Art Rhyno wrote:
I guess I am looking for more recipe sharing, comments in the margins, and whiteboarding, I wouldn't want to break or detract from anything that is working now. All of this happens virtually at some level, but there's still some impedance when compared to lightning talks and physical gatherings, and sadly, there's a limit to how many conference events can be mounted.
I spoke with some of you at the restaurant Thursday night during the conference briefly about a code sharing site for code4libbers. The OSS4Lib site is a great resource for libraries considering the world of open source; however, I think much like the CPAN or PEAR code repositories, a code4lib repository would act as a great place for us to "whiteboard" and share code much like Art mentions above. A place to not share full blown applications, but a place to post our hacks and code libraries that we have written. As a member of the PEAR development community, I know that the web application that runs this is open-source and has ties to CVS for code management, Bug tracking much like bugzilla, and most importantly, a place to write documentation for each code snippet. I'm not necessarily advocating for an implementation of the PEAR web application, but it's concept for the Code4Lib website. Maybe even a DSpace implementation would work? Even a CVS or Subversion repository at it's simplest would help. Would the maintainers of the Code4Lib website be willing to support/implement such an application? Thanks, I really enjoyed the conference. Andrew
