I think a good compromise is to have local meeting conversations on the code4libcon google group. It keeps the conversations in a central place initiallty created to faciliate face to face meetings.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Ed Summers
Sent: Wed 4/7/2010 10:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North planning continues
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM, William Denton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So far there are just three people with ideas for talks (me, Walter Lewis,
> Art Rhyno). Have the other local chapters found it works well to have more
> time for informal stuff, or lightning talks, or "Ask Anything" like I see
> NYC is doing? Sometimes with a smaller group people don't talk so much, but
> sometimes they do.
The thing that bums me out is that this discussion list was largely
created because there were all these discussions going on in niches
like xml4lib, web4lib, perl4lib, php4lib, oss4lib, etc ... and not
enough conversation about computing and libraries and
cross-fertilization between projects/environments. Now we're seeing
the code4lib discussion list itself fragment into code4libmdc,
code4lib-north, code4libnyc, code4lib-northwest, etc.
I guess an argument could be made that the conversations going on in
this sublists would overwhelm code4lib proper with all sorts of local
noise. But I think ideally we should have crossed that bridge when we
came to it. I think if folks on code4lib saw what was going on in
different locales it would inspire people to do stuff where they are
too.
//Ed
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