Re: [CODE4LIB] administratativia
Ditto. :-) Glen Newton Kevin Clarke wrote: Welcome John, It's nice to have more Java folks around :-) Kevin On Feb 9, 2008 11:13 AM, John Fereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy's message to the web4lib list gave me a nudge that I should probably subscribed to Code4Lib. Then I had a meeting yesterday in which I was asked to start working on a new project that would require that I do more library specific development (I've mostly been developing applications for the international agriculture community for the past few years). The kicker though was reading that Eric has decided to come over to the dark side and has started to do some development in Java and I figured he could use some moral support. As a bit of an introduction... I work at Mann Library, one of the 20 unit libraries at Cornell University. Albert R. Mann Library is the library for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, thus my work in the Agriculture community. My official title is Programmer/Analyst Specialist, however for the past couple of years I have served as the Technology Strategist/Systems Architect for our department as well. I develop web and standalone applications almost exclusively in Java primarily using the Spring Framework and SOA practices. I have been an active participant in the open source community primarily with my association with JA-SIG for about six years. I have been serving on the planning committee for the upcoming JA-SIG conference (I'll have to see if an announcement for it has been posted yet) and have been on the committee for the past four conferences. I've served as the jasig.org (and uPortal.org) webmaster for several years. Prior to working at Cornell I worked in the corporate world going back 30 years, including 13 years at the Hewlett Packard workstation division (where I set up their first TCP/IP network), but my first job in the electronics industry was working on a production line building home Pong games at Atari. I have been an active participant in the Usenet community since 1985. -- There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who know better.
Re: [CODE4LIB] administratativia
Welcome John, It's nice to have more Java folks around :-) Kevin On Feb 9, 2008 11:13 AM, John Fereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy's message to the web4lib list gave me a nudge that I should probably subscribed to Code4Lib. Then I had a meeting yesterday in which I was asked to start working on a new project that would require that I do more library specific development (I've mostly been developing applications for the international agriculture community for the past few years). The kicker though was reading that Eric has decided to come over to the dark side and has started to do some development in Java and I figured he could use some moral support. As a bit of an introduction... I work at Mann Library, one of the 20 unit libraries at Cornell University. Albert R. Mann Library is the library for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, thus my work in the Agriculture community. My official title is Programmer/Analyst Specialist, however for the past couple of years I have served as the Technology Strategist/Systems Architect for our department as well. I develop web and standalone applications almost exclusively in Java primarily using the Spring Framework and SOA practices. I have been an active participant in the open source community primarily with my association with JA-SIG for about six years. I have been serving on the planning committee for the upcoming JA-SIG conference (I'll have to see if an announcement for it has been posted yet) and have been on the committee for the past four conferences. I've served as the jasig.org (and uPortal.org) webmaster for several years. Prior to working at Cornell I worked in the corporate world going back 30 years, including 13 years at the Hewlett Packard workstation division (where I set up their first TCP/IP network), but my first job in the electronics industry was working on a production line building home Pong games at Atari. I have been an active participant in the Usenet community since 1985. -- There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who know better.
[CODE4LIB] administratativia
Two things regarding mailing list administratativia (or however it is spelled). 1. In the past twenty-four hours there has been a furry of new subscribers. What happened? Was there some sort of announcement somewhere? 2. This list has roughly 800 subscribers. The growth is slow and steady. By contrast, the NGC4Lib mailing list has roughly 1800 subscribers with little growth. I think this is sort of funny because coders make up much less than half of library workers yet one of their mailing lists is just less than half the size of a profession- wide mailing list. Put another way, I think this group is rather cohesive. -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame
Re: [CODE4LIB] administratativia
Got me to join! -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Roy Tennant Sent: Wed 1/30/2008 10:25 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] administratativia I don't know if this is why the flurry in subscriptions (I mean, who knows?) but yesterday I posted about this list to Web4Lib[1], which has almost 4,300 members and likely many coders. Roy [1] http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2008-January/046580.html On 1/30/08 7:26 AM, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two things regarding mailing list administratativia (or however it is spelled). 1. In the past twenty-four hours there has been a furry of new subscribers. What happened? Was there some sort of announcement somewhere? 2. This list has roughly 800 subscribers. The growth is slow and steady. By contrast, the NGC4Lib mailing list has roughly 1800 subscribers with little growth. I think this is sort of funny because coders make up much less than half of library workers yet one of their mailing lists is just less than half the size of a profession- wide mailing list. Put another way, I think this group is rather cohesive. -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame --
Re: [CODE4LIB] administratativia
On Jan 30, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Roy Tennant wrote: I don't know if this is why the flurry in subscriptions (I mean, who knows?) but yesterday I posted about this list to Web4Lib[1], which has almost 4,300 members and likely many coders. [1] http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2008-January/ 046580.html That was probably it. Thank you. -- Eric
