[CODE4LIB] brainstorming: "code4lib as a school"

[Raymond Yee]

In addition to a proposal to start a journal around code4lib, there has also been talk about "code4lib as a school" (something that I heard Dan Chudnov bring up at the conference). A lot of interest has been expressed in finding further mechanisms for members of the code4lib community to learn from and to teach each other. Such teaching/learning activities may extend beyond the immediate code4lib community. A model that was brought up at the conference was the workshop, specifically a multi-day workshop in which attendees can dive deeply into a topic. (e.g., Rob Sanderson teaching a workshop on to use cluster computing for text mining) I would like to start a conversation around the notion of "code4lib as a school." There are a lot of directions such a conversation can go -- so in an attempt to guide it, I'll pose some questions:

I'll kick off this thread and see where it goes.

-Raymond Yee

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* Do you perceive a need for mechanisms beyond what we already have for the code4lib community for learning/teaching each other or those outside the community? * What mechanisms might we employ? The workshop model came to many people's minds. What do you think of the workshop model? What other mechanisms might work? * What specifically would you like to learn from this community? What would you like to teach? Who would you like to teach a course/lead a workshop and on what topics? * What are organizational frameworks we can already work within to make "code4lib as a school" as bureaucratically lightweight as possible w/o too many downsides?

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