Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib open source software award

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On 3/7/09 4:41 AM, Brenda Chawner brenda.chaw...@vuw.ac.nz wrote: The NZOSA definitely raise the profile of open source projects/organisations/people in New Zealand, and I'd like to think that the C4L ones would do the same in a (global) library context. Thank you for bringing these awards to

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib open source software award

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On 3/7/09 4:41 AM, Brenda Chawner brenda.chaw...@vuw.ac.nz wrote: I'm wondering why there should just be one award. The New Zealand Open Source Awards (http://www.nzosa.org.nz/2008-winners) have a number of categories: - individual - project - use in government - use in business - use in

[CODE4LIB] Listing of code4lib 2009 breakout sessions?

2009-03-09 Thread Jodi Schneider
Let's update the list of breakout sessions at: http://code4lib.org/conference/2009/breakouts Could you please add the breakout sessions you attended/ran? -Jodi PS-If you don't have editing privileges, please feel free to email me off-list--I'd be happy to add content.

[CODE4LIB] Notes from Tuesday's Plone/Zope breakout session, C4L 2009 c4l09

2009-03-09 Thread Jodi Schneider
Here are my notes from the Plone/Zope breakout session. Pardon my messy notetaking! -Jodi PS-I plan to post a version of these at code4lib.org eventually. If you attended and prefer I don't, please let me know. Vernon Chapman, NAL Kevin Clarke, Appalachian State University David Cloutman,

[CODE4LIB] MediaWiki / Wikipedia developer meet-up, April 3-5

2009-03-09 Thread Lars Aronsson
On April 3-5, developers of the MediaWiki software, used by Wikipedia and similar websites, meet in Berlin, Germany. Registration is free, but due on March 20, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009 If you have any ideas on how this would be relevant to libraries, and/or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Notes from Tuesday's Plone/Zope breakout session, C4L 2009 c4l09

2009-03-09 Thread Genny Engel
I have heard this before, that Plone is better than Drupal for the end user / content contributor, and that people like the inline editing. I've been a little baffled comparing Drupal 6 and Plone because the editing features actually look about equally ... er ...