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2017 Lessons Learned

2016-10-27T14:12:29Z

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= Code4Lib 2017 Lessons Learned =

=== Venue planning and negotiation ===

* Coming soon.

=== Organizing Volunteers ===

* Coming soon.

=== Program & Keynotes ===

* The keynote voting period was WAY too short. A week does not give people enough time to read up and do research on nominees they might want to vote for. In past years voting was up for much longer. I understand that the organizers are short on time, but any deviation from the norm should be emphasized and there should at least be a reminder announcement as we approach the deadline. I am somewhat involved with the website committee, so I imagine others that are less involved probably were also disappointed.

=== Pre-conferences ===

* Coming soon.

=== Sponsorships ===

* Coming soon.

=== Registration/Attendance ===

* Coming soon.

=== T-shirts / Swag ===

* Coming soon.

=== Food/Beverage ===

* Coming soon.

=== IRC ===

* Coming soon.

=== Scholarships ===

* Coming soon.

=== Registration/Sign-in (during conference) ===

* Coming soon.

=== Audio/Video ===

* Coming soon.

=== Child Care ===

* Coming soon.

=== Signage ===

* Coming soon.

=== Ideas! ===

* We need a communications committee, perhaps with a website subcommittee and an emails/social-media subcommittee. Draft email templates for each announcement (and reminder emails for each), specify stakeholders, and suggested send dates/windows. No more communication fails.
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2017 Lessons Learned

2016-10-27T14:04:13Z

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2017 Keynote Speakers Nominations

2016-10-12T16:32:10Z

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Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2017 in Los Angeles. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

__TOC__

==Jane Doe (example)==
Jane works at ________, doing _______.

Some pertinent history/biography/hyperlinks that elucidates why Jane would be a good keynote speaker.

== Chris Bourg ==

Chris Bourg is the Director of Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she also has oversight of the MIT Press. Prior to assuming her role at MIT, Chris worked for 12 years in the Stanford University Libraries, most recently as the Associate University Librarian for Public Services.

Chris is keenly interested in issues of diversity and inclusion in higher education; and in the role libraries play in advancing social justice and democracy. She is currently serving as Chair of the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion of the Association of Research Libraries and has written and spoken extensively on diversity, inclusion, and leadership.

Chris has a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University, and spent 10 years as an active duty U.S. Army officer, including 3 years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

[https://youtu.be/O2L64H3D52M?t=2059 Watch Chris's Access 2016 keynote address.]

== Maciej Celgowski ==

Maciej Celgowski is the founder of the bookmarking site [http://pinboard.in Pinboard], [https://blog.pinboard.in/2010/12/merry_christmas_librarians/ a friend to librarians], a writer of [http://idlewords.com/ popular internet essays], and an entertaining speaker on topics including data, privacy, webpage bloat, and online fandom. He also operates [https://twitter.com/Pinboard a snarky Twitter account]. His most recent talk was [http://idlewords.com/talks/deep_fried_data.htm Deep Fried Data], given at the Library of Congress Collections as Data event in September of 2016. Other talks of interest include [http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm The Internet With a Human Face] and [http://idlewords.com/talks/fan_is_a_tool_using_animal.htm Fan is a Tool Using Animal].

Talks archive: http://idlewords.com/talks/ (contact info is at the bottom of the page)

== Brooke Cunningham ==

Brooke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Family Medicine and Community Health research.
She was previously a research fellow at the Medica Research Institute, exploring how providers and health system factors shape the way organizations address health care disparities. She's talked about how the healthcare system collects and profiles patient data in relation to recommended treatments. She offers insight and perspective on how racial bias is built into our systems and how we should approach how we use the data we collect.

Brooke has a specific interest in race and racism and thinking about race as a system of social stratification, not a biologically valid category. "Cunningham is committed to being part of the next generation of health disparities researchers that advances the field, from the documentation of differences in the health status of population groups to identifying solutions to reduce disparities." [http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130620005901/en/Medica-Research-Institute-Selects-Brooke-Cunningham-M.D.]

[http://www.healthdisparities.umn.edu/bio/our-people/brooke-cunningham Brooke Cunningham UMN bio]
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4214364/ Physicians’ Anxiety Due to Uncertainty and Use of Race in Medical Decision-Making]
[https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/10/medical-schools-teaching-race/ Teaching medical students to challenge ‘unscientific’ racial categories]

== Dragan Espenscheid ==

Dragan Espenschied (*1975 in Germany) is a media artist, home computer folk musician and digital culture researcher and conservator living in New York City. Starting out as a net activist in the late 1990’s, he created several online interventions concerned with digital power structures and live network traffic analysis/manipulation together with Alvar Freude.
In his artistic career, Espenschied focuses on the historization of Digital Culture from the perspective of computer users rather than hackers, developers or “inventors”. Together with net art pioneer Olia Lialina he has been creating a significant body of work concerned with how to represent and write a culture-centric history of the networked age. Since 2011, they together have been [http://blog.geocities.institute/ restoring and culturally analyzing 1 TB of GeoCities data], supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Espenschied worked with the transmediale festival’s archive and the Vilem Flusser Archive to conceptually and technically integrate large scale emulation while working as a researcher at the University of Freiburg and the University of Applied Arts in Karlsruhe. Publications include papers on large scale curation of complex digital artifacts, emulation and digital culture, the influential reader Digital Folklore as well as musical releases on Aphex Twin’s label Rephlex and several underground/net labels, performing and lecturing in between raves and museums in Europe and the United States. Since April 2014, he is leading the Digital Conservation Program at [https://rhizome.org/ Rhizome].

[http://1x-upon.com/~despens/about/dragan/ http://1x-upon.com/~despens/about/dragan/]

== Paul Ford ==

Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). Ford's 30,000-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Learn more at his [http://ftrain.com website], on [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter], or on [https://medium.com/@ftrain Medium], or watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng his talk at XOXO 2014] or [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-12/-what-is-code-charlie-rose-06-12- his interview on Charlie Rose]. Paul was also interviewed at [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ at In the Library with the Lead Pipe, along with Gina Trapani].

== Kelsey Gilmore-Innis ==

Kelsey Gilmore-Innis is the Chief Technology Officer at [http://www.sexualhealthinnovations.org/ Sexual Health Innovations], creating technology that advances sexual health and wellbeing in the United States. SHI is currently building [http://www.projectcallisto.org/ Project Callisto] to provide a more empowering, transparent, and confidential reporting experience for college sexual assault survivors. Kelsey co-founded the Lambda Ladies group for women in functional programming and speaks regularly around the world on technical topics. As part of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, she led the development and deployment of the searchable Anti-Eviction Pledge site. Outside of SHI, Kelsey pursues the study of baseball, R&B, presidential trivia and other all-American pursuits.

[https://twitter.com/_K_E_L_S_E_Y https://twitter.com/_K_E_L_S_E_Y]

==Christina Harlow==
Christina is not a consortium of people (I know, I've thought that also) She is a brilliant technologist who works at Cornell University beating data into submission. When she isn't doing that (here's why you've thought her twitter account is a consortium) she is talking about the aforementioned data to likeminded people all while managing to run brilliant conferences. Her ability to describe data munging to "non-natives" is something the entire code4lib community should experience, not just the few who've managed to sit in on her workshops, follow her on Twitter etc., Her generosity has likely impacted many in the code4lib community directly or indirectly. It would also be a chance for her to expand on her Missy Elliot themed talk in Philadelphia.

[http://christinaharlow.com/ http://christinaharlow.com/]

Twitter: [https://twitter.com/cm_harlow @cm_harlow]

== April Hathcock ==

April is a scholarly communication librarian at New York University (formerly a corporate attorney) who specializes in issues of ownership and rights. She does research on copyright, diversity, libraries, and feminism. April has presented on digital scholarly work and the affects it's had on scholarly communication systems, Open Access, racial bias, whiteness and racism/anti-racism in libraries. [https://aprilhathcock.wordpress.com/writings-and-ramblings/ https://aprilhathcock.wordpress.com/writings-and-ramblings/].

You can find her on twitter [https://twitter.com/AprilHathcock @AprilHathcock]

[http://readingroom.lib.buffalo.edu/readingroom/PDF/vol1-issue2/From-Dusty-Boxes-to-Data-Bytes.pdf From Dusty Boxes to Data Bytes: Acquiring Rights to Special Collections in the Digital Age]

[http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/lis-diversity/ White Librarianship in BlackFace: Diversity in LIS]

== Wendy Hsu ==

Wendy Hsu is a researcher, strategist, and educator who engages with hybrid research and organizing agendas for equality in arts, technology, and civic participation. A former ACLS Public Fellow, Hsu currently works as the digital strategist of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, providing research and strategy to redesign the department’s data and knowledge architecture. Hsu is also the founder of Lab at DCA, a city staff innovation incubator.

Hsu has published on digital ethnography, sound-based pedagogy, public humanities, open access publishing, Asian American indie rock, Yoko Ono, Taqwacore, and Bollywood. Their academic research on street sound cultures in postcolonial Taiwan focuses on the urban underclass experience of mobility and low-resource technology. Their civic sound data project [http://lalistens.org/ LA Listens] explores the sensory, social, and ecological aspects of Los Angeles streets by providing a creative and engagement platform for community-oriented artists, planners, and organizers. Most recently, Hsu led the maker collective Movable Parts through [http://movableparts.org/projects/karaoke-rickshaw/ Movable Karaoke], a Metro-funded project that evokes and explores the collective mobility experience in LA.

[http://beingwendyhsu.info/ http://beingwendyhsu.info/]

== Bergis Jules ==

Bergis is the University and Political Papers Archivist at University of California, Riverside, and is the Community Lead for [http://www.docnow.io/ Documenting the Now], which focuses on ethically collecting and preserving social media content. Background reading - [https://medium.com/on-archivy/documenting-the-now-ferguson-in-the-archives-adcdbe1d5788?section=%5Bobject%20Object%5D#.nvhvvygy7 Documenting the Now: #Ferguson in the Archives]

[https://medium.com/@BergisJules Medium]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXE1hruwg7E Bergis in the Ethics of Social Media Collection and Use panel at DocNow]

Twitter: [https://twitter.com/BergisJules @BergisJules]

== Sarah Mei ==

Sarah is a Ruby and JavaScript developer based in San Francisco. She founded [http://railsbridge.org/ RailsBridge ] and [http://bridgefoundry.org/ Bridge Foundry ]. She is the director of Ruby Central, the non-profit that runs the two largest Ruby conferences in the world.

She's particularly interested in Object Oriented design and [https://www.devmynd.com/blog/2015-1-pairing-with-junior-developers/ pair programming], the effects of dev team social dynamics on code, and increasing community involvement in open source.

[http://confreaks.com/presenters/150-sarah-mei Video of some past talks ]

[http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2013/11/11/why-you-should-never-use-mongodb/ Dangers of shiny technology ]

[http://twitter.com/sarahmei Twitter @sarahmei]

== David S. H. Rosenthal ==
Dr. David Rosenthal started the LOCKSS Program, which is aimed at long-term preservation of web published materials.
[https://www.lockss.org/contact-us/dshr/ https://www.lockss.org/contact-us/dshr/]
[http://blog.dshr.org/ http://blog.dshr.org/]

== Sonali Sridhar ==

Sonali Sridhar is cofounder of the [http://www.recurse.com/ Recurse Center] (formerly Hacker School.) Prior to starting the Recurse Center in 2011, she worked as an Interaction Designer at R/GA, and has now taken on the challenge of designing experiences at the Recurse Center, as she aims to create a Bauhaus for programmers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is a founding member of QUILTBAG++, a New York City-based queer and trans tech group committed to social justice. She is also part of the 2015 Creative Ecology Advisory Board at the The Banff Centre's Peter Lougheed Leadership Institute.

[https://twitter.com/jollysonali https://twitter.com/jollysonali]

== Whitni Watkins ==

Whitni is a Web Systems Engineer for Analog Devices, Inc. where she manages multiple systems for their Technical Marketing and Information Services group. She is an active code4lib community member. With her experiences from academic institutions to a semiconductor company, she would bring in various angles of working in the library and technology field.

LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitniwatkins https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitniwatkins]

Twitter: [https://twitter.com/_whitni @_whitni]

[http://whitni.us http://whitni.us]

== Greg Wilson ==

[http://third-bit.com/about.html Greg Wilson] is the co-founder of [http://software-carpentry.org/about/ Software Carpentry], a volunteer organization that teaches basic computing skills to researchers in a wide range of disciplines. Greg has worked for 30 years in both industry and academia, and is the author or editor of several books on computing and two for children.

Twitter: [https://twitter.com/gvwilson @gvwilson]

== Gene Luen Yang ==
Comic artist and author, Gene Yang has greatly broadened diversity representation in comics with successful titles such as '''American Born Chinese''', '''Boxers and Saints''', and '''The Shadow Hero'''. In 2016, the Library of Congress named him as an Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. In this capacity, Yang has pushed a mission of 'Reading Without Walls' to encourage literacies of all types. Additionally, he has recently started a graphic novel series, '''Secret Coders''' with artist Mike Holmes. This series aims to introduce kids to actual magic they can perform at home: computer programming. As several kids try to uncover the mysteries of their school, they face puzzles and challenges that teach readers about programming.

[http://geneyang.com/ http://geneyang.com/]

[http://geneyang.com/secret-coders http://geneyang.com/secret-coders]

== Juan Benet ==
California-native Juan Benet works at Protocol Labs, and is the original designer behind the IPFS (Inter-planetary File System) protocol [1]. According to very smart people (Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Tim Berners-Lee, to name a few), decentralized networks are the future of the web and IPFS is at the cutting edge of this technology [2]. The impact on digital preservation alone is enormous. In a lecture at Stanford last year, Juan did a deep dive of IPFS and discussed the principles they followed to to make sure that their protocol would get used and adopted, and not simply be a cool experiment [3]. Addition bio info at the Stanford Computer Forum website [4].

[1] [http://ipfs.io/ http://ipfs.io/]

[2] [Inventors of the Internet Are Trying to Build a Truly Permanent Web https://www.wired.com/2016/06/inventors-internet-trying-build-truly-permanent-web/]

[3] [Stanford Seminar: IPFS and the Permanent Web https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVmypx9HGI]

[4] [Juan Benet Bio (via Stanford Computer Forum) http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/151021.html]

== Cap Watkins ==
Cap Watkins is a product designer and VP of Design at BuzzFeed. He is based in Brooklyn, but often works out of the Los Angeles Buzzfeed office. Cap is also a blogger [1], podcast guest, conference speaker, and lover of start-ups and technology. Cap has a compelling argument for why designers should learn to code and coders should learn to design. He also has revolutionary proposals for managers that have proven to work at Buzzfeed, Etsy, and Amazon, where he has led both design and development teams.

[1] [Cap Watkins' blog http://blog.capwatkins.com/]

[2] [99u Talk: Treat Your Life as a User Experience Problem http://99u.com/videos/54317/cap-watkins-treat-your-life-like-a-user-experience-problem]

== Peter Van Garderen ==
Peter is the original designer and developer of the Archivematica and AtoM software systems. These tools are used to manage the accessibility, usability and authenticity of digital information objects at hundreds of organizations worldwide. These days, Peter is focused on the Decentralized Web and what it means for the future of Archives and the Web in general [1][2].

[1][Decentralized Autonomous Collections https://medium.com/on-archivy/decentralized-autonomous-collections-ff256267cbd6]

[2][As we build a Decentralized Web, what values do we want written in the code? https://archive.org/details/DWebSummit2016_Panel_Values]

== Max Ogden ==
Max Ogden is a developer, open government, geospatial and CouchDB enthusiast from Portland, OR. This year he is a fellow at Code for America, an organization dedicated to helping US cities become more transparent and efficient. He is working with the City of Boston on a project focused on helping high school students better engage in their communities.

Max also works on privacy centered social networks, open civic data standards, web based mapping tools and neighbor facing “civic web” software.[1] He builds open source tools to unlock the potential of important datasets in science, journalism and government.

He is one of the founders of the Dat project, a grant-funded, open-source, decentralized data sharing tool for efficiently versioning and syncing changes to data [2].

You can see his projects at https://github.com/maxogden

[1] [Bio from OpenSource Bridge Conf http://opensourcebridge.org/users/750]

[2] [Dat project http://dat-data.com/]

== Daniel Shiffman ==
Daniel Shiffman works as an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts [1]. His focus is on teaching Creative Coding to non-coders and works on developing tutorials, examples, and libraries for Processing, the open source programming language and environment created by Casey Reas and Ben Fry. He is the author of Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction and The Nature of Code (self-published via Kickstarter), an open source book about simulating natural phenomenon in Processing. Daniel runs Coding Rainbow, a highly popular YouTube channel on how to code [2].

[1] [Website http://shiffman.net/]

[2] [Coding Rainbow http://codingrainbow.com/]

== Primavera De Filippi ==
Primavera De Filippi is a permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She is faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she is investigating the concept of "governance-by-design" as it relates to online distributed architectures. Most of her research focuses on the legal challenges raised, and faced by emergent decentralized technologies —such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain-based applications —and how these technologies could be used to design new governance models capable of supporting large-scale decentralized collaboration and more participatory decision-making [1].

Primavera gave a highly lauded talk that explored the possibilities that live at the intersection between the blockchain and art, society and work, imagining what the future might look like when creative people use the full power of this technology.

[1] [Berkman Klein Center Bio https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/pdefilippi]

[2] [Blockchain Technology and the Future of Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN-JLKBiVGY]

== Wendy Seltzer ==
Wendy Seltzer is Policy Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Visiting Fellow with Yale Law School's Information Society Project, previously a fellow with Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy; the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado; and with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

Wendy also serves on the Board of Directors of The Tor Project, supporting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology, and the World Wide Web Foundation, dedicated to empowering people through Web technology.

She helped public interest ISP Online Policy Group to win the first case for damages under DMCA Section 512(f) for abusive copyright claims (OPG v. Diebold), and defended the privacy of Internet users as amicus in Verizon v. RIAA and Charter v. RIAA.

Her work at the Berkman Center focuses on the legal issues and intellectual property questions surrounding Free Software. She helped to start and now lead the Openlaw project, an experiment bringing the methods of open source and Free Software development to legal argument in the public interest.

[1] [Personal Bio https://wendy.seltzer.org/]

== Bret Victor ==
Bret Victor is a designer, developer, activist, and teacher. He has been a UI visionary, making a huge splash with Magick Ink (anticipatory design)[1], and then followed up by proposing new UI's for Math [2], the importance of interactive coding [3], scholarly communication [4], and most recently what technologists can do about climate change [5], among many other works. Victor talks about technologists' power to invent a better world, as can be heard in one of his most influential talks, Inventing on Principle [6]:

"The purpose of this talk is to tell you that this activist lifestyle is not just for social activists. As a technologist you can recognize the wrong in the world. You can have a vision for what a better world could be. You can dedicate yourself to fighting for principle. Social activists typically fight by organizing, but you can fight by inventing."
- Bret Victor, Inventing on Principle

[1] [Magick Ink http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/]

[2] [Kill Math http://worrydream.com/KillMath/]

[3] [Interactive Programming http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/]

[4] [Scientific Communication as Sequential Art http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt/]

[5] [What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/]

[6] [Inventing on Principle https://vimeo.com/36579366]

2017 Keynote Speakers Nominations

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2017 Keynote Speakers Nominations

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2017 Conference Committees

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= Code4Lib 2017 Conference Committees =

Call for Volunteers coming soon.

Hosting a conference is incredibly 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 2017 conference, create 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 (secretary). The role of the Documentarian is to transcribe key information to future conference committees, such as timelines, costs, process, etc. Feel free to improve the summary statements for each of the committees. When adding your name, please indicate 'v' if you are a veteran on the committee so that we ensure committees are not made up entirely of newbies.

We will assign a local contact (LPC) to each committee.

== Location and Dates ==

* Location: Southern California
* Dates: Coming soon
** Pre-conferences: Coming Soon
** Main meeting: Coming Soon
** Post conference activities: Coming Soon

== Local Planning Committee ==
This committee is charged with running the show such as overall timeline, budgeting, coordinating of locations and logistics, wrangler of committees, and communicating with the community.

* [mailto:glt@library.ucla.edu Gary Thompson], UCLA - Primary Contact
* [mailto:JGomez@getty.edu Joshua Gomez], The Getty - Secondary Contact
* [mailto:cgordon@chillco.com Cary Gordon], Cherry Hill Company - Tertiary Contact
* [mailto:christina.salazar@csuci.edu Christina Salazar], California State University Channel Islands - Tertiary Contact
* [mailto:brian-rogers@utc.edu Brian Rogers], University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - Documentarian
* [mailto:acollier@calstate.edu Aaron Collier], California State University
* [mailto:jsabol@marymountcalifornia.edu Jeffrey Sabol], Marymount California University
* [mailto:gmcharlt@gmail.com Galen Charlton], Equinox Software
* [mailto:mary.jinglewski@gmail.com Mary Jinglewski], Equinox Software
* [mailto:andrea-schurr@utc.edu Andrea Schurr], University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
* [mailto:robin.m.fay@gmail.com Robin Fay], Independent Metadata Contractor
* [mailto:wendy.hagenmaier Wendy Hagenmaier], Georgia Tech

== Website Working Group ==
This group will focus on content strategy (in collaboration with the Documentation Committee) and feature implementations to improve the overall user experience for users (i.e., on-site and remote attendees, speakers, potential sponsors, post-conference users).

[[Website Working Group Documents|Website Working Group Documents]] (2016 link)

* [mailto:JGomez@getty.edu Joshua Gomez] - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* [mailto:robin.m.fay@gmail.com Robin Fay] - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* [mailto:steven-shelton@utc.edu Steven Shelton] - Volunteer
* [mailto:shaune@princeton.edu Shaun Ellis] - Volunteer or Documentarian (will figure it out after initial call)

== Budget Planning Committee ==
This group will focus on making sure we are appropriately planning for budgetary issues.

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* [mailto:mary.jinglewski@gmail.com Mary Jinglewski] - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== Sponsorship Committee ==
This group will focus on making sure all who want to support the conference have the opportunity to do so. Sponsorship Committee work involves working with the LPC to close budget gaps and talking to potential sponsors to find the level that is right for them.

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* [mailto:jsabol@marymountcalifornia.edu Jeffrey Sabol] - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* [mailto:liblna@emory.edu Laura Akerman] - Volunteer

== Keynote Committee ==
This group will: gather nominations from Code4Lib community; contact nominees to confirm their willingness and availability; collect bios from the available nominees and add them to the Diebold-o-Tron; support the voting process; work with the community's top nominees to schedule their keynotes; and collaborate with other committees and the community to ensure everything is communicated appropriately and logistical matters are given suitable attention.

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* [mailto:jgomez@getty.edu Joshua Gomez] - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* [mailto:brian-rogers@utc.edu Brian Rogers] - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== Pre-conference Committee ==
This committee plans the pre-conference day. It keeps strong lines of communications open with the Program Committee. It also helps shepherd events on the day itself.

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* [mailto:andrea-schurr@utc.edu Andrea Schurr] - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== Program 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.

* [mailto:whitni.watkins@gmail.com Whitni Watkins] - Primary Contact aka Chair (Boston-ish) -- Twitter: @_whitni
* [mailto:acollier@calstate.edu Aaron Collier] - Local Planning Contact/Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair (Southern California) -- Twitter: @aaronisbrewing
* [mailto:wendy.hagenmaier@gmail.com Wendy Hagenmaier] - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* [mailto:katherly@upenn.edu Katherine Lynch] - Volunteer
* [mailto:matt.r.sherman@gmail.com Matt Sherman] - Volunteer
* [mailto:ranti.junus@gmail.com Ranti Junus] - Volunteer (Michigan State University)

== 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.

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* [mailto:jsabol@marymountcalifornia.edu Jeffrey Sabol] - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair/Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== Childcare Committee ==
This group assess the need for childcare at the conference, organizes childcare options, determines cost, and liaises with parents and chilcare providers

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== 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.

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== Onsite Volunteer Committee ==
This committee wrangles <s>tributes</s> people to volunteer for the following duties:

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== Social Activities ==
This committee works closely with the local programming committee in organizing events outside of conference hours. This committee is in charge of organizing the Newcomer Dinner (traditionally held the night before the first day of the main conference) as well as ensuring that there is a variety of different events to cater to different interests (alcoholic/non-alcoholic, carnivore/vegan, mainstream/niche, and everything in between).

Conference goers - The page you are looking for is at [[2017 Social Activities]]

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* 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 (?), and, of course, actually running the camera during the conference.

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== Code4Lib 2017 Host Voting Committee ==
This committee organizes the call for hosts for the next annual code4lib conference as well as the voting process.

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== Wifi/Electrical ==
Arguably the most important committee. Coordinates with the local programming committee and the conference venue to ensure that wifi will be functioning for 450 people x 3 to 4 wifi enabled devices per person... as well as ensuring that there is ample power for folks to plug said devices in at the conference. Note that this will largely be handled by the conference management company.

* [mailto:cgordon@chillco.com Cary Gordon] - Primary Contact/Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* 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 (for example, free private repo from Github or license for oXygen). They also handle the raffle at the conference (with a randomizer to do the drawing of names).

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== IRC & Slack Committee ==
Coordinate with freenode to ensure that the #code4lib IRC & Slack channels can handle the extra traffic during the conference. Also responsible for recruiting and advertising IRC helpers at the conference.

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* [mailto:cgordon@chillco.com Cary Gordon] - Local Planning Contact/Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== Accessibility Committee ==
Document and address major points of the conference that are not accessible for conference attendees (physical and virtual).

* [mailto:katherly@upenn.edu Katherine Lynch] - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* [mailto:brian-rogers@utc.edu Brian Rogers] - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* 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.

* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
* Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
* Your Name Here - Documentarian
* Your Name Here - Volunteer

== Additional Committees ==
Placeholder for potential additional committees, including the fabled jackpot of all committees, the Committee on Committees.

[[Category:Code4Lib2017]]

2016 Social Activities

2016-03-09T16:34:16Z

Sdellis: added public lyrics folder

The Social Activities Group is working on several events and social opportunities for after conference hours. We will be adding more events as they come along. Watch this page!

Also, if you find a cool event to go to, and want to share the wealth with others, feel free to add the event to the page. :)

== Planned Events ==

=== Newcomer Dinner, Monday, March 7th ===

First time at code4lib? Join fellow c4l newbies and veterans for an evening of food, socializing, and stimulating <strike>discussions about</strike> demonstrations of the many uses of <strike>bacon</strike> <strike>XML</strike> <strike>EZProxy</strike> <strike>LibGuides alternatives</strike> spreadsheets.

Code4Lib veterans, you're invited too. Join us in welcoming the newcomers!

''' [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TYZgZynp0e2q1Mqof_xMH1b-QbqOSmowhI4ms22LA8A/edit#heading=h.qvrpxlt089gj Sign Up Form]'''

'''Plans'''
* When: Monday, March 7th
* Time: 6 PM (ish) or whenever you can get your group together
* Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:b.yoose@gmail.com Becky Yoose]

''Guidelines:''
*Max of '''6''' per group
**Please, no waitlisting
**Some restaurants can hold multiple groups of six. It is up to you to investigate the venue to see if this is possible.
*ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group
**New folks - n
**c4l vets - v
*One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - '''Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group''')
**Leader duties
***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library tech type folks
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)
*See a restaurant that's not listed? Feel free to add one, '''but please make sure that it is open that Monday evening.'''

=== Reception at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia / Mütter Museum , Tuesday, March 8th ===

All attendees are invited to join us for a "disturbingly informative" opening reception at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, home of America’s finest museum of medical history. [http://muttermuseum.org/ The Mütter Museum] displays its beautifully preserved collections of anatomical specimens, models, and medical instruments in a 19th-century “cabinet museum” setting.

The reception includes an open bar and free access to the museum exhibits from 5:45PM through 7:45PM. We will also provide a selection of vegan, vegetarian, and omnivore friendly appetizers featuring: Pennsylvania flatbreads, a locally-sourced variety of sausages, and a Mediterranean spread that includes three different varieties of hummus and other plates.

=== LibTechWomen Meetup, Wednesday, March 9th ===

An informal meetup for women and their friends in library technology organized by [http://libtechwomen.org/ #libtechwomen]. No need to RSVP. We'll make sure there's an announcement ahead of time, and some of us will be in the hotel lobby at 5:15 to point people in the right direction.

When: Wednesday, March 9th - 5:30pm - 7pm

Where: [http://www.nationalmechanics.com/ National Mechanics] ([http://nationalmechanics.com/philadelphia-restaurant-menu menu]) at [http://nationalmechanics.com/philadelphia-hours-directions 22 South 3rd St]

Come have a drink (soda is a fine choice!) Eat a snack or a big meal. Stay as long as you want. We just want a good time for the community to connect and chat.

NOTE: There is a small chance we might overcrowd National Mechanics. If we do, there many options within one block. We'll make sure to coordinate such "satellites" if need be.

Questions? Contact [mailto:deibel@uw.edu Kate]

=== Play and Share in the Conference Hotel, Wednesday, March 9th ===
A large space in the conference hotel will be available for conference attendees to gather and socialize, play games and share goodies. We will be providing tables and chairs for Board Game Night ([https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y9Iz_tLu6j0gUAeq3iVWQTdSAIDOFaJryzswXF41tgs/edit#gid=0 list of games being brought]), and some attendees are planning to organize an acoustic jam session. You are also welcome to bring stuff to share, from craft sodas and beers to baked goods to local treats ([https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23cannoli4lib&src=typd #cannoli4lib]).

If you would like to play, sing, or just request a song (Board Game Night folks might want to do this!) put title and lyrics here (if you can get chords, awesome, but optional):
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9yITJp3NQ-5X25iUUVwN0VxT0U Song Requests Go Here]

== Social Map - Places of Interest==

== Ideas ==

* A trip to [http://barcadephiladelphia.com/food/ Barcade] for vintage arcade games, craft beer, and tacos. Only a ten minute train ride from the conference hotel.
* #jog4lib - currently being planned on the [https://code4lib.slack.com code4lib Slack channel].

== Local Food ==

=== Restaurants ===
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Variety of Food
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Address
! scope="col" | Distance from Hotel (miles)
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Cost
! scope="col" | Take Reservations
! scope="col" | Veg*n Friendly
|-
| [http://www.khyberpasspub.com/ Khyber Pass Pub] || Gastropub/Cajun || 56 SW. 2nd Street || 0.1 || $$ || no || yes
|-
| [http://www.citytavern.com/ City Tavern] || 18th Century American (historical + founding father's beer recipes) || 138 S. 2nd Street || 0.1 || $$$ || yes || meh
|-
| [http://www.zahavrestaurant.com/ Zahav] || Israeli || 237 St. James Place || 0.2 || $$$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://handynasty.net/oldcity/hours/ Han Dynasty] || Chinese || 123 Chestnut Street || 0.2 || $$ || meh || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.2ndstorybrewing.com/ 2nd Story Brewing Co] || Brewpub || 117 Chestnut Street || 0.2 || $$ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.franklinfountain.com/ Franklin Fountain] || Ice Cream || 116 Market Street || 0.2 || $$ || no- cash only || yes
|-
| [http://philadelphia.amadarestaurant.com/ Amada] || Tapas (Jose Garces) || 217 Chestnut Street || 0.2 || $$$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://www.eulogybar.com/ Eulogy Belgian Tavern] || Belgian || 136 Chestnut Street || 0.2 || $$ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://karmaphiladelphia.com Karma Indian Restaurant] || Indian || 114 Chestnut St || 0.2 || $$ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://ploughstars.com/ The Plough & the Stars] || Irish Pub || 123 Chestnut Street || 0.2 || $$ || yes || meh
|-
| [http://farmiciarestaurant.com/ FARMiCiA] || Farm to Table || 15 S. 3rd Street || 0.3|| $$-$$$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://www.mybierstube.com/ Bierstube] || German Beer Hall || 206 Market Street || 0.3 || $ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://forkrestaurant.com/ Fork] || New American || 306 Market Street || 0.3 || $$$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://highstreetonmarket.com/ High Street on Market] || New American || 308 Market Street || 0.3 || $$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://www.capogirogelato.com/ Capofitto Pizza and Gelato] || Neapolitan pizza || 233 Chestnut Street || 0.3 || $$ || || yes
|-
| [http://www.buddakan.com/ Buddakan] || Asian Fusion || 325 Chestnut Street || 0.3 || $$$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://macstavern.com/ Mac's Tavern] || Gastropub/New American || 226 Market Street || 0.3 || $$ || no || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.thegaslightphilly.com/ The Gaslight] || New American || 120 Market Street || 0.3 || $$ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.nationalmechanics.com/ National Mechanics] || Traditional American || 22 S. 3rd Street || 0.4 || $$ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.pizzeriastella.net/ Pizzeria Stella] || Pizza/Italian || 215 Lombard Street || 0.5 || $$ || no || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.talulasgarden.com/ Talula's Garden] || New American || 210 W. Washington Sq. || 0.5 || $$$ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.cooperagephilly.com/ Cooperage] || Gastropub/New American || 123 S. 7th Street || 0.5 || $$ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.tamarindsouthstreet.com/new/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=28 Tamarind] || Thai || 117 South St. || 0.5 || $$ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://hikaruphilly.com/ Hikaru] || Japanese || 607 S 2nd St || 0.5 || $$ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.bridgetfoys.com/ Bridget Foy's] || Traditional American || 200 South Street || 0.6 || $$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://www.famous4thstreetdelicatessen.com/index_flash.html Famous 4th Street Delicatessen] || Sandwiches/Breakfast || 700 S. 4th Street || 0.6 || $$ || no || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.morimotorestaurant.com/ Morimoto] || Japanese (YES Morimoto works the sushi bar some nights) || 723 Chestnut Street || 0.6 || $$$$ || yes || meh
|-
| [http://wedgeandfig.com/ Wedge + Fig] || New American/Cheese Bistro || 160 N. 3rd Street || 0.6 || $$$ || ||
|-
| [http://www.jones-restaurant.com/ Jones] || American comfort food (Stephen Starr) || 700 Chestnut St. || 0.6 || $$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://www.blackbirdpizzeria.com/ Blackbird] || Pizza/Vegan || 507 S. 6th Street || 0.7 || $ || no || yes
|-
| [http://www.serpicoonsouth.com/ Serpico] || New American || 604 South Street || 0.7 || $$$ || yes ||
|-
| [http://tattooedmomphilly.com/menu Tattooed Mom] || Pub Grub || 530 South Street || 0.7 || $ || no || yes
|-
| [http://bistrotlaminette.com/ Bistrot La Minette] || French || 623 S. 6th Street || 0.8 || $$$ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.brauhausschmitz.com/ Brauhaus Schmitz] || German || 718 South Street || 0.9 || $$ || yes || vegetarian
|-
| [http://catahoulaphilly.com/ Catahoula] || Cajun/Creole || 775 S. Front Street || 0.9 || $$ || no || no
|-
| [http://littlefishbyob.com/ Little Fish] || Seafood || 746 S. 6th Street || 0.9 || $$$ || yes || no
|-
| [http://strangelovesbeerbar.com/ Strangelove's] || New American / Craft Beer || 216 S. 11th Street || 0.8 || $$ || yes || veg*n friendly
|-
| [http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/ Reading Terminal Market] || Market/Grocery || 12th and Arch Street || 0.9 || $$ || ||
|-
| [http://strangelovesbeerbar.com/ Strangelove's] || Gastropub || 216 S. 11th St || 0.9 - 1 || $$ || yes || yes (veg*ns & carnivores welcome)
|-
| [http://www.triacafe.com/ Tria Cafe] || Wine & Cheese || 1137 Spruce St. || 1.0 || $$-$$$ || no || yes
|-
| [http://www.fooderybeer.com/ The Foodery] || Bottleshop/Sandwiches || 10th and Pine Streets || 1 || $-$$$ || ||
|-
| [http://www.capogirogelato.com/ Capogiro Gelato] || Gelato || 119 S. 13th Street || 1 || $$ || || yes
|-
| [http://www.percystreet.com/ Percy Street Barbecue] || Barbecue || 900 South Street || 1 || $$ || yes || no
|-
| [http://www.742vegantree.com/ Vegan Tree] || Vegan || 742 South St. || 1 || $ || no || yes
|-
| [http://www.blindpigphilly.com/The_Blind_Pig_Philadelphia-_Northern_Liberties_Restaurant_and_Bar_-_Home.html Blind Pig] || Pub food || 702 N 2nd Street || 1.1 || $$ || no || meh
|-
| [http://charliewasasinner.com/ Charlie was a sinner] || Vegan bar || 131 S. 13th St. || 1.1 || $$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://www.silkcityphilly.com/ Silk City Diner] || New American || 435 Spring Garden St || 1.2 || $$ || no || meh
|-
| [http://www.suxinghouse.com/index.html Su Xing House] || Chinese || 1509 Sansom Street || 1.3 || $ || || vegetarian
|-
| [http://news.standardtap.com.s86406.gridserver.com/ The Standard Tap] || Pub Grub || 901 North 2nd Street || 1.3 || $$ || no || yes
|-
| [http://www.fooderybeer.com/ The Foodery] || Bottleshop/Sandwiches || 2nd and Poplar Streets || 1.3 || $-$$$ || ||
|-
| [http://www.coeurphilly.com/ Coeur] || Gastropub || 8th St. at Christian St. || 1.3 || $$-$$$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://kennettrestaurant.multiscreensite.com/ Kennett] || Gastropub/New American || 848 S. 2nd Street || 1.4 || $$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://honeyssitneat.com/ Honey's Sit 'n Eat] || Diner/Homestyle || 800 N. 4th St. || 1.4 || $ || no - CASH ONLY || yes
|-
| [http://www.jasminericebyob.com/ Jasmine Rice] || Thai || 306 S. 16th St. || 1.5 || $$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://www.triacafe.com/ Tria Cafe] || Wine & Cheese || 123 S. 18th St. || 1.5 || $$-$$$ || no || yes
|-
| [http://www.monkscafe.com/ Monk's Cafe] || Belgian || 264 S 16th St || 1.8 || $$ || no || yes
|-
| [http://philadelphia.villagewhiskey.com Village Whiskey] || Whiskey pub (Jose Garces) || 118 S 20th St || 2 || $$ || no || vegetarian
|-
| [http://www.mamasvegetarian.com/ Mama's Vegetarian] || Kosher || 18 S 20TH STREET || 2.1 || $ || no- cash only || yes
|-
| [http://www.thebelgiancafe.com/ The Belgian Cafe] || Belgian/Pub (Great beer list) || 601 North 21st Street || 3.3 || $$ || no || yes
|-
| [http://garcesgroup.com/restaurants#pennsylvania Jose Garces Restaurants] || various || various || $$-$$$$ || yes || yes
|-
| [http://www.starr-restaurant.com/ Stephen Starr Restaurants] || various || various || various || $$-$$$$ || yes || yes
|}

=== Donuts ===

[http://www.federaldonuts.com/ Federal Donuts]

=== Desserts ===

* [http://www.franklinfountain.com/ Franklin Fountain] - Old City
* [http://shanecandies.com/blog/ Shane Confectionery] - Old City
* [http://www.capogirogelato.com/ Capogiro Gelato] - Center City; South Philly; West Philly
* [http://bassettsicecream.com/ Bassett's Ice Cream] - in Reading Terminal Market
* [http://www.flyingmonkeyphilly.com/ Flying Monkey] - in Reading Terminal Market
* [http://maxbrenner.com/ Max Brenner Chocolate Bar] - Rittenhouse
* [http://www.bestcannoli.com/ Isgro Pasticceria] - South Philly -- CANNOLI
* [http://www.iluvmagpie.com/ Magpie Artisan Pie Bakery & Boutique] - South Philly
* [http://johnswaterice.com/ John's Water Ice] - South Philly -- pronounced "wooder ice"
* [http://www.termini.com/ Termini Brothers] - Italian Market -- CANNOLI
* [http://www.varallobrothersbakery.com/store/ Varallo Bros. Bakery] - Italian Market -- CANNOLI
* [http://brownbettydesserts.com/ Brown Betty Dessert Boutique] - NoLibs (Northern Liberties)
* [http://www.lilpopshop.com/ Lil' Pop Shop] -- West Philly
* [http://www.littlebabysicecream.com/ Little Baby's Ice Cream] -- East Kensington and West Philly
* [http://www.ritasice.com/ Rita's Water Ice] - various -- pronounced "wooder ice"

=== Coffee ===
* [http://bodhicoffeephila.com/menu-2/ Bodhi Coffee]
* [http://greenlinecafe.com/ Green Line Cafe]
* [https://www.greenstreetcoffee.com/ Greenstreet Coffee Co.]
* [https://oldcitycoffee.com/ Old City Coffee]
* [http://www.menageriecoffee.com/ Menagerie Coffee]
* [http://www.saxbyscoffee.com/index.html Saxby's]
* [http://www.hubbubcoffee.com/ HubBub Coffee]
* [http://www.elixrcoffee.com/ Elixr]
* [http://www.rivalbros.com/ Rival Bros.]
* [http://cakeandthebeanstalk.com/ Cake and the Beanstalk]
* [http://www.shottowercoffee.com/ Shot Tower Coffee]

== Local Drinks ==

=== Bars ===

Everywhere.

=== Breweries ===

* [http://yardsbrewing.com/ Yards] -- NoLibs (Northern Liberties)
* [http://philadelphiabrewing.com/ Philadelphia Brewing] -- Fishtown
* [https://www.manayunkbrewery.com/ Manayunk Brewery] -- Manayunk (of course)
* [http://www.2ndstorybrewing.com/ 2nd Story] -- Center City East (Old City/Society Hill)
* [http://stbenjaminbrewing.com/ Saint Benjamin] -- North Philly
* [http://www.dockstreetbeer.com/ Dock Street] -- West Philly; also has great pizza! Take the 34 Trolley ("Green Line") out to Baltimore and 50th St.
* [http://crimeandpunishmentbrewingco.com/ Crime & Punishment] -- Brewerytown
* [http://earthbreadbrewery.com/ Earth Bread + Brewery] -- Mt. Airy
* [http://www.ironhillbrewery.com/chestnuthill/ Iron Hill Brewery] -- Chestnut Hill/Germantown
* [http://www.victorybeer.com/ Victory] -- Downingtown
* '''''Honorable mention''''': [http://www.tiredhands.com/cafe/ Tired Hands] -- Ardmore; a little bit of a hike but well worth it!
* '''''Regional''''': [http://www.slyfoxbeer.com/ Sly Fox]
* '''''Regional BUT America's Oldest Brewery!''''' [http://www.yuengling.com/ Yuengling]
* [http://www.ripsneakers.com/nodding/ Nodding Head Brewing] -- status unknown

=== Bottle Shops and Taprooms ===

* [http://www.fooderybeer.com/ The Foodery] || 10th and Pine Streets || 1 mile
* [https://www.facebook.com/BeerHeavenPhiladelphia/ Beer Heaven] || 1100 S. Columbus Blvd. || 1.1 miles
* [http://fooderyrittenhouse.com/ The Foodery Rittenhouse] || 1710 Sansom St. || 1.4 miles
* [http://www.hawthornecafe.com/about/ Hawthorne] || 738 S. 11th St. || 1.3 miles
* [http://bottleshopbeer.com/ Bottle Shop] || 1616 East Passyunk || 1.8 miles
* [http://mondemarket.blogspot.com/ Monde Market] || 100 S. 21st St. || 1.8 miles
* [http://bottlebareast.com/ Bottle Bar East] || 1308 Frankford Ave. || 2 miles
* [http://brewphiladelphia.com/ Brew, a beer boutique] || 1900 S. 15th St. || 2.3 miles -- shares space with [http://www.ultimocoffee.com/ Ultimo Coffee]
* [http://local44beerbar.com/bottleshop.htm Local 44 Bottle Shop] || 44th and Spruce Sts., West Philly || 3.6 miles -- SEPTA 42 bus stops right in front!

== Philadelphia Events ==

=== Saturday and Sunday, March 5 & 6 ===

Sunday
[http://www.barnesfoundation.org/visit/philadelphia/free-first-sundays First Free Sunday at the Barnes Foundation!]

[http://www.songkick.com/concerts/25150589-leon-bridges-at-fillmore-philadelphia Leon Bringes and Son Little] - Killer night of R&B/ Soul including Philly's own [http://sonlittlemusic.net/#sonlittle Son Little]

[http://www.songkick.com/concerts/25331894-blanck-mass-at-johnny-brendas Blanck Mass at Johnny Brendas] - Electronic /Drone show at a great Philadelphia venue

=== Monday, March 7 ===

=== Tuesday, March 8 ===

[https://www.fi.edu/event/2016-03-08/science-after-hours Party Like a Rock Star at the Science Museum Started by Ben Franklin] - 7:00pm to 10:00pm

Tune those axes and crank up the volume as Science After Hours travels into a world of lost inhibitions—we’ll take you from Woodstock to Punk Rock celebrating all things rock and roll!
Learn how instruments are designed to produce different sounds and the science of how those sounds reach your brain. Rock out to the science of pyrotechnics, ... an evening better than a trip to Bonnaroo (or, at least, more scientific). $15 (Purchase Tickets in advance)

[http://www.12stepsdown.com/ SUPER! Karaoke starting @9pm w/ @singyourlifekaraoke] @ 12 Steps Down - 9pm+

A bar + mic + liberal amounts of bathroom graffiti = Tuesdays at 12 Steps Down. Gritty and by all accounts glorious though be warned: A smoking venue.

=== Wednesday, March 9 ===

[http://www.songkick.com/concerts/25664299-french-horn-rebellion-at-milkboy-philly French Horn Rebellion, Mystery Skulls] - No French Horns were harmed in the making of these beats

[http://www.hive76.org/ South Philadelphia Hackerspace Open House 7-9 PM ] If interested, add name to list [https://oasis.sandstorm.io/shared/Lo-9k04s0C5En4qBtLKIGVFIbESEkilaD0_yBH5V_c8 Open house @ Hive 76 Ride Share list]

[http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2016/02/29/design-for-real-life/ "Design for Real Life" Book Release Party] - 6:00PM - 8:00PM, Frankford Hall, 1210 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia

Sara [Wachter-Boettcher] and [Eric Meyer] will be hosting, with incredibly generous support from A Book Apart and [http://phillychi.acm.org/ PhillyCHI], [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/design-for-real-life-book-release-party-sponsored-by-a-book-apart-tickets-22295452298 a launch party at Frankford Hall] in Philadelphia.  We’ll be providing some munchies, some tasty adult beverages, and there will be giveaways of both paper and digital copies of the [https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-real-life book].  We’d love to see you there!  If you can make it, please do RSVP at that link, so we know how much food to order.

=== Thursday, March 10 ===

[https://www.fi.edu/event/2016-03-09/night-skies-observatory Sisters of the Stars: Women of Astronomy and Space Science ] 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Though not always in the limelight, throughout history women have shined as groundbreaking scientists and intrepid team members pursuing amazing discoveries and the daring exploration of space. Join us as we highlight the women behind some of the most extraordinary adventures in the universe. $5

[http://phillydevnight.com Philly Dev Night] - 7pm every Thursday, Philly Dev Night opens the [http://phillygameforge.com/ Philly Game Forge] (right down the street, 239 Chestnut St.) to anyone who wants to make, play, write, draw, or smell games. "It doesn't matter if you're an aspiring game developer, artist, writer, or even just a gamer; Dev Night will have something to offer. We talk games, play games, make games, compete, collaborate, and share. Dev Night is a creative time for creative people in a creative space."

=== All days ===
[http://www.visitphilly.com/events/philadelphia/philadelphia-international-flower-show/ The 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show], March 5 - 13, Pennsylvania Convention Center

[http://www.visitphilly.com/events/philadelphia/picasso-the-great-war-experimentation-and-change-at-the-barnes/ Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change], Barnes Foundation - this museum uses timed tickets; strongly advised to book in advance

[http://www.visitphilly.com/museums-attractions/philadelphia/the-golden-age-of-king-midas-at-the-penn-museum/ The Golden Age of King Midas], Penn Museum

[http://www.visitphilly.com/events/philadelphia/international-pop-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art/ International Pop], Philadelphia Museum of Art

[http://www.visitphilly.com/events/philadelphia/headed-to-the-white-house-at-the-national-constitution-center/ Headed to the White House], National Constitution Center

[http://www.visitphilly.com/events/philadelphia/drapetomania-at-the-african-american-museum-in-philadelphia/ Drapetomania], African American Museum

[http://www.visitphilly.com/events/philadelphia/down-the-rabbit-hole-celebrating-alice-in-wonderland-at-the-rosenbach/ Down the Rabbit Hole: Celebrating 150 Years of Alice in Wonderland], The Rosenbach

==Getting Around==
All info on getting to the hotel is on the conference website: http://2016.code4lib.org/venue.html

[[Category:Code4Lib2016]]

2016 Conference Volunteers

2016-01-27T01:55:42Z

Sdellis: Signed up for Reg Desk duties

Code4Lib 2016 Volunteers sign-up page. As roles are identified, the page will be periodically updated with new opportunities to volunteer.

For general questions, or if you identify a volunteer need not covered in the list below, feel free to contact David Uspal (LPC Committee Contact for Volunteers) at david DOT uspal AT villanova DOT edu.

== Welcome Wagon/Concierge Committee ==

Helps with greeting newcomers, directing people to evening activities and local points of interest, etc. and being generally awesome to the community.
*
*

== Conference Logistics ==

Sets up registration table, signage and welcome packets, ensures proper power availability to conference attendees, etc.

Sunday:
* Katherine Lynch
*

Monday:
*
*

== Preconference Setup Help ==

Help manage preconference sessions, setting up projectors, etc.

Sheraton Society Hill (Conference Hotel):
*

Chemical Heritage Foundation:
*

Franklin Hall:
*

== Social Networking ==

Answering general questions on Twitter and IRC:
*
*

Ask questions on mic on behalf of community (because of distance, mic aversion, etc)

Tuesday:
*

Wednesday:
*

Thursday:
*

== IRC (Technical) ==

Access:
Look into technology/procedures to make connecting to, and maintaining a connection to, IRC less painful. i.e. make sure wifi will allow connection, and someone needs to contact freenode about the sudden influx of people.
* Mx Matienzo (anarchivist)

Helper:
Demonstrate how to get onto #code4lib during Registration. Offer support for newcomers in #code4lib during the conference.
*

==Registration Desk Volunteers==

Monday:
* Shaun Ellis
* Katherine Lynch

Tuesday:
*

Wednesday:
*

==MCs==

Tuesday AM:
* David Lacy

Tuesday PM:
* Shaun Ellis

Wednesday AM:
*

Wednesday PM:
* Katherine Lynch

Thursday AM:
*

== Session Timer Volunteers ==

People who volunteer to sit up front, keep time (and bring timer equipment - i.e. a laptop or tablet with a stopwatch program). It's good to have two people in each slot to back each other up in case of machinery failure.

Tuesday AM:
*
*

Tuesday PM:
*
* Katherine Lynch

Wednesday AM:
*
*

Wednesday PM:
*
*

Thursday AM:
*
*

== The Whatever Crew ==

*
* Katherine Lynch

[[Category: Code4Lib2016]]

2016 Conference Volunteers

2016-01-27T01:53:03Z

Sdellis: Signed up for MC duties

Code4Lib 2016 Volunteers sign-up page. As roles are identified, the page will be periodically updated with new opportunities to volunteer.

For general questions, or if you identify a volunteer need not covered in the list below, feel free to contact David Uspal (LPC Committee Contact for Volunteers) at david DOT uspal AT villanova DOT edu.

== Welcome Wagon/Concierge Committee ==

Helps with greeting newcomers, directing people to evening activities and local points of interest, etc. and being generally awesome to the community.
*
*

== Conference Logistics ==

Sets up registration table, signage and welcome packets, ensures proper power availability to conference attendees, etc.

Sunday:
* Katherine Lynch
*

Monday:
*
*

== Preconference Setup Help ==

Help manage preconference sessions, setting up projectors, etc.

Sheraton Society Hill (Conference Hotel):
*

Chemical Heritage Foundation:
*

Franklin Hall:
*

== Social Networking ==

Answering general questions on Twitter and IRC:
*
*

Ask questions on mic on behalf of community (because of distance, mic aversion, etc)

Tuesday:
*

Wednesday:
*

Thursday:
*

== IRC (Technical) ==

Access:
Look into technology/procedures to make connecting to, and maintaining a connection to, IRC less painful. i.e. make sure wifi will allow connection, and someone needs to contact freenode about the sudden influx of people.
* Mx Matienzo (anarchivist)

Helper:
Demonstrate how to get onto #code4lib during Registration. Offer support for newcomers in #code4lib during the conference.
*

==Registration Desk Volunteers==

Monday:
*
* Katherine Lynch

Tuesday:
*

Wednesday:
*

==MCs==

Tuesday AM:
* David Lacy

Tuesday PM:
* Shaun Ellis

Wednesday AM:
*

Wednesday PM:
* Katherine Lynch

Thursday AM:
*

== Session Timer Volunteers ==

People who volunteer to sit up front, keep time (and bring timer equipment - i.e. a laptop or tablet with a stopwatch program). It's good to have two people in each slot to back each other up in case of machinery failure.

Tuesday AM:
*
*

Tuesday PM:
*
* Katherine Lynch

Wednesday AM:
*
*

Wednesday PM:
*
*

Thursday AM:
*
*

== The Whatever Crew ==

*
* Katherine Lynch

[[Category: Code4Lib2016]]

Code4Lib Conference Lessons Learned

2015-11-19T14:29:48Z

Sdellis: /* Ideas! */

=== Venue planning and negotiation ===

* A conference services planning organization, like CONCENTRA, has significant experience in contract details that volunteer planners would unlikely have.
* Venue negotiation takes a significant amount of time. Total of 4-5 months of visits, informational calls, and negotiations.
* Hotel block negotiations are valuable, especially in the fine print of cancellation clauses, re-selling of unsold rooms, penalties of underselling, and scheduled kickbacks at certain increments.
* When looking at space capacities, make sure you find out how many attendees can REALLY fit in a given space. The advertised numbers seem to be artificially inflated; ask to see a room layout graphic with A/V in place (we lost 15% of stated capacity at least to A/V in 2014).
* Regardless of how strongly we communicate to the venue the pressures we'll be placing on their wifi, they almost always have trouble keeping up with our connection weight (especially hotels).
* Power cords! More than you think!
* Overall, the 2014 group began working on venue negotiation and sponsorships in June 2013 for a conference taking place in March 2014.

==== Internet ====
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility have a minimum of one (1) wireless access point per 75 attendees.
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility plan to support 2 wireless connections per attendee
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility have a minimum of 100 Mb per second bandwidth. Encourage hotel or conference facility to increase capacity to 1 Gb per second during conference. (Expect to pay more for this.)

=== Organizing Volunteers ===

* It's helpful to have a local representative on all volunteer committees to help grease the wheels.
* A Google Calendar worked well in 2014 for establishing all deadlines across all committees.
* A regularly occurring meeting of some planning group helps keep things moving.
* See [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_2014_Conference_Planning_Volunteers|documentation and timelines] for 2014 volunteer committees.

=== Program & Keynotes ===

* Set consistent proposal opening/closing, voting opening/closing dates and times. At the very least, we should be able to agree across keynote/presentation/tshirt committees on a common time to close submissions (this year, we had closing times at 5pm, 8pm, and 11:59pm PT).
* It's useful to ask nominees about their availability and willingness to attend before voting so that the community is only voting on real candidates (as opposed to wishful thinking).
* If a podium computer is provided, make it available at the registration desk during the preconference day.
* Whenever possible, retain breakout sessions. Wednesday was a very full day and several attendees mentioned that having more breaks outside of the single track talks would have been good.

=== Pre-conferences ===
* Consider a winnowing process for pre-conferences to limit them in advance of registration to the number of rooms that you have. Could either do advance voting like with talks, or say that you have x number of rooms and take the top x pre-conferences, etc. We set a 5-person registration minimum for A/V support this year, and found that all the pre-conferences met that limit (all 19 of them!) so it was not particularly useful. (Adam Constabaris [first dot last, lowercased at gmail] from the 2014 committee has a working database schema and a vague idea about incorporating voting on preconferences into the Diebold-o-Tron)
* Ask ahead of time to find out if pre-conf organizers are planning to open their pre-confs to non-conference attendees.
* Some preconferences work a lot better with special seating arrangements, enrollment caps, etc. Some support for allowing preconf presenters to request/implement such arrangements would be worth considering.
* Pre-conference organizers will likely want to know before registration opens whether or not their pre-conference is actually going to happen (relevant if there are too many proposed for the space to support).
* Communicate early and often with organizers and have a plan for '''getting a solid schedule''' as early as possible (this can help some organizers provide the needed justification to their institutions for travel support). Consider this in light of your winnowing process.
* (Also applies to the A/V section) find out as much as possible about the rooms at the venue, including the layout and suitability to different session styles, and wifi, power availability, etc. up front.
* Preconference presenters should provide links, in advance, to any software needed. If the presenter would suggest the use of vagrant or docker (or whatever else is out there), then links to those tools, plus good, easy implementation instructions, should also be supplied in advance. In addition, if the workshop is going to feature a particular language or framework, that should be specified in advance as well. (why no, I *don't* know how to spin up a web server on my Windoze laptop; at work I do it in Linux!)
** Even if you provide the links beforehand, presenters should bring a few thumb drives with the software/files/etc. as well just in case something needs to be reinstalled or there are a few slackers who didn't read their pre-workshop e-mails.
** Or a LibraryBox! Some workshops have slides, data, handouts, etc all on a LibraryBox, so you aren't relying on the web to get those files passed around.

=== Sponsorships ===

* 46.8% of the estimated cost of C4L2014 was provided by sponsorships. The registration cost of $165 per person covered another 46.8%. The remaining balance of C4L2013 covered the remaining 6-7%.
* To keep registration costs low, it is critical the Sponsorship Committee raise a minimum of $50,000 per year. [This really depends on the overall venue costs. If the conference is hosted on a college campus, the costs tend to be much lower, and therefore the amount of sponsorship needed is much lower - jaf]
* The [http://code4lib.org/node/487|Code4Lib2014 Sponsorship Prospectus] was a '''significant''' tool in raising money in 2014.
* It is the Sponsorship Committee's responsibility to gather all sponsor logos. Request both color and black & white Vector formats (eps, svg) as they will yeild the best results. Label all files appropriately and put in a place that can be easily shared with the t-shirt committee.

=== Registration/Attendance ===

* To ensure registration Presenters, Preconference Organizers, and Sponsors (Platinum, Gold, and Table), initial registration was capped at 25 fewer people than the venue's capacity. This filled in approximately 48 hours.
* Demand for Code4Lib 2014 was 450 based on registrations and wait list.
* In 2014 local registrations by the hosting libraries (Duke, NCSU, UNC) was 41 registrations.
* CONCENTRA's registration system had some technical limitations as to data input and flow, but CONCENTRA handled all processing with little assistance by volunteers.
* Waitlist was well-handled by a Google Form, as the registration system didn't have built-in waitlist functionality.

=== T-shirts / Swag ===

* Getting sizing that works for everyone [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/T-shirts is hard].
** Nevertheless, there is value in providing as diverse a selection of sizes and cuts as is practicable.
** A women's 2XL is basically a men's Medium from some vendors.
* There may be some design fatigue in the community.
* Consider some other type of swag that doesn't involve sizing difficulties -- like re-usable coffee mugs (then attendees could use them all conference!)
* Sponsor logos should be gathered by the Sponsorship Committee as they are the ones "selling" the logo spots on the t-shirts and have sponsor contacts
* When putting out a call for graphics/designs, ensure that the formats submitted are usable in production (e.g. vector formats).

=== Food/Beverage ===
* Coffee in unlimited quantities is valued more highly than food at breaks.
* Using negotiation to buy "off menu" will save money.
* Make sure that you ask about dietary requirements during registration so that you can accommodate vegan / vegetarian / gluten-free / nut allergies / Kosher, etc.
* Less than 65% of the attendees ate breakfast at the conference in 2014. Each day of the conference, the number of attendees at breakfast declined.
* 97% of the attendees ate lunch at the conference in 2014. The number of attendees at lunch was consistent for both days.
* Less than 100 cans of soda were taken during the afternoon break of the first day in 2014; 50 cans of soda were taken during the afternoon break of the second day.

=== IRC ===
*Pay attention to the IPs you are assigned, make sure they are not PRIVATE (eg. 10,172.4-31,192.168)
*Start the process to get the freenode limit raised a month before to plan for any kinks!
*Announce channel logging a month or more ahead of time
* One benefit of not have great wireless was that people couldn't be distracted by IRC and were much more focused on the talks. Perhaps we need to re-consider the value of the IRC during the conference and encourage Twitter use instead.

=== Scholarships ===
* Ask folks to follow a file naming convention for any files they send. Using their full name in the filename.
* Make a note about how the committee ought to be addressed. Someone had a question about this and didn’t want to lose out because they weren’t formal enough. We can specify who the letter ought to be addressed to even if the packet is being sent to one person on the committee.
* If we have many scholarships, consider opening up the categories to a consideration just of financial need or others. This might encourage other sponsors to give. (Institutional diversity for scholarships. Regional scholarships. Rural librarian.)
* Ask that the statement of eligibility be in the first paragraph of the letter to make it easier to organize applications.
* Keep a list of everyone who has won a scholarship in the past.
* For the committee deliberations create a list of what factors to consider in selection. (e.g. How likely to be active in the community if awarded?) May allow some community supported guidelines to be put forward.
* In the initial notification letter of selection, let the person know they will also be asked to write a short bio. These can then be used by sponsors to promote the scholarship sponsorship.
* We got the suggestion to have badge ribbons for scholarship winners.
* The lunch the first day was a success. Make sure someone is responsible for checking the day of that tables will be reserved for this purpose.
* Promote the sponsors and the scholarship winners more via social media during the conference.
* Automatically invite keynote speakers to the scholarship lunch.

=== Registration/Sign-in (during conference) ===

* When a lot of people show up at once, it's best to split registration into lines based on last name.

=== Audio/Video ===

* Must set up and have a run-through the day before to test video.
* When talking to sales folks, get the REAL numbers on how many attendees will fit in a space (this means WITH A/V included, which could be 15% less or more than advertised capacities).
* Provide A/V info to speakers in advance (availability of computer, network availability, any additional software installs needed, etc.).

=== Child Care ===

=== Signage ===
* Print out a listing of the preconferences and their locations and give to a few volunteers to help attendees get to their destinations on time.
* Make sure there is a sign identifying the talk being given outside each room.

=== Ideas! ===

* Quiet room? Traditionally we've used the lobby as a de facto quiet room for folks wanting to take a break from the conference, but if there's an actual room that we can dedicate for taking a quiet break from the full blast of the fire hose, that would be great! More information at [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Quiet_room].
* Lanyards for whether it is OK to take photographs
* Add chairs to the front of the room so that lightning talk presenters can sit before they talk
** This needs to be planned in advance. C4L2014 was at capacity for the room, so this was not possible.
* Do not place a conference goer near the hospitality suite! Maybe make the hang out place a different area in the hotel or conference.
** Another possibility could be to have the room next to the hospitality room be reserved for a "suite steward" or "host" volunteer - aka a person that can look after the room in terms of cleanliness, drink/food stock, etc.
* Make the podium laptop desktop background a plain color with good contrast. After every group of presenters clean off the desktop to keep it quicker and easier for presenters to find their slides.
* Put someone at the front of the room who is responsible for helping presenters with the presenter computer.
* Podium Computer
** Most people use Mac laptops, so if there is only one podium computer, it should be a Mac. (TMM disagrees)
** Ideally, both a Mac and a Windows computer should be available. (TMM disagrees, see sub-bullet below)
*** Almost all of the presentations this year used standard formats (PPT, PDF, and HTML). The podium computer needs to be under the control of the A/V and Streaming Committees for their functions. Presenters should use a presentation standard.
** Several presenters had trouble with not being able to see what was being presented -- the podium computer(s) should be mirrored by default.
*** No, the podium computer should be setup as required for streaming and A/V setup. (TMM)
* Consider pre-combining lightning talks into a single slide deck to keep the flow going.
** This is difficult when lightning talk presenters want to do a live demo (TMM)
* Consider live closed captioning software for talks and streaming
** Another option is to have a stenographer or a live transcriber. @brainwane has had experience with a stenographer for one of her talks and it looked like that she was very pleased with the results...
* Twitter feed of #c4lYY on screens when no presenter is up (TMM edited IRC to Twitter because Twitter feed is safer, more professional, and more compliant to code of conduct)
** Twitter is no more CoC compliant than other online venues, including IRC. Each feed has its own risks in being viewed on the big screen (IRC in jokes vs Twitter hijacking of hashtags). (yo_bj)
* Consider switches at the tables
** what kind of switches?
* Add a Code4Lib logo to the podium
* Have someone whose job it is to collect questions during a presentation and that can then ask them. Allowing for anonymous questions may lead to more folks asking.
* Use [http://www.allourideas.org/ All Our Ideas] as a way to gather ideas and get community feedback. Great for Ask Anything, Q&A, BOF, Unconferency-planning, voting, etc.

Code4Lib Conference Lessons Learned

2015-11-19T14:24:33Z

Sdellis: /* Ideas! */

Code4Lib Conference Lessons Learned

2015-11-19T14:22:26Z

Sdellis:

=== Venue planning and negotiation ===

* A conference services planning organization, like CONCENTRA, has significant experience in contract details that volunteer planners would unlikely have.
* Venue negotiation takes a significant amount of time. Total of 4-5 months of visits, informational calls, and negotiations.
* Hotel block negotiations are valuable, especially in the fine print of cancellation clauses, re-selling of unsold rooms, penalties of underselling, and scheduled kickbacks at certain increments.
* When looking at space capacities, make sure you find out how many attendees can REALLY fit in a given space. The advertised numbers seem to be artificially inflated; ask to see a room layout graphic with A/V in place (we lost 15% of stated capacity at least to A/V in 2014).
* Regardless of how strongly we communicate to the venue the pressures we'll be placing on their wifi, they almost always have trouble keeping up with our connection weight (especially hotels).
* Power cords! More than you think!
* Overall, the 2014 group began working on venue negotiation and sponsorships in June 2013 for a conference taking place in March 2014.

==== Internet ====
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility have a minimum of one (1) wireless access point per 75 attendees.
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility plan to support 2 wireless connections per attendee
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility have a minimum of 100 Mb per second bandwidth. Encourage hotel or conference facility to increase capacity to 1 Gb per second during conference. (Expect to pay more for this.)

=== Organizing Volunteers ===

* It's helpful to have a local representative on all volunteer committees to help grease the wheels.
* A Google Calendar worked well in 2014 for establishing all deadlines across all committees.
* A regularly occurring meeting of some planning group helps keep things moving.
* See [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_2014_Conference_Planning_Volunteers|documentation and timelines] for 2014 volunteer committees.

=== Program & Keynotes ===

* Set consistent proposal opening/closing, voting opening/closing dates and times. At the very least, we should be able to agree across keynote/presentation/tshirt committees on a common time to close submissions (this year, we had closing times at 5pm, 8pm, and 11:59pm PT).
* It's useful to ask nominees about their availability and willingness to attend before voting so that the community is only voting on real candidates (as opposed to wishful thinking).
* If a podium computer is provided, make it available at the registration desk during the preconference day.
* Whenever possible, retain breakout sessions. Wednesday was a very full day and several attendees mentioned that having more breaks outside of the single track talks would have been good.

=== Pre-conferences ===
* Consider a winnowing process for pre-conferences to limit them in advance of registration to the number of rooms that you have. Could either do advance voting like with talks, or say that you have x number of rooms and take the top x pre-conferences, etc. We set a 5-person registration minimum for A/V support this year, and found that all the pre-conferences met that limit (all 19 of them!) so it was not particularly useful. (Adam Constabaris [first dot last, lowercased at gmail] from the 2014 committee has a working database schema and a vague idea about incorporating voting on preconferences into the Diebold-o-Tron)
* Ask ahead of time to find out if pre-conf organizers are planning to open their pre-confs to non-conference attendees.
* Some preconferences work a lot better with special seating arrangements, enrollment caps, etc. Some support for allowing preconf presenters to request/implement such arrangements would be worth considering.
* Pre-conference organizers will likely want to know before registration opens whether or not their pre-conference is actually going to happen (relevant if there are too many proposed for the space to support).
* Communicate early and often with organizers and have a plan for '''getting a solid schedule''' as early as possible (this can help some organizers provide the needed justification to their institutions for travel support). Consider this in light of your winnowing process.
* (Also applies to the A/V section) find out as much as possible about the rooms at the venue, including the layout and suitability to different session styles, and wifi, power availability, etc. up front.
* Preconference presenters should provide links, in advance, to any software needed. If the presenter would suggest the use of vagrant or docker (or whatever else is out there), then links to those tools, plus good, easy implementation instructions, should also be supplied in advance. In addition, if the workshop is going to feature a particular language or framework, that should be specified in advance as well. (why no, I *don't* know how to spin up a web server on my Windoze laptop; at work I do it in Linux!)
** Even if you provide the links beforehand, presenters should bring a few thumb drives with the software/files/etc. as well just in case something needs to be reinstalled or there are a few slackers who didn't read their pre-workshop e-mails.
** Or a LibraryBox! Some workshops have slides, data, handouts, etc all on a LibraryBox, so you aren't relying on the web to get those files passed around.

=== Sponsorships ===

* 46.8% of the estimated cost of C4L2014 was provided by sponsorships. The registration cost of $165 per person covered another 46.8%. The remaining balance of C4L2013 covered the remaining 6-7%.
* To keep registration costs low, it is critical the Sponsorship Committee raise a minimum of $50,000 per year. [This really depends on the overall venue costs. If the conference is hosted on a college campus, the costs tend to be much lower, and therefore the amount of sponsorship needed is much lower - jaf]
* The [http://code4lib.org/node/487|Code4Lib2014 Sponsorship Prospectus] was a '''significant''' tool in raising money in 2014.
* It is the Sponsorship Committee's responsibility to gather all sponsor logos. Request both color and black & white Vector formats (eps, svg) as they will yeild the best results. Label all files appropriately and put in a place that can be easily shared with the t-shirt committee.

=== Registration/Attendance ===

* To ensure registration Presenters, Preconference Organizers, and Sponsors (Platinum, Gold, and Table), initial registration was capped at 25 fewer people than the venue's capacity. This filled in approximately 48 hours.
* Demand for Code4Lib 2014 was 450 based on registrations and wait list.
* In 2014 local registrations by the hosting libraries (Duke, NCSU, UNC) was 41 registrations.
* CONCENTRA's registration system had some technical limitations as to data input and flow, but CONCENTRA handled all processing with little assistance by volunteers.
* Waitlist was well-handled by a Google Form, as the registration system didn't have built-in waitlist functionality.

=== T-shirts / Swag ===

* Getting sizing that works for everyone [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/T-shirts is hard].
** Nevertheless, there is value in providing as diverse a selection of sizes and cuts as is practicable.
** A women's 2XL is basically a men's Medium from some vendors.
* There may be some design fatigue in the community.
* Consider some other type of swag that doesn't involve sizing difficulties -- like re-usable coffee mugs (then attendees could use them all conference!)
* Sponsor logos should be gathered by the Sponsorship Committee as they are the ones "selling" the logo spots on the t-shirts and have sponsor contacts
* When putting out a call for graphics/designs, ensure that the formats submitted are usable in production (e.g. vector formats).

=== Food/Beverage ===
* Coffee in unlimited quantities is valued more highly than food at breaks.
* Using negotiation to buy "off menu" will save money.
* Make sure that you ask about dietary requirements during registration so that you can accommodate vegan / vegetarian / gluten-free / nut allergies / Kosher, etc.
* Less than 65% of the attendees ate breakfast at the conference in 2014. Each day of the conference, the number of attendees at breakfast declined.
* 97% of the attendees ate lunch at the conference in 2014. The number of attendees at lunch was consistent for both days.
* Less than 100 cans of soda were taken during the afternoon break of the first day in 2014; 50 cans of soda were taken during the afternoon break of the second day.

=== IRC ===
*Pay attention to the IPs you are assigned, make sure they are not PRIVATE (eg. 10,172.4-31,192.168)
*Start the process to get the freenode limit raised a month before to plan for any kinks!
*Announce channel logging a month or more ahead of time
* One benefit of not have great wireless was that people couldn't be distracted by IRC and were much more focused on the talks. Perhaps we need to re-consider the value of the IRC during the conference and encourage Twitter use instead.

=== Scholarships ===
* Ask folks to follow a file naming convention for any files they send. Using their full name in the filename.
* Make a note about how the committee ought to be addressed. Someone had a question about this and didn’t want to lose out because they weren’t formal enough. We can specify who the letter ought to be addressed to even if the packet is being sent to one person on the committee.
* If we have many scholarships, consider opening up the categories to a consideration just of financial need or others. This might encourage other sponsors to give. (Institutional diversity for scholarships. Regional scholarships. Rural librarian.)
* Ask that the statement of eligibility be in the first paragraph of the letter to make it easier to organize applications.
* Keep a list of everyone who has won a scholarship in the past.
* For the committee deliberations create a list of what factors to consider in selection. (e.g. How likely to be active in the community if awarded?) May allow some community supported guidelines to be put forward.
* In the initial notification letter of selection, let the person know they will also be asked to write a short bio. These can then be used by sponsors to promote the scholarship sponsorship.
* We got the suggestion to have badge ribbons for scholarship winners.
* The lunch the first day was a success. Make sure someone is responsible for checking the day of that tables will be reserved for this purpose.
* Promote the sponsors and the scholarship winners more via social media during the conference.
* Automatically invite keynote speakers to the scholarship lunch.

=== Registration/Sign-in (during conference) ===

* When a lot of people show up at once, it's best to split registration into lines based on last name.

=== Audio/Video ===

* Must set up and have a run-through the day before to test video.
* When talking to sales folks, get the REAL numbers on how many attendees will fit in a space (this means WITH A/V included, which could be 15% less or more than advertised capacities).
* Provide A/V info to speakers in advance (availability of computer, network availability, any additional software installs needed, etc.).

=== Child Care ===

=== Signage ===
* Print out a listing of the preconferences and their locations and give to a few volunteers to help attendees get to their destinations on time.
* Make sure there is a sign identifying the talk being given outside each room.

=== Ideas! ===

* Quiet room? Traditionally we've used the lobby as a de facto quiet room for folks wanting to take a break from the conference, but if there's an actual room that we can dedicate for taking a quiet break from the full blast of the fire hose, that would be great! More information at [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Quiet_room].
* Lanyards for whether it is OK to take photographs
* Add chairs to the front of the room so that lightning talk presenters can sit before they talk
** This needs to be planned in advance. C4L2014 was at capacity for the room, so this was not possible.
* Do not place a conference goer near the hospitality suite! Maybe make the hang out place a different area in the hotel or conference.
** Another possibility could be to have the room next to the hospitality room be reserved for a "suite steward" or "host" volunteer - aka a person that can look after the room in terms of cleanliness, drink/food stock, etc.
* Make the podium laptop desktop background a plain color with good contrast. After every group of presenters clean off the desktop to keep it quicker and easier for presenters to find their slides.
* Put someone at the front of the room who is responsible for helping presenters with the presenter computer.
* Podium Computer
** Most people use Mac laptops, so if there is only one podium computer, it should be a Mac. (TMM disagrees)
** Ideally, both a Mac and a Windows computer should be available. (TMM disagrees, see sub-bullet below)
*** Almost all of the presentations this year used standard formats (PPT, PDF, and HTML). The podium computer needs to be under the control of the A/V and Streaming Committees for their functions. Presenters should use a presentation standard.
** Several presenters had trouble with not being able to see what was being presented -- the podium computer(s) should be mirrored by default.
*** No, the podium computer should be setup as required for streaming and A/V setup. (TMM)
* Consider pre-combining lightning talks into a single slide deck to keep the flow going.
** This is difficult when lightning talk presenters want to do a live demo (TMM)
* Consider live closed captioning software for talks and streaming
** Another option is to have a stenographer or a live transcriber. @brainwane has had experience with a stenographer for one of her talks and it looked like that she was very pleased with the results...
* Twitter feed of #c4lYY on screens when no presenter is up (TMM edited IRC to Twitter because Twitter feed is safer, more professional, and more compliant to code of conduct)
** Twitter is no more CoC compliant than other online venues, including IRC. Each feed has its own risks in being viewed on the big screen (IRC in jokes vs Twitter hijacking of hashtags). (yo_bj)
* Consider switches at the tables
** what kind of switches?
* Add a Code4Lib logo to the podium
* Have someone whose job it is to collect questions during a presentation and that can then ask them. Allowing for anonymous questions may lead to more folks asking.
* Use [All Our Ideas](http://www.allourideas.org/) as a way to gather ideas and get community feedback. Great for Q&A, Unconferency-planning, voting, etc.

Code4Lib Conference Lessons Learned

2015-11-19T14:18:19Z

Sdellis: Clarification of language around logos and graphics

Code4Lib Conference Lessons Learned

2015-11-18T20:05:40Z

Sdellis: /* Sponsorships */

=== Venue planning and negotiation ===

* A conference services planning organization, like CONCENTRA, has significant experience in contract details that volunteer planners would unlikely have.
* Venue negotiation takes a significant amount of time. Total of 4-5 months of visits, informational calls, and negotiations.
* Hotel block negotiations are valuable, especially in the fine print of cancellation clauses, re-selling of unsold rooms, penalties of underselling, and scheduled kickbacks at certain increments.
* When looking at space capacities, make sure you find out how many attendees can REALLY fit in a given space. The advertised numbers seem to be artificially inflated; ask to see a room layout graphic with A/V in place (we lost 15% of stated capacity at least to A/V in 2014).
* Regardless of how strongly we communicate to the venue the pressures we'll be placing on their wifi, they almost always have trouble keeping up with our connection weight (especially hotels).
* Power cords! More than you think!
* Overall, the 2014 group began working on venue negotiation and sponsorships in June 2013 for a conference taking place in March 2014.

==== Internet ====
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility have a minimum of one (1) wireless access point per 75 attendees.
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility plan to support 2 wireless connections per attendee
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility have a minimum of 100 Mb per second bandwidth. Encourage hotel or conference facility to increase capacity to 1 Gb per second during conference. (Expect to pay more for this.)

=== Organizing Volunteers ===

* It's helpful to have a local representative on all volunteer committees to help grease the wheels.
* A Google Calendar worked well in 2014 for establishing all deadlines across all committees.
* A regularly occurring meeting of some planning group helps keep things moving.
* See [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_2014_Conference_Planning_Volunteers|documentation and timelines] for 2014 volunteer committees.

=== Program & Keynotes ===

* Set consistent proposal opening/closing, voting opening/closing dates and times. At the very least, we should be able to agree across keynote/presentation/tshirt committees on a common time to close submissions (this year, we had closing times at 5pm, 8pm, and 11:59pm PT).
* It's useful to ask nominees about their availability and willingness to attend before voting so that the community is only voting on real candidates (as opposed to wishful thinking).
* If a podium computer is provided, make it available at the registration desk during the preconference day.
* Whenever possible, retain breakout sessions. Wednesday was a very full day and several attendees mentioned that having more breaks outside of the single track talks would have been good.

=== Pre-conferences ===
* Consider a winnowing process for pre-conferences to limit them in advance of registration to the number of rooms that you have. Could either do advance voting like with talks, or say that you have x number of rooms and take the top x pre-conferences, etc. We set a 5-person registration minimum for A/V support this year, and found that all the pre-conferences met that limit (all 19 of them!) so it was not particularly useful. (Adam Constabaris [first dot last, lowercased at gmail] from the 2014 committee has a working database schema and a vague idea about incorporating voting on preconferences into the Diebold-o-Tron)
* Ask ahead of time to find out if pre-conf organizers are planning to open their pre-confs to non-conference attendees.
* Some preconferences work a lot better with special seating arrangements, enrollment caps, etc. Some support for allowing preconf presenters to request/implement such arrangements would be worth considering.
* Pre-conference organizers will likely want to know before registration opens whether or not their pre-conference is actually going to happen (relevant if there are too many proposed for the space to support).
* Communicate early and often with organizers and have a plan for '''getting a solid schedule''' as early as possible (this can help some organizers provide the needed justification to their institutions for travel support). Consider this in light of your winnowing process.
* (Also applies to the A/V section) find out as much as possible about the rooms at the venue, including the layout and suitability to different session styles, and wifi, power availability, etc. up front.
* Preconference presenters should provide links, in advance, to any software needed. If the presenter would suggest the use of vagrant or docker (or whatever else is out there), then links to those tools, plus good, easy implementation instructions, should also be supplied in advance. In addition, if the workshop is going to feature a particular language or framework, that should be specified in advance as well. (why no, I *don't* know how to spin up a web server on my Windoze laptop; at work I do it in Linux!)
** Even if you provide the links beforehand, presenters should bring a few thumb drives with the software/files/etc. as well just in case something needs to be reinstalled or there are a few slackers who didn't read their pre-workshop e-mails.
** Or a LibraryBox! Some workshops have slides, data, handouts, etc all on a LibraryBox, so you aren't relying on the web to get those files passed around.

=== Sponsorships ===

* 46.8% of the estimated cost of C4L2014 was provided by sponsorships. The registration cost of $165 per person covered another 46.8%. The remaining balance of C4L2013 covered the remaining 6-7%.
* To keep registration costs low, it is critical the Sponsorship Committee raise a minimum of $50,000 per year. [This really depends on the overall venue costs. If the conference is hosted on a college campus, the costs tend to be much lower, and therefore the amount of sponsorship needed is much lower - jaf]
* The [http://code4lib.org/node/487|Code4Lib2014 Sponsorship Prospectus] was a '''significant''' tool in raising money in 2014.
* It is the Sponsorship Committee's responsibility to gather all sponsor logos. Request both color and black & white Vector formats (eps, svg) as they will yeild the best results. Label all files appropriately and put in a place that can be easily shared with the t-shirt committee.

=== Registration/Attendance ===

* To ensure registration Presenters, Preconference Organizers, and Sponsors (Platinum, Gold, and Table), initial registration was capped at 25 fewer people than the venue's capacity. This filled in approximately 48 hours.
* Demand for Code4Lib 2014 was 450 based on registrations and wait list.
* In 2014 local registrations by the hosting libraries (Duke, NCSU, UNC) was 41 registrations.
* CONCENTRA's registration system had some technical limitations as to data input and flow, but CONCENTRA handled all processing with little assistance by volunteers.
* Waitlist was well-handled by a Google Form, as the registration system didn't have built-in waitlist functionality.

=== T-shirts / Swag ===

* Getting sizing that works for everyone [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/T-shirts is hard].
** Nevertheless, there is value in providing as diverse a selection of sizes and cuts as is practicable.
** A women's 2XL is basically a men's Medium from some vendors.
* There may be some design fatigue in the community.
* Consider some other type of swag that doesn't involve sizing difficulties -- like re-usable coffee mugs (then attendees could use them all conference!)
* Graphics should be gathered by the Sponsorship Committee as they are the ones "selling" the logo spots on the t-shirts and have sponsor contacts

=== Food/Beverage ===
* Coffee in unlimited quantities is valued more highly than food at breaks.
* Using negotiation to buy "off menu" will save money.
* Make sure that you ask about dietary requirements during registration so that you can accommodate vegan / vegetarian / gluten-free / nut allergies / Kosher, etc.
* Less than 65% of the attendees ate breakfast at the conference in 2014. Each day of the conference, the number of attendees at breakfast declined.
* 97% of the attendees ate lunch at the conference in 2014. The number of attendees at lunch was consistent for both days.
* Less than 100 cans of soda were taken during the afternoon break of the first day in 2014; 50 cans of soda were taken during the afternoon break of the second day.

=== IRC ===
*Pay attention to the IPs you are assigned, make sure they are not PRIVATE (eg. 10,172.4-31,192.168)
*Start the process to get the freenode limit raised a month before to plan for any kinks!
*Announce channel logging a month or more ahead of time
* One benefit of not have great wireless was that people couldn't be distracted by IRC and were much more focused on the talks. Perhaps we need to re-consider the value of the IRC during the conference and encourage Twitter use instead.

=== Scholarships ===
* Ask folks to follow a file naming convention for any files they send. Using their full name in the filename.
* Make a note about how the committee ought to be addressed. Someone had a question about this and didn’t want to lose out because they weren’t formal enough. We can specify who the letter ought to be addressed to even if the packet is being sent to one person on the committee.
* If we have many scholarships, consider opening up the categories to a consideration just of financial need or others. This might encourage other sponsors to give. (Institutional diversity for scholarships. Regional scholarships. Rural librarian.)
* Ask that the statement of eligibility be in the first paragraph of the letter to make it easier to organize applications.
* Keep a list of everyone who has won a scholarship in the past.
* For the committee deliberations create a list of what factors to consider in selection. (e.g. How likely to be active in the community if awarded?) May allow some community supported guidelines to be put forward.
* In the initial notification letter of selection, let the person know they will also be asked to write a short bio. These can then be used by sponsors to promote the scholarship sponsorship.
* We got the suggestion to have badge ribbons for scholarship winners.
* The lunch the first day was a success. Make sure someone is responsible for checking the day of that tables will be reserved for this purpose.
* Promote the sponsors and the scholarship winners more via social media during the conference.
* Automatically invite keynote speakers to the scholarship lunch.

=== Registration/Sign-in (during conference) ===

* When a lot of people show up at once, it's best to split registration into lines based on last name.

=== Audio/Video ===

* Must set up and have a run-through the day before to test video.
* When talking to sales folks, get the REAL numbers on how many attendees will fit in a space (this means WITH A/V included, which could be 15% less or more than advertised capacities).
* Provide A/V info to speakers in advance (availability of computer, network availability, any additional software installs needed, etc.).

=== Child Care ===

=== Signage ===
* Print out a listing of the preconferences and their locations and give to a few volunteers to help attendees get to their destinations on time.
* Make sure there is a sign identifying the talk being given outside each room.

=== Ideas! ===

* Quiet room? Traditionally we've used the lobby as a de facto quiet room for folks wanting to take a break from the conference, but if there's an actual room that we can dedicate for taking a quiet break from the full blast of the fire hose, that would be great! More information at [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Quiet_room].
* Lanyards for whether it is OK to take photographs
* Add chairs to the front of the room so that lightning talk presenters can sit before they talk
** This needs to be planned in advance. C4L2014 was at capacity for the room, so this was not possible.
* Do not place a conference goer near the hospitality suite! Maybe make the hang out place a different area in the hotel or conference.
** Another possibility could be to have the room next to the hospitality room be reserved for a "suite steward" or "host" volunteer - aka a person that can look after the room in terms of cleanliness, drink/food stock, etc.
* Make the podium laptop desktop background a plain color with good contrast. After every group of presenters clean off the desktop to keep it quicker and easier for presenters to find their slides.
* Put someone at the front of the room who is responsible for helping presenters with the presenter computer.
* Podium Computer
** Most people use Mac laptops, so if there is only one podium computer, it should be a Mac. (TMM disagrees)
** Ideally, both a Mac and a Windows computer should be available. (TMM disagrees, see sub-bullet below)
*** Almost all of the presentations this year used standard formats (PPT, PDF, and HTML). The podium computer needs to be under the control of the A/V and Streaming Committees for their functions. Presenters should use a presentation standard.
** Several presenters had trouble with not being able to see what was being presented -- the podium computer(s) should be mirrored by default.
*** No, the podium computer should be setup as required for streaming and A/V setup. (TMM)
* Consider pre-combining lightning talks into a single slide deck to keep the flow going.
** This is difficult when lightning talk presenters want to do a live demo (TMM)
* Consider live closed captioning software for talks and streaming
** Another option is to have a stenographer or a live transcriber. @brainwane has had experience with a stenographer for one of her talks and it looked like that she was very pleased with the results...
* Twitter feed of #c4lYY on screens when no presenter is up (TMM edited IRC to Twitter because Twitter feed is safer, more professional, and more compliant to code of conduct)
** Twitter is no more CoC compliant than other online venues, including IRC. Each feed has its own risks in being viewed on the big screen (IRC in jokes vs Twitter hijacking of hashtags). (yo_bj)
* Consider switches at the tables
** what kind of switches?
* Add a Code4Lib logo to the podium
* Have someone whose job it is to collect questions during a presentation and that can then ask them. Allowing for anonymous questions may lead to more folks asking.

Code4Lib Conference Lessons Learned

2015-11-18T20:03:15Z

Sdellis: Edited bullet on graphics/logos

=== Venue planning and negotiation ===

* A conference services planning organization, like CONCENTRA, has significant experience in contract details that volunteer planners would unlikely have.
* Venue negotiation takes a significant amount of time. Total of 4-5 months of visits, informational calls, and negotiations.
* Hotel block negotiations are valuable, especially in the fine print of cancellation clauses, re-selling of unsold rooms, penalties of underselling, and scheduled kickbacks at certain increments.
* When looking at space capacities, make sure you find out how many attendees can REALLY fit in a given space. The advertised numbers seem to be artificially inflated; ask to see a room layout graphic with A/V in place (we lost 15% of stated capacity at least to A/V in 2014).
* Regardless of how strongly we communicate to the venue the pressures we'll be placing on their wifi, they almost always have trouble keeping up with our connection weight (especially hotels).
* Power cords! More than you think!
* Overall, the 2014 group began working on venue negotiation and sponsorships in June 2013 for a conference taking place in March 2014.

==== Internet ====
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility have a minimum of one (1) wireless access point per 75 attendees.
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility plan to support 2 wireless connections per attendee
* Require in the contract that hotel or conference facility have a minimum of 100 Mb per second bandwidth. Encourage hotel or conference facility to increase capacity to 1 Gb per second during conference. (Expect to pay more for this.)

=== Organizing Volunteers ===

* It's helpful to have a local representative on all volunteer committees to help grease the wheels.
* A Google Calendar worked well in 2014 for establishing all deadlines across all committees.
* A regularly occurring meeting of some planning group helps keep things moving.
* See [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_2014_Conference_Planning_Volunteers|documentation and timelines] for 2014 volunteer committees.

=== Program & Keynotes ===

* Set consistent proposal opening/closing, voting opening/closing dates and times. At the very least, we should be able to agree across keynote/presentation/tshirt committees on a common time to close submissions (this year, we had closing times at 5pm, 8pm, and 11:59pm PT).
* It's useful to ask nominees about their availability and willingness to attend before voting so that the community is only voting on real candidates (as opposed to wishful thinking).
* If a podium computer is provided, make it available at the registration desk during the preconference day.
* Whenever possible, retain breakout sessions. Wednesday was a very full day and several attendees mentioned that having more breaks outside of the single track talks would have been good.

=== Pre-conferences ===
* Consider a winnowing process for pre-conferences to limit them in advance of registration to the number of rooms that you have. Could either do advance voting like with talks, or say that you have x number of rooms and take the top x pre-conferences, etc. We set a 5-person registration minimum for A/V support this year, and found that all the pre-conferences met that limit (all 19 of them!) so it was not particularly useful. (Adam Constabaris [first dot last, lowercased at gmail] from the 2014 committee has a working database schema and a vague idea about incorporating voting on preconferences into the Diebold-o-Tron)
* Ask ahead of time to find out if pre-conf organizers are planning to open their pre-confs to non-conference attendees.
* Some preconferences work a lot better with special seating arrangements, enrollment caps, etc. Some support for allowing preconf presenters to request/implement such arrangements would be worth considering.
* Pre-conference organizers will likely want to know before registration opens whether or not their pre-conference is actually going to happen (relevant if there are too many proposed for the space to support).
* Communicate early and often with organizers and have a plan for '''getting a solid schedule''' as early as possible (this can help some organizers provide the needed justification to their institutions for travel support). Consider this in light of your winnowing process.
* (Also applies to the A/V section) find out as much as possible about the rooms at the venue, including the layout and suitability to different session styles, and wifi, power availability, etc. up front.
* Preconference presenters should provide links, in advance, to any software needed. If the presenter would suggest the use of vagrant or docker (or whatever else is out there), then links to those tools, plus good, easy implementation instructions, should also be supplied in advance. In addition, if the workshop is going to feature a particular language or framework, that should be specified in advance as well. (why no, I *don't* know how to spin up a web server on my Windoze laptop; at work I do it in Linux!)
** Even if you provide the links beforehand, presenters should bring a few thumb drives with the software/files/etc. as well just in case something needs to be reinstalled or there are a few slackers who didn't read their pre-workshop e-mails.
** Or a LibraryBox! Some workshops have slides, data, handouts, etc all on a LibraryBox, so you aren't relying on the web to get those files passed around.

=== Sponsorships ===

* 46.8% of the estimated cost of C4L2014 was provided by sponsorships. The registration cost of $165 per person covered another 46.8%. The remaining balance of C4L2013 covered the remaining 6-7%.
* To keep registration costs low, it is critical the Sponsorship Committee raise a minimum of $50,000 per year. [This really depends on the overall venue costs. If the conference is hosted on a college campus, the costs tend to be much lower, and therefore the amount of sponsorship needed is much lower - jaf]
* The [http://code4lib.org/node/487|Code4Lib2014 Sponsorship Prospectus] was a '''significant''' tool in raising money in 2014.

=== Registration/Attendance ===

* To ensure registration Presenters, Preconference Organizers, and Sponsors (Platinum, Gold, and Table), initial registration was capped at 25 fewer people than the venue's capacity. This filled in approximately 48 hours.
* Demand for Code4Lib 2014 was 450 based on registrations and wait list.
* In 2014 local registrations by the hosting libraries (Duke, NCSU, UNC) was 41 registrations.
* CONCENTRA's registration system had some technical limitations as to data input and flow, but CONCENTRA handled all processing with little assistance by volunteers.
* Waitlist was well-handled by a Google Form, as the registration system didn't have built-in waitlist functionality.

=== T-shirts / Swag ===

* Getting sizing that works for everyone [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/T-shirts is hard].
** Nevertheless, there is value in providing as diverse a selection of sizes and cuts as is practicable.
** A women's 2XL is basically a men's Medium from some vendors.
* There may be some design fatigue in the community.
* Consider some other type of swag that doesn't involve sizing difficulties -- like re-usable coffee mugs (then attendees could use them all conference!)
* Graphics should be gathered by the Sponsorship Committee as they are the ones "selling" the logo spots on the t-shirts and have sponsor contacts

=== Food/Beverage ===
* Coffee in unlimited quantities is valued more highly than food at breaks.
* Using negotiation to buy "off menu" will save money.
* Make sure that you ask about dietary requirements during registration so that you can accommodate vegan / vegetarian / gluten-free / nut allergies / Kosher, etc.
* Less than 65% of the attendees ate breakfast at the conference in 2014. Each day of the conference, the number of attendees at breakfast declined.
* 97% of the attendees ate lunch at the conference in 2014. The number of attendees at lunch was consistent for both days.
* Less than 100 cans of soda were taken during the afternoon break of the first day in 2014; 50 cans of soda were taken during the afternoon break of the second day.

=== IRC ===
*Pay attention to the IPs you are assigned, make sure they are not PRIVATE (eg. 10,172.4-31,192.168)
*Start the process to get the freenode limit raised a month before to plan for any kinks!
*Announce channel logging a month or more ahead of time
* One benefit of not have great wireless was that people couldn't be distracted by IRC and were much more focused on the talks. Perhaps we need to re-consider the value of the IRC during the conference and encourage Twitter use instead.

=== Scholarships ===
* Ask folks to follow a file naming convention for any files they send. Using their full name in the filename.
* Make a note about how the committee ought to be addressed. Someone had a question about this and didn’t want to lose out because they weren’t formal enough. We can specify who the letter ought to be addressed to even if the packet is being sent to one person on the committee.
* If we have many scholarships, consider opening up the categories to a consideration just of financial need or others. This might encourage other sponsors to give. (Institutional diversity for scholarships. Regional scholarships. Rural librarian.)
* Ask that the statement of eligibility be in the first paragraph of the letter to make it easier to organize applications.
* Keep a list of everyone who has won a scholarship in the past.
* For the committee deliberations create a list of what factors to consider in selection. (e.g. How likely to be active in the community if awarded?) May allow some community supported guidelines to be put forward.
* In the initial notification letter of selection, let the person know they will also be asked to write a short bio. These can then be used by sponsors to promote the scholarship sponsorship.
* We got the suggestion to have badge ribbons for scholarship winners.
* The lunch the first day was a success. Make sure someone is responsible for checking the day of that tables will be reserved for this purpose.
* Promote the sponsors and the scholarship winners more via social media during the conference.
* Automatically invite keynote speakers to the scholarship lunch.

=== Registration/Sign-in (during conference) ===

* When a lot of people show up at once, it's best to split registration into lines based on last name.

=== Audio/Video ===

* Must set up and have a run-through the day before to test video.
* When talking to sales folks, get the REAL numbers on how many attendees will fit in a space (this means WITH A/V included, which could be 15% less or more than advertised capacities).
* Provide A/V info to speakers in advance (availability of computer, network availability, any additional software installs needed, etc.).

=== Child Care ===

=== Signage ===
* Print out a listing of the preconferences and their locations and give to a few volunteers to help attendees get to their destinations on time.
* Make sure there is a sign identifying the talk being given outside each room.

=== Ideas! ===

* Quiet room? Traditionally we've used the lobby as a de facto quiet room for folks wanting to take a break from the conference, but if there's an actual room that we can dedicate for taking a quiet break from the full blast of the fire hose, that would be great! More information at [http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Quiet_room].
* Lanyards for whether it is OK to take photographs
* Add chairs to the front of the room so that lightning talk presenters can sit before they talk
** This needs to be planned in advance. C4L2014 was at capacity for the room, so this was not possible.
* Do not place a conference goer near the hospitality suite! Maybe make the hang out place a different area in the hotel or conference.
** Another possibility could be to have the room next to the hospitality room be reserved for a "suite steward" or "host" volunteer - aka a person that can look after the room in terms of cleanliness, drink/food stock, etc.
* Make the podium laptop desktop background a plain color with good contrast. After every group of presenters clean off the desktop to keep it quicker and easier for presenters to find their slides.
* Put someone at the front of the room who is responsible for helping presenters with the presenter computer.
* Podium Computer
** Most people use Mac laptops, so if there is only one podium computer, it should be a Mac. (TMM disagrees)
** Ideally, both a Mac and a Windows computer should be available. (TMM disagrees, see sub-bullet below)
*** Almost all of the presentations this year used standard formats (PPT, PDF, and HTML). The podium computer needs to be under the control of the A/V and Streaming Committees for their functions. Presenters should use a presentation standard.
** Several presenters had trouble with not being able to see what was being presented -- the podium computer(s) should be mirrored by default.
*** No, the podium computer should be setup as required for streaming and A/V setup. (TMM)
* Consider pre-combining lightning talks into a single slide deck to keep the flow going.
** This is difficult when lightning talk presenters want to do a live demo (TMM)
* Consider live closed captioning software for talks and streaming
** Another option is to have a stenographer or a live transcriber. @brainwane has had experience with a stenographer for one of her talks and it looked like that she was very pleased with the results...
* Twitter feed of #c4lYY on screens when no presenter is up (TMM edited IRC to Twitter because Twitter feed is safer, more professional, and more compliant to code of conduct)
** Twitter is no more CoC compliant than other online venues, including IRC. Each feed has its own risks in being viewed on the big screen (IRC in jokes vs Twitter hijacking of hashtags). (yo_bj)
* Consider switches at the tables
** what kind of switches?
* Add a Code4Lib logo to the podium
* Have someone whose job it is to collect questions during a presentation and that can then ask them. Allowing for anonymous questions may lead to more folks asking.

2016 Conference Committees

2015-09-30T17:16:01Z

Sdellis: /* Sponsorship Committee */

= Code4Lib 2016 Committees =

''Many hands make for light work.''

Hosting a conference is incredibly 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 2016 conference, create 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 (secretary). The role of the Documentarian is to transcribe key information to future conference committees, such as timelines, costs, process, etc. Feel free to improve the summary statements for each of the committees. When adding your name, please indicate 'v' if you are a veteran on the committee so that we ensure committees are not made up entirely of newbies.

We will assign a local contact (LPC) to each committee.

== Location and Dates ==

* Location: Old City District of Philadelphia, PA
* Dates: March 7-10, 2016
** Pre-conferences -
** Main meeting -
** Post conference activities?

== Local Planning Committee ==
This committee is charged with running the show such as overall timeline, budgeting, coordinating of locations and logistics, wrangler of committees, and communicating with the community.

* David Lacy (Villanova) - Primary Contact (v)
* Chad Nelson - Secondary Contact (v)
* Anna Headley (Chemical Heritage Foundation) - Documentarian (v)
* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) (v)
* Katherine Lynch (Temple) (v)
* Stephen Ng (Temple)
* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public)
* Lauren Gala (UPenn)
* David Uspal (Villanova) (v)
* Chris Clement (Drexel)

== Website Working Group ==
This group will focus on content strategy (in collaboration with the Documentation Committee) and feature implementations to improve the overall user experience for users (i.e., on-site and remote attendees, speakers, potential sponsors, post-conference users).

[[Website Working Group Documents|Website Working Group Documents]]

* [[User:Cdmo|Charlie Morris]] (Penn State) - Primary Contact
* [[User:jtidal|Junior Tidal]] (New York City College of Technology) - Secondary Contact
* [[User:BillMcMillin|Bill McMillin]] (Pratt Institute) - Documentarian
* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) - LPC Contact (v)
* [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]] (Cal College of the Arts)
* [[User:Sarahshealy| Sarah Shealy]] (Greenville (SC) County Public Library)
* [[User:JennC| Jennifer Colt]] (Cornell University Library)
* [[User:LaurenAjamie| Lauren Ajamie]] (University of Notre Dame Library)
* [[User:MichaelSchofield| Michael Schofield]] ( @schoeyfield )
* [[User:LukeAeschleman| Luke Aeschleman]] (UNC - Chapel Hill | Health Sciences Library)
* [[User:Wickr|Ryan Wick]]
* [[User:cbeer|Chris Beer]]

== Sponsorship Committee ==
This group will focus on making sure all who want to support the conference have the opportunity to do so. Sponsorship Committee work involves working with the LPC to close budget gaps and talking to potential sponsors to find the level that is right for them.

The Sponsorship committee meets every other Tuesday at 2pm EST (11am PST) via [https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gwibrfqhzxe23uto4me3tktbnia Google hangout].

* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) (v)
* David Uspal (Villanova) - LPC Contact (v)
* Chad Nelson
* Morgan McKeehan
* Ray Schwartz
* Sharon Whitfield (Rowan University)
* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public) (v)
* Katherine Lynch (Temple University)

== Keynote Committee ==
This group will: gather nominations from Code4Lib community; contact nominees to confirm their willingness and availability; collect bios from the available nominees and add them to the Diebold-o-Tron; support the voting process; work with the community's top nominees to schedule their keynotes; and collaborate with other committees and the community to ensure everything is communicated appropriately and logistical matters are given suitable attention.

* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public)
* John Mignault (ESDN/METRO)
* Emily Morton-Owens
* [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]]
* Whitni Watkins (St. Lawrence University)
* Beatrice Pulliam (Providence Public)

== Pre-conference Committee ==
This committee plans the pre-conference day. It keeps strong lines of communications open with the Program Committee. It also helps shepherd events on the day itself.
* Anna Headley - Chemical Heritage Foundation (Local Contact)
* [[User:ChristinaHarlow|Christina Harlow]] - convener
* Eric Lease Morgan - Librarian-At-Large
* Andrea Schurr - Univ. of TN at Chattanooga
* [[User:AndyWeidner|Andy Weidner]] - Univ. of Houston

[[Preconference2016Workspace]]

== Program 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.
* David Lacy - Villanova (Local Contact)
* Kevin Beswick - NCSU
* Peter Murray - Cherry HIll Company
* Chris Beer - Stanford University Libraries
* Matt Sherman - University of Bridgeport
* Whitni Watkins - St. Lawrence University
* Ben Armintor - Columbia University
* Ranti Junus - Michigan State University
* Katherine Lynch - Temple University
* Tod Olson - University of Chicago

== 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.
* Chad Nelson (Local Contact)
* [[User:jtidal|Junior Tidal]] (New York City College of Technology)
* Linda Ballinger (Penn State)
* Mairelys Lemus-Rojas (University of Miami Libraries)
* Spencer Lamm (Drexel University)
* Lauren Gala (U Penn)
* Bohyun Kim (U Maryland, Baltimore)

== Childcare Committee ==
This group assess the need for childcare at the conference, organizes childcare options, determines cost, and liaises with parents and chilcare providers
* Chad Nelson (Local Contact)

== Additional Committees... Coming Soon! ==
* Book Give-Away
* Onsite Volunteer
* Social Activities
* Streaming Video
* T-Shirt
* Voting
* Whatever
* Wifi/Electrical
* IRC
* Reception?
* Accessibility

[[Category:Code4Lib2016]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-08-25T00:50:35Z

Sdellis: added Jeffrey Zeldman

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

__TOC__

==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==

dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015.

[http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ blog] [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter] [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays]

== Mandy Brown ==

Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==

Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Catherine Farman ==

Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==

Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

[http://ftrain.com Website] [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng His talk at XOXO 2014] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ An interview, along with Gina Trapani, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe]

== Amelia Greenhall ==

Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==

Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately (check out the contact information in Ed Summers's nomination). In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Alison Macrina ==

Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Lauren Pressley ==

Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Jenica Rogers ==

Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==

[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

==Ed Summers==

"Ed Summers is Lead Developer at MITH. Ed has been working for two decades helping bridge the worlds of libraries and archives with the World Wide Web. During that time Ed has worked in academia, start-ups, corporations and the government. He is interested in the role of open source software, community development and open access to enable digital curation. Ed has a MS in Library and Information Science and a BA in English and American Literature from Rutgers University." Aside from the ever-entertaining Congressedits, Ed has been doing a lot of interesting data manipulation and visualization of Twitter (and possibly other social media), representing an interesting approach to "archiving the NOW." He's ehs at pobox.com.

==Audrey Watters==

Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.
== Gabriel Weinberg ==

Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs.

[http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ Interview, along with Pete Bell, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe] [https://vimeo.com/68099450 Speech at Gel 2013] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 Appearance on Conversations with Great Minds]

==David Weinberger==

David Weinberger, PhD, is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. He is the author of ''Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder'', which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, and the critically acclaimed book ''Small Pieces Loosely Joined'', a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur.

==Brock Whitten==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is Brock's [http://sintaxi.com/ website]

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insights for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]
[http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger this] seems to be how to book him; here's his [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter]; and his [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ blog]

==Jeffrey Zeldman==
HappyCog/A List Apart (Philly/NYC-based)

Dubbed “King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman founded and is chairman of Happy Cog™ and has published A List Apart Magazine “for people who make websites” since 1998. He has written two books, notably the foundational text, Designing With Web Standards,currently in a 3rd Edition coauthored with Ethan Marcotte. It has been translated into 15 languages and is credited with converting the web design industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility.
[http://happycog.com/zeldman Zeldman's page] on HappyCog.com.

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-08-25T00:47:05Z

Sdellis: added links to brock whitten

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

__TOC__

==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==

dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015.

[http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ blog] [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter] [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays]

== Mandy Brown ==

Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==

Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Catherine Farman ==

Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==

Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

[http://ftrain.com Website] [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng His talk at XOXO 2014] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ An interview, along with Gina Trapani, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe]

== Amelia Greenhall ==

Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==

Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately (check out the contact information in Ed Summers's nomination). In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Alison Macrina ==

Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Lauren Pressley ==

Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Jenica Rogers ==

Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==

[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

==Ed Summers==

"Ed Summers is Lead Developer at MITH. Ed has been working for two decades helping bridge the worlds of libraries and archives with the World Wide Web. During that time Ed has worked in academia, start-ups, corporations and the government. He is interested in the role of open source software, community development and open access to enable digital curation. Ed has a MS in Library and Information Science and a BA in English and American Literature from Rutgers University." Aside from the ever-entertaining Congressedits, Ed has been doing a lot of interesting data manipulation and visualization of Twitter (and possibly other social media), representing an interesting approach to "archiving the NOW." He's ehs at pobox.com.

==Audrey Watters==

Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.
== Gabriel Weinberg ==

Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs.

[http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ Interview, along with Pete Bell, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe] [https://vimeo.com/68099450 Speech at Gel 2013] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 Appearance on Conversations with Great Minds]

==David Weinberger==

David Weinberger, PhD, is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. He is the author of ''Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder'', which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, and the critically acclaimed book ''Small Pieces Loosely Joined'', a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur.

==Brock Whitten==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge [https://surge.sh/tour here] and [https://medium.com/surge-sh/introducing-surge-the-cdn-for-front-end-developers-b4a50a61bcfc here].
Here is Brock's [http://sintaxi.com/ website]

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insights for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]
[http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger this] seems to be how to book him; here's his [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter]; and his [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ blog]

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-08-25T00:45:09Z

Sdellis: added brock whitten

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

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==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==

dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015.

[http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ blog] [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter] [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays]

== Mandy Brown ==

Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==

Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Catherine Farman ==

Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==

Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

[http://ftrain.com Website] [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng His talk at XOXO 2014] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ An interview, along with Gina Trapani, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe]

== Amelia Greenhall ==

Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==

Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately (check out the contact information in Ed Summers's nomination). In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Alison Macrina ==

Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Lauren Pressley ==

Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Jenica Rogers ==

Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==

[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

==Ed Summers==

"Ed Summers is Lead Developer at MITH. Ed has been working for two decades helping bridge the worlds of libraries and archives with the World Wide Web. During that time Ed has worked in academia, start-ups, corporations and the government. He is interested in the role of open source software, community development and open access to enable digital curation. Ed has a MS in Library and Information Science and a BA in English and American Literature from Rutgers University." Aside from the ever-entertaining Congressedits, Ed has been doing a lot of interesting data manipulation and visualization of Twitter (and possibly other social media), representing an interesting approach to "archiving the NOW." He's ehs at pobox.com.

==Audrey Watters==

Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.
== Gabriel Weinberg ==

Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs.

[http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ Interview, along with Pete Bell, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe] [https://vimeo.com/68099450 Speech at Gel 2013] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 Appearance on Conversations with Great Minds]

==David Weinberger==

David Weinberger, PhD, is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. He is the author of ''Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder'', which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, and the critically acclaimed book ''Small Pieces Loosely Joined'', a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur.

==Brock Whitten==
Making front-end development easier by the second. Co-creator of Surge, Harp, and Cordova/PhoneGap. Mozilla-WebFWD Alumni and advocate of a free and open web. A friend of the community. Read about Surge here and here
Here is Brock's [http://sintaxi.com/ website]

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insights for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]
[http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger this] seems to be how to book him; here's his [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter]; and his [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ blog]

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-08-25T00:41:44Z

Sdellis: added Jess Klein

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

__TOC__

==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==

dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015.

[http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ blog] [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter] [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays]

== Mandy Brown ==

Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==

Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Catherine Farman ==

Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==

Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

[http://ftrain.com Website] [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng His talk at XOXO 2014] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ An interview, along with Gina Trapani, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe]

== Amelia Greenhall ==

Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==

Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately (check out the contact information in Ed Summers's nomination). In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Jess Klein ==
Open Web Designer at Bocoup

If you ask about her passions, Jess will draw you a venn diagram with the words community, freedom, and learning, and point to the sweet spot where all three overlap. She is dedicated to connecting people and ideas through new technologies and interactive experiences. Before Bocoup, Jess worked at the Mozilla Foundation, where she served as Creative Lead for such projects as the X-Ray Goggles, Hackasaurus (which became part of the larger Webmaker platform), Thimble and the Hive. She also served as the Creative Director for Mozilla Open Badges, where she helped develop an ecosystem of tools for learners to earn, assess, issue and display digital micro-credentials. A Rockaway Beach native, Jess co-founded Rockaway Help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy to empower the community to find solutions for emergency response, preparedness and rebuilding through hyperlocal open news and the development of innovative community-designed technologies. She was named a White House Champion of Change for her civic hacktivism. Here is her [http://jessicaklein.com/ website].

== Alison Macrina ==

Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Lauren Pressley ==

Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Jenica Rogers ==

Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==

[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

==Ed Summers==

"Ed Summers is Lead Developer at MITH. Ed has been working for two decades helping bridge the worlds of libraries and archives with the World Wide Web. During that time Ed has worked in academia, start-ups, corporations and the government. He is interested in the role of open source software, community development and open access to enable digital curation. Ed has a MS in Library and Information Science and a BA in English and American Literature from Rutgers University." Aside from the ever-entertaining Congressedits, Ed has been doing a lot of interesting data manipulation and visualization of Twitter (and possibly other social media), representing an interesting approach to "archiving the NOW." He's ehs at pobox.com.

==Audrey Watters==

Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.
== Gabriel Weinberg ==

Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs.

[http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ Interview, along with Pete Bell, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe] [https://vimeo.com/68099450 Speech at Gel 2013] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 Appearance on Conversations with Great Minds]

==David Weinberger==

David Weinberger, PhD, is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. He is the author of ''Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder'', which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, and the critically acclaimed book ''Small Pieces Loosely Joined'', a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur.

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insights for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]
[http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger this] seems to be how to book him; here's his [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter]; and his [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ blog]

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-08-25T00:37:34Z

Sdellis: alpha order error

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

__TOC__

==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

== danah boyd ==

dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015.

[http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ blog] [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter] [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays]

== Mandy Brown ==

Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==

Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Catherine Farman ==

Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==

Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

[http://ftrain.com Website] [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng His talk at XOXO 2014] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ An interview, along with Gina Trapani, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe]

== Amelia Greenhall ==

Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==

Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately (check out the contact information in Ed Summers's nomination). In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Alison Macrina ==

Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Lauren Pressley ==

Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Jenica Rogers ==

Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==

[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

==Ed Summers==

"Ed Summers is Lead Developer at MITH. Ed has been working for two decades helping bridge the worlds of libraries and archives with the World Wide Web. During that time Ed has worked in academia, start-ups, corporations and the government. He is interested in the role of open source software, community development and open access to enable digital curation. Ed has a MS in Library and Information Science and a BA in English and American Literature from Rutgers University." Aside from the ever-entertaining Congressedits, Ed has been doing a lot of interesting data manipulation and visualization of Twitter (and possibly other social media), representing an interesting approach to "archiving the NOW." He's ehs at pobox.com.

==Audrey Watters==

Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.
== Gabriel Weinberg ==

Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs.

[http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ Interview, along with Pete Bell, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe] [https://vimeo.com/68099450 Speech at Gel 2013] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 Appearance on Conversations with Great Minds]

==David Weinberger==

David Weinberger, PhD, is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. He is the author of ''Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder'', which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, and the critically acclaimed book ''Small Pieces Loosely Joined'', a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur.

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insights for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]
[http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger this] seems to be how to book him; here's his [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter]; and his [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ blog]

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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-08-25T00:35:14Z

Sdellis: mike bostock

Nominations for invited speakers/keynotes for Code4Lib 2016 in Philadelphia. Please include a description and any relevant links and try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Nominee's Name ==

Description of no more than 250 words.

[[Link(s) with contact information for nominee]]

</pre>

__TOC__

== danah boyd ==

dana boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder of [http://www.datasociety.net/ Data & Society Research Institute]. She's also a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a faculty affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Center. For over a decade, her research focused on how young people use social media, which resulted in two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (2009) and It's Complicated (2014). More recently, she has focused on the social and cultural dimensions of big data, especially privacy and publicity, data(mis)interpretation, and the civil rights implications of data analytics. She often works closely with librarians, and was the keynote speaker at the Reference and User Services Association President’s Program at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2015.

[http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ blog] [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter] [http://www.danah.org/papers/#essays Essays]

== Mandy Brown ==

Mandy Brown builds systems to help writers and editors to work together. She co-founded and served as CEO of [http://editorially.com/ Editorially], a platform for collaborative writing and editing; Editorially was acquired by Vox Media where she is now director of platform. She is also co-founder and was editor-in-chief of [http://abookapart.com/ A Book Apart], was a contributing editor for [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart], and edited many books, including [http://shapeofdesignbook.com/ The Shape of Design], by Frank Chimero. She previously served as communications director and product lead at [http://typekit.com/ Typekit] and as creative director at [http://wwnorton.com/ W. W. Norton & Company]. She blogs at [http://aworkinglibrary.com/ A Working Library] and has spoken at [http://2014.dconstruct.org/ dConstruct], [http://2012.buildconf.com/ Build], [http://confab2011.com/ Confab], [http://typotalks.com/sanfrancisco/ TYPO SF], and [http://2013.beyondtellerrand.com/ Beyond Tellerrand ]. Additionally, [http://aworkinglibrary.com/coffee/ she mentors and advises people from underrepresented groups in the tech industry]. She lives in Philadelphia.

== Maciej Cegłowski ==

Maciej Cegłowski, is a programmer, [http://idlewords.com/art/ painter], [http://www.idlewords.com/ essayist], [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/431908798/send-idle-words-to-antarctica travel writer], and [http://idlewords.com/talks/ speaker]. He has been running Pinboard, a bookmarking site, since 2009. He has worked at Yahoo!, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, and has done contract work for Twitter and SixApart. He's funny on Twitter, whether he's representing [https://twitter.com/baconmeteor himself] or his company, [https://twitter.com/pinboard Pinboard].

== Catherine Farman ==

Philadelphian Catherine Farman is a developer, a Technology & Innovation Fellow Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and a self-described "responsive design fanatic, feminist, Chicana, Texpat, cat lady, and teacher at [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia Girls Develop It's Philadelphia Chapter]"; she recently left HappyCog (the prestigious studio founded by A List Apart's Jeffrey Zeldman). More information on Catherine Farman is available at [http://cfarman.com/ her website, cfarman.com], and on [https://twitter.com/cfarm Twitter], and several of her recent speeches are listed on [http://lanyrd.com/profile/cfarm/past/speaking/ Lanyrd], though absent from that list is her 2014 presentation at OSCON, "[https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-2014-complete/9781491910795/part96.html Lessons from Girl Develop It: Getting More Women Involved in Open Source]" (link goes to a video of the talk, which she co-presented with Corinne Warnshuis, Girls Develop It's excutive director).

== Paul Ford ==

Paul Ford is a Brooklyn-based writer and web technologist. He often writes about [https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688 the web], [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6241967 archives] [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ programming], [http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html the nature of information], and [https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100 living in the information age]. Past projects include [https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf tilde.club] and the [http://www.ftrain.com/AWebSiteForHarpers.html semantic web-ified harpers.org] (back in 2003). His ~30,00-word article [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ What Is Code?] was the entire June 11, 2015 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

[http://ftrain.com Website] [http://twitter.com/ftrain Twitter] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSL5qVL3Mng His talk at XOXO 2014] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2012/an-interview-with-paul-ford-and-gina-trapani/ An interview, along with Gina Trapani, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe]

== Amelia Greenhall ==

Amelia Greenhall is the Chief Creative Officer of [http://magicvibes.co/ Magic Vibes Corporation]. Previously, she cofounded and served as Executive Director and board chair of [http://doubleunion.org/ Double Union], a non-profit feminist hacker/maker space in San Francisco with the mission of being a safe and comfortable space for women to work on their projects. She also cofounded the publication Model View Culture, and designed things for companies including [http://futureadvisor.com/ FutureAdvisor] and [http://www.ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/budge Habit Labs]. She is the publisher of the [http://openreviewquarterly.com/ Open Review Quarterly] literary journal, and the entries at [http://ameliagreenhall.com/blog her personal blog] are usually made available as episodes of [http://ameliagreenhall.com/pieces/amelia-explains-it-all Amelia Explains It All], a "podcast for men in tech."

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==

Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately (check out the contact information in Ed Summers's nomination). In addition to email addresses and accounts, their customers requested reliable email-based discussion forums, mailing lits, and newsletters, so they created Listbox.com. Philadelphian Helen Horstmann-Allen has been president of IC Group, the home of Pobox.com and Listbox.com, since 2000; prior to that, she was its director of operations, and she's been in charge of Pobox.com since 1997. She's in love with Philadelphia and food -- thus [http://phillyfoodie.com/ Philly Foodie] -- and can be found on [https://twitter.com/philliefoodie Twitter], too.

== Alison Macrina ==

Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project (LFP), an initiative that helps libraries fulfill the the promise of intellectual freedom by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools that help safeguard digital freedoms. She is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and multinational corporations. She cowrote the Radical Reference Collective’s zine, "[http://radicalreference.info/content/we-are-all-suspects-guide-people-navigating-expanded-powers-surveillance-21st-century We Are All Suspects]," which gives advice and tools for preventing surveillance, and has written or co-written articles for [http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/radical-librarianship-how-nin.html Boing Boing] and [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/20/adobe_s_digital_editions_e_book_software_and_library_patron_privacy.html Slate]. LFP has been featured in [https://libraryfreedomproject.org/press/ numerous prominent publications], including [http://www.thenation.com/article/librarians-versus-nsa/ The Nation] magazine and NPR's [http://www.onthemedia.org/story/librarians-vs-patriot-act/ On the Media], and LFP's partners include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the Tor Project.

In February 2015, LFP won a ~$250,000 two-year grant through the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which enabled her to work on LFP full-time. Prior to that, she was the technology librarian/IT manager at the Watertown (Massachusetts) Free Public Library.

== Lauren Pressley ==

Lauren Pressley became the University of Washington Tacoma Library Director and Associate Dean of University Libraries on September 15, 2015. Her professional interests include formal and informal learning, design in library services, the evolving information environment, organizational change, and the future of libraries. She is the author of [https://unglue.it/work/76348/ So You Want to Be a Librarian] and [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3969 Wikis for Libraries], a co-chair of [https://www.librarypipeline.org/ Library Pipeline], and holds an elected position on the American Library Association Council. She has also served on the Library Information Technology Association board of directors and the [http://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon/ Horizon Project] advisory board.

Prior to joining UW, she was the Director of Learning Environments and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech University Libraries, where she led a team of thirty people who were responsible for enhancing situated learning by connecting services and spaces, including Reference, Circulation, Roving Services, Learning Spaces, Online Learning, academic programming, and community engagement. [http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/presentations Several dozen of her presentations] are posted online.

== Jenica Rogers ==

Jenica Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her current professional interests include interrogating the ways our information economy is breaking down and reforming now that the internet changed everything, figuring out what the role of a library is in a reality in which warehousing books is sort of passé, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed. She has written at length about library issues on her blog, [http://www.attemptingelegance.com Attempting Elegance], represented SUNY Potsdam as the subject of [http://chronicle.com/article/As-Chemistry-Journals-Prices/134650/ an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about journal prices], and has given numerous invited keynote speeches at library conferences around the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2014, she was chosen to receive the American Library Association’s ALCTS HARRASSOWITZ Award for Leadership in Library Acquisitions.

To get a sense of her presentation style, watch her deliver the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vy0Kv4eqeg plenary speech at the 2013 Charleston Conference] (in which she discusses her refusal to pay the extortionate fees being charged by a professional association for its journals) as well as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMXClsue9w the Vision speech at NASIG's 2014 Annual Conference].

== Jenn Schiffer ==

[http://jennmoney.biz/ Jenn Schiffer] ([https://twitter.com/jennschiffer Twitter]), aka jennmoneydollars, is an open web engineer at [http://bocoup.com/ Bocoup] and lives in New Jersey (a relatively easy commute from Philadelphia). She's good at making art with code and great at telling jokes. She was previously a senior front-end developer for the National Basketball Association and, before that, taught and evaluated computer science education at Montclair State University, her alma mater (BS and MS in Computer Science). She also organizes JerseyScript, a developer meetup based in New Jersey, which is just one of several ways she's working to attract and retain more people in the web development community. She's made a lot of [http://jennmoney.biz/talks/ recent podcast appearances and presentations at conferences].

==Ed Summers==

"Ed Summers is Lead Developer at MITH. Ed has been working for two decades helping bridge the worlds of libraries and archives with the World Wide Web. During that time Ed has worked in academia, start-ups, corporations and the government. He is interested in the role of open source software, community development and open access to enable digital curation. Ed has a MS in Library and Information Science and a BA in English and American Literature from Rutgers University." Aside from the ever-entertaining Congressedits, Ed has been doing a lot of interesting data manipulation and visualization of Twitter (and possibly other social media), representing an interesting approach to "archiving the NOW." He's ehs at pobox.com.

==Audrey Watters==

Audrey Watters is an education writer with a focus on ed-tech. She is the author of [http://monsters.hackeducation.com/ The Monsters of Education Technology], a collection of her lectures and she is currently working on two more books, [http://teachingmachin.es/ Teaching Machines] and [Claim Your Domain http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/], both due out in 2015. According to [http://audreywatters.com/cv/travel.html her upcoming talks page] she could be available to share her insights with code4lib.
== Gabriel Weinberg ==

Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and Founder of [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo], "the search engine that doesn't track you," and the co-author of [ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs.

[http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium] [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ Interview, along with Pete Bell, at In the Library with the Lead Pipe] [https://vimeo.com/68099450 Speech at Gel 2013] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 Appearance on Conversations with Great Minds]

==David Weinberger==

David Weinberger, PhD, is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. He is the author of ''Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder'', which charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended, and the critically acclaimed book ''Small Pieces Loosely Joined'', a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and taught philosophy for five years at New Jersey's Stockton State College. Since 2004, he has been a fellow at Harvard University's prestigious Berkman Center, gag writer for Woody Allen, NPR commentator for "All Things Considered" and "Here and Now," technology columnist for KMWorld and Darwin Magazine, blogging pioneer, and dot-com entrepreneur.

==Kam Woods==
Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kam is currently developing modified open source digital forensics tools for digital archivists. He works with archivists, librarians, forensics researchers, and other development groups to identify core needs in analyzing and preparing digital content for preservation -- specifically needs that can be addressed using existing high-performance forensic technologies (with a little tweaking). He is also interested in developing datasets and teaching technologies to support education and professional training in digital archiving. He gave a great talk at 2014 ALA & I'll bet would have some great tech & social insights for Code4Lib. [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods]
[http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger this] seems to be how to book him; here's his [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter]; and his [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ blog]

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[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

==Mike Bostock==
Interactive Graphic Design for The New York Times and the author of D3.js, a popular open-source library for visualizing data using web standards.

Prior to The New York Times, Mike was a visualization scientist for Square and a computer science PhD student at Stanford University. Mike received the BSE degree in computer science in 2000 from Princeton University.
ere's his [https://twitter.com/mbostock Twitter]; and his [http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ site]

[[Category:Code4Lib2016|Invited Speakers Nomination]]
[[Category:Code4Lib Keynotes]]

2016 Conference Committees

2015-08-24T19:17:11Z

Sdellis: edited summary of Sponsorship Committee

2016 Conference Committees

2015-08-24T19:15:52Z

Sdellis:

= Code4Lib 2016 Committees =

''Many hands make for light work.''

Hosting a conference is incredibly 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 2016 conference, create 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 (secretary). The role of the Documentarian is to transcribe key information to future conference committees, such as timelines, costs, process, etc. Feel free to improve the summary statements for each of the committees. When adding your name, please indicate 'v' if you are a veteran on the committee so that we ensure committees are not made up entirely of newbies.

We will assign a local contact (LPC) to each committee.

== Location and Dates ==

* Location: Old City District of Philadelphia, PA
* Dates: March 7-10, 2016
** Pre-conferences -
** Main meeting -
** Post conference activities?

== Local Planning Committee ==
This committee is charged with running the show such as overall timeline, budgeting, coordinating of locations and logistics, wrangler of committees, and communicating with the community.

* David Lacy (Villanova) - Primary Contact (v)
* Chad Nelson - Secondary Contact (v)
* Anna Headley (Chemical Heritage Foundation) - Documentarian (v)
* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) (v)
* Katherine Lynch (Temple) (v)
* Stephen Ng (Temple)
* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public)
* Lauren Gala (UPenn)
* David Uspal (Villanova) (v)
* Chris Clement (Drexel)

== Website Working Group ==
This group will focus on content strategy (in collaboration with the Documentation Committee) and feature implementations to improve the overall user experience for users (i.e., on-site and remote attendees, speakers, potential sponsors, post-conference users).

[[Website Working Group Documents|Website Working Group Documents]]

* [[User:Cdmo|Charlie Morris]] (Penn State) - Primary Contact
* [[User:jtidal|Junior Tidal]] (New York City College of Technology) - Secondary Contact
* [[User:BillMcMillin|Bill McMillin]] (Pratt Institute) - Documentarian
* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) - LPC Contact (v)
* [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]] (Cal College of the Arts)
* [[User:Sarahshealy| Sarah Shealy]] (Greenville (SC) County Public Library)
* [[User:JennC| Jennifer Colt]] (Cornell University Library)
* [[User:LaurenAjamie| Lauren Ajamie]] (University of Notre Dame Library)
* [[User:MichaelSchofield| Michael Schofield]] ( @schoeyfield )
* [[User:LukeAeschleman| Luke Aeschleman]] (UNC - Chapel Hill | Health Sciences Library)
* [[User:Wickr|Ryan Wick]]
* [[User:cbeer|Chris Beer]]

== Sponsorship Committee ==
This group will focus on making sure all who want to support the conference have the opportunity to do so. Sponsorship Committee work involves working with the LPC to close budget gaps and talking to potential sponsors to find the level that is right for them.

The Sponsorship committee meets every week at 3pm EST (12pm PST) via [https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gwibrfqhzxe23uto4me3tktbnia Google hangout]. Check your email Mondays for the hangout URL (or contact a committee member if you don't have access to the sponsorship Google group)

* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) (v)
* David Uspal (Villanova) - LPC Contact (v)
* Chad Nelson
* Morgan McKeehan
* Ray Schwartz
* Sharon Whitfield (Rowan University)
* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public) (v)

== Keynote Committee ==
This group will: gather nominations from Code4Lib community; contact nominees to confirm their willingness and availability; collect bios from the available nominees and add them to the Diebold-o-Tron; support the voting process; work with the community's top nominees to schedule their keynotes; and collaborate with other committees and the community to ensure everything is communicated appropriately and logistical matters are given suitable attention.

* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public)
* John Mignault (ESDN/METRO)
* Emily Morton-Owens
* [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]]
* Whitni Watkins (St. Lawrence University)
* Beatrice Pulliam (Providence Public)

== Additional Committees... Coming Soon! ==
* Book Give-Away
* Childcare
* Onsite Volunteer
* Preconference
* Program
* Scholarship
* Social Activities
* Streaming Video
* T-Shirt
* Voting
* Whatever
* Wifi/Electrical
* IRC
* Reception?

2016 Conference Committees

2015-08-24T19:14:53Z

Sdellis:

= Code4Lib 2016 Committees =

''Many hands make for light work.''

Hosting a conference is incredibly 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 2016 conference, create 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 (secretary). The role of the Documentarian is to transcribe key information to future conference committees, such as timelines, costs, process, etc. Feel free to improve the summary statements for each of the committees. When adding your name, please indicate 'v' if you are a veteran on the committee so that we ensure committees are not made up entirely of newbies.

We will assign a local contact (LPC) to each committee.

== Location and Dates ==

* Location: Old City District of Philadelphia, PA
* Dates: March 7-10, 2016
** Pre-conferences -
** Main meeting -
** Post conference activities?

== Local Planning Committee ==
This committee is charged with running the show such as overall timeline, budgeting, coordinating of locations and logistics, wrangler of committees, and communicating with the community.

* David Lacy (Villanova) - Primary Contact (v)
* Chad Nelson - Secondary Contact (v)
* Anna Headley (Chemical Heritage Foundation) - Documentarian (v)
* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) (v)
* Katherine Lynch (Temple) (v)
* Stephen Ng (Temple)
* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public)
* Lauren Gala (UPenn)
* David Uspal (Villanova) (v)
* Chris Clement (Drexel)

== Website Working Group ==
This group will focus on content strategy (in collaboration with the Documentation Committee) and feature implementations to improve the overall user experience for users (i.e., on-site and remote attendees, speakers, potential sponsors, post-conference users).

[[Website Working Group Documents|Website Working Group Documents]]

* [[User:Cdmo|Charlie Morris]] (Penn State) - Primary Contact
* [[User:jtidal|Junior Tidal]] (New York City College of Technology) - Secondary Contact
* [[User:BillMcMillin|Bill McMillin]] (Pratt Institute) - Documentarian
* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) - LPC Contact (v)
* [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]] (Cal College of the Arts)
* [[User:Sarahshealy| Sarah Shealy]] (Greenville (SC) County Public Library)
* [[User:JennC| Jennifer Colt]] (Cornell University Library)
* [[User:LaurenAjamie| Lauren Ajamie]] (University of Notre Dame Library)
* [[User:MichaelSchofield| Michael Schofield]] ( @schoeyfield )
* [[User:LukeAeschleman| Luke Aeschleman]] (UNC - Chapel Hill | Health Sciences Library)
* [[User:Wickr|Ryan Wick]]
* [[User:cbeer|Chris Beer]]

== Sponsorship Committee ==
This group will focus on making sure all who want to support the conference have the opportunity to do so. Sponsorship Committee work involves working with the LPC to close budget gaps and talking to potential sponsors to find the level that is right for them.

The Sponsorship committee meets every week at 3pm EST (12pm PST) via [Google hangout](https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gwibrfqhzxe23uto4me3tktbnia). Check your email Mondays for the hangout URL (or contact a committee member if you don't have access to the sponsorship Google group)

* [[User:Sdellis|Shaun Ellis]] (Princeton) (v)
* David Uspal (Villanova) - LPC Contact (v)
* Chad Nelson
* Morgan McKeehan
* Ray Schwartz
* Sharon Whitfield (Rowan University)
* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public) (v)

== Keynote Committee ==
This group will: gather nominations from Code4Lib community; contact nominees to confirm their willingness and availability; collect bios from the available nominees and add them to the Diebold-o-Tron; support the voting process; work with the community's top nominees to schedule their keynotes; and collaborate with other committees and the community to ensure everything is communicated appropriately and logistical matters are given suitable attention.

* Brett Bonfield (Collingswood Public)
* John Mignault (ESDN/METRO)
* Emily Morton-Owens
* [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]]
* Whitni Watkins (St. Lawrence University)
* Beatrice Pulliam (Providence Public)

== Additional Committees... Coming Soon! ==
* Book Give-Away
* Childcare
* Onsite Volunteer
* Preconference
* Program
* Scholarship
* Social Activities
* Streaming Video
* T-Shirt
* Voting
* Whatever
* Wifi/Electrical
* IRC
* Reception?

Conference Site Pages

2015-07-07T13:04:50Z

Sdellis: /* About */

==Homepage==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Provide Overview of conference

==Sponsors==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''

==Attend==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Information about how to attend the conference
** Register
** Registration Process
** How to attend remotely (another page?)

==Schedule==
'''Luke Aeschleman'''

'''Purpose:'''
*Schedule of events/presentations at the conference
** Broken out into 4 days (preconference workshops, day 1-3)
* Presentation Info
** Title
** Time
** Location
** Abstract
** Speaker
** Slides

'''Suggestions'''
* Link from each event to the corresponding speaker(s)
* Link to live steam
* break presentation into tracks and/or locations

==Speakers==
'''Junior Tidal'''

'''Purpose'''
* Bios for each speaker
* Display Info
** Name
** Job Title
** Workplace
** Email
** Profile picture
** Bio

'''Suggestions'''
* Link to the speakers presentation
* Sort / Search options?
* visually highlight keynotes / separate keynotes from other speakers

==Venue==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Information about the conference location / building
** Location
** Hotel Reservations
** Maps / Getting There
** Where to eat: restaurants, in-conference, diet options
** Venue Map

==Scholarship==
'''Sarah Shealy'''

'''Purpose'''
* Criteria & Awards
* Process
* Winners

==Conduct==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* How to play nice

==About==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Describe the Conference/Community for potential attendees and sponsors
* Additional Conference information
** Contact / help info
** Committees
** Links to relevant wiki pages / main code4lib site
** About code4lib

==Scholarships==
'''Sarah Shealy'''

'''Purpose'''
* Info about scholarships/financial assistance
** Criteria & awards
** Process (How to Apply)
** 2016 Recipients (Winners)

Conference Site Pages

2015-07-07T12:54:10Z

Sdellis: /* Attend */

==Homepage==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Provide Overview of conference

==Sponsors==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''

==Attend==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Information about how to attend the conference
** Register
** Registration Process
** How to attend remotely (another page?)

==Schedule==
'''Luke Aeschleman'''

'''Purpose:'''
*Schedule of events/presentations at the conference
** Broken out into 4 days (preconference workshops, day 1-3)
* Presentation Info
** Title
** Time
** Location
** Abstract
** Speaker
** Slides

'''Suggestions'''
* Link from each event to the corresponding speaker(s)
* Link to live steam
* break presentation into tracks and/or locations

==Speakers==
'''Junior Tidal'''

'''Purpose'''
* Bios for each speaker
* Display Info
** Name
** Job Title
** Workplace
** Email
** Profile picture
** Bio

'''Suggestions'''
* Link to the speakers presentation
* Sort / Search options?
* visually highlight keynotes / separate keynotes from other speakers

==Venue==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Information about the conference location / building
** Location
** Hotel Reservations
** Maps / Getting There
** Where to eat: restaurants, in-conference, diet options
** Venue Map

==Scholarship==
'''Sarah Shealy'''

'''Purpose'''
* Criteria & Awards
* Process
* Winners

==Conduct==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* How to play nice

==About==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Additional Conference information
** Contact / help info
** Committees
** Links to relevant wiki pages / main code4lib site
** About code4lib

==Scholarships==
'''Sarah Shealy'''

'''Purpose'''
* Info about scholarships/financial assistance
** Criteria & awards
** Process (How to Apply)
** 2016 Recipients (Winners)

2016 Conference Committees

2015-06-30T16:18:06Z

Sdellis: /* Additional Committees... Coming Soon! */

2016 Conference Committees

2015-06-30T16:17:08Z

Sdellis: /* Website Working Group */

Conference Site Pages

2015-06-29T15:16:10Z

Sdellis: /* Scholarships */

==Homepage==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Provide Overview of conference

==Sponsors==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''

==Attend==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Information about how to attend the conference
** Registration Process
** How to attend remotely (another page?)

==Schedule==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose:'''
*Schedule of events/presentations at the conference
** Broken out into 4 days (preconference workshops, day 1-3)
* Presentation Info
** Title
** Time
** Location
** Abstract
** Speaker
** Slides

'''Suggestions'''
* Link from each event to the corresponding speaker(s)
* Link to live steam
* break presentation into tracks and/or locations

==Speakers==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Bios for each speaker
* Display Info
** Name
** Job Title
** Workplace
** Email
** Profile picture
** Bio

'''Suggestions'''
* Link to the speakers presentation
* Sort / Search options?
* visually highlight keynotes / separate keynotes from other speakers

==Venue==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Information about the conference location / building
** Location
** Hotel Reservations
** Maps / Getting There
** Where to eat: restaurants, in-conference, diet options
** Venue Map

==Conduct==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* How to play nice

==About==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Additional Conference information
** Contact / help info
** Committees
** Links to relevant wiki pages / main code4lib site
** About code4lib

==Scholarships==
'''Sarah Shealy'''

'''Purpose'''
* Info about scholarships/financial assistance
** Criteria & awards
** Process (How to Apply)
** 2016 Recipients (Winners)

Conference Site Pages

2015-06-29T15:15:32Z

Sdellis: /* About */

==Homepage==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Provide Overview of conference

==Sponsors==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''

==Attend==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Information about how to attend the conference
** Registration Process
** How to attend remotely (another page?)

==Schedule==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose:'''
*Schedule of events/presentations at the conference
** Broken out into 4 days (preconference workshops, day 1-3)
* Presentation Info
** Title
** Time
** Location
** Abstract
** Speaker
** Slides

'''Suggestions'''
* Link from each event to the corresponding speaker(s)
* Link to live steam
* break presentation into tracks and/or locations

==Speakers==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Bios for each speaker
* Display Info
** Name
** Job Title
** Workplace
** Email
** Profile picture
** Bio

'''Suggestions'''
* Link to the speakers presentation
* Sort / Search options?
* visually highlight keynotes / separate keynotes from other speakers

==Venue==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Information about the conference location / building
** Location
** Hotel Reservations
** Maps / Getting There
** Where to eat: restaurants, in-conference, diet options
** Venue Map

==Conduct==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* How to play nice

==About==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Additional Conference information
** Contact / help info
** Committees
** Links to relevant wiki pages / main code4lib site
** About code4lib

==Scholarships==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Info about scholarships/financial assistance
** Criteria & awards
** Process (How to Apply)
** 2016 Recipients (Winners)

Conference Site Pages

2015-06-29T15:12:40Z

Sdellis: /* Venue */

==Homepage==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Provide Overview of conference

==Sponsors==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''

==Attend==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Information about how to attend the conference
** Registration Process
** How to attend remotely (another page?)

==Schedule==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose:'''
*Schedule of events/presentations at the conference
** Broken out into 4 days (preconference workshops, day 1-3)
* Presentation Info
** Title
** Time
** Location
** Abstract
** Speaker
** Slides

'''Suggestions'''
* Link from each event to the corresponding speaker(s)
* Link to live steam
* break presentation into tracks and/or locations

==Speakers==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Bios for each speaker
* Display Info
** Name
** Job Title
** Workplace
** Email
** Profile picture
** Bio

'''Suggestions'''
* Link to the speakers presentation
* Sort / Search options?
* visually highlight keynotes / separate keynotes from other speakers

==Venue==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Information about the conference location / building
** Location
** Hotel Reservations
** Maps / Getting There
** Where to eat: restaurants, in-conference, diet options
** Venue Map

==Conduct==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* How to play nice

==About==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Additional Conference information
** Contact / help info
** Committees
** Links to relevant wiki pages / main code4lib site
** About code4lib

Conference Site Pages

2015-06-29T15:12:21Z

Sdellis: /* Attend */

==Homepage==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Provide Overview of conference

==Sponsors==
'''Shaun Ellis'''

'''Purpose:'''

==Attend==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose:'''
* Information about how to attend the conference
** Registration Process
** How to attend remotely (another page?)

==Schedule==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose:'''
*Schedule of events/presentations at the conference
** Broken out into 4 days (preconference workshops, day 1-3)
* Presentation Info
** Title
** Time
** Location
** Abstract
** Speaker
** Slides

'''Suggestions'''
* Link from each event to the corresponding speaker(s)
* Link to live steam
* break presentation into tracks and/or locations

==Speakers==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Bios for each speaker
* Display Info
** Name
** Job Title
** Workplace
** Email
** Profile picture
** Bio

'''Suggestions'''
* Link to the speakers presentation
* Sort / Search options?
* visually highlight keynotes / separate keynotes from other speakers

==Venue==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Information about the conference location / building
** Where to eat: restaurants, in-conference, diet options
** Venue Map

==Conduct==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* How to play nice

==About==
'''[Developer]'''

'''Purpose'''
* Additional Conference information
** Contact / help info
** Committees
** Links to relevant wiki pages / main code4lib site
** About code4lib

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-11T16:44:10Z

Sdellis:

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Build out the site
**Create a suite of master templates for individual year conference pages
**Create persistent online collaborative spaces for private and confidential conversations and documents
**Create Pages for Each Committee outlining duties, timeline, contacts and volunteers (self-sign up)
**Collect feedback from potential conference-goers
**Communication with different user groups (email lists to speakers, committees, etc.)
*Peri-conference
**Make crucial information changes quickly and easily
**Collect time-sensitive feedback from conference-goers
*Post-conference
**Post slides, video and any other related content for archive purposes
**Review Feedback and pass on to future hosts
**Review Site Use and Page Views

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit standard talk proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on date, location, conference and room setup (coffee, wifi, food), conference cost, hotel cost (wifi add'l cost?), transportation cost
**Understand exactly how lightning talks will be organized and how submissions will occur
**Keynote speakers will probably view the site for general info about what code4lib and the code4lib conference is exactly
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
**Sign Up for Lightning Talk
**Know where lightning talks are being held and what the order is
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content
**Not sure speakers need the site much post conference

==On-Site Volunteers==

*Pre-conference
**Understand how they can help and what jobs need to be done
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Learn about speakers and presentation topics
**Vote on speakers/presentations
**View final list of speakers and presentations
**Submit T-Shirt Designs
**Vote on T-Shirt Designs
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***How to get from airport/train stations to conference site
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Comment and Converse
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
***Brief instructions for getting on IRC channel
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speakers
***Tag Presentations
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-11T16:37:09Z

Sdellis: /* Conference Organizers & Committees */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Build out the site
**Create a suite of master templates for individual year conference pages
**Create persistent online collaborative spaces for private and confidential conversations and documents
**Create Pages for Each Committee outlining duties, timeline, contacts and volunteers (self-sign up)
**Collect feedback from potential conference-goers
*Peri-conference
**Make crucial information changes quickly and easily
**Collect time-sensitive feedback from conference-goers
*Post-conference
**Post slides, video and any other related content for archive purposes
**Review Feedback and pass on to future hosts
**Review Site Use and Page Views

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit standard talk proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on date, location, conference and room setup (coffee, wifi, food), conference cost, hotel cost (wifi add'l cost?), transportation cost
**Understand exactly how lightning talks will be organized and how submissions will occur
**Keynote speakers will probably view the site for general info about what code4lib and the code4lib conference is exactly
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
**Sign Up for Lightning Talk
**Know where lightning talks are being held and what the order is
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content
**Not sure speakers need the site much post conference

==On-Site Volunteers==

*Pre-conference
**Understand how they can help and what jobs need to be done
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Learn about speakers and presentation topics
**Vote on speakers/presentations
**View final list of speakers and presentations
**Submit T-Shirt Designs
**Vote on T-Shirt Designs
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***How to get from airport/train stations to conference site
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Comment and Converse
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
***Brief instructions for getting on IRC channel
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speakers
***Tag Presentations
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-11T16:23:15Z

Sdellis:

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Build out the site
**Create Pages for Each Committee outlining duties, timeline, contacts and volunteers (self-sign up)
**Collect feedback from potential conference-goers
*Peri-conference
**Make crucial information changes quickly and easily
**Collect time-sensitive feedback from conference-goers
*Post-conference
**Post slides, video and any other related content for archive purposes
**Review Feedback and pass on to future hosts
**Review Site Use and Page Views

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit standard talk proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on date, location, conference and room setup (coffee, wifi, food), conference cost, hotel cost (wifi add'l cost?), transportation cost
**Understand exactly how lightning talks will be organized and how submissions will occur
**Keynote speakers will probably view the site for general info about what code4lib and the code4lib conference is exactly
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
**Sign Up for Lightning Talk
**Know where lightning talks are being held and what the order is
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content
**Not sure speakers need the site much post conference

==On-Site Volunteers==

*Pre-conference
**Understand how they can help and what jobs need to be done
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Learn about speakers and presentation topics
**Vote on speakers/presentations
**View final list of speakers and presentations
**Submit T-Shirt Designs
**Vote on T-Shirt Designs
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***How to get from airport/train stations to conference site
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Comment and Converse
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
***Brief instructions for getting on IRC channel
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speakers
***Tag Presentations
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:41:08Z

Sdellis: /* On-Site Attendees */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
**Review Feedback and pass on to future hosts
**Review Site Use and Page Views

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
**Sign Up for Lightning Talk
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Learn about speakers and presentation topics
**Vote on speakers/presentations
**View final list of speakers and presentations
**Submit T-Shirt Designs
**Vote on T-Shirt Designs
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***How to get from airport/train stations to conference site
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Comment and Converse
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
***Brief instructions for getting on IRC channel
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speakers
***Tag Presentations
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:37:20Z

Sdellis: /* Conference Organizers & Committees */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
**Review Feedback and pass on to future hosts
**Review Site Use and Page Views

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
**Sign Up for Lightning Talk
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Learn about speakers and presentation topics
**Vote on speakers/presentations
**View final list of speakers and presentations
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***How to get from airport/train stations to conference site
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Comment and Converse
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
***Brief instructions for getting on IRC channel
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speakers
***Tag Presentations
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:35:26Z

Sdellis: /* On-Site Attendees */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
**Sign Up for Lightning Talk
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Learn about speakers and presentation topics
**Vote on speakers/presentations
**View final list of speakers and presentations
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***How to get from airport/train stations to conference site
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Comment and Converse
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
***Brief instructions for getting on IRC channel
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speakers
***Tag Presentations
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:34:55Z

Sdellis: /* On-Site Attendees */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
**Sign Up for Lightning Talk
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Learn about speakers and presentation topics
**Vote on speakers/presentations
**View final list of speakers and presentations
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***How to get from airport/train stations to conference site
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Comment and Converse
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
***Brief instructions for getting on IRC channel
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speaker
***Tag Presentation
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:33:51Z

Sdellis: /* Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks) */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
**Sign Up for Lightning Talk
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Learn about speakers and presentation topics
**Vote on speakers/presentations
**View final list of speakers and presentations
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***How to get from airport/train stations to conference site
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Comment and Converse
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
***Brief instructions for getting on IRC channel
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speaker
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:32:40Z

Sdellis: /* On-Site Attendees */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Learn about speakers and presentation topics
**Vote on speakers/presentations
**View final list of speakers and presentations
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***How to get from airport/train stations to conference site
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Comment and Converse
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
***Brief instructions for getting on IRC channel
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speaker
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:30:48Z

Sdellis: /* On-Site Attendees */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Learn about speakers and presentation topics
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***How to get from airport/train stations to conference site
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Comment and Converse
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
***Brief instructions for getting on IRC channel
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speaker
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:25:49Z

Sdellis: /* On-Site Attendees */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Comment and Converse
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
***Brief instructions for IRC channel
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speaker
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:22:47Z

Sdellis: /* Remote Attendees */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speaker
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:20:42Z

Sdellis: /* On-Site Attendees */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Revisit Presentations
***Watch recordings of presentations
***Get presentation slides
***Contact speaker
***Share presentation with others
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:16:49Z

Sdellis: /* Sponsors */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
** Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
*** who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
*** who are/have the speakers been?
*** what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
** Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
** Make a pledge or a contribution online
*** Make a general contribution
*** Make a directed contribution
** Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
** Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
** Appropriate visibility on site
** Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
** Provide Feedback
*** ... about what we could do better
*** ... about new business generated through conference

Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

2015-05-08T16:14:24Z

Sdellis: /* Sponsors */

==Conference Organizers & Committees==
*Pre-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Peri-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content
*Post-conference
**Add/remove pages
**Edit page content

==Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)==
*Pre-conference
**Submit Conference proposals
**View status of proposal
**Find info on time/location of event
*Peri-conference
**Update event/session information
*Post-conference
**Add links, slides, content

==On-Site Volunteers==
*Pre-conference
**Sign up
**Schedule shifts
**Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
*Peri-conference
**Coordinate with organizers
**Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
*Post-conference

==On-Site Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Complete all registration procedures
***Register for conference
***Register for pre-conference workshops/events
**Prepare travel arrangements
***Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
***Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
*Peri-conference
**Navigate Conference center
***Request help via website (optional)
***Online map
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**Social/Extra Events
***Find listings
***Propose/add an event
****Add/edit event info
***Sign up
*Post-conference
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)

==Remote Attendees==
*Pre-conference
**Decide which sessions to attend remotely
***Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
**Notifications
***Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
***Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
*Peri-conference
**View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
***By track/event type
***Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
**View session remotely
***Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
***Links to remote sessions
**Social media
***Find twitter handle to live tweet
***View twitter stream
*Post-conference
**Provide Feedback
***...about individual sessions
***...about remote experience

==Sponsors==
*Pre-conference
* Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
* who is the audience?
* who are/have the speakers been?
* what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
* Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
* Make a pledge or a contribution online
* Make a general contribution
* Make a directed contribution
* Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
* Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials

*Peri-conference
* Appropriate visibility on site
* Appreciation expressed

*Post-conference
* Provide Feedback
* ... about what we could do better
* ... about new business generated through conference

2016 Conference Committees

2015-04-10T16:56:14Z

Sdellis: /* Local Planning Committee */

2016 Conference Committees

2015-04-10T16:54:33Z

Sdellis: /* Code4Lib 2016 Committees */