Hi Bess, Put me down for this too. I hadn't made up my mind until I heard you and Eric and Art on Library Geeks. Lucene and Solr sound really excellent. I don't have a specific dataset that I'm working with; will there be one provided or should I dredge something up? I'm not a systems librarian (alas), but I have interest in finally getting up to speed on this. I hope to evangelize. Tom Keays / [log in to unmask] On 11/27/06, Bess Sadler <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Since the request I sent out last week, I've received quite a lot of > email expressing interest in a lucene pre-conference, but it hasn't > been an overwhelming amount. Based on this, I think it's safe to > reserve the smaller, wi-fi enabled room that we've been discussing, > and to plan for a max of 40 - 50 people. The group consensus seems to > be that we do not need to charge a registration fee, although there > have been requests for refreshments during the afternoon session, so > maybe during lunch we can take up a collection and send someone out > for donuts. > > Here is my proposal for a pre-conference format: > > A full day event devoted to lucene and solr, led by Erik Hatcher. The > morning will be devoted to background and theory, and the afternoon > will be an opportunity to try some hands-on projects. Participants > should either bring a wi-fi enabled laptop or be prepared to look > over someone else's shoulder. So that we can get as much accomplished > in the workshop as possible, we will provide a list of software and > documentation to be downloaded before the workshop. If you are > interested in working with a specific data set, please bring the data > set with you, preferably on a sharable media format (e.g., CDROM, USB > Flash Drive) so that we can exchange data sets quickly and easily. To > save time at the event, please get your data into XML before the > conference. > > Enough people are interested in ILS related topics that it might be > worth forming groups around specific ILS products. If you are one of > these people, email the list if you're interested in setting up such > a thing. > > To keep things simple, maybe registration can consist of just an > email to me? But we will need to put something on the conference > registration website, and send a message to everyone who has already > registered in case they are not also on the code4lib mailing list. > This would be the day before the conference proper, so that's Feb 27, > right? > > Comments? Suggestions? > > Bess > > > > Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler > Head, Technical and Metadata Services > Digital Scholarship Services > Box 400129 > Alderman Library > University of Virginia > Charlottesville, VA 22904 > > [log in to unmask] > (434) 243-2305 > -- Tom