, etc. But I'd like to hear more about why you think SPARQL
availability has less value, and if you see an alternative to SPARQL for
querying.
kc
On 11/6/13 8:11 AM, Ross Singer wrote:
Hugh, I don't think you're in the weeds with your question (and, while I
think that named
like it would almost do what we need it to.
I do not, and cannot, assume a closed world. The open world assumption is
one of the attractive things about RDF, in fact :-)
Hugh
On Nov 6, 2013, at 11:11 , Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
My question for you, however, is why are you
How is security getting thrown under the bus?
-Ross.
On Wednesday, November 6, 2013, Cary Gordon wrote:
It sounds like we are willing to throw security under the bus for an edge
case, although I am sure that I am missing some subtlety
Cary
On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin
to scrape the site does not
seem like a compelling reason not to do it.
The cost issue, on the other hand, would be a more compelling
consideration.
Thanks,
Cary
On Nov 6, 2013, at 6:17 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
How is security getting thrown under the bus?
-Ross
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:07 PM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote:
(Question: Why does HTTPS complicate screen-scraping? Every decent tool
and library supports HTTPS, doesn't it?)
Birkin asked me this same question, and I realized I should clarify what I
meant. I was mostly referring
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote:
This is hard. The Semantic Web (and RDF) attempt at codifying knowledge
using a strict syntax, specifically a strict syntax of triples. It is very
And yet for the last 50 years they've been creating MARC?
For the last 20, they've been making EAD, TEI, etc?
As with any of these, there is an expectation that end users will not be
hand rolling machine readable serializations, but inputting into
interfaces.
That is not to say there aren't
.
On Nov 4, 2013 6:29 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
And yet for the last 50 years they've been creating MARC?
For the last 20, they've been making EAD, TEI, etc?
As with any of these, there is an expectation that end users will not be
hand rolling machine readable serializations
While I'm not opposed to providing code4lib.org via HTTPS, I don't think
it's as simple as let's just do it!. Who will be responsible for making
sure the cert is up to date? Who will pay for certs (if we don't go with
startcom)?
Also, forcing all traffic to HTTPS unnecessarily complicates some
It's probably also possible to get these working within Cygwin. Assuming the
libraries you need to compile against are available in Cygwin, of course.
-Ross.
On Oct 1, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu
wrote:
Our Windows-based devs all do their Ruby work on
out earlier, but would you mind sending some of the C
Header Blather our way? It's probably got some clues as to what's going
on.
Also - which versions of Windows, RubyInstaller, and DevKit are you using?
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Ross Singer
rossfsin...@gmail.comjavascript
Try:
pear install file_marc-beta
-Ross.
On Wednesday, September 25, 2013, Riley Childs wrote:
I have been having some troubles with the installation (some random
undescriptive exit error)
Riley Childs
Junior and Library Tech Manager
Charlotte United Christian Academy
+1 (704) 497-2086
This serialization would actually be awful for the OP's use case, which (as
I understand it) is to put it in MongoDB and Elasticsearch (which are
exactly the use cases marc-in-json is designed for).
In this array of arrays approach, where the tag name is just another value
(as opposed to a key),
for example, simpler to implement.
If anyone has any examples of how make use of this marc - in - json output in
order to use ES, it would be much appreciated.
thank you
Απο: Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com
Προς: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Στάλθηκε
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-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ross
Singer
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 2:10 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: or queries against Horizon Z39.50 servers?
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anybody knew
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anybody knew if there was some secret attribute combination
to successfully do a or-ed ISBN or ISSN query against a SirsiDynix Z39.50
server. I've tried it against quite a few different implementations, but they
all fail.
From yaz-client, it goes something
Hey Karen,
We use Guzzle: http://guzzlephp.org/
It's nice, seems to work well for our needs, is available in packagist, and is
the HTTP client library in the official AWS SDK libraries (which was a big
endorsement, in our view).
We're still in the process of moving all of our clients over to
I think the argument is that librarians think in LCSH/academics think in
discipline-specific vocabularies.
How many medical collections use LCSH over MeSH, for example?
-Ross.
On Aug 30, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote:
Mike, what do you mean when you say don't
If you want to go with Mac Minis (which, having had to use one as my primary
work machine for the last two weeks while my Macbook was in the shop, seems
like a perfectly inexpensive and awesome choice), I would probably just max out
the RAM on them and opt for putting Windows in VirtualBox (or
.
Please report back.
Thanks,
Cary
On Aug 12, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
If you want to go with Mac Minis (which, having had to use one as my primary
work machine for the last two weeks while my Macbook was in the shop, seems
like a perfectly inexpensive
I don't think the remedy to a lack of technology skills is to make
librarians into shade tree sysadmins.
*That's* the expense that gets swept under the rug in the open source
argument. Most advocates have systems administrators and infrastructure to
support implementing things themselves and
What would you consider a boutique language? What isn't?
-Ross.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Rich Wenger rwen...@mit.edu wrote:
The proliferation of boutique languages is a cancer on our community.
Each one is a YAP (Yet Another Priesthood), and little else. The world
does not need
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:08 PM, jimm wetherbee j...@wingate.edu wrote:
On 7/29/2013 1:04 PM, Ed Summers wrote:
Ok, I think I'm going to have nightmares about that. //Ed
Over the code or the manual?
Over the NISO standardization process required to form the exploratory
committee.
-Ross.
I can only answer for the Ruby support, I can't compare Ruby libs to Python
libs on these, but:
MARC: there's Ruby-MARC. I helped write it, so I'm biased.
XML tools: depends on what you need. In general, Ruby doesn't have great
support for sophisticated XML problems. Nokogiri has a great API
Muahahahahahahaha!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
And you walked right into it! You fools!
-Ross.
On Monday, July 29, 2013, Jay Luker wrote:
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edujavascript:;
wrote:
And I hate Python whitespace.
Ah-ha!
A more paranoid pythonista than I
What, exactly, is the intended goal for the stack exchange sites?
We have pretty established and highly active forums of communication in our
field. What does SE bring to the table that's enough of an advantage to
pull people away from the existing forums?
These SE sites really seemed to be
Or the Internet Archive, since there are also a whole bunch of other MARC dumps
there.
-Ross.
On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote:
Putting the files on GitHub might be an option - free for public
repositories, and 38Mb should not be a problem to host there
Hockenberry
and Eric Phetteplace for helping me out with this. Now if I can only figure
out a way to disable LinkSource's 'direct linking', I'm set.
Thanks!
-Ross.
On Jun 5, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if there was anybody on the list
Do FAST headings match anything?
I guess what I mean is, do you have data that uses FAST headings? If not,
what is it matching?
-Ross.
On Thursday, June 6, 2013, Joshua Welker wrote:
I finished the project. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!
I ended up using the OCLC Fast API
Hi all,
I was wondering if there was anybody on the list that works for an institution
that uses EBSCO's LinkSource as their link resolver that _doesn't_ hide it
behind their single sign-on service. Or, alternately, if you know of one (from
somewhere other than where you work), that's
On Mar 14, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote:
Anyone using it?
We do, what are you looking to know?
-Ross.
Thanks,
Cary
--
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com
So the main advantages to ES over Solr that I can think of offhand are the fact
that you can store and search on complex JSON documents (that is, documents
with nested objects, etc.) making it an effective standalone document database
and the fact that it will automatically replicate and shard
I'd also consider using a document db (e.g. MongoDb) with the marc-in-JSON
format for this.
You could run jsonpath queries or map/reduce to get your answers.
Mongo runs best in memory, but I think you'll be fine since you don't need
immediate answers.
-Ross.
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013,
The intercom is a little different because, presumably, that's
building-wide. The doorbell's chime could be located in a staff area.
Although, I do think she said she's hearing-impaired, which would imply the
need for a multimodal alert.
-Ross.
On Friday, February 22, 2013, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
Hi everybody. On the Wednesday breakout sessions in Chicago, we had a breakout
that was titled Project Rideshare Board, which was about trying to come up
with a solution to help libraries find cross-institutional development
partners; advertise specs, needs and membership; and foster learning
On Feb 20, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Shaun, you cannot decide whether github is a barrier to entry FOR ME (or
anyone else), any more than you can decide whether or not my foot hurts. I'm
telling you github is NOT what I want to use. Period.
I'm actually
On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:52 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Hugh,
I have investigated the possibility of deploying Fuseki as a war in Tomcat (
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-201) because I wasn't sure how
the default Jetty container would respond in production, but
Hi Pat,
While I like the idea of this, I'm having a hard time seeing how this is
going to stay up to date or how it will be able to deal with growth, etc.
I mean, I'm not too familiar with Ohloh or Masterbranch or their ilk, but
it seems like it would make more sense to carve out a spot on a
On Feb 15, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Michael B. Klein mbkl...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm an (n-2)-timer.
You (n-2)-timing dog, you!
-Ross.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Nagy asn...@gmail.com wrote:
Around where I was sitting - there was myself, Dan Chudnov and Karen
Coombs.
On Fri,
On Feb 4, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Donna Campbell dcampb...@wts.edu wrote:
In mentioning pushing to break down silos more, it brings to mind a
question I've had about linked data.
From what I've read thus far, the idea of breaking down silos of
information seems like a good one in that it makes
On Jan 25, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is your raw MARC record:
01105nmm 2200277Ia450001001300030006000130050017000190080041000
36040001300077096001300090049000900103245005200112256001900164260005
On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Fitchett, Deborah
deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz wrote:
People did raise specific issues with Zoia which can reasonably be fit into
the code of conduct's definition of harassment (many of which have therefore
been addressed) so saying no one has spoken up seems
On Jan 21, 2013, at 8:04 PM, David Fiander da...@fiander.info wrote:
The documentation for the APIs is weak, and it looks like it hasn't been
updated for a while. Has anybody used them much, or know what the state of
ongoing development of them is?
I am pretty sure that there is no ongoing
Karen, I don't think there's any way we could do that. zoia is just another
participant in the channel, just like you or I would be, so it's exactly like
interacting with another person.
And one thing that I think is *somewhat* important to note before we give zoia
the bum's rush or something
in the past: jive, markov, etc.) then ditch the bot altogether.
I guess that was what I was trying to get at. Focus on the messages rather
than the messenger :)
-Ross.
/dev
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
Karen, I don't think there's any way we could
On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
The offensive and/or annoying plugins don't serve any real purpose besides
entertainment value. I would much rather cut them away (we've done it plenty
of times in the past: jive, markov, etc.) then ditch the bot
I'd be loathe to gag @tdih, because it's educational and only gets called once
or twice a day, but that's me.
@blockparty is pretty spammy, as is @alpha
Also @urbandict is probably the most offensive command.
-Ross.
On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Adam Wead aw...@rockhall.org wrote:
At the
On Jan 7, 2013, at 7:25 AM, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote:
dre wrote:
There's a sign-in button at the upper right of the voting page. This uses
your code4lib.org username and password (not your wiki user/pass).
Once you're logged in you should see the voting options.
Thanks for the
Joshua, I don't think there is anything I can really add to what you've, in
my mind, summed up perfectly.
Six years ago, after a regrettable incident of insensitivity that I was
directly involved in [1], we had a similar period of reflection and
discussion about the culture we wanted to foster
Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results!
While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among
Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw
the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the
%), confidence level (95%), and confidence
interval (+/- 4.6%).
Rosalyn
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results!
While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity
among
On Dec 4, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote:
Or just use Reddit's OS codebase*.
https://github.com/reddit
Unless you're volunteering to host and maintain this...
Seriously, folks, if we can't even figure out how to upgrade our Drupal
instance to a version that was
contribute in other ways.
-Shaun
On 12/4/12 10:27 AM, Tom Keays wrote:
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
Seriously, folks, if we can't even figure out how to upgrade our Drupal
instance to a version that was released this decade, we shouldn't
On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
While I agree with ross in general about suggesting technical solutions
without suggesting how they are going to be maintained -- agree very strongly
-- and would further re-emphasize that it's improtant to remember that
I started taking the Functional Programming in Scala course offered a couple
of months ago, but it was an enormous time commitment. I had a week-long trip
to the office (in the UK - my job is a long and confusing story) which got me
so far behind (two weeks, the way the lessons ran), that I
On Nov 29, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Mark Pernotto mark.perno...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
Dude, I'm positive I'm a coder because I spend a whole lot of time coding,
and I think I do it pretty decently -- and search in Google is a key
On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:49 PM, Nick Ruest rue...@gmail.com wrote:
Matt McCollow proposed something like this a while back. We have a page up
and everything! But, it never got much traction.
http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg14270.html
On Nov 28, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote:
How often do people send in more than two proposals anyway?
A lot. A whole lot.
That said, I don't think we should limit this. If the program committee is
comfortable with weeding the second (third, fourth!) elected
On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote:
Getting traction for mentoring online is always difficult, but what
about starting that mentorship at code4libcon?
+1 - being face-to-face might help ease the tension.
Having a sort of speed dating setup might help make
On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote:
I favor limiting up front. One of the issues we have been discussing
is that perception that Code4Lib is not as inclusive as it can or
should be. I believe having multiple proposals from the same person(s)
and, for
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