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Please add Keynote speaker nomination using the template below. See [https://wiki.code4lib.org/2025_Keynote_Speakers_Nominations 2025 Keynote Speakers Nominations] as example. = Code4Lib Conference Committees =
Keynote speaker nominations for Hosting a conference is complex, and it cannot be done without the help of the entire community. If you are interested in being an awesome person and applying your skills to a particular part of the Code4Lib 2026 Conference will be accepted through October 24conference, 2025create an account on this wiki and sign-up for one or more of the groups below (please provide a contact). Each committee must have a Primary Contact (chair), Secondary Contact (co-chair), and Documentarian Chair, Primary Contact
If you would like to nominate anonymously/without Code4Lib wiki account==Planning Committee==Also known as the Local Planning Committee, you can send email to [mailto:msl321@lehigh.edu Maccabee Levine] and he will add although there is no requirement for the nominee members to this pagebe local.
__TOC__* Ann Marie Mesco - Primary Contact, Chair* Ken Rose - Secondary Contact, CoChair* Esmé Cowles - Documentarian* Erin Swift - Volunteer* Joelen Pastva - Volunteer* Lina Crowe - Volunteer* Kelly Woessner - Volunteer* [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]] - Volunteer* Sam Lemley - Volunteer* Jason Glenn - Volunteer* Jon Mcintire - Volunteer* Yingxue Li - Volunteer
Katherine "Kate" Deibel has had a varied career in academia working within and across many disciplines, including computer science, education, disability, comics, digital literacies, and libraries. After transitioning in her first year of graduate school, she earned her PhD in computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in 2011 with a multidisciplinary study of the social and technological factors that hinder adoption of reading technologies among adults with dyslexia. As an ardent advocate for usable and accessible technologies, she works and educates to ensure that library technologies are effective tools for both library patrons and staff. Having worked in library technologies at the University of Washington and Syracuse University Libraries, she now is the systems librarian at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, spearheading their adoption of open library systems such as FOLIO and VuFind.[[2026 Website Working Group Documents|2026 Website Working Group Documents]]
Email contact information [mailto:katherine== Budget and Sponsorship Committee ==This group involves working with the Planning Committee to close any budget gaps and talking to potential sponsors to find the level that is right for them.deibel@gmail.com]
==Annalee Newitz==[2026 Budget and Sponsorship Documents]
Annalee Newitz is a science journalist who also writes science fiction. They are the author of several books* Your Name Here - Primary Contact, including Automatic NoodleChair* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact, an instant USA Today bestseller, The Terraformers, which was nominated for the Nebula Award, and Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age. They have a monthly column in New Scientist magazineCoChair* Your Name Here - Documentarian* Kelly Woessner - Volunteer, and are the coLPC Liaison* Kelly Riddle -host of the HugoVolunteer* Your Name Here -winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. (from Website)Volunteer
Newitz was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 2002 == Keynote Committee ==This group will: gather nominations from Code4Lib community; contact nominees to 2003, supporting confirm their willingness and availability; collect bios from the available nominees and add them as a research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2004 to 2005 Newitz was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and from 2007 Diebold-o-Tron; support the voting process; work with the community's top nominees to 2009 was on schedule their keynotes; and collaborate with other committees and the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibilitycommunity to ensure everything is communicated appropriately and logistical matters are given suitable attention. (from Wikipedia)
[httpsFrom the chair://wwwThis committee will start meeting around mid-October and wrap up in mid-January, when we hand off our selected keynoters to Concentra for further logistics.techsploitationPlease ask me (@thatandromeda) in Slack if you have questions about serving on this committee.com/ Website][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annalee_Newitz Wikipedia]
Email contact information [mailto:annalee* Andromeda Yelton, Chair* Maccabee Levine, CoChair* Your Name Here - Documentarian* Andrew Battelini - Volunteer; abattel@gmailemory.com]edu (and on Slack)* Ranti Junus - Volunteer* Carl Haynes-Magyar - Volunteer - cchmagyar@pitt.edu* Kathy Azevedo - LPC contact
https://xeiaso.net/[[2026 Pre-conference Documents|2026 Pre-conference Documents]]
[mailto:me* Your Name Here - Primary Contact, Chair* Ann Marie Mesco (mesco@xeiasoandrew.net email]cmu.edu) - Secondary Contact, CoChair, LPC Contact* Your Name Here - Documentarian* Your Name Here - Volunteer* Lina Crowe - Volunteer* Sarah Smulligan (smm5878@psu.edu) - Volunteer
Description of the person (100 words or less)[[2026 Program Documents|2026 Program Documents]]
Email contact information == Scholarship Committee ==This committee works with funding institutions to arrange the scholarships offered. They solicit submissions and select winners of the scholarship(s). They also work with the winners to plan their travel and arrangements. [mailto[2026 Scholarship Documents|2026 Scholarship Committee Documents]] * Michelle Speed (michelle_speed@baylor.edu) - Primary Contact, Chair* [[User:someoneMairelysLemus-Rojas|Mairelys Lemus-Rojas]] - Secondary Contact, CoChair* Kristen Scotti (kscotti@exampleandrew.com someonecmu.edu) - Documentarian* [[User:ChristineSalek|Christine Salek]] - Volunteer* Najah Magloire (nmagloir@exampleandrew.cmu.edu)- Volunteer * Yingxue Li (yingxuel@andrew.cmu.edu) - Volunteer == Community Support Squad (CSS) ==This group responds to violations and concerns regarding [https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/blob/main/code_of_conduct.md the Code4Lib code of conduct] and ensures that the event is safe and enjoyable for all attendees. More details here: https://2026.code4lib.org/conduct/#volunteers and here: https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/blob/main/transparency_reports/2023_national_conference_annual_report.md. == T-Shirt Committee ==This committee organizes the t-shirt contest, collecting submissions, and putting out the call for votes. This committee is also responsible for helping the local planning committee identify a vendor that will fit within the budget constraints for the conference. User sizes and preferences will be obtained as part of the registration process. [[2026 T-Shirt Documents|2026 T-Shirt Documents]] * Your Name Here - Primary Contact, Chair* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact, CoChair* Your Name Here - Documentarian* [[User:ChristineSalek|Christine Salek]] - Volunteer* Sarah Smulligan (smm5878@psu.edu) - Volunteer* Erin Swift - Volunteer/LPC contact* Lina Crowe - Volunteer (arcrowe@cmu.edu)* Ruiling Zhang - Volunteer (ruz152@pitt.edu) == Social Activities Committee == This committee organizes social activities for the conference, including the Newcomer Dinner (for in-person conferences) and other after/before conference hours activities (for in-person and virtual conferences). This committee also facilitates the process for attendee-planned social activities for virtual and in-person conferences. 2026 Social Activities Documents - Contact the Primary Contact/Chair for access to the Google Drive folder * Your Name Here - Primary Contact, Chair* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact, CoChair* Your Name Here - Documentarian* [[User:ElaineKong|Elaine Kong]] - Volunteer; elainekong@pitt.edu* Erin Swift - Volunteer/LPC contact * Your Name Here - Volunteer == Streaming Video Committee ==With the local program committee(as appropriate), organize the streaming and archiving of presentations at the conference. This could include securing A/V equipment, working with the conference venue w/r/t AV needs, choosing streaming and archiving providers, post-production editing and posting of videos, securing speaker releases for recording talks. * Your Name Here - Primary Contact, Chair* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact, CoChair* Your Name Here - Documentarian* [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]] - Volunteer* Your Name Here - Volunteer* Your Name Here - Volunteer == Code4Lib 2027 Host Voting Committee ==This committee organizes the call for hosts for the next annual code4lib conference as well as the voting process. [[2026 Host Voting Documents|2026 Host Voting Documents]] * Your Name Here - Primary Contact, Chair* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact, CoChair* Your Name Here - Documentarian* Your Name Here - Volunteer* Your Name Here - Volunteer* Your Name Here - Volunteer == Book Giveaway Committee ==This committee solicits free copies of books from various publishers or free keys/copies of programs from various companies. [[2026 Book Giveaway Committee|2026 Book Giveaway Committee]] * Michael B. Klein - Primary Contact, Chair* Ranti Junus - Secondary Contact, CoChair* Your Name Here - Documentarian* Your Name Here - Volunteer* Your Name Here - Volunteer* Your Name Here - Volunteer == IRC and Slack Committee ==This committee will assist attendees with IRC and Slack. [[2026 IRC and Slack Documents|2026 IRC and Slack Documents]] * Your Name Here - Primary Contact, Chair* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact, CoChair* Your Name Here - Documentarian* Your Name Here - Volunteer* Your Name Here - Volunteer* Your Name Here - Volunteer == Accessibility Committee ==Document and address major points of the conference that are not accessible for conference attendees. [[2026 Accessibility Documents|2026 Accessibility Documents]] * Kate Deibel (@metageeky / katheride@pcom.edu), Primary Contact, Chair* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact, CoChair* Your Name Here - Documentarian* Karen Schifferdecker (karen.schifferdecker@wku.edu) - Volunteer* Alfred J Lin (ajrlin@umd.edu) - Volunteer* Your Name Here - Volunteer == Whatever Committee ==Not a committee per se. This is a list of people who are willing to help the above committees with various tasks. [[2026 Whatever Documents|2026 Whatever Documents]] * Your Name Here - Primary Contact, Chair* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact, CoChair* Your Name Here - Documentarian* [[User:ElaineKong|Elaine Kong]] - Volunteer; elainekong@pitt.edu* Karen Okamoto - Volunteer (kokamoto@jjay.cuny.edu)* Joe Mesco - Volunteer (jmesco@andrew.cmu.edu) [[Category: Code4Lib2026]][[Category:Conference Committees]]
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[[2026 Planning Committe|2026 Planning Committee Documents]]
==Kate DeibelWebsite Working Group ==This group will focus on content strategy and feature implementations for the conference website to improve the overall experience for users (i.e., on-site and remote attendees, speakers, potential sponsors, post-conference users).
* [https[User://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xs3p6vfnjkx5h9gw2f4sz/deibelPhette23|Eric Phetteplace]] -cv.pdf?rlkey=5428wdpyauvmpvmtelqlqy89r&e=1&dl=0 CVPrimary Contact, Chair* [[User:TripKirkpatrick|Trip Kirkpatrick]], CoChair* Esmé Cowles - Documentarian, LPC liaison* Mike Paulmeno - Volunteer* [[User:RickyLee|Ricky Lee]] - Volunteer* Kim Shepherd - Volunteer* [[User:CoriHutchinson|Cori Hutchinson]] - Volunteer
==Xe IasoWorkshop Committee (Pre / Post-Conference)==Xe Iaso is "a technical educator, conference speaker, twitch streamer, vtuber, and philosopher that focuses on ways to help make technology easier to understand and do cursed things in This committee plans the process." They are bestpre or post-known in the code4lib community for their work on [https://githubconference day (TBD).com/TecharoHQ/anubis Anubis], which "weighs the soul It keeps strong lines of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers" and is widely used by code4libbers defending cultural heritage web sites from bot onslaught. They are [https://xeiaso.net/talks/ an experienced and engaging conference speaker]. They have gotten pretty engaged communications open with the code4lib community as they support our use of Anubis, and I think it would be neat if we all got to meet each otherProgram Committee. It also helps shepherd events on the day itself.
==FirstName LastNameProgram Committee ==This committee plans the structure of the program, arranges the voting on presentations, etc. This includes soliciting regular talks. These folks will also manage the flow of the program at the conference -- introducing speakers or soliciting other volunteers to MC. Committee membership will be capped at 10 members.
* Jessica McMillen - Primary Contact, Chair* Dre - Secondary Contact, CoChair* Clara Turp - Documentarian* Matt Sherman - Volunteer* Caleb Derven - Volunteer* [https[User://wiki.code4lib.org/2026_Keynote_Speakers_Nominations Relevant websites, if anyhighermath|Cary Gordon]]- Volunteer - LPC Liaison
