Hello, all. I'm chatting with Anand about setting up an open wiki area 
on OL. This will just be a start, but it would be good to begin to 
capture what we having going here. I'll let you know as soon as we have 
something workable.

kc

On 3/1/13 12:50 PM, Jacob Gest wrote:
> I think a lot of people would be interested if it felt that they were
> collaborating more as a group rather than just on their own. I know I am
> just an average user of Open library. I contributed a lot by adding and
> correcting records of books I was familiar with when I first found the
> site, but slowed down dramatically when I felt like there was an ocean
> of books, a very long wait for features to combine duplicate works and
> editions, and no sense that there was any organized effort to make
> anything come to together logically. Maybe that's not what you're
> talking about... but it would be cool to be able to discuss whats going
> on with fellow users, and maybe work together on specific authors,
> publishers, subjects, series... you name it.
>
> - Jake
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Brewster has encouraged me to encourage the idea of creating a working
>     community around OL -- folks who can participate in making changes and
>     fostering sharing. That's all the guidance I have, so I'm assuming that
>     we have to do the heavy lifting to make it happen. Can we work together
>     on a proposal? I'm willing to do research and writing. Where would you
>     like to do this? Wiki? G-Doc? something else?
>
>     Are there others that we should include? I could contact library
>     programmers who are using the API for covers, etc.
>
>     kc
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