[CODE4LIB] code4lib North : May 2012 : The University of Windsor : is a go!
The third installment of Code4Lib North is a go! http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/North#Third_Meeting:_University_of_Windsor.2C_May_.3F.3F.3F.2C_2012 We have the okay from our administration, we (tentatively) we have a place to meet up in the University's new Engineering Building, and we have a team of folks from the Leddy Library who will endeavour to extend the same kind hospitality that both McMaster and Queen's University demonstrated in the past. And there's a chance that we might be able to hold a social event in the soon to be reopened Walkerville Brewery. Code4Lib Community: do have any suggestions for what sort of format we should pursue? At the moment, I'm thinking along the lines of being two days with the first being a hackfest and the second being lightning talks and presentations. Should we also include an 'ask me anything' on the first day? the second? If we get the space we want, we might have access to a 3D printer. Should we try to incorporate some hardware hacking? Also, we're not well versed in livestreaming and archiving video of presentations here but if it's important to the community, we can give it our best shot. How important is live video/archived video to you? And perhaps, most importantly, what week in May would work best for you? Here are some mitigating factors (please let me know of any that I may have missed) - April 20-22 : GreatLakes THATCamp (London, Ontario) - May 5th : Weird Al is playing the Detroit Fox Theatre - June/July : tentative Code4Lib Midwest meetup at Michigan State Please let me know, on or off-list. Thanks! Mita
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib North : May 2012 : The University of Windsor : is a go!
Don't forget that May 21 is Victoria Day, so that could be a either a good thing or a bad thing for scheduling at the end of the previous week. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:07, Mita Williams mita.willi...@gmail.comwrote: The third installment of Code4Lib North is a go! http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/North#Third_Meeting:_University_of_Windsor.2C_May_.3F.3F.3F.2C_2012 We have the okay from our administration, we (tentatively) we have a place to meet up in the University's new Engineering Building, and we have a team of folks from the Leddy Library who will endeavour to extend the same kind hospitality that both McMaster and Queen's University demonstrated in the past. And there's a chance that we might be able to hold a social event in the soon to be reopened Walkerville Brewery. Code4Lib Community: do have any suggestions for what sort of format we should pursue? At the moment, I'm thinking along the lines of being two days with the first being a hackfest and the second being lightning talks and presentations. Should we also include an 'ask me anything' on the first day? the second? If we get the space we want, we might have access to a 3D printer. Should we try to incorporate some hardware hacking? Also, we're not well versed in livestreaming and archiving video of presentations here but if it's important to the community, we can give it our best shot. How important is live video/archived video to you? And perhaps, most importantly, what week in May would work best for you? Here are some mitigating factors (please let me know of any that I may have missed) - April 20-22 : GreatLakes THATCamp (London, Ontario) - May 5th : Weird Al is playing the Detroit Fox Theatre - June/July : tentative Code4Lib Midwest meetup at Michigan State Please let me know, on or off-list. Thanks! Mita
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib North : May 2012 : The University of Windsor : is a go!
That's awesome, Mita! PGCon 2012 will be on 17-18 May 2012 at University of Ottawa, with two days of Tutorials on 15-16 May 2012. - http://pgcon.org/ I, for one, am hoping to finally attend PGCon, but hope to finally get to Code4lib North too. Wack-a-doodle idea: half day of presentations, followed by hackfestery melting into socializing, followed by another half day of presentations / lightning talks / hackfest followups? The initial half day of presentations might act as ice breakers for newcomers and give something concrete for people to get excited about and hack around in self-organized subgroup fashion. I think hardware hackery might be appealing to some; between Arduino kits and RaspberryPi and whatnot, there's plenty of possibilities. For me, that would mean learning something new - shudder... Dan Mita Williams mita.willi...@gmail.com 2/15/2012 10:07 AM The third installment of Code4Lib North is a go! http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/North#Third_Meeting:_University_of_Windsor.2C_May_.3F.3F.3F.2C_2012 We have the okay from our administration, we (tentatively) we have a place to meet up in the University's new Engineering Building, and we have a team of folks from the Leddy Library who will endeavour to extend the same kind hospitality that both McMaster and Queen's University demonstrated in the past. And there's a chance that we might be able to hold a social event in the soon to be reopened Walkerville Brewery. Code4Lib Community: do have any suggestions for what sort of format we should pursue? At the moment, I'm thinking along the lines of being two days with the first being a hackfest and the second being lightning talks and presentations. Should we also include an 'ask me anything' on the first day? the second? If we get the space we want, we might have access to a 3D printer. Should we try to incorporate some hardware hacking? Also, we're not well versed in livestreaming and archiving video of presentations here but if it's important to the community, we can give it our best shot. How important is live video/archived video to you? And perhaps, most importantly, what week in May would work best for you? Here are some mitigating factors (please let me know of any that I may have missed) - April 20-22 : GreatLakes THATCamp (London, Ontario) - May 5th : Weird Al is playing the Detroit Fox Theatre - June/July : tentative Code4Lib Midwest meetup at Michigan State Please let me know, on or off-list. Thanks! Mita
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib North : May 2012 : The University of Windsor : is a go!
Great to hear! As I am unfortunately unlikely to make it, I think livestreaming and/or video archiving would be great. Another alternative would be for all presenters to post presentations with speaker notes and/or have a live notetaker. Just throwing ideas out there. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Mita Williams mita.willi...@gmail.com wrote: The third installment of Code4Lib North is a go! http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/North#Third_Meeting:_University_of_Windsor.2C_May_.3F.3F.3F.2C_2012 We have the okay from our administration, we (tentatively) we have a place to meet up in the University's new Engineering Building, and we have a team of folks from the Leddy Library who will endeavour to extend the same kind hospitality that both McMaster and Queen's University demonstrated in the past. And there's a chance that we might be able to hold a social event in the soon to be reopened Walkerville Brewery. Code4Lib Community: do have any suggestions for what sort of format we should pursue? At the moment, I'm thinking along the lines of being two days with the first being a hackfest and the second being lightning talks and presentations. Should we also include an 'ask me anything' on the first day? the second? If we get the space we want, we might have access to a 3D printer. Should we try to incorporate some hardware hacking? Also, we're not well versed in livestreaming and archiving video of presentations here but if it's important to the community, we can give it our best shot. How important is live video/archived video to you? And perhaps, most importantly, what week in May would work best for you? Here are some mitigating factors (please let me know of any that I may have missed) - April 20-22 : GreatLakes THATCamp (London, Ontario) - May 5th : Weird Al is playing the Detroit Fox Theatre - June/July : tentative Code4Lib Midwest meetup at Michigan State Please let me know, on or off-list. Thanks! Mita
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib North : May 2012 : The University of Windsor : is a go!
Definitely! We can build off the lessons learned from recording the presentations from last year. We need to be mic nazis or just mic the presenter. -nruest On 12-02-15 01:46 PM, Cynthia Ng wrote: Great to hear! As I am unfortunately unlikely to make it, I think livestreaming and/or video archiving would be great. Another alternative would be for all presenters to post presentations with speaker notes and/or have a live notetaker. Just throwing ideas out there. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Mita Williamsmita.willi...@gmail.com wrote: The third installment of Code4Lib North is a go! http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/North#Third_Meeting:_University_of_Windsor.2C_May_.3F.3F.3F.2C_2012 We have the okay from our administration, we (tentatively) we have a place to meet up in the University's new Engineering Building, and we have a team of folks from the Leddy Library who will endeavour to extend the same kind hospitality that both McMaster and Queen's University demonstrated in the past. And there's a chance that we might be able to hold a social event in the soon to be reopened Walkerville Brewery. Code4Lib Community: do have any suggestions for what sort of format we should pursue? At the moment, I'm thinking along the lines of being two days with the first being a hackfest and the second being lightning talks and presentations. Should we also include an 'ask me anything' on the first day? the second? If we get the space we want, we might have access to a 3D printer. Should we try to incorporate some hardware hacking? Also, we're not well versed in livestreaming and archiving video of presentations here but if it's important to the community, we can give it our best shot. How important is live video/archived video to you? And perhaps, most importantly, what week in May would work best for you? Here are some mitigating factors (please let me know of any that I may have missed) - April 20-22 : GreatLakes THATCamp (London, Ontario) - May 5th : Weird Al is playing the Detroit Fox Theatre - June/July : tentative Code4Lib Midwest meetup at Michigan State Please let me know, on or off-list. Thanks! Mita -- -- Nick Ruest Digital Preservation Librarian, Repository Architect, and Digitization Coordinator President - McMaster University Academic Librarians' Association McMaster University Mills Memorial Library 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON L8S 4L6 Phone: 905.525.9140 ext. 21276 Email: rue...@mcmaster.ca http://library.mcmaster.ca/contact/ruest-nicholas http://ruebot.net/ Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a personal process embedded in the human spirit. - Abbie Hoffman
