Sure. Until I can turn my Raspberry Pi into a Robo-brarian 5000, technology alone is not going to be the answer. Choosing right tool for the job, however, can provide some relief to the day-job-holding masses.

Does/should becoming involved in Code4LibCon be the modern equivalent of Myst?

Cary
 
> On Feb 17, 2015, at 4:05 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> The conference organizers have control, in theory, but I think that they are understandably loath to mess with the traditional mix. There is no place for them to ask a question and get a single, cogent, authoritative answer.
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> Who is better to _provide_ a single authoritative answer about a conference then the conference organizers? Why would they be looking to get a single authoritative answer from someone else -- I'd assume everyone else would be looking to them!
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> I do see how the decentralized nobody-in-charge but everybody-willing-to-complain nature of Code4Lib as a community (rather than an organization) poses some challenges. (It also provides some advantages, everything is a trade-off, although not all trade-offs are equal, and the best trade-off may change when the context changes). 
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> But, I'm not sure this is a technology/tooling problem. As we all have to remember at our day jobs too, don't look for technological product solutions to social/organizational problems. They aren't going to be successful, but you can spend a lot of resources learning that. 
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> Jonathan