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Dear code4lib-ers, during last week (wendesday afternoon) we held the first code4lib.hu workshop in Debrecen, at the University Library. The purpose of the meeting was that the library developers, and library information system's power users meet and talk each other, on order, that in the future different systems could communicate over standard protocols, which is the base condition of any mashupable, shareable service. Preliminary only 9 person said that they will be there for sure, but finally 28 developers participated, from libraries and developer companies. The result was not a workshop for hardcore coders, but an interesting and (more important) productive talking. Since participants were not tied to any concrete project, we could discuss a somehow 'ideal' state-of-art: how to get there, what development and library policy steps would be involved. The discussion focused on the uniform library authentication (one entry oint for all Hungarian library) and the inter-library loan. Some important statements: - the services should be based on standards, either international, or if we couldn't find a proper one, we could form a doemstic (Hungarian) standard - the authentication system provided by the National Infrastructure Agency does not fit for all libraries, since even the university libraries have users, who are not university citizens, so they lack university identifiers - bilateral agreement between libraries is a must have for the unified authentication, that A library accepts the authentication system of B library, and it will provide services for the users of B library - the current statistical measurements are outdated, and could not reflect such a shared services, but since the statistics are the most important measuring tool for the owner of libraries, the libraries tend to not develop shared services, because they could loose some of their resources (they spend on things, which do not reflect in the statistics...) - the inter-library loans could be initialized by the users, and such way, it releases some burden from the librarians. The librarians could controll the whole process, but not as the only player. The meeting was not aimed to agree on anything, so we do not created any document or manifestation, but there were some ideas about the continuation. Since then, one of the participants bought the code4lib.hu domain, and offered it for free to community usage. We restarted an older listserv (at http://groups.google.com/group/ikr-fejlesztok), and we decided, that we will continue the meeting in the near future with lighting talks and discussions on library standards (like NCIP, inter library loans etc.), and personally I hope, that we could do mashaton-like meeting. Final note: somebody said on the code4lib IRC, that we will miss bbq. Well, we didn't have bbq, but as I promissed we had slambuc, a traditional shepherds' dish near Debrecen. Thank you for your support! Király Péter http://eXtensibleCatalog.org