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Art Rhyno wrote: >I guess I am looking for more recipe sharing, comments in the margins, and >whiteboarding, I wouldn't want to break or detract from anything that is >working now. All of this happens virtually at some level, but there's >still some impedance when compared to lightning talks and physical >gatherings, and sadly, there's a limit to how many conference events can >be mounted. > I spoke with some of you at the restaurant Thursday night during the conference briefly about a code sharing site for code4libbers. The OSS4Lib site is a great resource for libraries considering the world of open source; however, I think much like the CPAN or PEAR code repositories, a code4lib repository would act as a great place for us to "whiteboard" and share code much like Art mentions above. A place to not share full blown applications, but a place to post our hacks and code libraries that we have written. As a member of the PEAR development community, I know that the web application that runs this is open-source and has ties to CVS for code management, Bug tracking much like bugzilla, and most importantly, a place to write documentation for each code snippet. I'm not necessarily advocating for an implementation of the PEAR web application, but it's concept for the Code4Lib website. Maybe even a DSpace implementation would work? Even a CVS or Subversion repository at it's simplest would help. Would the maintainers of the Code4Lib website be willing to support/implement such an application? Thanks, I really enjoyed the conference. Andrew