Dear Code4Libbers:

While I am personally wishy-washy on the title chosen (it's kind of neat,
but doesn't really feel like a title or one easy to find), I think the
semantics of publishing a title like that is enough to reconsider using it.
I admit I did not vote because I wasn't too fond of any names provided, but
now that people are definitely showing disinterest in the results, maybe a
second round of voting should occur with more semantically-friendly options?

I realize this is probably a late suggestion, but if it is accepted I would
be more than happy to contribute some snappy ideas and volunteer with the
journal as well. I suppose I could volunteer regardless if my suggestion is
taken... An idea I can think of off the top of my head, which I personally
find cute :-D, is "Carrot Code (or ^Code): code for programmers to chew
on." Hee hee. We could have Bugs Bunny as a mascot. Okay, maybe not that
far, but the point is we can find semantically-friendlier titles.

I hope we are able to agree on a course of action! Please let me know if I
can be of any help. Thank you and have a good day.

In peace,

Amy M Ostrom
Web Interface Designer
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On 5/3/06, Davis, Jeffrey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Here's the latest on the code4lib journal:
>
> "/lib/dev: A Journal for Library Programmers" won the journal name
> vote. (See http://www.code4lib.org/node/96 for more details.)
>
> I've been talking to Simon Fraser University about hosting the journal and
> looking into using Open Journal Systems to host it. A default OJS install
> doesn't do all the things we've been talking about doing with the journal (
> e.g. allowing for open commenting). Theoretically, we could write plugins
> that would add the features we want. I'm not familiar enough with OJS at
> the code level to know if that's the route we want to take (as opposed to
> building the extra features we're looking for outside of the OJS framework,
> which might be easier), but the OJS developers are interested in feedback on
> the plugin capability and would welcome any plugins that we write.
>
> I've moved the draft editorial policy statement to the code4lib.org site
> [1]. It would be great if people with actual experience starting/running
> journals could take a look at it and provide feedback. For example, I've
> suggested releasing an issue every two months -- is that feasible?
>
> [1]: http://code4lib.org/journal/policies/
>
> About half a dozen people have volunteered to help out so far, and more
> are always welcome. I think the next step is for people with more
> programming expertise than myself to take a look at OJS and see how to
> enable open pre-publication commenting (i.e. not limited to official
> editors, and with the option to comment anonymously), and integrated version
> tracking (so that for any given comment, you can tell which revision of an
> article it refers to). I'll be bugging some of the volunteers about this,
> but if anyone has prior experience with this sort of thing, please let me
> know.
>
> I'd like to have an at least partially functional OJS install up and
> running before releasing a formal call for submissions, but if you think
> you'll want to contribute an article, this would be a good time to think
> about what you're going to write.
>
> (Sorry for the delay on this reply -- I'm on vacation this week, so I
> haven't been checking my email regularly.)
>
> --
> Jeff Davis
> Public Services Librarian
> University of Alberta Libraries
> Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Eric Lease Morgan
> Sent: Sat 4/29/2006 2:12 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] code4lib journal
>
> What is the status of the Code4Lib journal? What can I do to help it
> move to the next step?
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
>