hehe ah you caught me out :)

It's kinda hard as my existing "channels" are more a diffuse
collection of lists and twitter accounts if I'm really honest.. Deffo
might be worth starting a wiki page with UK specific resources, just
not sure I can handle another channel..

FWIW tho, I'd start by looking in places like

http://helibtech.com/Open+Source

which points pretty directly to the JISCMail list LIS-OSS
(https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=LIS-OSS). Whilst you
might think of this as being a little too HE specific, I think it's a
pretty diverse community.

But really, I'd take my primary information channel as twitter these
days (for localised event news and information), checking out the
#UKLibChat discussions might be an idea. @ostephens, @daveyp and
@benosteen usually have their finger on the pulse of all the good
stuff (If we could persuade them to keep their lanyrd pages up to date
that would be a pretty amazing resource for events).

I think for generic subject oriented questions, it's still good to
have a wider community and this list serves that purpose reasonably
well.

Guess thats where I'd start really, not sure it's much help tho.

e


On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Michael Hopwood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What's your favoured UK channel? Or say, the top 3 to watch?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Ibbotson
> Sent: 08 October 2012 09:48
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB equivalent in UK?
>
> +1 another UK lurker here..
>
> FWIW tho, I'd be pro reusing one of the existing (many) uk channels rather than starting up another list to subscribe to :)
>
> e
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Richard Wallis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> The Mashed Library folks might be fertile ground for gaining interest
>> in a code4libuk.
>>      http://www.mashedlibrary.com
>>
>> ~Richard.
>>
>> On 7 October 2012 16:28, Tim Hill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Here's another lurking UK code4libber! I work for a UK/US company,
>>> but I spend the bulk of my time in the UK (and never enough in the US
>>> to coincide with a code4lib meetup). I'd certainly be interested in
>>> getting the/a community more active in the UK.
>>>
>>> Tim Hill
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Simeon Warner
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Have a look at http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/ . This is mainly focused
>>> > on repositories but seems somewhat similar from an outside view.
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> > Simeon (lurking expat Brit)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 10/2/12 4:11 AM, Michael Hopwood wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Yes - my question was implicitly aimed at lurking UKavians.
>>> >>
>>> >> -----Original Message-----
>>> >> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>> >> Behalf Of Dave Caroline
>>> >> Sent: 02 October 2012 09:08
>>> >> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> >> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB equivalent in UK?
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Michael Hopwood
>>> >> <[log in to unmask]>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I know that CODE4LIB isn't per se "in" the USA but it seems like
>>> >>> a
>>> large
>>> >>> number of its active users are.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Is there an equivalent list that you folks know of?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> I dont know of an equivalent British list but there are a few of
>>> >> us
>>> brits
>>> >> about lurking in #cod4lib too (archivist)
>>> >>
>>> >> Dave Caroline
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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