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As someone that went to ELAG for the first time this year, I think this is a great idea. ELAG was an excellent conference and I think a one day code4lib pre-conference would supplement it nicely. Although I've only been to one Access and one ELAG, I think Ross is correct that it is more like Access (minus the hackfest) than any other North American library-related conference. Edward Peter Noerr wrote: > As a long time founder member of ELAG I think this is an excellent idea. In its early days (for maybe the first 10 years) ELAG was a very technical meeting (yes, you *can* be geeky about mainframe software - all we had back then), but it has moved from that over time for all the best of reasons. I can't speak about the meeting in Bratislava, as I wasn't there, but it has over the years become more edu-torial and less cutting edge. I think it would benefit from the addition of a whole day of decidedly technical content in addition to the review and descriptive papers and its own very strong workshop format. > > Peter Noerr > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >> Frumkin, Jeremy >> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 08:51 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib / elag2010 >> >> Hi Nicolas - >> >> I think what you are planning to do is great, and I personally can't see >> any issues with what you've described. There is a code4lib NW event today >> in Oregon, and there have been a number of "regional" code4lib events put >> together by members of the community. >> >> To me, holding events like this are exactly what code4lib is all about. >> >> >> -- jaf >> >> ================================== >> Jeremy Frumkin >> Assistant Dean / Chief Technology Strategist >> University of Arizona Libraries >> >> [log in to unmask] >> +1 520.307.4548 >> ================================== >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >> Nicolas Morin >> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:34 AM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: [CODE4LIB] code4lib / elag2010 >> >> Hello, >> >> A number of the code4lib community members are based in Europe : some >> of us where at the code4lib conference in the US in February; some of >> us where at the ELAG conference in Bratislava in Europe last April. >> There has been some talks about a code4lib conference in Europe in the >> past. At ELAG in April this idea came up again. But as Eric Lease >> Morgan noted in this forum a while ago on this subject, it would not >> be a good idea to duplicate efforts. ELAG itself is not as hands-on >> and geeky as code4lib : Ross Singer, who was at ELAG this year, said >> he found it more like Access. And while we don't want to duplicate >> efforts, we feel there's a place for a more technically oriented >> event. >> So, after some discussion with the people from ELAG, here's what we >> propose for 2010 : not a Code4lib Europe conference, but an addition >> to the existing ELAG conference : a one-day, pre-conference seminar >> for the code4lib community. Something hands-on, technical. Something >> about Lucene/solr in it's many incarnations was suggested, but we're >> very much open to other suggestions at this stage. >> >> I want to make sure that the code4lib community finds it appropriate >> that we use the code4lib "space" to setup something that's going to be >> tied to another conference (ELAG). I don't think there's an issue >> here, but I want to make sure no one feels the code4lib "brand" is >> being inappropriately used. >> >> I also want to make sure that those of you who are interested can >> participate in the setting up of this pre-conference : I opened a >> (more or less blank, at this stage) wiki page for this at >> http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4lib/elag2010 >> >> The code4lib community members who have expressed interest in setting >> this up so far are : Jakob Voss, Etienne Posthumus, Peter VanBoheemen, >> Till Kinstler and myself. If you're interested in this effort, feel >> free to go edit the wiki page. >> >> You can get more information about ELAG 2009 at >> http://indico.ulib.sk/elag2009 >> ELAG 2010 will be hosted by the Finnish national library in Helsinki, >> in June 2010 >> >> Cheers, >> Nicolas >> >> -- >> Nicolas Morin >> Mobile: +33(0)633 19 11 36 >> http://www.biblibre.com >>