So, by diversity you mean every single type of person except white male
that believes they are actually male. Is that accurate? So... diverse
except for one category specifically excluded through these rules. Is there
any other category other then this one, specific, group of people who are
not
Apologies for cross-posting. If you have any questions about the conference,
feel free to contact me. I am a member of the technical program committee.
Kari Smith
From: Walls, David E. [mailto:dwa...@gpo.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:33 AM
To: digip...@ala.org
Subject: [Digipres]
The world of coding (as many STEM disciplines) remains white male
dominated. These scholarships, like most diversity scholarships, are there
to encourage people who frequently do not feel included in the coding
community to learn and add their own thoughts and experiences to the world
of this
Actually I am not familiar with those. I will have to look into that.
Thanks.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Keri Cascio kcas...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Matthew, have you looked into general continuing education grants?
Perhaps your state library offers these for conference and workshop
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I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to do here, as it appears you're
trying to prepend each input row with the delimiter character, but I'm not
clear on what that is supposed to accomplish in the context of processing
C/TSV (I see Joshua hit on this as well).
As background, if you know the
Unless there's a specific reason you want to use python, the stream editor
is often easier for simple transformations of individual lines.
sed 's/^/\t/' infile outfile
kyle
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Joshua Gomez gome...@usc.edu wrote:
If all you want to do is add a tab to the
Ah, but what if the data itself has tabs! Doh!
It can be a mess either way. There are standards (or conventions?) for
escaping internal commas in CSV -- which doesn't mean the software that
was used to produce the CSV, or the software you are using to read it,
actually respects them.
But
I think this discussion is exactly the reason we need scholarships like
these. I'm glad that Keri and others are able to turn this into a
productive dialogue. I'll definitely be attending the pre-conference event
- thanks for sharing, Lisa.
Heidi
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On 11/25/13 1:38 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
On Nov 25, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Ah, but what if the data itself has tabs! Doh!
It can be a mess either way. There are standards (or conventions?)
for escaping internal commas in CSV -- which doesn't mean the
software that was
Lisa,
Those are terrible experiences. If that's what happens at where you work,
then you should certainly change jobs. No one deserves treatment as you
describe. I will not lower this discussion to address your personal attacks.
As I look around me, all my full-time co-workers are very
Hi Bohyun:
I found the CSV module in Python to be surprisingly confusing when I
first encountered it, given Python's elegance in many other cases. The
Dialect thing drove me nuts at first!
Lots of other people have answered in bits and pieces in this thread,
including non-Python approaches, but
To respond to the question Mr. Eveland posed, I believe that cis men of Arab or
North African decent or cis men who identify as multi-racial or multi-ethnic
may be technically excluded by the specific phrasing of the diversity
scholarship, given how the definitions are used by the US census
On 11/25/13 11:16 AM, Dan Eveland wrote:
Lisa,
Those are terrible experiences. If that's what happens at where you work,
then you should certainly change jobs. No one deserves treatment as you
describe. I will not lower this discussion to address your personal attacks.
1) That's what happens
I would like to add that the diversity scholarships have a multiplier
effect, beyond enabling some people to go to conferences. I spent about a
year deliberating whether I was cool enough to be part of code4lib, and
whether I was willing to risk that it might be a gender-hostile space
(something
I concur with Dan that Python's stdlib CSV module (
http://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html) is a little bit janky, but it's
there to cover the simple use cases straightforwardly and has a fair amount
of flexibility to adapt to different styles of input and output. But in
the simplest case
Hi all,
I can’t believe we are having this conversation again.
I have nothing to add except to say that rather than feed the troll,
you might do what I did, and turn your frustration at this thread
arising *once again* into a donation to the Ada Initiative or similar
organization. Sadly, it
I am going to reiterate my push to turn this conversation to a discussion
for funding options for everyone who wants to attend Code4Lib 2014. I
think that will be a much better use of our time.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Erik Hetzner erik.hetz...@ucop.edu wrote:
Hi all,
I can’t
On 11/25/13 12:17 PM, Matthew Sherman wrote:
I am going to reiterate my push to turn this conversation to a discussion
for funding options for everyone who wants to attend Code4Lib 2014. I
think that will be a much better use of our time.
Agreed. Someone mentioned state scholarships that many
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
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.
Perhaps Code4Lib could have some form of nominal membership, and the funds
derived from membership dues could be put into an array of scholarships.
Membership wouldn't necessarily have to be a privileged state, but for some
(many?) library positions, promotion criteria include membership in
Interesting discussion. May I suggest we level the playing field by moving
next year's conference to South Central Europe, say Pristina, Kosovo, or
Sarajevo, or Zagreb? We'd reach a whole new level of inclusiveness.
Carol Bean
On Nov 25, 2013, at 9:46 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
I found the CSV module in Python to be surprisingly confusing when I
first encountered it, given Python's elegance in many other cases. The
Dialect thing drove me nuts at first!
What's nuts is that something as simple as delimited data still causes
headaches at this point in our history. But
It's honestly too late this year to change the entire scholarship system. I
don't disagree that it would be awesome to have scholarships for everyone who
has some sort of economic need, and this is a conversation that should be had.
But there's a lot that goes into opening something up based on
Let's not forget one of Code4Lib's most inclusive practices: it is usually
(always?) possible to attend every single Code4Lib presentation virtually
via live streaming video *for free.* Sure, it's not the same as being there
in person, but it's not a bad substitute if you can't travel for whatever
In past years there was a crowdfunded scholarship for people in difficult
financial circumstances. See
http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg09183.html. Perhaps one
of the organizers of that could speak to its success. But that's definitely
something that people could
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