Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2014 Diversity Scholarships: Call for Applications
Not to stir things up, but I've been to a few conferences this year, and Code4lib will be the most expensive one. Not for the registry fee, but for the hotel, flight, and other expenses. For sure, it isn't the cheapest this year ($195.00 for one). Not trying to start a fight. I'll be quiet now. -John Blair On 11/25/13 2:46 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Finances are a limiting factor on conference attendance for people of all demographic groups, and I would endorse plans to surmount that. Code4Lib is, of course, one of the least expensive conferences you'll find. And the community and organizers care a lot about keeping it so -- there are sometimes disputes in a given year about whether the organizers could have kept it even less expensive. But it's still, every year, one of the most affordable conferences around. Which is pretty darn awesome, and important. That's pretty much what we do try and increase financial accessibility for people of all demographic groups. We also try to switch the regional location around the country every year, to even out transportation costs for for people in different parts of the country. If you can afford to go to any conference at all, you can afford for Code4Lib to be that conference. Of course, there are people who can't afford to go to any conference. Which is unfortunate. But I'm not sure what, if anything, is being suggested we could do about that? If you have or can find a source of funding willing to pay registration, hotel, and transportation for anyone who can't afford it, then please feel free to organize it to happen. That's what the people who organized, and continue to organize, the diversity scholarships did. They just organized it. Jonathan
[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Conference Registration
Per the website (bolding mine): Finally, the hotel has the capacity to host all of the attendees, and we've negotiated a rate of $159/night that includes wireless access in the hotel rooms. Hotel reservations will be able to be made after you register using the information provided in your registration confirmation. We will be publishing more details as they become available. Where? When? How? Or does registration fall under …more details…? -John Blair
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Conference Registration
Thanks. As much as I love arguments about https and comparing notes on various pet-projects, I wish the website was a little more … put together. This list has added about 30-40+ mails per day to my inbox, and I'm only really looking for one bit of information. I might have written Hotel reservations will be able to be made after you register (sometime early-mid Janueary 2014) using the information provided in your registration confirmation. I'm hard to please. ;) -JLB On Nov 20, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote: Registration hasn't opened yet. My guess is sometime in January which is when the program will be set. If you're subscribed to the list, it'll be hard to miss! On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:45 AM, John Blair john.bl...@usm.edu wrote: Per the website (bolding mine): Finally, the hotel has the capacity to host all of the attendees, and we've negotiated a rate of $159/night that includes wireless access in the hotel rooms. Hotel reservations will be able to be made after you register using the information provided in your registration confirmation. We will be publishing more details as they become available. Where? When? How? Or does registration fall under …more details…? -John Blair
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Conference Registration
I don't know that anything is really broken. I just have this, preconceived notion that when you put together any event you'd want to communicate a few things like Where it is going to occur, When it will occur, how/when you may purchase a ticket/register. For example, I've never gone to a concert that was advertised as: Mega Guitar Shredders will be at AXE GRIND theater, January 17, 1993!!! Tickets Available: Somehow, somewhere, you can't really miss it. I mean... I get it… I'm being all high and mighty. Sorry for that. But my institution is VERY competitive when it comes to securing funds/time for this sort of thing, and I'm under some amount of pressure. To those suggesting you do it, since your such the big man! Thank you for the offer, and I didn't know that was how things operated, but in this case I don't think I could have done much to help (since I don't have access to the information). However, it seems like some of you guys DO have that information, and here I am saying What up? -John Blair On Nov 20, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Francis Kayiwa fkay...@colgate.edu wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:52 PM, John Blair john.bl...@usm.edu wrote: Thanks. As much as I love arguments about https and comparing notes on various pet-projects, I wish the website was a little more … put together. This list has added about 30-40+ mails per day to my inbox, and I'm only really looking for one bit of information. I might have written Hotel reservations will be able to be made after you register (sometime early-mid Janueary 2014) using the information provided in your registration confirmation. I'm hard to please. ;) Is there anything in particular that is unclear or not put together? You can either *submit a patch* to fix it. Contact the person who posted this and ask for clarity. Ideally still *submit a patch*. The organizers are all volunteering their time. You could make their lives and what one can imagine the others suffering in silence like you by volunteering to fix it... even by simply saying what is missing. Most of them (I dare say ALL) will gladly accept pull requests. Otherwise like Cynthiar suggested it will be impossible to miss when registration opens. Take a look at the Archives [0] if you need proof. Cheers, ./fxk [0] http://serials.infomotions.com/code4lib/ -- SUN Microsystems: The Network IS the Load Average
[CODE4LIB] 2014 Conference
Hello- I'm looking to attend the 2014 conference, and am having a hard time finding information regarding registration, pricing, and contact information. Perhaps, I'm too early to the party? Please advise. -John Blair
Re: [CODE4LIB] 2014 Conference
Thanks guys. I'll keep an eye out. -John Blair On Oct 4, 2013, at 2:37 PM, McDonald, Robert H. rhmcd...@indiana.edu wrote: that's right - usual time frame is after thanksgiving but before new year's. not sure if a reg date has been selected yet by the hosts in NC. robert ** Robert H. McDonald Associate Dean for Library Technologies Deputy Director-Data to Insight Center, Pervasive Technology Institute Indiana University 1320 East 10th Street Herman B Wells Library 234 Bloomington, IN 47405 Phone: 812-856-4834 Email: rhmcd...@indiana.edu Skype: rhmcdonald AIM: rhmcdonald1 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] on behalf of Francis Kayiwa [fkay...@colgate.edu] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 3:36 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] 2014 Conference On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 07:29:37PM +, John Blair wrote: Hello- I'm looking to attend the 2014 conference, and am having a hard time finding information regarding registration, pricing, and contact information. Perhaps, I'm too early to the party? Please advise. Subscribing to this list is half of it. Now bookmark and watch http://code4lib.org but mostly subscribing to this list will tell you when it is announced. Cheers, ./fxk -John Blair -- Beware the one behind you.
