FWIW, I agree with Jeremy, and I just want to remind folks that the logo assets are available from this page on the Code4Lib web site:
<http://code4lib.org/logo/> For use in promoting your event, etc. Roy On 6/4/09 6/4/09 8:51 AM, "Frumkin, Jeremy" <frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu> wrote: > Hi Nicolas - > > I think what you are planning to do is great, and I personally can't see any > issues with what you've described. There is a code4lib NW event today in > Oregon, and there have been a number of "regional" code4lib events put > together by members of the community. > > To me, holding events like this are exactly what code4lib is all about. > > > -- jaf > > ================================== > Jeremy Frumkin > Assistant Dean / Chief Technology Strategist > University of Arizona Libraries > > frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu > +1 520.307.4548 > ================================== > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Nicolas Morin > Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:34 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [CODE4LIB] code4lib / elag2010 > > Hello, > > A number of the code4lib community members are based in Europe : some > of us where at the code4lib conference in the US in February; some of > us where at the ELAG conference in Bratislava in Europe last April. > There has been some talks about a code4lib conference in Europe in the > past. At ELAG in April this idea came up again. But as Eric Lease > Morgan noted in this forum a while ago on this subject, it would not > be a good idea to duplicate efforts. ELAG itself is not as hands-on > and geeky as code4lib : Ross Singer, who was at ELAG this year, said > he found it more like Access. And while we don't want to duplicate > efforts, we feel there's a place for a more technically oriented > event. > So, after some discussion with the people from ELAG, here's what we > propose for 2010 : not a Code4lib Europe conference, but an addition > to the existing ELAG conference : a one-day, pre-conference seminar > for the code4lib community. Something hands-on, technical. Something > about Lucene/solr in it's many incarnations was suggested, but we're > very much open to other suggestions at this stage. > > I want to make sure that the code4lib community finds it appropriate > that we use the code4lib "space" to setup something that's going to be > tied to another conference (ELAG). I don't think there's an issue > here, but I want to make sure no one feels the code4lib "brand" is > being inappropriately used. > > I also want to make sure that those of you who are interested can > participate in the setting up of this pre-conference : I opened a > (more or less blank, at this stage) wiki page for this at > http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4lib/elag2010 > > The code4lib community members who have expressed interest in setting > this up so far are : Jakob Voss, Etienne Posthumus, Peter VanBoheemen, > Till Kinstler and myself. If you're interested in this effort, feel > free to go edit the wiki page. > > You can get more information about ELAG 2009 at http://indico.ulib.sk/elag2009 > ELAG 2010 will be hosted by the Finnish national library in Helsinki, > in June 2010 > > Cheers, > Nicolas --