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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. 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! 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). 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. Jonathan ________________________________________ From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Cary Gordon [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:05 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CODE4LIB] Communications conference and otherwise (was: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon video crew thanks) This really speaks to the c4l whos-in-charge-here / nobody is in charge / take the ball and run with it zeitgeist. We have one person Ryan Wick who carries most of the load for the website and the wiki. I dont think that he, or anyone else, takes responsibility for organizing the content. From here,it looks like everything is a mix of tradition and fire prevention. Accordingly, this year we had: The conference web pages on code4lib.org The usual assortment of pages on wiki.code4lib.org The newcomer dinner page on Google Docs Stuff on Eventbrite Resulting in a mix of the usual symptoms: No single place to find stuff Conflicting information Not clear editorial policy So, what do we do, and who is this we," anyhow? 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. Code4lib itself isnt really a thing, just an us, and we have been loath to form standing committees, although we have done that after a fashion for scholarships and the Journal. I think that the time has come for a Code4lib communications task force I love that name to address the structure of our public-facing resources. Any takers. In lieu of blessings from an executive structure, the task force can do something with pasta to confirm its authority. Any takers? Thanks, Cary > On Feb 13, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Heller, Margaret <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I think Sarah is absolutely right that we should have updated the conference information page with information about streaming, as I don't think most people not attending the conference would think to look at the wiki. Even if everyone forgot to do it during the conference that's a note to the future to remember to do it during the conference, and I've edited the page at http://code4lib.org/conference/2015 to give the link to the YouTube channel. > > And thanks so much video team! > > Margaret Heller > Digital Services Librarian > Loyola University Chicago > 773-508-2686 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah Weissman > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 2:18 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon video crew thanks > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Francis Kayiwa <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> >> Planning these things is tough work with numerous moving parts. Could >> it have been posted once we were underway? Perhaps. That said there >> was 450 odd people who were there none of whom (the author included) >> thought to send a message on availability of video to this listserv. >> (I know for certain it was tweeted and re-tweeted) >> >> > > I see what you are saying. I realize that logistics are tricky. I would have probably missed a mailing list message if it had come last minute. And I wasn't checking Twitter in a timely manner for updates on a conference I wasn't attending and therefore wasn't all that aware of the exact timing of. (Perhaps this is a great time to bump that librarians list to a more visible position in my Twitter feed...) > > And I should say that I'm glad that there is video to watch at all and grateful to the volunteer videographers that made it happen.