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 hav
From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Tom Johnson
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 08:38
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib? [diy]
Eric,
I appreciate that you're trying to make a call to action, but this latest
email is stunningly condescending.
As I'
Eric,
I appreciate that you're trying to make a call to action, but this latest
email is stunningly condescending.
As I'm sure you must know, people in this community do hold regional
meetings. These meetings take substantial effort to arrange. The wiki is
full of documentation, advice, and lesso
On Jun 9, 2016, at 7:55 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess wrote:
> One note about what we're discussing: when we talk about just doing the
> regional events (and I mean beyond 2017, which will be a special case if a
> host city can't step in), we need to realize that we have a lot of members
> who aren't in
One note about what we're discussing: when we talk about just doing the
regional events (and I mean beyond 2017, which will be a special case if a
host city can't step in), we need to realize that we have a lot of members
who aren't in a Code4Lib region.
You might think I'm talking about Alaska, b
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>
> Hosting a local/regional meeting is not difficult and relatively
> inexpensive.
While I find the intent to make code4lib more "distributed" through
localized meetings, I find this statement incredibly belittling and
disingenuous. Ther
I believe the distillation of Code4Lib’s value into enabling “communication and
sharing” is accurate, but I think this should be further focused. Showcasing
what we’ve done and how we’ve done it is wonderful, but only goes so far since
many of our open source solutions still require a loads of
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric
Hellman
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 2:51 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib? [diy]
S
Eric,
Thanks for tossing these ideas out there. A number of these ideas had
not occurred to me, even though I've been wanting to see more local
events. What you and Kyle are saying is resounding far more than I
would have initially thought. I think in general one of the great
things with Code4L
Since we're brainstorming...
In addition to regional meetings, how about having some smaller, national or
even international thematic Code4Lib meetings. For example, I see an aching
need for a "Code4Lib:Privacy".
Eric Hellman
President, Free Ebook Foundation
Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.i
On Jun 8, 2016, at 1:55 AM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
> My recollection is that in the bad 'ol days, c4l was much more about sharing
> ideas to solve practical problems… Nowadays, the conference (which has become
> like other library conferences) has become an end in itself…
In the spirit of open
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