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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