If you are interested in awesome European conferences, it's probably hard
to beat Cycling For Libraries.

http://www.cyclingforlibraries.org

Multiple rides this year, with the main conference being from
Montpellier-Lyon and anther group doing rides in the Batlic
( https://www.facebook.com/events/433696566736171/ )

best,chris.




On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Edward M. Corrado <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> I'm for Italy, but if Giulio is correct that the Open Source development in
> Italy is a small group, one can look towards France as am alternative.
> There is a lot of activity there, at least in the Koha world.
>
> Edward
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Giulio Bonanome <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > +1 for the idea :)
> >
> > But for my experience there are not enough people in Italy :( I mean,
> > there are few companies actively involved in (open) development of
> software
> > for libraries and even a smaller group of developers inside libraries.
> > Like Raffaele said there's a list dedicated to libraries and wikipedia.
> > Last october it was organized an event ( Bibliohackathon <
> > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/Biblioteche/
> > Bibliohackathon/Firenze,_26_ottobre_2013>) were I expected a lot of dev
> > and didn't see too much :(
> > Also, in Italy there was an event called SoftXBIB during the annual
> > conference Stelline <www.convegnostelline.it/home.php>, but in recent
> > years no longer been organized for lack of interest.
> >
> > As far as I know there would be roughly 10-15 interested people for the
> > entire nation.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Giulio
> >
> >
> > --
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