Hi Nicolas - 

I think what you are planning to do is great, and I personally can't see any issues with what you've described. There is a code4lib NW event today in Oregon, and there have been a number of "regional" code4lib events put together by members of the community. 

To me, holding events like this are exactly what code4lib is all about.


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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nicolas Morin
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:34 AM
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] code4lib / elag2010

Hello,

A number of the code4lib community members are based in Europe : some
of us where at the code4lib conference in the US in February; some of
us where at the ELAG conference in Bratislava in Europe last April.
There has been some talks about a code4lib conference in Europe in the
past. At ELAG in April this idea came up again. But as Eric Lease
Morgan noted in this forum a while ago on this subject, it would not
be a good idea to duplicate efforts. ELAG itself is not as hands-on
and geeky as code4lib : Ross Singer, who was at ELAG this year, said
he found it more like Access. And while we don't want to duplicate
efforts, we feel there's a place for a more technically oriented
event.
So, after some discussion with the people from ELAG, here's what we
propose for 2010 : not a Code4lib Europe conference, but an addition
to the existing ELAG conference : a one-day, pre-conference seminar
for the code4lib community. Something hands-on, technical. Something
about Lucene/solr in it's many incarnations was suggested, but we're
very much open to other suggestions at this stage.

I want to make sure that the code4lib community finds it appropriate
that we use the code4lib "space" to setup something that's going to be
tied to another conference (ELAG). I don't think there's an issue
here, but I want to make sure no one feels the code4lib "brand" is
being inappropriately used.

I also want to make sure that those of you who are interested can
participate in the setting up of this pre-conference : I opened a
(more or less blank, at this stage) wiki page for this at
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4lib/elag2010

The code4lib community members who have expressed interest in setting
this up so far are : Jakob Voss, Etienne Posthumus, Peter VanBoheemen,
Till Kinstler and myself. If you're interested in this effort, feel
free to go edit the wiki page.

You can get more information about ELAG 2009 at http://indico.ulib.sk/elag2009
ELAG 2010 will be hosted by the Finnish national library in Helsinki,
in June 2010

Cheers,
Nicolas

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