Hello and Happy Friday

Was this the first time the Code4Lib BC Spring Workshops was been posted
to the CODE4LIB list server?
I'm inquiring as I like to go the workshops in Vancouver as they are not
to far to travel from Prince George.
Might I have missed the post for this earlier or is there another place I
should be checking for up and coming events in the Vancouver or Western
Canada area.

Thank-you

~Ben

System Administrator
Geoffrey R. Weller library
UNBC, BC Canada
PH (250) 960-6605
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On 2014-04-23, 5:14 PM, "Chan, May (Library)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>General Info
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>When: Friday, May 2, 2014
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>Cost: $15 per workshop (note: lunch is not included)
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>What: Four half-day workshops are being offered at two different venues
>in Downtown Vancouver. See below for further details.
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>Register at: 
>https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2014-code4lib-bc-spring-workshops-tickets-1110
>7666329
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>Who: A diverse and open community of library developers and
>non-developers engaging in effective, collaborative problem-solving
>through technology. Anyone from the library community who is interested
>in library technologies are welcome to join and participate, regardless
>of their department or background: systems and IT, public services,
>circulation, cataloguing and technical services, archives, digitization
>and preservation.
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>As a Code4Lib event, we adhere to the Code4Lib Code of Conduct, which
>seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment. Please see the
>Code of Conduct<http://bit.ly/coc4lib> for further details.
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>Special thanks to Vancouver Public Library, Simon Fraser University, and
>the BC Libraries Cooperative for their support in making these workshops
>possible.
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>Locations and Schedule
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>At VPL Central (Peter Kaye Room)
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>9:00am-12:00pm   Web/Usability Testing on a budget! / Cynthia Ng
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>12:00pm-1:00pm   Lunch Break
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>1:00pm-4:00pm     Introduction to Designing for the Web Today: HTML5,
>CSS3, and JQuery / Schuyler Lindberg
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>At SFU Harbour Centre (Room 1500)
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>9:00am-12:00pm   Intro to Python / Alex Garnett
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>12:00pm-1:00pm   Lunch Break
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>1:00pm-4:00pm     Intro to Archivematica / Mark Jordan
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>Workshop Descriptions
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>Web/Usability Testing on a budget!
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>With Cynthia Ng
>·         If you take care of even a small part of the website, you want
>to have some kind of feedback from your users. However, you're just one
>person, and you have a budget of $100. What do you do? This session will
>give you some hands on practice using a few methods to help you do some
>usability testing on a low budget.
>·         Please bring a laptop, multiple sheets of paper, and at least
>one pen.
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>Cynthia Ng is currently on contract as an Accessibility Librarian at the
>Centre for Accessible Post-secondary Education Resources BC (CAPER-BC)
>housed at Langara College. She takes a holistic approach with focus on
>users to improve library websites. She also frequently volunteers as a
>mentor at technology events.
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>Introduction to Designing for the Web Today: HTML5, CSS3, and JQuery
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>With Schuyler Lindberg
>·         A practical introduction to HTML5, CSS3, & JQuery, this
>workshop will cover the fundamentals of modern front-end web design. Not
>your typical "hello world!" code-from-scratch approach, it will
>demonstrate how to 'stand on the shoulders of giants' and take advantage
>of open source tools and templates to very quickly construct a
>fully-functional, responsive, HTML5 web site. Bring a laptop and your
>favorite text editor (I recommend Sublime Text). No prior experience
>necessary.
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>Schuyler Lindberg completed his MLIS at SLAIS in 2012, and after a stint
>as a Digital Asset Management Consultant at BC Hydro, began his current
>role as Interaction Designer for Digital Projects at UBC Library Systems
>& Information Technology where he tests, designs, and develops user
>interfaces for library web applications. He is currently building a
>unified portal for the library's digital collections
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>Intro to Python
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>With Alex Garnett
>·         This 3 hour workshop will introduce the fundamentals of Python
>as a first (or second) programming language. It will provide an overview
>of syntax, best practices, and how to get from A to B in simple,
>purposeful tasks, taking string parsing as an example. This will include
>a brief review of (relatively) sane approaches to doing iterative
>development on your own, including how to solve errors on a case-by-case
>basis, without having to read coding manuals from cover to cover.
>Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own machines
>(Windows, Mac, or Linux okay) so that they can walk away from the
>workshop with a workflow that works for them.
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>Alex Garnett works on Data Curation and Digital Preservation at SFU
>Library. Most of his coding is self-taught, which is a good thing when it
>isn't a bad thing. He doesn't always like it when he hears people start
>evangelizing about how everyone should learn to code, but he's caught
>himself talking about how some people really ought to learn really useful
>and fun things like string functions on occasion. He has strong feelings
>and a bad back.
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>Intro to Archivematica
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>With Mark Jordan
>·         This 3 hour workshop will introduce
>Archivematica<https://www.archivematica.org/> as a comprehensive,
>ready-to-deploy digital preservation platform. We will also cover basic
>preservation planning and long-term management of preserved content.
>Participants will have the opportunity to run Archivematica on their own
>laptops.
>·         Preparation for the workshop: Please come with a Mac, Windows,
>or Linux laptop that has the most recent version of
>VirtualBox<https://www.virtualbox.org/> installed. (Note that virtual
>machines will run slowly on computers with less 4 GB of RAM.) A virtual
>machine image running Archivematica will be distributed at the workshop.
>Participants who cannot bring a laptop will be partnered with someone who
>has one.
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>Mark Jordan is Head of Library Systems at Simon Fraser University. His
>current obsession is automating digital preservation processes but he is
>also interested in a lot of other things.
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>May Chan
>Cataloguing Manager
>Burnaby Public Library
>Tel:  (604) 436-5424
>Fax: (604) 436-2961
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