Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib? [diy]

2016-06-10 Thread Benjamin Armintor
Thank you, Coral and Tom. I'd also like us to: 1. stop characterizing regional meetings as DIY, as if we have outsourced the organizing of the national meeting somehow without doing it ourselves. Many people worked hard to put the 2016 meeting (and all the others) on, and they don't deserve to

Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?

2015-01-25 Thread Benjamin Armintor
Jenn, To pitch another example in with Tom's: CLIO at Columbia http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/9399500 Our layout is different, and (as you can see) it's collapsed by default. - Ben On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: Jenn, You can make your own

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Benjamin Armintor
You are definitely insulated from loss of material by the distributed character of git, but it would be difficult to replace the social network around the projects. You really see this when you work with a non-Github git repository: Getting a copy of it is trivial, but you have no mechanism for