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2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-11T18:26:37Z

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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.

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== 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. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [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.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== 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].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== 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. 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]. He 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].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== 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."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic], a technology innovator, and open source advocate. An Ex-NASA scientist who brings his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies to create open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by making innovative knowledge management solutions accessible. Namely Nucivic's DKAN open data platform DKAN provides an open source solution for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations for data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine, and was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine, for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won “Best of New York” awards for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. 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].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where she delivered a talk on how mass surveillance in China was converted into political repression.

(However--*has* a sense of humor!)

== 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.

== Uche Ogbuji ==
CTO and founding partner at Zepheira; has helped lead implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." Also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference!

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== 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.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

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As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
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== 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].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== 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 [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== 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 [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ 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, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate 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. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== 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 [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's 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, and I bet he would have some great tech and social insights for Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== 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.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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

2016 Invited Speakers Nominations

2015-09-11T18:25:00Z

Timathom: Add Carl Stahmer and Uche Ogbuji.

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:

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== 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. Read more at [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ her blog], on [https://twitter.com/zephoria Twitter], or read her [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.

== Kimberly Bryant ==
Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.

== 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].

== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by... anyone. Read [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume] for more information.

== Brigitte Daniel ==
Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].

== 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. 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]. He 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].

== Sorelle Friedler ==
"Algorithms are already being used to make decisions that affect people's lives and livelihoods, and this trend is only increasing," [https://www.haverford.edu/college-communications/news/sorelle-friedler-studies-programming-and-prejudice says Sorrelle Friedler]. "Often, one of the selling points of using an algorithm is that it will be less biased than the current human process. While it is possible to create algorithms that reduce bias, the use of an algorithm does not on its own guarantee that. It's important that computer scientists, as well as policymakers, understand the limitations and work to make algorithmic decisions fair."

Sorelle Friedler has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College since 2014 and was visiting at Haverford starting in 2012 (Haverford is just a few miles from Philadelphia). Her research interests include the design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, data mining and machine learning, and the application of such algorithms to interdisciplinary data. She is a [http://www.datasociety.net/updates/featured/announcements/2015/03/introducing-2015-2016-fellows-class/ 2015-2016 Fellow at the Data & Society Research Institute] for her work on preventing discrimination in machine learning. Learn more about her work on her [http://ww3.haverford.edu/computerscience/faculty/sorelle/index.php Haverford Computer Science page].

== Brett Anitra Gilbert ==
"I’ve been doing research in Johannesburg, South Africa, to understand what the city needs to do to better support technology entrepreneurs," [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/news/faculty-insights-professor-brett-gilbert-looks-how-tech-clusters-emerge-cities says Rutgers Business School professor Brett Gilbert]. "The city is actively in the process of trying to see a tech cluster emerge, so my research is intended to help them understand what needs to happen in order to see a tech community thrive in Johannesburg. It's research I’m doing concurrently in Newark, New Jersey, because the city would like to see a technology community emerge here. The research is really comparing the process these two cities are going through. Most research on clusters focuses on clusters that already exist and on regions that are somewhat well established so you don’t see a lot that helps people understand what a city or region would need to do if they want to see one of these technology clusters emerge."

Dr. Gilbert's dissertation, "[http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371727 The Implications of Geographic Cluster Locations for New Venture Performance]" was awarded a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in 2004, and selected as a finalist for the Entrepreneurship Division's 2005 Heizer Award for outstanding dissertations in entrepreneurship. In addition to examining emerging technology communities in developing market contexts, she is also focusing on understanding emerging "clean energy" technologies. She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses on creativity and innovation, and the startup and management of new ventures. At RBS, Dr. Gilbert teaches the Technology Ventures course for undergraduates and graduates, and the Ph.D. seminar in entrepreneurship. Learn more on [https://twitter.com/ProfGilbert Twitter] and on [http://www.business.rutgers.edu/faculty-research/directory/gilbert-brett her page at the Rutgers Business School website].

== 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."

== Kate Heddleston ==
Kate Heddleston is a software engineer who mostly works on Python projects. She has been a mentor for Hackbright Academy and PyLadies. She blogs and gives talks about how our engineering environments are killing diversity (see [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ea142cd2-f026-4615-ab90-2170f06c739b her talk] and [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/how-our-engineering-environments-are-killing-diversity-introduction her blog series]), on [https://kateheddleston.com/talk/ef464595-b113-4c1b-9c5b-cc1f3681055c technical onboarding, training, and mentoring], and on the [https://kateheddleston.com/blog/a-modern-day-take-on-the-ethics-of-being-a-programmer ethics of being a programmer], among other topics. Here is her [https://kateheddleston.com/ website].

== Andrew Hoppin ==
Andrew Hoppin is the co-founder and president of [http://nucivic.com NuCivic], a technology innovator, and open source advocate. An Ex-NASA scientist who brings his theories of collaboration, open-source technologies to create open civic platforms. As president of NuCivic, his mission is to improve the efficacy of civic organizations and governments, by making innovative knowledge management solutions accessible. Namely Nucivic's DKAN open data platform DKAN provides an open source solution for government organizations, libraries and civic organizations for data cataloging, publishing and visualizing.
Andrew was awarded the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year by GovTech Magazine, and was named one of the top 50 government CIOs in the United States by Information Week magazine, for his successful effort to deploy the first major New York State government website, NYSenate.gov, which won “Best of New York” awards for Project Excellence.

== Helen Horstmann-Allen ==
Pobox.com promised its customers a lifetime email address, and found a loyal following immediately. 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].

== Kate Krauss ==

Kate Krauss is the Director of Communications and Public Policy for the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization that builds free, online privacy tools that allow users to defy shoe companies and intelligence agencies alike while they stay free and anonymous on the internet. As a human rights advocate, Kate lead several successful campaigns to free public health experts and human rights activists who were imprisoned in China. She became interested in internet freedom when she sought help from San Francisco hackers to aid a well-known Chinese health advocate whose huge, popular web site for people with hepatitis had been taken down by the Chinese government.

Prior to her work in online privacy, she served as Executive Director of the AIDS Policy Project, where she lead a successful effort to move $35 million into cure research at the US National Institutes of Health and wrote groundbreaking reports that showed for the first time how little the world was investing in the search for a cure for AIDS. Kate has been chosen twice as one of the Poz 100, one of the top 100 people working in AIDS in the world. She was a very early member of the renowned AIDS activist group ACT UP. She has also spoken at several hacker conferences, including Chaos Communications Congress, where she delivered a talk on how mass surveillance in China was converted into political repression.

(However--*has* a sense of humor!)

== 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.

== Katrina Owen ==
Katrina Owen is the creator of [http://exercism.io/exercism exercism], a FLOSS project that supports students who are learning to code by giving them practice problems and real world feedback. Exercises are currently available in Clojure, CoffeeScript, C++, C#, Emacs Lisp, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE), Common Lisp, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, Perl 5, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, and Swift, and exercism developers are in the process of adding ECMAScript, Groovy, Nimrod, Perl 6, Pony, Racket, Standard ML, and VB.NET. Katrina Owen is herself a polyglot developer and Ruby Hero award winner who has spoken at numerous conferences; example talks include: [http://confreaks.tv/videos/lonestarruby2013-keynote-hacking-passion Hacking Passion]; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU Overkill]; [http://confreaks.tv/videos/bathruby2015-here-be-dragons Here Be Dragons]; and [http://confreaks.tv/videos/cascadiaruby2012-therapeutic-refactoring Therapeutic Refactoring]. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology, and began nitpicking code in 2006 while volunteering at JavaRanch. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization, and refactoring. She is passionate about open source and contributes to several projects outside of exercism. Learn more on [https://github.com/kytrinyx GitHub] and [https://twitter.com/kytrinyx Twitter].

== 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.

== Aliya Rahman ==
Tech and social justice activist. Engineer. Read more at [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/aliya-rahman-former-code-for-progress-director-tech-and-social-justice-activist-martial-artist/ Tech Republic] and on [https://twitter.com/AliyaRahman Twitter]. From her [http://codeforprogress.org/app/program_director/ Code for Progress bio]:

<blockquote>
As Program Director, Aliya Rahman leads the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of Code for Progress fellows into full-time developer positions. Her work is informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and economic justice campaigns, and by a former life in public higher education conducting curriculum research and teaching computer programming and educational foundations/policy.

Aliya is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.

Aliya has developed Django applications, conducted tech trainings, or performed data analysis and targeting for every campaign, nonprofit, and university she has ever worked for - despite none of those tasks explicitly appearing on her job descriptions. Now based in Washington, DC, she is thoroughly enjoying life as a non-accidental techie, and is grateful to be part of an active ecosystem of women and people of color who believe tech has a pivotal role to play in creating social change.
</blockquote>

== 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].

== Carl Stahmer ==
Polymath extraordinaire; doing digital humanities before it was cool; 20 years of experience in information architecture design and programming for the World Wide Web; Director of Digital Scholarship at the University Library, University of California, Davis; Technical Lead for the English Short Title Catalogue; Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. Currently helping to lead the IMLS-funded BIBFLOW project at UC Davis. Read more on [http://www.carlstahmer.com/ his website] or [https://twitter.com/cstahmer Twitter].

== Uche Ogbuji ==
CTO and founding partner at Zepheira; has helped lead implementation of the LibHub Initiative. From [http://uche.ogbuji.net/ his website]: "Uche is a leading expert in data design and distributed systems. He has worked with XML, RDF and Web Services since the inception of those technologies. He has been technical lead on many open specifications and open source projects as well as on Zepheira's platform for library data transforms." Also recently named [https://twitter.com/uogbuji/status/632936838622089217 poet laureate] of Balisage: The Markup Conference!

== Cecily Walker ==
Cecily Walker is the Assistant Manager for Community Digital Initiatives & eLearning at Vancouver Public Library. In addition to her work on user experience and open data, she is an experienced speaker (keynoting DLF Forum this year) and has hosted a Twitter chat for first-generation library professionals (#L1S). Learn more at [http://cecily.info/ her website], and on [https://twitter.com/skeskali Twitter], [https://github.com/skeskali GitHub], and [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/about/editorial-board/cecily-walker/ In the Library with the Lead Pipe] (she is a member of the editorial board).

== 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 [http://reclaim.hackeducation.com/ Claim Your Domain], both due out in 2015. She created [http://hackeducation.com/ Hack Education] in June 2010 shortly after she became a technology journalist because she was frustrated by the lack of coverage of education technology. Hack Education was always intended to be the sort of publication that she would want to read: smart and snarky, free of advertising and investor influence, and focused on tracking new technologies but not just because of some hyperbolic "revolution." Read more on [http://audreywatters.com/ her website], on [https://twitter.com/audreywatters Twitter], and on [https://github.com/audreywatters GitHub].

== 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 [http://tractionbook.com/ Traction], "the book that helps startups get customers." He is also an active [https://angel.co/yegg/syndicate/ angel investor], and he lives and works in the Philadelphia suburbs. Learn more on [http://ye.gg/app/twitter Twitter] and [http://ye.gg/app/medium Medium], read [http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2010/marketing-search-an-interview-with-pete-bell-of-endeca-and-gabriel-weinberg-of-duckduckgo/ an interview with him (and Endeca co-founder Pete Bell) at In the Library with the Lead Pipe], or watch [https://vimeo.com/68099450 his speech at Gel 2013] or his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=59&v=TvfGJgzBeH0 appearance on Conversations with Great Minds].

== David Weinberger ==
David Weinberger, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected thought leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His latest book, [http://www.toobigtoknow.com/ Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room], is a roadmap on taking advantage of networked knowledge now that it has replaced books and experts of old. He also is the author of [http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ 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, as well as the critically acclaimed book [http://smallpieces.com/index.php Small Pieces Loosely Joined], a highly original and accessible reflection on the impact of the Internet on human behavior. He earned his doctorate 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. [http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/david-weinberger This site has information on how to book him], and you can read more on [https://twitter.com/dweinberger Twitter] or on [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ his blog].

== 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 [http://sintaxi.com/ Brock's 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, and I bet he would have some great tech and social insights for Code4Lib. Read more at [http://www.digpres.com/ Kam Woods's website].

== 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.

== Kortney Ryan Ziegler ==
Founder, Trans*H4CK

Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an award winning artist, writer, and blogger based in Oakland, California. Dr. Ziegler is the first person to hold the Ph.D. of African American Studies from Northwestern University.

Dr. Ziegler is the founder of [http://www.transhack.org/ Trans*H4CK]--the only tech event of its kind that brings visibility to trans* tech innovators and entrepreneurs.

He is also the director of the multiple award winning documentary, [http://www.stillblackfilm.org/ STILL BLACK: a portrait of black transmen], runs the GLAAD Media Award nominated blog, [http://blackademic.com/ blac (k) ademic], and in 2013, was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 LGBT activists by The Advocate Magazine and one of the most influential African Americans by TheRoot100. Dr. Ziegler gave the closing keynote at the 2014 Annual LITA Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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

2013 preconference proposals

2013-02-09T16:07:58Z

Timathom: /* 1-1010 Richard J. Daley Library, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11 */

Please sign up to attend by January 15th. Doesn't mean you can't change your mind, but we will use the host committee will use these numbers to assign rooms.

Proposals '''now closed'''.

Spaces available: 4+ Rooms

Please follow the formatting guidelines:
<pre>
=== Talk Title ===

* Presenter/Leader, affiliation (optional), and email address (mandatory!)
* Second Presenter/Leader, affiliation, email address, if applicable

Description.
</pre>

==Full Day==

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===
====UIC Forum, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com or
* [[User:cdmo|Charlie Morris]], NCSU Libraries, cdmorris@ncsu.edu

This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.

If we run out of topics, we will pay homage to the project by testing patches for Drupal 8. It is easy, and we will show you how to do this invaluable task.

This event is open to the library community. There is a nominal fee ($10) for non-Code4LibCon attendees.

Local Drupal uber-ninja Larry Garfield will stop by to answer questions and give us some guidance.

====I plan on attending:====

=====All Day=====
*Margaret Heller
*Mahria Lebow, mahria at uw edu
*Paula Gray-Overtoom, pgrayove at gmail.com
*Dhanushka Samarakoon, dhanu80 at g mail com
*Leo Robert Klein <del>(when he figures out what date this is)</del> - 2/11 (9a-5p). P.S. Oh Great One! Who do we hand the 10 bucks to?
*Sarah Shealy, sarah.shealy at gmail.com
*Kelly Lucas krlucas at gee mail

=====Morning=====
* [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
* Sean Chen

=====Afternoon=====
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton.edu (afternoon only)
* Christina Salazar (afternoon only)
* Sarah Dooley (afternoon)
* Josh Wilson, joshwilsonnc at gmail (likely afternoon only)
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Cody Hennesy, chennesy at library berkeley edu
* Colin Koteles, koteles at cod dot edu

==Half Day Morning==
=== Open space session ===
====Boardroom, Crowne Plaza Hotel, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Dan Chudnov, daniel.chudnov at gmail dot etc

The rest of code4libcon is pretty well structured these days; come in the morning for a few hours of old-school [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_technology open space technology] unconference. Bring a rough talk or idea you want to share or questions you have or something you want to learn about or discuss with other people, and be ready to tell us about it. Use it as extra prep time for your upcoming prepared or lightning talk if you want. We'll plan the morning out a little bit at the beginning, but not too much. What we do will be up to the people there in the room.

If there's interest, we could start with a "welcome to code4lib" introductory session for newcomers.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Devon Smith
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jason Casden
* Ryan Eby
* mark matienzo
* Donald Mennerich
* Patrick Berry, pberry@csuchico.edu
* Kåre Fiedler Christiansen, kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Michael Poltorak Nielsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
* Joe Atzberger, ohiocore@gmail.com
* Shawn Carraway carraways at midlandstech dot edu
* Emily F. Shaw emily-f-shaw at uiowa dot edu

=== Delivery services ===
====1-1010 Richard J. Daley Library, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Ted Lawless, Brown University Library, tlawless at brown edu.
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton edu.

Are you interested in making it easier for users to obtain copies of known items? Do you feel your OpenURL and Interlibrary Loan software could be streamlined? This pre-conference workshop will focus on providing services that deliver content to users. Discovery systems are doing a better job of exposing library holdings but there's still a lot of work to do actually get the content in the users hands.

Possible topics/activities include:
* group discussion of what some libraries have done in this area
* comparisons of different approaches to addressing delivery
* overview of tools available
* sharing of strategies and experiences
* time to work with and review open source code in this area. Some possible tools to install and test out [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut Umlaut], [https://github.com/lawlesst/heroku-360link Py360 Link].

Resources and background information:
* [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki/What-is-Umlaut-anyway What-is-Umlaut-anyway]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7308 Hacking 360 Link: A hybrid approach]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/108 Auto-Populating an ILL form with the Serial Solutions Link Resolver API]
* [http://lawlesst.github.com/notebook/delivery.html Focusing on Delivery]

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Curtis Thacker
* Rosalyn Metz rosalynmetz at gmail com
* James Van Mil - james.vanmil at gmail com
* Andrew Nagy
* Ranti Junus
* Aaron Collier - acollier at csufresno edu
* Demian Katz - demian dot katz at villanova dot edu
* Jacob Andresen - jacob at reindex dot dk
* Erin White - erwhite at vcu edu
* Zeno Tajoli tajoli at cilea it
* William Hicks - William{dot}hicks{at}unt{dot}edu
* Beatrice Pulliam bpulliam at providence edu
* David Bietila dbietila at uchicago edu
* James Staub - james dot staub at nashville dot gov
* Cory Lown - cwlown at ncsu dot edu

=== Intro to Blacklight CANCELED ===

PLEASE NOTE: This pre-conference has been canceled in favor of joining forces with the RailsBridge workshop. The afternoon Blacklight session will still be offered.

=== RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails ===
====UIC Forum, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jronallo@gmail.com
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, shaune@princeton.edu
* Ross Singer, Talis, rossfsinger@gmail.com
* Adam Wead (helper), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, awead@rockhall.org
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu
* James Stuart
* Jason Stirnaman (helper), University of Kansas Medical Center, jstirnaman@kumc.edu
* Anyone else want to come and help folks? Contact Jason.
* Richard Aroksaar, National Park Service, richard_aroksaar@nps.gov

RailsBridge comes to code4lib! We'll follow the RailsBridge curriculum (http://railsbridge.org) to provide a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails. Topics covered include an introduction to the Ruby language and the Rails framework. Participants will build a working Rails application.

* Note: Attendees can follow up with the Intro to Blacklight afternoon session, which will be tailored for folks new to Ruby

There is some pre-preconference preparation needed so that we can effectively use our time.

'''IMPORTANT''': From this point on if you sign up you '''must''' do the following in order to be prepared for the preconference workshop:
# Add your name below
# fill out the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpxd0tzU1ZscnU5QUUtd0JGUk9qQkE6MA#gid=0 experience survey]
# read [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQEvljB6MWOdxqcibYsQDVMT2hCevk7Y5cm3143_eaU/edit the emails you have missed]

'''I plan on attending:'''
# First and last name and email address
# John MacGillivray
# Christina Salazar - christina{dot}salazar{at}csuci{dot}edu
# Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
# Becky Yoose - b dot yoose at google overlord
# Jeremy Morse - jgmorse at umich
# Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
# Chung Kang
# Karen Miller - k-miller3{at}northwestern{dot}edu
# Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
# Jay Luker - jay{dot}luker{at}gmail{dot}com
# Santi Thompson
# Sarah Dooley - sarah{at}nclive{dot}org
# Brandon Dudley
# Ken Irwin
# Dennis Ogg - ogg{at}ucar{dot}edu
# Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
# Steven Villereal – villereal{at}gmail{dot}com
# Hillel Arnold - hillel{dot}arnold{at}gmail{dot}com
# Josh Wilson - joshwilsonnc at gmail
# Cynthia Ng - cynthia [dot] s [dot] ng [at] gmail
# Ian Chan
# Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}edu
# Mark Mounts - mark{dot}mounts{at}dartmouth{dot}edu
# Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at}pratt {dot}edu
# David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
# Courtney Greene - crgreene at indiana dot edu
# Laney McGlohon - lmcglohon@getty.edu
# Nancy Enneking - nenneking@getty.edu
# Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
# Nick Cappadona
# Steven Marsden - steven.marsden@ryerson.ca
# Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org
# Brendan Quinn - brendan-quinn at northwestern dot edu
# Michael Levy - mlevy {at}ushmm {dot}org
# Michael North (m-north at northwestern dot edu)
# Shawn Averkamp - shawnaverkamp{at}gmail{dot}com
# Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
# Cody Hennesy - chennesy at library dot berkeley dot edu
# Devin Higgins - higgi135 at msu dot edu
# Emily Zervas - emily{dot}zervas{at}gmail{dot}com
# Rob Dumas - rdumas {at} chipublib {dot} org
# Evan Boyd - eboyd /at/ ctschicago /period/ edu
# Lauren Ajamie - lauren dot ajamie at nd dot edu
# David Anderson - david dot anderson3 at nih dot gov
# David Bucknum - dabu at loc dot gov
# Dave Menninger - dave.menninger at gmail dot com
# Chris Day - cday2 at saic dot edu
# Corey Harper - corey dot harper at nyu dot edu
# Dileshni Jayasinghe - d dot jayasinghe at utoronto dot ca
# Harish Nayak - hnayak at library dot rochester dot edu
# David Cliff dgcliff@iu.edu
# Cody Hanson codyhanson@umn.edu
# Sean Purcell seanpurc{at}uga{dot}edu
# Laurie Lee Moses lmoses{at}colum{dot}edu
# Sibyl Schaefer sibylschaefer at gmail dot com
# Alisak Sanavongsay asanavongsay{at}ucmerced.edu
# Wayne Schneider wschneider at hclib dot org
# Carolyn Caizzi - carolyn{dot}caizzi {at}northwestern{dot}edu
# Julie Rudder - j-rudder at northwestern dot edu
# Matthew Butler - matthew-butler at uiowa dot edu
# Andromeda Yelton - andromeda.yelton at gmail
# Adam Strohm - adamstrohm at gmail dot com
# Kelly Thompson - thompson {dot} kelly {dot} j {at} gmail {dot} com
# Jane Sandberg - sandbrg2 {at} illinois {dot} edu
# Colin Koteles - koteles at cod dot edu
# George Campbell - campbelg{at}oclc{dot}org
# Sarah Thorngate - scthorngate{at}northpark{dot}edu
# Will Clarke - wfu.edu at clarkewd
# Terry Brady - twb27 at georgetown dot edu
# Patrick Feeley - pgf8 {at} case {dot} edu
# Bennett Magnino - bennett {dot} magnino {at} gmail {dot} com
# Christine McClure camcclure {at} gmail {dot} com
# Cole Hudson - Cole dot Hudson at wayne dot edu
# Audrey Altman - audreykaltman {at} gmail {dot} com
'''IMPORTANT''': From this point on if you sign up you '''must''' do the following in order to be prepared for the preconference workshop:
# Add your name above
# fill out the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpxd0tzU1ZscnU5QUUtd0JGUk9qQkE6MA#gid=0 experience survey]
# read [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQEvljB6MWOdxqcibYsQDVMT2hCevk7Y5cm3143_eaU/edit the emails you have missed]

===Intro to NoSQL Databases===
====1-470 Richard J. Daley Library, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Joshua Gomez, George Washington University, jngomez at gwu edu

Since Google published its paper on BigTable in 2006, alternatives to the traditional relational database model have been growing in both variety and popularity. These new databases (often referred to as NoSQL databases) excel at handling problems faced by modern information systems that the traditional relational model cannot. They are particularly popular among organizations tackling the so-called "Big Data" problems. However, there are always tradeoffs involved when making such dramatic changes. Understanding how these different kinds of databases are designed and what they can offer is essential to the decision making process. In this precon I will discuss some of the various types of new databases (key-value, columnar, document, graph) and walk through examples or exercises using some of their open source implementations like Riak, HBase, MongoDB, and Neo4j.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Esha Datta
* Trevor Thornton
* Michael Doran
* Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
* Kevin Clarke
* Andreas Orphanides
* Tommy Ingulfsen - tommying{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Harrison Dekker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
* Scott Hanrath - shanrath@ku.edu
* Erin Fahy - erin.fahy at mtholyoke edu
* Karen Coyle - kcoyle at kcoyle.net
* Charles Draper
* David Uspal
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu
* Stephanie Collett - stephanie dot collett at ucop dot edu
* Declan Fleming - declan at declan dot net
* David Gonzalez - d.gonzalez26 at umiami dot edu
* Jeff Peterson - gpeterso at umn dot edu
* May Chan - msuicat at gmail dot com
* Kathryn Stine - kathryn dot stine at ucop dot edu
* Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu
* Eben English - eenglish [at] bpl dot org
* Marisa Strong - marisa dot strong at ucop dot edu
* Michael Lindsey - mackeral at gmail dot com
* Mike Hagedon - hagedonm at u dot library dot arizona dot edu
* Scott Fisher - first/last name with dot in between at ucop dot edu
* James Griffin - griffinj at lafayette dot edu
* Jesse Brown - jfbrown78 at gmail dot com
* [[User:gdave|Dave Green]] david dot L dot green at dartmouth dot edu
* Michael Poltorak Nielsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
* Mads Villadsen, mv@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Jørn Thøgersen, jt@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Julien Gibert, gibert at abes dot fr
* Lisa Gonzalez, lgonzalez@ctu.edu
* Charles Ledvina, charles@indexdata.com
* Jim LeFager, jlefager@depaul.edu
* Debbie Maron, dmaron@purdue.edu
* Carolina Garcia - cg116 nyu
* Tracy Seneca- tjseneca@uic.edu
* William Denton - wtd@pobox.com
* Andrew Darby - agdarby at miami dot edu
* Gary Maixner maixner2 at uiuc dot edu
* Jeremy Prevost
* Esther Verreau everreau skokielibrary info
* Matthew Short, mshort@niu.edu
* Kate Flynn, kef@uic.edu
* Jon Stroop - jstroop at princeton
* Mark Redar
* Robert Haschart - rh9ec at virginia dot edu
* Xiaoming Wang - xw5d at virginia dot edu
* Graham Hukill - graham dot hukill at wayne edu
* Susan Price
* Virginia Schilling - virginia dot schilling at ucr dot edu
* Bret Davidson
* Jason Thomale - jason dot thomale at unt dot edu
* Mike Stroming - m-stroming@northwestern.edu

==Half Day Afternoon==
=== Data Visualization Hackfest ===
====1-470 Richard J. Daley Library, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Chris Beer, cabeer at stanford.edu
* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in data visualization? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3.html Access 2010 Hackfest]. We propose a half-day hackfest with a focus on visualization library data -- think stuff like library catalog data, access/circulation statistics, etc. Here's how it works, roughly:
- we'll (you'll!) do lightning tutorials for some data visualization tools, toolkits (R? d3js? ?), datasets.
- we'll separate into groups and hack on stuff.
- at the end of the day, we'll present our progress.

Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable!

'''I plan on attending:'''
# Devon Smith
# Esha Datta
# Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
# Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
# Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
# Jason Stirnaman (jstirnaman at kumc.edu)
# Joshua Gomez
# Ayla Stein (astein at uh.edu)
# Harrison Dekker
# Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
# Scott Hanrath - shanrath@ku.edu
# Annie Pho
# [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
# James Van Mil - james.vanmil at gmail com
# Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
# Karen coyle - kcoyle at kcoyle.net
# David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
# mark matienzo
# David Uspal
# Emily Lynema - ejlynema at ncsu dot edu
# Sean Chen
# Donald Mennerich
# Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
# Declan Fleming - declan at declan dot net
# Chick Markley -- chick at qrhino dot com
# Devin Higgins - higgi135 at msu dot edu
# Emily Zervas emily{dot}zervas{at}gmail{dot}com
# May Chan -- msuicat at gmail dot com
# Kathryn Stine - kathryn dot stine at ucop dot edu
# James Griffin - griffinj at lafayette dot edu
# Dave Menninger dave.menninger at gmail dot com
# [[User:gdave|Dave Green]] david dot L dot green at dartmouth dot edu
# Rikke Willer - riwi at dtic dot dtu dot dk
# Michael Poltorak NIelsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
# Mads Villadsen, mv@statsbiblioteket.dk
# Jørn Thøgersen, jt@statsbiblioteket.dk
# Joe Atzberger, ohiocore@gmail.com
# Julien Gibert, gibert at abes dot fr
# Christie Peterson - cpeterson at jhu dot edu
# Jim LeFager - jlefager@depaul.edu
# Harish Nayak - hnayak at library dot rochester dot edu
# William Denton - wtd@pobox.com
# Shawn Carraway carraways at midlandstech dot edu
# Naomi Dushay - ndushay at stanford dot edu
# William Hicks - William{dot}hicks{at}unt{dot}edu
# Beatrice Pulliam bpulliam at providence edu
# Matthew Short, mshort@niu.edu
# George Campbell, campbelg{at}oclc{dot}org
# James Staub - james dot staub at nashville dot gov
# Will Clarke - wfu dot edu at clarkewd

=== Intro to Hydra ===
====303 Library of the Health Sciences, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (awead at rockhall.org)
* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts (justin.coyne at curationexperts.com)
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)

Hydra (http://projecthydra.org) is a free and open source repository solution that is being used by institutions on both sides of the North Atlantic to provide access to their digital content. Hydra provides a versatile and feature rich environment for end-users and repository administrators alike. Leveraging Blacklight as its front end discovery interface, the hydra project provides a suite of software components, data models, and design patterns for building a robust and sustainable digital repository, as well as a community of support for ongoing development. This workshop will provide an introduction to the hydra project and its software components. Attendees will leave with enough knowledge to get started building their own local repository solutions. This workshop will be led by Adam Wead of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Jeremy Prevost
* Dennis Ogg - ogg{at}ucar{dot}edu
* Terry Brady
* Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Brendan Quinn - brendan-quinn at northwestern dot edu
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu
* Steven Villereal – villereal{at}gmail{dot}com
* Ryan Eby
* Dean Farrell
* Ian Chan
* Mark Mounts - mark{dot}mounts{at}dartmouth{dot}edu
* Carl Jones
* Laney McGlohon - lmcglohon@getty.edu
* Nancy Enneking - nenneking@getty.edu
* Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
* Andrew Darby - agdarby at miami dot edu
* Kåre Fiedler Christiansen - kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Corey Harper - corey dot harper at nyu dot edu
* Gary Maixner - maixner2 at uiuc dot edu
* Sibyl Schaefer - sibylschaefer at gmail dot com
* Emily F. Shaw - emily-f-shaw{at}uiowa{dot}edu
* Alicia Morris - alicia.morris@tufts.edu
* Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu
* Kate Flynn, kef@uic.edu
* Shawn Averkamp, shawn-averkamp{at}uiowa{dot}edu

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
====1-1010 Richard J. Daley Library, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)
* Jason Ronallo, NC State (jronallo at gmail.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, (shaune@princeton.edu)

Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, NC State, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&A around local issues people might encounter.

Note: this workshop will be tailored as a follow-on to the morning's RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails workshop, but everyone is welcome

'''I plan on attending:'''
* John MacGillivray
* Jon Stroop
* Jeremy Morse - jgmorse at umich
* Karen Miller - k-miller3{at}northwestern{dot}edu
* Tommy Ingulfsen - tommying{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Chung Kang
* Santi Thompson
* Brandon Dudley
* Ken Irwin
* Hillel Arnold
* Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}com
* Chris Sharp - csharp{at}georgialibraries{dot}org
* Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at} pratt{dot} edu
* Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
* Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org
* David Gonzalez - d.gonzalez26 at umiami dot edu
* Courtney Greene - crgreene at indiana dot edu
* Evan Boyd - eboyd /at/ ctschicago /period/ edu
* Lauren Ajamie - lauren dot ajamie at nd dot edu
* David Anderson - david dot anderson3 at nih dot gov
* Michael Lindsey - mackeral at gmail dot com
* David Bucknum - dabu at loc dot gov
* Chris Day - cday2 at saic dot edu
* Carolina Garcia - cg116 nyu
* David Cliff dgcliff@iu.edu
* Cody Hanson codyhanson@umn.edu
* Sean Purcell seanpurc{at}uga{dot}edu
* Laurie Lee Moses lmoses{at}colum{dot}edu
* Alisak Sanavongsay asanavongsay{at}ucmerced.edu
* Wayne Schneider wschneider at hclib dot org
* Carolyn Caizzi carolyn{dot}caizzi{at}northwestern{dot}edu
* Julie Rudder - j-rudder at northwestern dot edu
* Andromeda Yelton - andromeda.yelton at gmail
* Adam Strohm - adamstrohm at gmail dot com
* Luke Gaudreau - luke underscore gaudreau at harvard dot edu
* Cole Hudson - cole dot hudson at wayne dot edu

=== DPLA Intro/Hacking ===
====Seminar Room A of Richard J. Daley Library, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Presenter(s)/Leader(s): Nate Hill (Chattanooga Public Library, DPLA Audience and Participation Co-chair), SJ Klein (Wikimedia, OLPC, DPLA Technical Aspects Co-chair), Jeff Licht (DPLA Technical Development Project Manager)

The [http://dp.la Digital Public Library of America] (DPLA) is an open source metadata repository that provides read-only access to millions of records from across the United States via an open REST API. All API queries are returned as JSON-LD, a lightweight linked data format, and the metadata is freely reusable under a CC0 public domain license. A front-end portal is currently under development and will be launched in April 2013, though it will serve as but one way into the DPLA’s data. The DPLA encourages the development of applications and tools by developers of all skill levels and backgrounds. In this workshop, participants will actively code against the API to make apps, visualization tools, plug-ins, and other interesting tools that make use of DPLA data.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name, Affiliation
* Justin Clark, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
* Anita Patel, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
* Peter Murray, LYRASIS
* Christine McClure, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Richard Aroksaar, National Park Service

'''I plan on making:'''
* App name (your name): app description

=== Fail4lib ===
====1-360 Richard J. Daley Library, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Jason Casden, NCSU Libraries (jmcasden at ncsu.edu)
* Andreas Orphanides, NCSU Libraries (akorphan at ncsu.edu)

The Code4lib community is full of driven people who embrace the risks that are often associated with new projects. While these traits lead to the incredible projects that are presented at Code4lib, creative technical work also often leads to unexpected, vexing, or disappointing results even from eventually successful projects (however you define the term). Learning more about how our colleagues deal with failure in various contexts could lead to the development of better methods for communicating the value of productive failure, modifying project plans ("The Pivot"), and failing more cheaply.

Hopefully we can define the format as a group, but a fairly high level of participation is crucial if this is to be a worthwhile preconference. Some possible agenda items that could be mixed and matched to fill the afternoon:

# Given willing presenters, a series of 10-20 minute presentations that go into some depth about specific failures.
# Depending on the number of participants, either a multi- or single-track series of unconference-like themed discussions on various aspects of failure, possibly including themes like:
#* Technical failure
#* Failure to effectively address a real user need
#* Overinvestment
#* Outreach/Promotion failure
#* Design/UX failure
#* Project team communication failure
#* Missed opportunities (risk-averse failure)
#* Successes gleaned from failures
# A panel of participants who have prepared in advance to answer moderator and audience questions about their experience with failure.
# A prepared reading assignment that we could all forget to read, creating a shared fail in order to start the preconference on the right foot.

I'll serve as a moderator (if needed) and participant and would welcome more organizers. I am happy to be outvoted by participants on any of these points--I just want to get us talking about our screw-ups, blind spots, and anvils dropping from the sky.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Becky Yoose
* Lisa Rabey
* Cynthia Ng (maybe) - cynthia [dot] s [dot] ng [at] gmail
* Patrick Berry, pberry@csuchico.edu
* Erin White, erwhite at vcu edu
* Ranti Junus, ranti.junus at gmail
* Rosalyn Metz -- rosalynmetz at gmail com
* Bret Davidson

=== Solr 4 In Depth ===
====UIC Forum, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidworks.com)

The long awaited and much anticipated Solr 4 has been released! It's a really big deal. There are so many improvements, it makes the head spin. This session will cover the major feature improvements from Lucene's flexible indexing and scoring API up through SolrCloud in a digestable half-day format. Sounds like this is an evening thing that might happen at a bar somewhere?

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Erin Fahy - erin.fahy at mtholyoke edu
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jon Stroop
* Adam Constabars
* Kevin Clarke
* Jacob Andresen (jacob at reindex dot dk)
* Ted Lawless (tlawless at brown dot edu)
* Tom Burton-West
* Curtis Thacker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Bess Sadler (bess at stanford dot edu)
* Michael North
* Charles Draper
* Nick Cappadona
* Stephanie Collett - stephanie dot collett at ucop dot edu
* Kalee Sprague - kalee dot sprague at yale dot edu
* Jeff Peterson - gpeterso at umn dot edu
* Erik Hetzner
* Demian Katz - demian dot katz at villanova dot edu
* Eben English - eenglish at bpl dot org
* Raman Chandrasekar
* Jason Ronallo - jnronall@ncsu.edu
* Eric Larson - elarson@library.wisc.edu
* Mike Hagedon - hagedonm at u dot library dot arizona dot edu
* Jesse Brown - jfbrown78 at gmail dot com
* Steven Marsden - steven.marsden@ryerson.ca
* Zeno Tajoli - tajoli at cilea it
* Charles Ledvina - charles att indexdata dott com
* Tracy Seneca - tjseneca@uic.edu
* Tod Olson - tod at uchicago dot edu
* Esther Verreau - everreau skokielibrary info
* Jane Sandberg - sandbrg2 at illinois dot edu
* Mark Redar
* Robert Haschart - rh9ec at virginia dot edu
* Xiaoming Wang - xw5d at virginia dot edu
* Graham Hukill - graham dot hukill at wayne edu
* Susan Price
* Cory Lown - cwlown at ncsu dot edu

[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]

2013 preconference proposals

2013-02-04T13:29:29Z

Timathom: /* Intro to Hydra */

Please sign up to attend by January 15th. Doesn't mean you can't change your mind, but we will use the host committee will use these numbers to assign rooms.

Proposals '''now closed'''.

Spaces available: 4+ Rooms

Please follow the formatting guidelines:
<pre>
=== Talk Title ===

* Presenter/Leader, affiliation (optional), and email address (mandatory!)
* Second Presenter/Leader, affiliation, email address, if applicable

Description.
</pre>

==Full Day==

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===

* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com or
* [[User:cdmo|Charlie Morris]], NCSU Libraries, cdmorris@ncsu.edu

This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.

If we run out of topics, we will pay homage to the project by testing patches for Drupal 8. It is easy, and we will show you how to do this invaluable task.

This event is open to the library community. There is a nominal fee ($10) for non-Code4LibCon attendees.

Local Drupal uber-ninja Larry Garfield will stop by to answer questions and give us some guidance.

====I plan on attending:====

=====All Day=====
*Margaret Heller
*Mahria Lebow, mahria at uw edu
*Paula Gray-Overtoom, pgrayove at gmail.com
*Dhanushka Samarakoon, dhanu80 at g mail com
*Leo Robert Klein <del>(when he figures out what date this is)</del> - 2/11 (9a-5p). P.S. Oh Great One! Who do we hand the 10 bucks to?
*Sarah Shealy, sarah.shealy at gmail.com

=====Morning=====
* [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
* Sean Chen

=====Afternoon=====
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton.edu (afternoon only)
* Christina Salazar (afternoon only)
* Sarah Dooley (afternoon)
* Josh Wilson, joshwilsonnc at gmail (likely afternoon only)
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Cody Hennesy, chennesy at library berkeley edu

==Half Day Morning==
=== Open space session ===

* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

The rest of code4libcon is pretty well structured these days; come in the morning for a few hours of old-school [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_technology open space technology] unconference. Bring a rough talk or idea you want to share or questions you have or something you want to learn about or discuss with other people, and be ready to tell us about it. Use it as extra prep time for your upcoming prepared or lightning talk if you want. We'll plan the morning out a little bit at the beginning, but not too much. What we do will be up to the people there in the room.

If there's interest, we could start with a "welcome to code4lib" introductory session for newcomers.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Devon Smith
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jason Casden
* Ryan Eby
* mark matienzo
* Donald Mennerich
* Patrick Berry, pberry@csuchico.edu
* Kåre Fiedler Christiansen, kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Michael Poltorak Nielsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
* Joe Atzberger, ohiocore@gmail.com
* Shawn Carraway carraways at midlandstech dot edu

=== Delivery services ===
* Ted Lawless, Brown University Library, tlawless at brown edu.
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton edu.

Are you interested in making it easier for users to obtain copies of known items? Do you feel your OpenURL and Interlibrary Loan software could be streamlined? This pre-conference workshop will focus on providing services that deliver content to users. Discovery systems are doing a better job of exposing library holdings but there's still a lot of work to do actually get the content in the users hands.

Possible topics/activities include:
* group discussion of what some libraries have done in this area
* comparisons of different approaches to addressing delivery
* overview of tools available
* sharing of strategies and experiences
* time to work with and review open source code in this area. Some possible tools to install and test out [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut Umlaut], [https://github.com/lawlesst/heroku-360link Py360 Link].

Resources and background information:
* [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki/What-is-Umlaut-anyway What-is-Umlaut-anyway]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7308 Hacking 360 Link: A hybrid approach]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/108 Auto-Populating an ILL form with the Serial Solutions Link Resolver API]
* [http://lawlesst.github.com/notebook/delivery.html Focusing on Delivery]

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Curtis Thacker
* Rosalyn Metz rosalynmetz at gmail com
* James Van Mil - james.vanmil at gmail com
* Andrew Nagy
* Ranti Junus
* Aaron Collier - acollier at csufresno edu
* Demian Katz - demian dot katz at villanova dot edu
* Jacob Andresen - jacob at reindex dot dk
* Erin White - erwhite at vcu edu
* Zeno Tajoli tajoli at cilea it
* William Hicks - William{dot}hicks{at}unt{dot}edu
* Beatrice Pulliam bpulliam at providence edu

=== Intro to Blacklight CANCELLED ===

PLEASE NOTE: This pre-conference has been cancelled in favor of joining forces with the RailsBridge workshop. The afternoon Blacklight session will still be offered.

=== RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails ===
* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jronallo@gmail.com
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, shaune@princeton.edu
* Ross Singer, Talis, rossfsinger@gmail.com
* Adam Wead (helper), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, awead@rockhall.org
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu
* James Stuart
* Jason Stirnaman (helper), University of Kansas Medical Center, jstirnaman@kumc.edu
* Anyone else want to come and help folks? Contact Jason.

RailsBridge comes to code4lib! We'll follow the RailsBridge curriculum (http://railsbridge.org) to provide a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails. Topics covered include an introduction to the Ruby language and the Rails framework. Participants will build a working Rails application.

* Note: Attendees can follow up with the Intro to Blacklight afternoon session, which will be tailored for folks new to Ruby

Location: UIC Forum

There is some pre-preconference preparation needed so that we can effectively use our time.

'''IMPORTANT''': From this point on if you sign up you '''must''' do the following in order to be prepared for the preconference workshop:
# Add your name below
# fill out the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpxd0tzU1ZscnU5QUUtd0JGUk9qQkE6MA#gid=0 experience survey]
# read [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQEvljB6MWOdxqcibYsQDVMT2hCevk7Y5cm3143_eaU/edit the emails you have missed]

'''I plan on attending:'''
# First and last name and email address
# John MacGillivray
# Jon Stroop - jstroop at princeton
# Christina Salazar - christina{dot}salazar{at}csuci{dot}edu
# Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
# Becky Yoose - b dot yoose at google overlord
# Jeremy Morse - jgmorse at umich
# Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
# Chung Kang
# Karen Miller - k-miller3{at}northwestern{dot}edu
# Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
# Jay Luker - jay{dot}luker{at}gmail{dot}com
# Santi Thompson
# Sarah Dooley - sarah{at}nclive{dot}org
# Brandon Dudley
# Ken Irwin
# Dennis Ogg - ogg{at}ucar{dot}edu
# Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
# Steven Villereal – villereal{at}gmail{dot}com
# Hillel Arnold - hillel{dot}arnold{at}gmail{dot}com
# Josh Wilson - joshwilsonnc at gmail
# Cynthia Ng - cynthia [dot] s [dot] ng [at] gmail
# Ian Chan
# Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}edu
# Mark Mounts - mark{dot}mounts{at}dartmouth{dot}edu
# Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at}pratt {dot}edu
# David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
# Courtney Greene - crgreene at indiana dot edu
# Laney McGlohon - lmcglohon@getty.edu
# Nancy Enneking - nenneking@getty.edu
# Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
# Nick Cappadona
# Steven Marsden - steven.marsden@ryerson.ca
# Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org
# Brendan Quinn - brendan-quinn at northwestern dot edu
# Michael Levy - mlevy {at}ushmm {dot}org
# Michael North (m-north at northwestern dot edu)
# Shawn Averkamp - shawnaverkamp{at}gmail{dot}com
# Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
# Cody Hennesy - chennesy at library dot berkeley dot edu
# Devin Higgins - higgi135 at msu dot edu
# Emily Zervas - emily{dot}zervas{at}gmail{dot}com
# Rob Dumas - rdumas {at} chipublib {dot} org
# Evan Boyd - eboyd /at/ ctschicago /period/ edu
# Lauren Ajamie - lauren dot ajamie at nd dot edu
# David Anderson - david dot anderson3 at nih dot gov
# David Bucknum - dabu at loc dot gov
# Dave Menninger - dave.menninger at gmail dot com
# Chris Day - cday2 at saic dot edu
# Corey Harper - corey dot harper at nyu dot edu
# Dileshni Jayasinghe - d dot jayasinghe at utoronto dot ca
# Harish Nayak - hnayak at library dot rochester dot edu
# David Cliff dgcliff@iu.edu
# Cody Hanson codyhanson@umn.edu
# Laurie Lee Moses lmoses{at}colum{dot}edu
# Sibyl Schaefer sibylschaefer at gmail dot com
# Alisak Sanavongsay asanavongsay{at}ucmerced.edu
# Wayne Schneider wschneider at hclib dot org
# Emily F. Shaw - emily-f-shaw{at}uiowa{dot}edu
# Carolyn Caizzi - carolyn{dot}caizzi {at}northwestern{dot}edu
# Julie Rudder - j-rudder at northwestern dot edu
# Matthew Butler - matthew-butler at uiowa dot edu
# Andromeda Yelton - andromeda.yelton at gmail
# Adam Strohm - adamstrohm at gmail dot com
# Kelly Thompson - thompson {dot} kelly {dot} j {at} gmail {dot} com

'''IMPORTANT''': From this point on if you sign up you '''must''' do the following in order to be prepared for the preconference workshop:
# Add your name above
# fill out the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpxd0tzU1ZscnU5QUUtd0JGUk9qQkE6MA#gid=0 experience survey]
# read [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQEvljB6MWOdxqcibYsQDVMT2hCevk7Y5cm3143_eaU/edit the emails you have missed]

===Intro to NoSQL Databases===
* Joshua Gomez, George Washington University, jngomez at gwu edu

Since Google published its paper on BigTable in 2006, alternatives to the traditional relational database model have been growing in both variety and popularity. These new databases (often referred to as NoSQL databases) excel at handling problems faced by modern information systems that the traditional relational model cannot. They are particularly popular among organizations tackling the so-called "Big Data" problems. However, there are always tradeoffs involved when making such dramatic changes. Understanding how these different kinds of databases are designed and what they can offer is essential to the decision making process. In this precon I will discuss some of the various types of new databases (key-value, columnar, document, graph) and walk through examples or exercises using some of their open source implementations like Riak, HBase, MongoDB, and Neo4j.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Esha Datta
* Trevor Thornton
* Michael Doran
* Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
* Kevin Clarke
* Andreas Orphanides
* Tommy Ingulfsen - tommying{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Harrison Dekker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
* Scott Hanrath
* Erin Fahy - erin.fahy at mtholyoke edu
* Karen Coyle - kcoyle at kcoyle.net
* Charles Draper
* David Uspal
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu
* Stephanie Collett - stephanie dot collett at ucop dot edu
* Declan Fleming - declan at declan dot net
* David Gonzalez - d.gonzalez26 at umiami dot edu
* Jeff Peterson - gpeterso at umn dot edu
* May Chan - msuicat at gmail dot com
* Kathryn Stine - kathryn dot stine at ucop dot edu
* Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu
* Eben English - eenglish [at] bpl dot org
* Marisa Strong - marisa dot strong at ucop dot edu
* Michael Lindsey - mackeral at gmail dot com
* Mike Hagedon - hagedonm at u dot library dot arizona dot edu
* Scott Fisher - first/last name with dot in between at ucop dot edu
* James Griffin - griffinj at lafayette dot edu
* Jesse Brown - jfbrown78 at gmail dot com
* [[User:gdave|Dave Green]] david dot L dot green at dartmouth dot edu
* Michael Poltorak Nielsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
* Mads Villadsen, mv@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Jørn Thøgersen, jt@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Julien Gibert, gibert at abes dot fr
* Lisa Gonzalez, lgonzalez@ctu.edu
* Charles Ledvina, charles@indexdata.com
* Jim LeFager, jlefager@depaul.edu
* Debbie Maron, dmaron@purdue.edu
* Carolina Garcia - cg116 nyu
* Tracy Seneca- tjseneca@uic.edu
* William Denton - wtd@pobox.com
* Andrew Darby - agdarby at miami dot edu
* Gary Maixner maixner2 at uiuc dot edu
* Jeremy Prevost
* Esther Verreau everreau skokielibrary info
* Matthew Short, mshort@niu.edu

==Half Day Afternoon==
=== Data Visualization Hackfest ===
* Chris Beer, cabeer at stanford.edu
* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in data visualization? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3.html Access 2010 Hackfest]. We propose a half-day hackfest with a focus on visualization library data -- think stuff like library catalog data, access/circulation statistics, etc. Here's how it works, roughly:
- we'll (you'll!) do lightning tutorials for some data visualization tools, toolkits (R? d3js? ?), datasets.
- we'll separate into groups and hack on stuff.
- at the end of the day, we'll present our progress.

Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable!

'''I plan on attending:'''
# Devon Smith
# Esha Datta
# Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
# Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
# Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
# Jason Stirnaman (jstirnaman at kumc.edu)
# Joshua Gomez
# Ayla Stein (astein at uh.edu)
# Harrison Dekker
# Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
# Scott Hanrath
# [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
# James Van Mil - james.vanmil at gmail com
# Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
# Karen coyle - kcoyle at kcoyle.net
# David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
# mark matienzo
# David Uspal
# Emily Lynema - ejlynema at ncsu dot edu
# Sean Chen
# Donald Mennerich
# Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
# Declan Fleming - declan at declan dot net
# Chick Markley -- chick at qrhino dot com
# Rosalyn Metz -- rosalynmetz at gmail com
# Devin Higgins - higgi135 at msu dot edu
# Emily Zervas emily{dot}zervas{at}gmail{dot}com
# May Chan -- msuicat at gmail dot com
# Kathryn Stine - kathryn dot stine at ucop dot edu
# James Griffin - griffinj at lafayette dot edu
# Dave Menninger dave.menninger at gmail dot com
# [[User:gdave|Dave Green]] david dot L dot green at dartmouth dot edu
# Rikke Willer - riwi at dtic dot dtu dot dk
# Michael Poltorak NIelsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
# Mads Villadsen, mv@statsbiblioteket.dk
# Jørn Thøgersen, jt@statsbiblioteket.dk
# Joe Atzberger, ohiocore@gmail.com
# Julien Gibert, gibert at abes dot fr
# Christie Peterson - cpeterson at jhu dot edu
# Jim LeFager - jlefager@depaul.edu
# Harish Nayak - hnayak at library dot rochester dot edu
# William Denton - wtd@pobox.com
# Shawn Carraway carraways at midlandstech dot edu
# Naomi Dushay - ndushay at stanford dot edu
# William Hicks - William{dot}hicks{at}unt{dot}edu
# Beatrice Pulliam bpulliam at providence edu
# Matthew Short, mshort@niu.edu

=== Intro to Hydra ===
* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (awead at rockhall.org)
* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts (justin.coyne at curationexperts.com)
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)

Hydra (http://projecthydra.org) is a free and open source repository solution that is being used by institutions on both sides of the North Atlantic to provide access to their digital content. Hydra provides a versatile and feature rich environment for end-users and repository administrators alike. Leveraging Blacklight as its front end discovery interface, the hydra project provides a suite of software components, data models, and design patterns for building a robust and sustainable digital repository, as well as a community of support for ongoing development. This workshop will provide an introduction to the hydra project and its software components. Attendees will leave with enough knowledge to get started building their own local repository solutions. This workshop will be led by Adam Wead of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Jeremy Prevost
* Dennis Ogg - ogg{at}ucar{dot}edu
* Terry Brady
* Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Brendan Quinn - brendan-quinn at northwestern dot edu
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu
* Steven Villereal – villereal{at}gmail{dot}com
* Ryan Eby
* Dean Farrell
* Ian Chan
* Mark Mounts - mark{dot}mounts{at}dartmouth{dot}edu
* Carl Jones
* Laney McGlohon - lmcglohon@getty.edu
* Nancy Enneking - nenneking@getty.edu
* Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
* Andrew Darby - agdarby at miami dot edu
* Kåre Fiedler Christiansen - kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Corey Harper - corey dot harper at nyu dot edu
* Gary Maixner - maixner2 at uiuc dot edu
* Sibyl Schaefer - sibylschaefer at gmail dot com
* Emily F. Shaw - emily-f-shaw{at}uiowa{dot}edu
* Alicia Morris - alicia.morris@tufts.edu
* Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)
* Jason Ronallo, NC State (jronallo at gmail.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, (shaune@princeton.edu)

Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, NC State, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&A around local issues people might encounter.

Note: this workshop will be tailored as a follow-on to the morning's RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails workshop, but everyone is welcome

'''I plan on attending:'''
* John MacGillivray
* Jon Stroop
* Jeremy Morse - jgmorse at umich
* Karen Miller - k-miller3{at}northwestern{dot}edu
* Tommy Ingulfsen - tommying{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Chung Kang
* Santi Thompson
* Brandon Dudley
* Ken Irwin
* Hillel Arnold
* Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}com
* Chris Sharp - csharp{at}georgialibraries{dot}org
* Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at} pratt{dot} edu
* Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
* Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org
* Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu
* David Gonzalez - d.gonzalez26 at umiami dot edu
* Courtney Greene - crgreene at indiana dot edu
* Evan Boyd - eboyd /at/ ctschicago /period/ edu
* Lauren Ajamie - lauren dot ajamie at nd dot edu
* David Anderson - david dot anderson3 at nih dot gov
* Michael Lindsey - mackeral at gmail dot com
* David Bucknum - dabu at loc dot gov
* Scott Fisher - first/last name with dot in between at ucop dot edu
* Chris Day - cday2 at saic dot edu
* Carolina Garcia - cg116 nyu
* David Cliff dgcliff@iu.edu
* Cody Hanson codyhanson@umn.edu
* Laurie Lee Moses lmoses{at}colum{dot}edu
* Alisak Sanavongsay asanavongsay{at}ucmerced.edu
* Wayne Schneider wschneider at hclib dot org
* Carolyn Caizzi carolyn{dot}caizzi{at}northwestern{dot}edu
* Julie Rudder - j-rudder at northwestern dot edu
* Andromeda Yelton - andromeda.yelton at gmail
* Adam Strohm - adamstrohm at gmail dot com

=== DPLA Intro/Hacking ===

* Presenter(s)/Leader(s): Nate Hill (Chattanooga Public Library, DPLA Audience and Participation Co-chair), SJ Klein (Wikimedia, OLPC, DPLA Technical Aspects Co-chair), Jeff Licht (DPLA Technical Development Project Manager)

The [http://dp.la Digital Public Library of America] (DPLA) is an open source metadata repository that provides read-only access to millions of records from across the United States via an open REST API. All API queries are returned as JSON-LD, a lightweight linked data format, and the metadata is freely reusable under a CC0 public domain license. A front-end portal is currently under development and will be launched in April 2013, though it will serve as but one way into the DPLA’s data. The DPLA encourages the development of applications and tools by developers of all skill levels and backgrounds. In this workshop, participants will actively code against the API to make apps, visualization tools, plug-ins, and other interesting tools that make use of DPLA data.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name, Affiliation
* Justin Clark, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
* Anita Patel, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
* Peter Murray, LYRASIS

'''I plan on making:'''
* App name (your name): app description

=== Fail4lib ===
* Jason Casden, NCSU Libraries (jmcasden at ncsu.edu)
* Andreas Orphanides, NCSU Libraries (akorphan at ncsu.edu)

The Code4lib community is full of driven people who embrace the risks that are often associated with new projects. While these traits lead to the incredible projects that are presented at Code4lib, creative technical work also often leads to unexpected, vexing, or disappointing results even from eventually successful projects (however you define the term). Learning more about how our colleagues deal with failure in various contexts could lead to the development of better methods for communicating the value of productive failure, modifying project plans ("The Pivot"), and failing more cheaply.

Hopefully we can define the format as a group, but a fairly high level of participation is crucial if this is to be a worthwhile preconference. Some possible agenda items that could be mixed and matched to fill the afternoon:

# Given willing presenters, a series of 10-20 minute presentations that go into some depth about specific failures.
# Depending on the number of participants, either a multi- or single-track series of unconference-like themed discussions on various aspects of failure, possibly including themes like:
#* Technical failure
#* Failure to effectively address a real user need
#* Overinvestment
#* Outreach/Promotion failure
#* Design/UX failure
#* Project team communication failure
#* Missed opportunities (risk-averse failure)
#* Successes gleaned from failures
# A panel of participants who have prepared in advance to answer moderator and audience questions about their experience with failure.
# A prepared reading assignment that we could all forget to read, creating a shared fail in order to start the preconference on the right foot.

I'll serve as a moderator (if needed) and participant and would welcome more organizers. I am happy to be outvoted by participants on any of these points--I just want to get us talking about our screw-ups, blind spots, and anvils dropping from the sky.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Becky Yoose
* Lisa Rabey
* Cynthia Ng (maybe) - cynthia [dot] s [dot] ng [at] gmail
* Patrick Berry, pberry@csuchico.edu
* Erin White, erwhite at vcu edu
* Ranti Junus, ranti.junus at gmail

=== Solr 4 In Depth ===
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidworks.com)

The long awaited and much anticipated Solr 4 has been released! It's a really big deal. There are so many improvements, it makes the head spin. This session will cover the major feature improvements from Lucene's flexible indexing and scoring API up through SolrCloud in a digestable half-day format. Sounds like this is an evening thing that might happen at a bar somewhere?

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Erin Fahy - erin.fahy at mtholyoke edu
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jon Stroop
* Adam Constabars
* Kevin Clarke
* Jacob Andresen (jacob at reindex dot dk)
* Ted Lawless (tlawless at brown dot edu)
* Tom Burton-West
* Curtis Thacker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Bess Sadler (bess at stanford dot edu)
* Michael North
* Charles Draper
* Nick Cappadona
* Stephanie Collett - stephanie dot collett at ucop dot edu
* Kalee Sprague - kalee dot sprague at yale dot edu
* Jeff Peterson - gpeterso at umn dot edu
* Erik Hetzner
* Demian Katz - demian dot katz at villanova dot edu
* Eben English - eenglish at bpl dot org
* Raman Chandrasekar
* Jason Ronallo - jnronall@ncsu.edu
* Eric Larson - elarson@library.wisc.edu
* Mike Hagedon - hagedonm at u dot library dot arizona dot edu
* Jesse Brown - jfbrown78 at gmail dot com
* Steven Marsden - steven.marsden@ryerson.ca
* Zeno Tajoli - tajoli at cilea it
* Charles Ledvina - charles att indexdata dott com
* Tracy Seneca - tjseneca@uic.edu
* Tod Olson - tod at uchicago dot edu
* Esther Verreau - everreau skokielibrary info
[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]

2013 preconference proposals

2013-02-04T13:28:45Z

Timathom: /* Data Visualization Hackfest */

Please sign up to attend by January 15th. Doesn't mean you can't change your mind, but we will use the host committee will use these numbers to assign rooms.

Proposals '''now closed'''.

Spaces available: 4+ Rooms

Please follow the formatting guidelines:
<pre>
=== Talk Title ===

* Presenter/Leader, affiliation (optional), and email address (mandatory!)
* Second Presenter/Leader, affiliation, email address, if applicable

Description.
</pre>

==Full Day==

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===

* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com or
* [[User:cdmo|Charlie Morris]], NCSU Libraries, cdmorris@ncsu.edu

This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.

If we run out of topics, we will pay homage to the project by testing patches for Drupal 8. It is easy, and we will show you how to do this invaluable task.

This event is open to the library community. There is a nominal fee ($10) for non-Code4LibCon attendees.

Local Drupal uber-ninja Larry Garfield will stop by to answer questions and give us some guidance.

====I plan on attending:====

=====All Day=====
*Margaret Heller
*Mahria Lebow, mahria at uw edu
*Paula Gray-Overtoom, pgrayove at gmail.com
*Dhanushka Samarakoon, dhanu80 at g mail com
*Leo Robert Klein <del>(when he figures out what date this is)</del> - 2/11 (9a-5p). P.S. Oh Great One! Who do we hand the 10 bucks to?
*Sarah Shealy, sarah.shealy at gmail.com

=====Morning=====
* [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
* Sean Chen

=====Afternoon=====
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton.edu (afternoon only)
* Christina Salazar (afternoon only)
* Sarah Dooley (afternoon)
* Josh Wilson, joshwilsonnc at gmail (likely afternoon only)
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Cody Hennesy, chennesy at library berkeley edu

==Half Day Morning==
=== Open space session ===

* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

The rest of code4libcon is pretty well structured these days; come in the morning for a few hours of old-school [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_technology open space technology] unconference. Bring a rough talk or idea you want to share or questions you have or something you want to learn about or discuss with other people, and be ready to tell us about it. Use it as extra prep time for your upcoming prepared or lightning talk if you want. We'll plan the morning out a little bit at the beginning, but not too much. What we do will be up to the people there in the room.

If there's interest, we could start with a "welcome to code4lib" introductory session for newcomers.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Devon Smith
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jason Casden
* Ryan Eby
* mark matienzo
* Donald Mennerich
* Patrick Berry, pberry@csuchico.edu
* Kåre Fiedler Christiansen, kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Michael Poltorak Nielsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
* Joe Atzberger, ohiocore@gmail.com
* Shawn Carraway carraways at midlandstech dot edu

=== Delivery services ===
* Ted Lawless, Brown University Library, tlawless at brown edu.
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton edu.

Are you interested in making it easier for users to obtain copies of known items? Do you feel your OpenURL and Interlibrary Loan software could be streamlined? This pre-conference workshop will focus on providing services that deliver content to users. Discovery systems are doing a better job of exposing library holdings but there's still a lot of work to do actually get the content in the users hands.

Possible topics/activities include:
* group discussion of what some libraries have done in this area
* comparisons of different approaches to addressing delivery
* overview of tools available
* sharing of strategies and experiences
* time to work with and review open source code in this area. Some possible tools to install and test out [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut Umlaut], [https://github.com/lawlesst/heroku-360link Py360 Link].

Resources and background information:
* [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki/What-is-Umlaut-anyway What-is-Umlaut-anyway]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7308 Hacking 360 Link: A hybrid approach]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/108 Auto-Populating an ILL form with the Serial Solutions Link Resolver API]
* [http://lawlesst.github.com/notebook/delivery.html Focusing on Delivery]

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Curtis Thacker
* Rosalyn Metz rosalynmetz at gmail com
* James Van Mil - james.vanmil at gmail com
* Andrew Nagy
* Ranti Junus
* Aaron Collier - acollier at csufresno edu
* Demian Katz - demian dot katz at villanova dot edu
* Jacob Andresen - jacob at reindex dot dk
* Erin White - erwhite at vcu edu
* Zeno Tajoli tajoli at cilea it
* William Hicks - William{dot}hicks{at}unt{dot}edu
* Beatrice Pulliam bpulliam at providence edu

=== Intro to Blacklight CANCELLED ===

PLEASE NOTE: This pre-conference has been cancelled in favor of joining forces with the RailsBridge workshop. The afternoon Blacklight session will still be offered.

=== RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails ===
* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jronallo@gmail.com
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, shaune@princeton.edu
* Ross Singer, Talis, rossfsinger@gmail.com
* Adam Wead (helper), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, awead@rockhall.org
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu
* James Stuart
* Jason Stirnaman (helper), University of Kansas Medical Center, jstirnaman@kumc.edu
* Anyone else want to come and help folks? Contact Jason.

RailsBridge comes to code4lib! We'll follow the RailsBridge curriculum (http://railsbridge.org) to provide a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails. Topics covered include an introduction to the Ruby language and the Rails framework. Participants will build a working Rails application.

* Note: Attendees can follow up with the Intro to Blacklight afternoon session, which will be tailored for folks new to Ruby

Location: UIC Forum

There is some pre-preconference preparation needed so that we can effectively use our time.

'''IMPORTANT''': From this point on if you sign up you '''must''' do the following in order to be prepared for the preconference workshop:
# Add your name below
# fill out the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpxd0tzU1ZscnU5QUUtd0JGUk9qQkE6MA#gid=0 experience survey]
# read [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQEvljB6MWOdxqcibYsQDVMT2hCevk7Y5cm3143_eaU/edit the emails you have missed]

'''I plan on attending:'''
# First and last name and email address
# John MacGillivray
# Jon Stroop - jstroop at princeton
# Christina Salazar - christina{dot}salazar{at}csuci{dot}edu
# Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
# Becky Yoose - b dot yoose at google overlord
# Jeremy Morse - jgmorse at umich
# Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
# Chung Kang
# Karen Miller - k-miller3{at}northwestern{dot}edu
# Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
# Jay Luker - jay{dot}luker{at}gmail{dot}com
# Santi Thompson
# Sarah Dooley - sarah{at}nclive{dot}org
# Brandon Dudley
# Ken Irwin
# Dennis Ogg - ogg{at}ucar{dot}edu
# Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
# Steven Villereal – villereal{at}gmail{dot}com
# Hillel Arnold - hillel{dot}arnold{at}gmail{dot}com
# Josh Wilson - joshwilsonnc at gmail
# Cynthia Ng - cynthia [dot] s [dot] ng [at] gmail
# Ian Chan
# Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}edu
# Mark Mounts - mark{dot}mounts{at}dartmouth{dot}edu
# Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at}pratt {dot}edu
# David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
# Courtney Greene - crgreene at indiana dot edu
# Laney McGlohon - lmcglohon@getty.edu
# Nancy Enneking - nenneking@getty.edu
# Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
# Nick Cappadona
# Steven Marsden - steven.marsden@ryerson.ca
# Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org
# Brendan Quinn - brendan-quinn at northwestern dot edu
# Michael Levy - mlevy {at}ushmm {dot}org
# Michael North (m-north at northwestern dot edu)
# Shawn Averkamp - shawnaverkamp{at}gmail{dot}com
# Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
# Cody Hennesy - chennesy at library dot berkeley dot edu
# Devin Higgins - higgi135 at msu dot edu
# Emily Zervas - emily{dot}zervas{at}gmail{dot}com
# Rob Dumas - rdumas {at} chipublib {dot} org
# Evan Boyd - eboyd /at/ ctschicago /period/ edu
# Lauren Ajamie - lauren dot ajamie at nd dot edu
# David Anderson - david dot anderson3 at nih dot gov
# David Bucknum - dabu at loc dot gov
# Dave Menninger - dave.menninger at gmail dot com
# Chris Day - cday2 at saic dot edu
# Corey Harper - corey dot harper at nyu dot edu
# Dileshni Jayasinghe - d dot jayasinghe at utoronto dot ca
# Harish Nayak - hnayak at library dot rochester dot edu
# David Cliff dgcliff@iu.edu
# Cody Hanson codyhanson@umn.edu
# Laurie Lee Moses lmoses{at}colum{dot}edu
# Sibyl Schaefer sibylschaefer at gmail dot com
# Alisak Sanavongsay asanavongsay{at}ucmerced.edu
# Wayne Schneider wschneider at hclib dot org
# Emily F. Shaw - emily-f-shaw{at}uiowa{dot}edu
# Carolyn Caizzi - carolyn{dot}caizzi {at}northwestern{dot}edu
# Julie Rudder - j-rudder at northwestern dot edu
# Matthew Butler - matthew-butler at uiowa dot edu
# Andromeda Yelton - andromeda.yelton at gmail
# Adam Strohm - adamstrohm at gmail dot com
# Kelly Thompson - thompson {dot} kelly {dot} j {at} gmail {dot} com

'''IMPORTANT''': From this point on if you sign up you '''must''' do the following in order to be prepared for the preconference workshop:
# Add your name above
# fill out the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpxd0tzU1ZscnU5QUUtd0JGUk9qQkE6MA#gid=0 experience survey]
# read [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQEvljB6MWOdxqcibYsQDVMT2hCevk7Y5cm3143_eaU/edit the emails you have missed]

===Intro to NoSQL Databases===
* Joshua Gomez, George Washington University, jngomez at gwu edu

Since Google published its paper on BigTable in 2006, alternatives to the traditional relational database model have been growing in both variety and popularity. These new databases (often referred to as NoSQL databases) excel at handling problems faced by modern information systems that the traditional relational model cannot. They are particularly popular among organizations tackling the so-called "Big Data" problems. However, there are always tradeoffs involved when making such dramatic changes. Understanding how these different kinds of databases are designed and what they can offer is essential to the decision making process. In this precon I will discuss some of the various types of new databases (key-value, columnar, document, graph) and walk through examples or exercises using some of their open source implementations like Riak, HBase, MongoDB, and Neo4j.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Esha Datta
* Trevor Thornton
* Michael Doran
* Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
* Kevin Clarke
* Andreas Orphanides
* Tommy Ingulfsen - tommying{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Harrison Dekker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
* Scott Hanrath
* Erin Fahy - erin.fahy at mtholyoke edu
* Karen Coyle - kcoyle at kcoyle.net
* Charles Draper
* David Uspal
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu
* Stephanie Collett - stephanie dot collett at ucop dot edu
* Declan Fleming - declan at declan dot net
* David Gonzalez - d.gonzalez26 at umiami dot edu
* Jeff Peterson - gpeterso at umn dot edu
* May Chan - msuicat at gmail dot com
* Kathryn Stine - kathryn dot stine at ucop dot edu
* Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu
* Eben English - eenglish [at] bpl dot org
* Marisa Strong - marisa dot strong at ucop dot edu
* Michael Lindsey - mackeral at gmail dot com
* Mike Hagedon - hagedonm at u dot library dot arizona dot edu
* Scott Fisher - first/last name with dot in between at ucop dot edu
* James Griffin - griffinj at lafayette dot edu
* Jesse Brown - jfbrown78 at gmail dot com
* [[User:gdave|Dave Green]] david dot L dot green at dartmouth dot edu
* Michael Poltorak Nielsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
* Mads Villadsen, mv@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Jørn Thøgersen, jt@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Julien Gibert, gibert at abes dot fr
* Lisa Gonzalez, lgonzalez@ctu.edu
* Charles Ledvina, charles@indexdata.com
* Jim LeFager, jlefager@depaul.edu
* Debbie Maron, dmaron@purdue.edu
* Carolina Garcia - cg116 nyu
* Tracy Seneca- tjseneca@uic.edu
* William Denton - wtd@pobox.com
* Andrew Darby - agdarby at miami dot edu
* Gary Maixner maixner2 at uiuc dot edu
* Jeremy Prevost
* Esther Verreau everreau skokielibrary info
* Matthew Short, mshort@niu.edu

==Half Day Afternoon==
=== Data Visualization Hackfest ===
* Chris Beer, cabeer at stanford.edu
* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in data visualization? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3.html Access 2010 Hackfest]. We propose a half-day hackfest with a focus on visualization library data -- think stuff like library catalog data, access/circulation statistics, etc. Here's how it works, roughly:
- we'll (you'll!) do lightning tutorials for some data visualization tools, toolkits (R? d3js? ?), datasets.
- we'll separate into groups and hack on stuff.
- at the end of the day, we'll present our progress.

Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable!

'''I plan on attending:'''
# Devon Smith
# Esha Datta
# Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
# Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
# Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
# Jason Stirnaman (jstirnaman at kumc.edu)
# Joshua Gomez
# Ayla Stein (astein at uh.edu)
# Harrison Dekker
# Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
# Scott Hanrath
# [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
# James Van Mil - james.vanmil at gmail com
# Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
# Karen coyle - kcoyle at kcoyle.net
# David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
# mark matienzo
# David Uspal
# Emily Lynema - ejlynema at ncsu dot edu
# Sean Chen
# Donald Mennerich
# Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
# Declan Fleming - declan at declan dot net
# Chick Markley -- chick at qrhino dot com
# Rosalyn Metz -- rosalynmetz at gmail com
# Devin Higgins - higgi135 at msu dot edu
# Emily Zervas emily{dot}zervas{at}gmail{dot}com
# May Chan -- msuicat at gmail dot com
# Kathryn Stine - kathryn dot stine at ucop dot edu
# James Griffin - griffinj at lafayette dot edu
# Dave Menninger dave.menninger at gmail dot com
# [[User:gdave|Dave Green]] david dot L dot green at dartmouth dot edu
# Rikke Willer - riwi at dtic dot dtu dot dk
# Michael Poltorak NIelsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
# Mads Villadsen, mv@statsbiblioteket.dk
# Jørn Thøgersen, jt@statsbiblioteket.dk
# Joe Atzberger, ohiocore@gmail.com
# Julien Gibert, gibert at abes dot fr
# Christie Peterson - cpeterson at jhu dot edu
# Jim LeFager - jlefager@depaul.edu
# Harish Nayak - hnayak at library dot rochester dot edu
# William Denton - wtd@pobox.com
# Shawn Carraway carraways at midlandstech dot edu
# Naomi Dushay - ndushay at stanford dot edu
# William Hicks - William{dot}hicks{at}unt{dot}edu
# Beatrice Pulliam bpulliam at providence edu
# Matthew Short, mshort@niu.edu

=== Intro to Hydra ===
* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (awead at rockhall.org)
* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts (justin.coyne at curationexperts.com)
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)

Hydra (http://projecthydra.org) is a free and open source repository solution that is being used by institutions on both sides of the North Atlantic to provide access to their digital content. Hydra provides a versatile and feature rich environment for end-users and repository administrators alike. Leveraging Blacklight as its front end discovery interface, the hydra project provides a suite of software components, data models, and design patterns for building a robust and sustainable digital repository, as well as a community of support for ongoing development. This workshop will provide an introduction to the hydra project and its software components. Attendees will leave with enough knowledge to get started building their own local repository solutions. This workshop will be led by Adam Wead of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Jeremy Prevost
* Dennis Ogg - ogg{at}ucar{dot}edu
* Terry Brady
* Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Brendan Quinn - brendan-quinn at northwestern dot edu
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu
* Steven Villereal – villereal{at}gmail{dot}com
* Ryan Eby
* Dean Farrell
* Ian Chan
* Mark Mounts - mark{dot}mounts{at}dartmouth{dot}edu
* Carl Jones
* Laney McGlohon - lmcglohon@getty.edu
* Nancy Enneking - nenneking@getty.edu
* Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
* Andrew Darby - agdarby at miami dot edu
* Kåre Fiedler Christiansen - kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Corey Harper - corey dot harper at nyu dot edu
* Gary Maixner - maixner2 at uiuc dot edu
* Sibyl Schaefer - sibylschaefer at gmail dot com
* Emily F. Shaw - emily-f-shaw{at}uiowa{dot}edu
* Alicia Morris - alicia.morris@tufts.edu

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)
* Jason Ronallo, NC State (jronallo at gmail.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, (shaune@princeton.edu)

Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, NC State, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&A around local issues people might encounter.

Note: this workshop will be tailored as a follow-on to the morning's RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails workshop, but everyone is welcome

'''I plan on attending:'''
* John MacGillivray
* Jon Stroop
* Jeremy Morse - jgmorse at umich
* Karen Miller - k-miller3{at}northwestern{dot}edu
* Tommy Ingulfsen - tommying{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Chung Kang
* Santi Thompson
* Brandon Dudley
* Ken Irwin
* Hillel Arnold
* Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}com
* Chris Sharp - csharp{at}georgialibraries{dot}org
* Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at} pratt{dot} edu
* Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
* Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org
* Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu
* David Gonzalez - d.gonzalez26 at umiami dot edu
* Courtney Greene - crgreene at indiana dot edu
* Evan Boyd - eboyd /at/ ctschicago /period/ edu
* Lauren Ajamie - lauren dot ajamie at nd dot edu
* David Anderson - david dot anderson3 at nih dot gov
* Michael Lindsey - mackeral at gmail dot com
* David Bucknum - dabu at loc dot gov
* Scott Fisher - first/last name with dot in between at ucop dot edu
* Chris Day - cday2 at saic dot edu
* Carolina Garcia - cg116 nyu
* David Cliff dgcliff@iu.edu
* Cody Hanson codyhanson@umn.edu
* Laurie Lee Moses lmoses{at}colum{dot}edu
* Alisak Sanavongsay asanavongsay{at}ucmerced.edu
* Wayne Schneider wschneider at hclib dot org
* Carolyn Caizzi carolyn{dot}caizzi{at}northwestern{dot}edu
* Julie Rudder - j-rudder at northwestern dot edu
* Andromeda Yelton - andromeda.yelton at gmail
* Adam Strohm - adamstrohm at gmail dot com

=== DPLA Intro/Hacking ===

* Presenter(s)/Leader(s): Nate Hill (Chattanooga Public Library, DPLA Audience and Participation Co-chair), SJ Klein (Wikimedia, OLPC, DPLA Technical Aspects Co-chair), Jeff Licht (DPLA Technical Development Project Manager)

The [http://dp.la Digital Public Library of America] (DPLA) is an open source metadata repository that provides read-only access to millions of records from across the United States via an open REST API. All API queries are returned as JSON-LD, a lightweight linked data format, and the metadata is freely reusable under a CC0 public domain license. A front-end portal is currently under development and will be launched in April 2013, though it will serve as but one way into the DPLA’s data. The DPLA encourages the development of applications and tools by developers of all skill levels and backgrounds. In this workshop, participants will actively code against the API to make apps, visualization tools, plug-ins, and other interesting tools that make use of DPLA data.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name, Affiliation
* Justin Clark, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
* Anita Patel, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
* Peter Murray, LYRASIS

'''I plan on making:'''
* App name (your name): app description

=== Fail4lib ===
* Jason Casden, NCSU Libraries (jmcasden at ncsu.edu)
* Andreas Orphanides, NCSU Libraries (akorphan at ncsu.edu)

The Code4lib community is full of driven people who embrace the risks that are often associated with new projects. While these traits lead to the incredible projects that are presented at Code4lib, creative technical work also often leads to unexpected, vexing, or disappointing results even from eventually successful projects (however you define the term). Learning more about how our colleagues deal with failure in various contexts could lead to the development of better methods for communicating the value of productive failure, modifying project plans ("The Pivot"), and failing more cheaply.

Hopefully we can define the format as a group, but a fairly high level of participation is crucial if this is to be a worthwhile preconference. Some possible agenda items that could be mixed and matched to fill the afternoon:

# Given willing presenters, a series of 10-20 minute presentations that go into some depth about specific failures.
# Depending on the number of participants, either a multi- or single-track series of unconference-like themed discussions on various aspects of failure, possibly including themes like:
#* Technical failure
#* Failure to effectively address a real user need
#* Overinvestment
#* Outreach/Promotion failure
#* Design/UX failure
#* Project team communication failure
#* Missed opportunities (risk-averse failure)
#* Successes gleaned from failures
# A panel of participants who have prepared in advance to answer moderator and audience questions about their experience with failure.
# A prepared reading assignment that we could all forget to read, creating a shared fail in order to start the preconference on the right foot.

I'll serve as a moderator (if needed) and participant and would welcome more organizers. I am happy to be outvoted by participants on any of these points--I just want to get us talking about our screw-ups, blind spots, and anvils dropping from the sky.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Becky Yoose
* Lisa Rabey
* Cynthia Ng (maybe) - cynthia [dot] s [dot] ng [at] gmail
* Patrick Berry, pberry@csuchico.edu
* Erin White, erwhite at vcu edu
* Ranti Junus, ranti.junus at gmail

=== Solr 4 In Depth ===
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidworks.com)

The long awaited and much anticipated Solr 4 has been released! It's a really big deal. There are so many improvements, it makes the head spin. This session will cover the major feature improvements from Lucene's flexible indexing and scoring API up through SolrCloud in a digestable half-day format. Sounds like this is an evening thing that might happen at a bar somewhere?

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Erin Fahy - erin.fahy at mtholyoke edu
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jon Stroop
* Adam Constabars
* Kevin Clarke
* Jacob Andresen (jacob at reindex dot dk)
* Ted Lawless (tlawless at brown dot edu)
* Tom Burton-West
* Curtis Thacker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Bess Sadler (bess at stanford dot edu)
* Michael North
* Charles Draper
* Nick Cappadona
* Stephanie Collett - stephanie dot collett at ucop dot edu
* Kalee Sprague - kalee dot sprague at yale dot edu
* Jeff Peterson - gpeterso at umn dot edu
* Erik Hetzner
* Demian Katz - demian dot katz at villanova dot edu
* Eben English - eenglish at bpl dot org
* Raman Chandrasekar
* Jason Ronallo - jnronall@ncsu.edu
* Eric Larson - elarson@library.wisc.edu
* Mike Hagedon - hagedonm at u dot library dot arizona dot edu
* Jesse Brown - jfbrown78 at gmail dot com
* Steven Marsden - steven.marsden@ryerson.ca
* Zeno Tajoli - tajoli at cilea it
* Charles Ledvina - charles att indexdata dott com
* Tracy Seneca - tjseneca@uic.edu
* Tod Olson - tod at uchicago dot edu
* Esther Verreau - everreau skokielibrary info
[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]

2013 During the Conference Volunteers

2013-02-04T13:25:35Z

Timathom: /* Registration Desk Schedule */

code4lib 2013 During the Conference Volunteers

== Welcome Wagon Committee ==

Offers conference newcomers an opportunity to self-identify; offers oldtimers an opportunity to meet newcomers. May also want to constitute a year-round variation for #code4lib.

* Becky Yoose(b.yoose at gmail dot com) -- Grinnell College
* Rosalyn Metz (rosalynmetz at gmail dot com) -- The George Washington University

== Social Networking ==
Responsible for non-IRC social networking presence.

== IRC Evangelists ==
Demonstrate how to get onto #code4lib during Registration. Offer support for newcomers in #code4lib during the conference.
* Mark - anarchivist
* Ross - rsinger
* Jon - jtgorman
unconfirmed:
* Gabriel - gsf
* Michael - mjgiarlo

== IRC Access ==
Look into technology/procedures to make connecting to, and maintaining a connection to, IRC less painful.
* Mark - anarchivist

== Video Committee ==
Video archiving and video streaming possibilities.

==Registration Desk Volunteers==
We need 1-2 volunteers to hang out at the registration desk. Also, an additional volunteer with wireless access knowledge would be helpful on the Registration Desk to answer tech questions.

===Registration Desk Schedule===
This is based on the previous year/schedule. Hosts committee, feel free to edit.

Monday 7:30-8 am (to help setup)
* Becky Yoose
* Linda Ballinger

Monday 8-9 am
* Dan Chudnov
* Sibyl Schaefer
* Shaun Ellis (tech expert)

Monday 9-10 am
*
*

Tuesday 7:30-8 am (to help setup)
* Linda Ballinger
* [[User:Ianc|Ian Chan]]

Tuesday 8-9 am
* Cody Hennesy
* Emily Zervas
* Megan O'Neill Kudzia(tech expert)

Tuesday 9-10 am
* Michael Lindsey
* Tim Thompson
* (tech expert)

==MCs==
Margaret and Abigail will be MC wranglers

Tuesday AM
* [[User:Cynthia|Cynthia]]

Tuesday PM
* [[User:Ranti|Ranti]]

Wednesday AM
* [[User:Yoosebj|Becky]], butcher of last names

Wednesday PM
*Margaret

Thursday AM
*ThatAndromeda

== Microphone Runners==

Run wireless handheld microphones to audience members asking questions.

Tuesday AM
* Michael Levy

Tuesday PM

* Dan Chudnov

Wednesday AM
* Emily Zervas

Wednesday PM

Thursday AM

== Session Timer Volunteers ==

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

'''Schedule for Session Timers'''

Tuesday AM

* Dan Chudnov

Tuesday PM

Wednesday AM

* Megan O'Neill Kudzia

Wednesday PM

* Dan Chudnov

Thursday AM

== Raffles ==

* Carmen Mitchell

[[Category: Code4Lib2013]]

2013 social activities

2013-02-01T17:32:48Z

Timathom: /* Newcomer Dinner, Tuesday 2/12 */

== Ideas ==

* Aviary: super-crazy cocktails. http://www.molecularrecipes.com/molecular-mixology/aviary-cocktails/ . List your name if you're interested, whether Sunday, Monday, and/or Tuesday (after newcomer dinners) work, and whether you're just interested in stopping by, or doing a 7 cocktail tasting flight.*
** statsfool: sunday/monday/tuesday, either drinks or flight.
** Amyhannah: monday/tuesday, drinks, probably not the flight.
** anarchivist: sunday/monday, prefer drinks over flight but could be convinced
** [[User:highermath|highermath]]: monday (could use 10 cocktails after Drupal subCon, I am sure). Uber now works in Chicago, so I would do the flight.
** [[User:pberry|pberry]]: any night but Wednesday (that's Goose Island night) and I'd be up for drinks or flight, although leaning away from flight.
** [[User:thatandromeda|thatandromeda]] oh my gosh yes, any time, probably not the flight.
** [[User:Gdave|gdave]] beautiful site, I would be interested, Sun,Mon,Tues. either drink or flight.
** scollett: sun, drinks, maybe flight.
** [[User:shawnc12|shawnc12]]: sunday/monday, either drink or flight
* Brewery tour - some possible candidates would be Goose Island, Brew Bus http://www.chicagobrewbus.com/, Piece, Revolution, Half Acre.
* Library field trips - because we're library geeks. Possible places include Newberry and Read/Write.--Read/Write Library confirmed for February 12.--Newberry Library confirmed for February 14.
* Art Institute of Chicago - Only open until 5pm, but possible for people coming in early enough on Sunday.
** escowles: I'm getting in around noon on Sunday, and interested in this.
** pgrayove: I'm getting in around noon on Sunday too. I'm interested.
* Local Option http://localoptionbier.com/ - So you've heard of Hopleaf, you've heard of Maproom. Come to Chicago's *ahem* best kept secret for good food and an evening session on Monday. We will need a tally to make requisite arrangements.
** kayiwa
** Linda Ballinger
** Courtney Greene
** John Pillans

== Planned Events ==

=== Newcomer Dinner, Tuesday 2/12 ===

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>dongles</strike> XML.

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

'''Plans'''
* When: Tuesday evening (2/12)
* Time: 6 PM (ish) or whenever you can get your group together
* Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebec@grinnell.edu Becky Yoose]

''Guidelines:''
*Max of '''6''' per group
**Please, no waitlisting
*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 coders
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)

'''Restaurants'''

'''Restaurants within .25 miles of the hotel'''

[http://www.athenarestaurantchicago.com/index.php Athena] (Greek)

* Al Cornish - v (leader)
* Carolyn Cole - n

[http://www.dinerestaurant.com/ Dine] (Contemporary)

<del>[http://www.girlandthegoat.com/ Girl and the Goat] (American) Top Chef fans take note! This is Stephanie Izard's award-winning resto.</del> Totally booked.

[http://www.haymarketbrewing.com/ Haymarket Pub & Brewery] (Pub food)

[http://www.karynsongreen.com/ Karyn’s on Green] (Vegan)
Completely vegan and close to the conference hotel. We'll meet in the conference hotel at around 6:45 (reservation at 7:00 for 6). Google maps says it is a 5 minute walk.

*Jason Ronallo (leader)- v
*Alicia Cozine - n
*Mark Mounts - v
*Barbara Hui - n
*Amy Deschenes - n

[http://niarestaurant.com/nia-restaurant-mediterranean-cuisine/ Nia] (Mediterranean tapas)

[http://www.pegasuschicago.com/index.php Pegasus] (Greek)

[http://www.roditys.com/index.html Roditys] (Greek) -- Reservations made for 6:30pm. Let's meet in the hotel lobby at 6pm and walk over from there.

* Rosalyn Metz (leader) - v
* [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]] - v
* [[User:Jacobandresen|Jacob Andresen]] - n
* Karen Miller - n
* Dre - v
* Mahria Lebow - n
* '''Capped at 6'''

'''Restaurants between .25 miles and .5 miles of the hotel'''

[http://avecrestaurant.com/# Avec] (Small plate)
Family-style small plate and tapas. Great Yelp reviews. We'll meet in the conference hotel at 6:00 <strike>6:45</strike> (they don't take reservations, but have stuff to sip on if there's a wait). Less than 10 minute walk from hotel.

* Shaun Ellis (leader) - v
* Jon Stroop - v
* Paula Gray-Overtoom - n
* Emily Zervas - n
* Cynthia Ng - neither
* Sarah Dooley - n
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://www.babavillage.com/ Baba’s Village] (Indian/Pakistani)

[http://blackbirdrestaurant.com/ Blackbird] (Contemporary)

* Justin Coyne (reserver) - v - Reservation for Blackbird for 6 at 8:30pm

[http://www.carnivalechicago.com/menu Carnivale] (Nuevo Latino)

[http://decero.hellotacos.com/ De Cero] (Mexican)

[http://www.dragonflymandarin.com/ Dragonfly] (Chinese, sushi)

[http://giordanos.com/ Giordano's] (Chicago Style Pizza) This place should be able to handle multiple groups...

[http://www.grangehallburgerbar.com/ Grange Hall Burger Bar] (Local food)

[http://www.idreamoffalafel.com/ I Dream of Falafel] (Mediterranean)

* Emily Lynema (leader) - v

[http://www.jaipurchicago.com/ Jaipur] (Indian)

* Andrew Darby (leader) - v
* Josh Wilson (joshwilsonnc at gmail) - n
* Tim Thompson - n

[http://lasardine.com/ La Sardine] (French)

[http://www.mythaitakumi.com/index.html MyThai Takumi] (Japanese Thai) Reservation at 6:15. Meet in the hotel lobby at 6 pm. Look for the women in a trench coat and hat.

*Becky Yoose (leader) b dot yoose at gmail - v
*May Chan - n
*David Anderson - newby
*Terry Brady - new
* Dave Menninger - n
*Shawn Carraway -n
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://www.nellcoterestaurant.com/ Nellcôte] (French)

[http://chicago.provincerestaurant.com/ Province] (American with Central/South American/Spanish influence)

[http://thepublicanrestaurant.com/ The Publican] (Seafood)

* Jay Luker (eater) - v - Rezzie is for 8pm
* Mark Matienzo (tweeter) - v
* Devon Smith (pickle eater) - repeat offender
* Chris Sharp (dead horse beater) - v
* Michael B. Klein (greeter) - v
* Bill McMillin (meeter) - n
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://saigonsisters.tumblr.com/ Saigon Sisters] (Vietnamese)

[http://www.thaiurbankitchen.com/ Thai Urban Kitchen] (Thai, sushi)

[http://www.trattoriaisabellachicago.com/rest.html Trattoria Isabella] (Italian)

[http://www.vivo-chicago.com/homepage-2 Vivo] (Italian)

[http://www.wishbonechicago.com/dining/westloop/ Wishbone] (Southern Reconstruction)

'''Restaurants between .5 miles and .75 miles of the hotel'''

[http://currentsontheriver.com/ Currents on the River] (Eclectic)

[http://n9ne.com/ N9NE Steakhouse] (Steak)

[http://www.verachicago.com/menu Vera Chicago] (Spanish)

'''Restaurants between .75 miles and 1 mile of the hotel'''

[http://www.theberghoff.com/default.aspx The Berghoff] (German)
* Declan Fleming - v (leader) I checked reservations, and for 6 people, the first time open after the conf is 7:30, so I grabbed that.
* Dave Green - n
* Steven Villereal - n
* Peter Murray - v
* Trey Terrell - n
* Mike Giarlo - v
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://www.yelp.com/biz/frontera-grill-chicago Frontera] (a Rick Bayliss Mex-American restaurant) Reservations are for 7:30, so perhaps the group could get a drink in the lobby beforehand. Either way, we'll depart at 7pm.
: (''note: the drinks at the bar at frontera are very tasty.'')
*Dan Suchy (leader and over-eater) - v
*Matt Critchlow - v
*Carmen Mitchell - v
*Maureen Callahan - n
*David Cliff - n
* Patrick Berry - 3rd year red-shirt freshman
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://www.nativefoods.com/ Native Foods] (Vegan)

'''Restaurants more than 1 mile from the hotel'''

[http://www.greenzebrachicago.com/index.html Green Zebra] (Vegan)

[http://honkytonkbbqchicago.com/ Honky Tonk Barbeque] (BBQ)

[http://www.karynraw.com/cooked Karyn’s Cooked] (Vegan)

[http://www.latabernatapas.com/ La Taberna Tapas] (Mediterranean)

[http://www.morganschicago.com/ Morgan's on Maxwell] (Pub food)

[http://www.chezjoelbistro.com/ Chez Joël] (French/Tangiers food) I am leaning towards an early dinner of 6:15 as I have to take-off to make sure the Game Night takes off without a hitch. So leave the conference hotel by 5:45 if it is walk weather or 6PM if it is taxi weather.

* Francis Kayiwa (knackered leader) - v
* Megan O'Neill Kudzia - n
* Esther Verreau - n

=== Veg*n Dinner ===

Let's have dinner at a veg*n-friendly place one night of the conference. Folks of all eating styles welcome.

Max *6* people per party this year.

'''Party #1: Chicago Diner''', Wednesday Night http://www.veggiediner.com/ "meat free since '83"
Will they easily be able to accommodate 6 folks walking in?
We'll plan on meeting in the conference hotel at 6pm and taking the 8 bus up there (3411 N. Halsted St Chicago, IL 60657).
# Jason Ronallo (jronallo@gmail.com)
# Linda Ballinger (linda dot ballinger at gmail)
# May Chan (msuicat at gmail dot com)
# Demian Katz (demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu)
# David Uspal (david dot uspal at villanova dot edu) In for the Country Fried StAEk and/or the Soul Bowl. Ex-Vegetarian (which may make it a crime for me to go), so if the list is full and you still want in, feel free to email me and I'll gladly turn over my spot to an actual Veg*n.
# Cynthia Ng (cynthia dot s dot ng at gmail)
Capped at 6

=== Code4lib/Goose Island Brewing Pull Request ===
'''When:''' Wednesday, 2/13, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

More information and sign up at [https://code4lib2013-estw.eventbrite.com/|https://code4lib2013-estw.eventbrite.com/]

=== Non-beery get together ===
'''When:''' Wednesday, 2/13, Meet at hotel lobby at around 6:30 (and take public transport over to the park) OR meet us at the rink at 6:45, skating rink closes at 8 PM

'''Where:''' [https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/ice_skating_at_themccormicktribuneicerink.html McCormick Tribune Ice Rink]

'''Contact:''' @dchud, @ranti, @yo_bj (b dot yoose at gmail), @wendyrlibrarian

'''Cost:''' $10 skate rental, people watching free

Come and (attempt to) skate with us! This is also a good people watching opportunity, so if you don't want to skate, there will be places to hang out around the rink and the park. There is a [http://www.parkgrillchicago.com/cafe/food-menu cafe] near the rink as well, with hot drinks and food.

FYI - For those of you who want something else to munch on while hanging out, there's a [http://www.garrettpopcorn.com/chicago-locations/4-east-madison-street/ Garrett Popcorn Shop] a couple blocks away.

# Chris Sharp (indicating interest)
# Becky Yoose (ready to fall on her butt repeatedly for the entertainment of others)
# Peter Murray
# Shawn Carraway
# Karen Coombs
# Michael Levy

=== Flying Trapeze ===
'''When:''' Monday, 2/11, TBD

'''Contact:''' rosalynmetz at gmail dot com

No this is not a joke. If you haven't heard Rosy is an aspiring trapeze artists and wants to bring the fun to her friends in Code4Lib. There is a trapeze rig in Chicago and she plans on visiting it and hopes that some of you can come along as well. If its your first time taking a trapeze class, they'll start you off learning [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oqPi_zuX7A a knee hang] and depending on how that goes you might be able to catch it at the end of class. If you have any questions about whether or not this is for you, [http://chicago.trapezeschool.com/classes/trapeze.php TSNY Chicago's website] should have the answer, if not feel free to contact Rosy.

Trapeze classes are $57, last 2 hours, and are limited to 10 people. Currently TSNY Chicago hasn't release their class schedule for February -- they should be doing that around Jan. 1. If we can get enough people interested before then, we can buy out a whole class. If not it'll be first come, first serve (along with the general public).

If you're interested in signing up, feel free to add your name and contact info to the list below.

'''''Sign Up List'''''
# Jay Luker (first!)
# Bill McMillin
# Bess Sadler
# Karen Coyle
# Sibyl Schaefer
# Rosalyn Metz (because I'm organizing)
# Alicia Cozine
#
#
#

=== Game Night! ===

Moved this from idea to an actual event. Still getting some details, but here's what we know:

We have a conference room at the UIC library reserved for 7:30 on Tuesday the 11th. Not sure how late we'll play. I'll bring some board games and pick up some cards. List below were people who were interested in games and what games they are bringing.

(Note, there's also some discussion on Cards Against Humanity. I will try to make sure there's an alternative game, but I don't know if I want to prohibit any games. I would say though to remember to be respectful and curteous to those around you. I will probably be pondering this issue for a while)

This will get updated more as I have time to spend on it.

Game Night! Type of games might vary due to interest, could range from party games like Werewolf, Wits & Wagers, Telestrations, Taboo, Apples to Apples to perhaps more strategic games like De Vulgari Eloquentia or Eclipse. Jon Gorman is willing to bring some games, are you? Jon will try to send out an email soon to get some interest.
** yo_bj: I have some games I can bring as well (Kill Doctor Lucky, Fluxx, Godzilla: Stomp, Munchkin Zombies, etc.). Monday doesn't have anything major planned...
**danwho: I 'll bring the Cards Against Humanity set.
**escowles (Mon/Tue preferred): I've got lots of games I could bring like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Age of Renaissance, Elfenland, Agricola, Le Havre, Smallworld, RoboRally, etc. etc.
**jen_young: I'm local and I have quite a few games. Just about every version of Fluxx, Bananagrams, Gloom, Munchkin Cthulu,Cards Against Humanity, Apples to Apples, Risk, Last Night on Earth, etc.)
** decasm: Interested in Go (aka igo, weiqi, baduk) anytime, not just game night. I can do Catan as well. (And as much as I love it, Cards Against Humanity is probably a violation of the new Code of Conduct.)
** csharp: I'm interested in playing games - whatever people bring. I almost always travel with a pack or two of playing cards ;-). Monday or Tuesday nights are fine.
** moneill: I would love to join in! I have a version of Catchphrase floating around somewhere, and I think I have Battleship...I need to go weed around in that drawer and see what else presents itself. Tuesday would be my preferred night, but I will make it work!
** demiankatz: I'm always up for a game. I'm hoping to travel light so probably shouldn't bring anything, but if there's a local game shop, I might be persuaded to pick up something new as a souvenir.
** sekjal: I've got [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion Dominion], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68448/7-wonders 7 Wonders], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30933/bang-the-bullet Bang!], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18333/ecofluxx EcoFluxx] and [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/116/guillotine Guillotine] that I can bring. ++ on Cards against Humanity! Prefer non-conflict with beer night.
** arty: so totally interested. Unfortunately, I have no games to contribute.
** sanderson: I would be interested. I can bring [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/478/citadels Citadels] (2-7 players)
** dvdndrsn: Definitely in! Can bring Innovation, Tichu, Dominion, but Cards Against Humanity sounds good.
** smkiewel: I'm likely to join. Can bring Arkham Horror and Munchkin.
** jkwilson: I'd like to attend Monday or Tuesday. I have a bunch of games but I'd prefer not to travel with them, and anyway it sounds like they're covered above. I'll bring the 5-6 player Catan extension.
** ejlynema: Interested, but will probably attend Newcomer dinner on Tuesday. Like Dominion and 7 Wonders, but probably don't have room to bring in suitcase. Anyone bringing Tsuro?
** save4use: Also interested, but also probably attending newcomer dinner on Tuesday. Can bring [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11/bohnanza Bohnanza] and one deck of {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_%28game%29 Set].
** dgcliff: I'd be interested. Can bring Ticket to Ride.
** mbklein: definitely interested. Will check on my (currently unpacked) games. I am dying to play Cards Against Humanity. If we can't find a way to reconcile it with the Code of Conduct, we need a different Code of Conduct.
*** Considering that this is a public event, and that no one knows everyone's sensitivity levels in the room, it might not be a good idea to break out a crass, adult version of apples to apples in the middle of the gaming room. :cP (yo_bj)
** duspal: In. My board game collection is small but mighty (Arkham Horror, Catan, Vampire: Prince of the City, Deadlands: Battle for Slaughter Gulch, Arabian Nights, Diplomacy, Shogun, and Cosmic Encounter off the top of my head, amongst a few others). Let me know ahead of time if anyone is interested, since they're all relatively big...
**librarywebchic: I'm willing to bring a set and teach folks how to play Majhong. Need at least three to play though.

== Social Map - Places of Interest==

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=213549257652679418473.0004ce6c25e6cdeb0319d&msa=0

== Local Events ==
Events Listings
* Chicago Reader http://www.chicagoreader.com/
* The City of Chicago’s Events Guide: http://www.choosechicago.com/
* Metromix Chicago: http://chicago.metromix.com/events
* Timeout Chicago: http://timeoutchicago.com/

== Local Food ==
== Local Drinks ==
==Chicago Events Feb 11-14==
===Monday February 11===

Music - [http://www.hideoutchicago.com/event/208497-robbie-fulks-michael-miles-chicago/ Robbie Fulks at the Hideout]

[http://fedora4lib.org/ fedora4lib] - 7 pm to whenever

===Tuesday, February 12===
Field trip to the Read/Write Library (details to follow). 6-9 PM+
Come help catalog the Read/Write Library catalog and hack on the library catalog. We will also invite friends from Code for America to hang out and talk civic data.

Concert - [http://www.thefatbabies.com/ The Fat Babies] playing at an awesome venue, [http://greenmilljazz.com/ The Green Mill].

[http://fedora4lib.org/ fedora4lib] - 7 pm to whenever

===Wednesday, February 13===
===Thursday, February 14===
Tour of the [http://www.newberry.org/ Newberry Library] -- 3:30 p.m.
This will be a special tour for Code4Lib attendees, so please sign up below if you are interested, as I'll need to give the tour guide an estimate of how many people will come. Details on how to get to the Newberry will follow. Questions? Contact ballingerl at newberry dot org

'''''Sign Up List'''''
# Michael Doran - doran@uta.edu
# William Denton - wtd@pobox.com
# Wayne Schneider - wschneider@hclib.org
# [name] - [email address]
#

[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]

2013 preconference proposals

2013-01-10T17:06:34Z

Timathom: /* Intro to NoSQL Databases */

2013 preconference proposals

2013-01-10T17:06:16Z

Timathom: /* Data Visualization Hackfest */

2013 preconference proposals

2013-01-10T17:06:04Z

Timathom: /* Data Visualization Hackfest */

2013 preconference proposals

2013-01-10T17:05:50Z

Timathom: /* Intro to NoSQL Databases */

2013 preconference proposals

2013-01-10T17:05:32Z

Timathom: /* RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails */

2013 preconference proposals

2013-01-08T21:39:20Z

Timathom: /* Intro to Blacklight */

Proposals '''now closed'''.

Spaces available: 4+ Rooms

Please follow the formatting guidelines:
<pre>
=== Talk Title ===

* Presenter/Leader, affiliation (optional), and email address (mandatory!)
* Second Presenter/Leader, affiliation, email address, if applicable

Description.
</pre>

==Full Day==

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===

* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com or
* [[User:cdmo|Charlie Morris]], NCSU Libraries, cdmorris@ncsu.edu

This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.

If we run out of topics, we will pay homage to the project by testing patches for Drupal 8. It is easy, and we will show you how to do this invaluable task.

Local Drupal uber-ninja Larry Garfield will stop by to answer questions and give us some guidance.

====I plan on attending:====

=====All Day=====
*Margaret Heller
*Mahria Lebow
*Paula Gray-Overtoom, pgrayove at gmail.com

=====Morning=====
* [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
* Sean Chen

=====Afternoon=====
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton.edu (afternoon only)
* Christina Salazar (afternoon only)
* Sarah Dooley (afternoon)
* Josh Wilson, joshwilsonnc at gmail (likely afternoon only)
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Cody Hennesy, chennesy at library berkeley edu

==Half Day Morning==
=== Open space session ===

* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

The rest of code4libcon is pretty well structured these days; come in the morning for a few hours of old-school [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_technology open space technology] unconference. Bring a rough talk or idea you want to share or questions you have or something you want to learn about or discuss with other people, and be ready to tell us about it. Use it as extra prep time for your upcoming prepared or lightning talk if you want. We'll plan the morning out a little bit at the beginning, but not too much. What we do will be up to the people there in the room.

If there's interest, we could start with a "welcome to code4lib" introductory session for newcomers.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Devon Smith
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jason Casden
* Ryan Eby
* mark matienzo
* Donald Mennerich

=== Delivery services ===
* Ted Lawless, Brown University Library, tlawless at brown edu.
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton edu.

Are you interested in making it easier for users to obtain copies of known items? Do you feel your OpenURL and Interlibrary Loan software could be streamlined? This pre-conference workshop will focus on providing services that deliver content to users. Discovery systems are doing a better job of exposing library holdings but there's still a lot of work to do actually get the content in the users hands.

Possible topics/activities include:
* group discussion of what some libraries have done in this area
* comparisons of different approaches to addressing delivery
* overview of tools available
* sharing of strategies and experiences
* time to work with and review open source code in this area. Some possible tools to install and test out [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut Umlaut], [https://github.com/lawlesst/heroku-360link Py360 Link].

Resources and background information:
* [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki/What-is-Umlaut-anyway What-is-Umlaut-anyway]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7308 Hacking 360 Link: A hybrid approach]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/108 Auto-Populating an ILL form with the Serial Solutions Link Resolver API]
* [http://lawlesst.github.com/notebook/delivery.html Focusing on Delivery]

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Ayla Stein
* Curtis Thacker
* Rosalyn Metz
* James Van Mil
* Andrew Nagy

=== Intro to Blacklight CANCELLED ===

PLEASE NOTE: This pre-conference has been cancelled in favor of joining forces with the RailsBridge workshop. The afternoon Blacklight session will still be offered.

=== RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails ===
* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jnronall@ncsu.edu
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, shaune@princeton.edu
* Ross Singer, Talis, rossfsinger@gmail.com
* Adam Wead (helper), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, awead@rockhall.org
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu
* Anyone else want to come and help folks? Contact Jason.

RailsBridge comes to code4lib! We'll follow the RailsBridge curriculum (http://railsbridge.org) to provide a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails. Topics covered include an introduction to the Ruby language, the Rails framework, and version control with git. Participants will build a working Rails application.

There will be some pre-preconference preparation needed so that we can effectively use our time. Details to come.

* Note: Attendees can follow up with the Intro to Blacklight afternoon session, which will be tailored for folks new to Ruby

Please add your name below and fill out the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpxd0tzU1ZscnU5QUUtd0JGUk9qQkE6MA#gid=0 experience survey].

'''I plan on attending:'''
# First and last name and email address
# John MacGillivray
# Jon Stroop - jstroop at princeton
# Christina Salazar - christina{dot}salazar{at}csuci{dot}edu
# Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
# Becky Yoose - b dot yoose at google overlord
# Jeremy Morse
# Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
# Chung Kang
# Karen Miller - k-miller3{at}northwestern{dot}edu
# Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
# Jay Luker - jay{dot}luker{at}gmail{dot}com
# Santi Thompson
# Sarah Dooley - sarah{at}nclive{dot}org
# Brandon Dudley
# Ken Irwin
# Dennis Ogg
# Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
# Steven Villereal
# Hillel Arnold - hillel{dot}arnold{at}gmail{dot}com
# Josh Wilson - joshwilsonnc at gmail
# Cynthia Ng
# Ian Chan
# Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}edu
# Mark Mounts
# Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at}pratt {dot}edu
# David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
# Courtney Greene - crgreene at indiana dot edu
# Laney McGlohon
# Nancy Enneking
# Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
# Nick Cappadona
# Steven Marsden
# Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org
# Brendan Quinn
# Michael Levy - mlevy {at}ushmm {dot}org
# Michael North (m-north at northwestern dot edu)
# Shawn Averkamp - shawnaverkamp{at}gmail{dot}com
# Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu

===Intro to NoSQL Databases===
* Joshua Gomez, George Washington University, jngomez at gwu edu

Since Google published its paper on BigTable in 2006, alternatives to the traditional relational database model have been growing in both variety and popularity. These new databases (often referred to as NoSQL databases) excel at handling problems faced by modern information systems that the traditional relational model cannot. They are particularly popular among organizations tackling the so-called "Big Data" problems. However, there are always tradeoffs involved when making such dramatic changes. Understanding how these different kinds of databases are designed and what they can offer is essential to the decision making process. In this precon I will discuss some of the various types of new databases (key-value, columnar, document, graph) and walk through examples or exercises using some of their open source implementations like Riak, HBase, CouchDB, and Neo4j.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Erin Fahy
* Esha Datta
* Trevor Thornton
* Michael Doran
* Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
* Kevin Clarke
* Andreas Orphanides
* Tommy Ingulfsen
* Harrison Dekker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
* Scott Hanrath
* Karen Coyle
* Charles Draper
* David Uspal
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu

==Half Day Afternoon==
=== Data Visualization Hackfest ===
* Chris Beer, cabeer at stanford.edu
* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in data visualization? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3.html Access 2010 Hackfest]. We propose a half-day hackfest with a focus on visualization library data -- think stuff like library catalog data, access/circulation statistics, etc. Here's how it works, roughly:
- we'll (you'll!) do lightning tutorials for some data visualization tools, toolkits (R? d3js? ?), datasets.
- we'll separate into groups and hack on stuff.
- at the end of the day, we'll present our progress.

Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable!

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Devon Smith
* Esha Datta
* Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
* Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
* Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
* Jason Stirnaman (jstirnaman at kumc.edu)
* Joshua Gomez
* Ayla Stein
* Harrison Dekker
* Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
* Scott Hanrath
* [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
* James Van Mil
* Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
* Karen coyle
* David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
* mark matienzo
* David Uspal
* Emily Lynema
* Sean Chen
* Donald Mennerich

=== Intro to Hydra ===
* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (awead at rockhall.org)
* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts (justin.coyne at curationexperts.com)
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)

Hydra (http://projecthydra.org) is a free and open source repository solution that is being used by institutions on both sides of the North Atlantic to provide access to their digital content. Hydra provides a versatile and feature rich environment for end-users and repository administrators alike. Leveraging Blacklight as its front end discovery interface, the hydra project provides a suite of software components, data models, and design patterns for building a robust and sustainable digital repository, as well as a community of support for ongoing development. This workshop will provide an introduction to the hydra project and its software components. Attendees will leave with enough knowledge to get started building their own local repository solutions. This workshop will be led by Adam Wead of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Jeremy Prevost
* Dennis Ogg
* Terry Brady
* Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Brendan Quinn
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu
* Steven Villereal
* Ryan Eby
* Dean Farrell
* Ian Chan
* Mark Mounts
* Carl Jones
* Laney McGlohon
* Nancy Enneking
* First and last name

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)
* Jason Ronallo, NC State (jronallo at gmail.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, (shaune@princeton.edu)

Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, NC State, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&A around local issues people might encounter.

Note: this workshop will be tailored as a follow-on to the morning's RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails workshop, but everyone is welcome

'''I plan on attending:'''
* John MacGillivray
* Jon Stroop
* Jeremy Morse
* Karen Miller
* Tommy Ingulfsen
* Chung Kang
* Santi Thompson
* Brandon Dudley
* Ken Irwin
* Hillel Arnold
* Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}com
* Chris Sharp - csharp{at}georgialibraries{dot}org
* Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at} pratt{dot} edu
* Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
* Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org
* Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu

=== DPLA Intro/Hacking ===

* Presenter(s)/Leader(s): TBD
* Guy Who'd Be Interested in Helping: Jay Luker, Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System (jluker at cfa.harvard.edu)

This is a stub proposal entered solely to beat the submission deadline. I think there's be sufficient interest in this session, but only thought of it yesterday and haven't had time to coordinate with actual DPLA'ers and confirm that any of them are definitely coming.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name

=== Fail4lib ===
* Jason Casden, NCSU Libraries (jmcasden at ncsu.edu)
* Andreas Orphanides, NCSU Libraries (akorphan at ncsu.edu)

The Code4lib community is full of driven people who embrace the risks that are often associated with new projects. While these traits lead to the incredible projects that are presented at Code4lib, creative technical work also often leads to unexpected, vexing, or disappointing results even from eventually successful projects (however you define the term). Learning more about how our colleagues deal with failure in various contexts could lead to the development of better methods for communicating the value of productive failure, modifying project plans ("The Pivot"), and failing more cheaply.

Hopefully we can define the format as a group, but a fairly high level of participation is crucial if this is to be a worthwhile preconference. Some possible agenda items that could be mixed and matched to fill the afternoon:

# Given willing presenters, a series of 10-20 minute presentations that go into some depth about specific failures.
# Depending on the number of participants, either a multi- or single-track series of unconference-like themed discussions on various aspects of failure, possibly including themes like:
#* Technical failure
#* Failure to effectively address a real user need
#* Overinvestment
#* Outreach/Promotion failure
#* Design/UX failure
#* Project team communication failure
#* Missed opportunities (risk-averse failure)
#* Successes gleaned from failures
# A panel of participants who have prepared in advance to answer moderator and audience questions about their experience with failure.
# A prepared reading assignment that we could all forget to read, creating a shared fail in order to start the preconference on the right foot.

I'll serve as a moderator (if needed) and participant and would welcome more organizers. I am happy to be outvoted by participants on any of these points--I just want to get us talking about our screw-ups, blind spots, and anvils dropping from the sky.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Becky Yoose
* Lisa Rabey
* Cynthia Ng

=== Solr 4 In Depth ===
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidworks.com)

The long awaited and much anticipated Solr 4 has been released! It's a really big deal. There are so many improvements, it makes the head spin. This session will cover the major feature improvements from Lucene's flexible indexing and scoring API up through SolrCloud in a digestable half-day format. Sounds like this is an evening thing that might happen at a bar somewhere?

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Erin Fahy
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jon Stroop
* Adam Constabars
* Kevin Clarke
* Jacob Andresen
* Ted Lawless (tlawless at brown dot edu)
* Jay Luker
* Tom Burton-West
* Curtis Thacker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Bess Sadler (bess at stanford dot edu)
* Michael North
* Charles Draper
* Nick Cappadona

[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]

2013 preconference proposals

2013-01-08T21:38:39Z

Timathom: /* RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails */

Proposals '''now closed'''.

Spaces available: 4+ Rooms

Please follow the formatting guidelines:
<pre>
=== Talk Title ===

* Presenter/Leader, affiliation (optional), and email address (mandatory!)
* Second Presenter/Leader, affiliation, email address, if applicable

Description.
</pre>

==Full Day==

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===

* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com or
* [[User:cdmo|Charlie Morris]], NCSU Libraries, cdmorris@ncsu.edu

This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.

If we run out of topics, we will pay homage to the project by testing patches for Drupal 8. It is easy, and we will show you how to do this invaluable task.

Local Drupal uber-ninja Larry Garfield will stop by to answer questions and give us some guidance.

====I plan on attending:====

=====All Day=====
*Margaret Heller
*Mahria Lebow
*Paula Gray-Overtoom, pgrayove at gmail.com

=====Morning=====
* [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
* Sean Chen

=====Afternoon=====
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton.edu (afternoon only)
* Christina Salazar (afternoon only)
* Sarah Dooley (afternoon)
* Josh Wilson, joshwilsonnc at gmail (likely afternoon only)
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Cody Hennesy, chennesy at library berkeley edu

==Half Day Morning==
=== Open space session ===

* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

The rest of code4libcon is pretty well structured these days; come in the morning for a few hours of old-school [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_technology open space technology] unconference. Bring a rough talk or idea you want to share or questions you have or something you want to learn about or discuss with other people, and be ready to tell us about it. Use it as extra prep time for your upcoming prepared or lightning talk if you want. We'll plan the morning out a little bit at the beginning, but not too much. What we do will be up to the people there in the room.

If there's interest, we could start with a "welcome to code4lib" introductory session for newcomers.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Devon Smith
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jason Casden
* Ryan Eby
* mark matienzo
* Donald Mennerich

=== Delivery services ===
* Ted Lawless, Brown University Library, tlawless at brown edu.
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton edu.

Are you interested in making it easier for users to obtain copies of known items? Do you feel your OpenURL and Interlibrary Loan software could be streamlined? This pre-conference workshop will focus on providing services that deliver content to users. Discovery systems are doing a better job of exposing library holdings but there's still a lot of work to do actually get the content in the users hands.

Possible topics/activities include:
* group discussion of what some libraries have done in this area
* comparisons of different approaches to addressing delivery
* overview of tools available
* sharing of strategies and experiences
* time to work with and review open source code in this area. Some possible tools to install and test out [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut Umlaut], [https://github.com/lawlesst/heroku-360link Py360 Link].

Resources and background information:
* [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki/What-is-Umlaut-anyway What-is-Umlaut-anyway]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7308 Hacking 360 Link: A hybrid approach]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/108 Auto-Populating an ILL form with the Serial Solutions Link Resolver API]
* [http://lawlesst.github.com/notebook/delivery.html Focusing on Delivery]

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Ayla Stein
* Curtis Thacker
* Rosalyn Metz
* James Van Mil
* Andrew Nagy

=== Intro to Blacklight CANCELLED ===

PLEASE NOTE: This pre-conference has been cancelled in favor of joining forces with the RailsBridge workshop. The afternoon Blacklight session will still be offered.

=== RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails ===
* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jnronall@ncsu.edu
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, shaune@princeton.edu
* Ross Singer, Talis, rossfsinger@gmail.com
* Adam Wead (helper), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, awead@rockhall.org
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu
* Anyone else want to come and help folks? Contact Jason.

RailsBridge comes to code4lib! We'll follow the RailsBridge curriculum (http://railsbridge.org) to provide a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails. Topics covered include an introduction to the Ruby language, the Rails framework, and version control with git. Participants will build a working Rails application.

There will be some pre-preconference preparation needed so that we can effectively use our time. Details to come.

* Note: Attendees can follow up with the Intro to Blacklight afternoon session, which will be tailored for folks new to Ruby

Please add your name below and fill out the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpxd0tzU1ZscnU5QUUtd0JGUk9qQkE6MA#gid=0 experience survey].

'''I plan on attending:'''
# First and last name and email address
# John MacGillivray
# Jon Stroop - jstroop at princeton
# Christina Salazar - christina{dot}salazar{at}csuci{dot}edu
# Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
# Becky Yoose - b dot yoose at google overlord
# Jeremy Morse
# Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
# Chung Kang
# Karen Miller - k-miller3{at}northwestern{dot}edu
# Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
# Jay Luker - jay{dot}luker{at}gmail{dot}com
# Santi Thompson
# Sarah Dooley - sarah{at}nclive{dot}org
# Brandon Dudley
# Ken Irwin
# Dennis Ogg
# Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
# Steven Villereal
# Hillel Arnold - hillel{dot}arnold{at}gmail{dot}com
# Josh Wilson - joshwilsonnc at gmail
# Cynthia Ng
# Ian Chan
# Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}edu
# Mark Mounts
# Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at}pratt {dot}edu
# David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
# Courtney Greene - crgreene at indiana dot edu
# Laney McGlohon
# Nancy Enneking
# Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
# Nick Cappadona
# Steven Marsden
# Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org
# Brendan Quinn
# Michael Levy - mlevy {at}ushmm {dot}org
# Michael North (m-north at northwestern dot edu)
# Shawn Averkamp - shawnaverkamp{at}gmail{dot}com
# Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu

===Intro to NoSQL Databases===
* Joshua Gomez, George Washington University, jngomez at gwu edu

Since Google published its paper on BigTable in 2006, alternatives to the traditional relational database model have been growing in both variety and popularity. These new databases (often referred to as NoSQL databases) excel at handling problems faced by modern information systems that the traditional relational model cannot. They are particularly popular among organizations tackling the so-called "Big Data" problems. However, there are always tradeoffs involved when making such dramatic changes. Understanding how these different kinds of databases are designed and what they can offer is essential to the decision making process. In this precon I will discuss some of the various types of new databases (key-value, columnar, document, graph) and walk through examples or exercises using some of their open source implementations like Riak, HBase, CouchDB, and Neo4j.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Erin Fahy
* Esha Datta
* Trevor Thornton
* Michael Doran
* Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
* Kevin Clarke
* Andreas Orphanides
* Tommy Ingulfsen
* Harrison Dekker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
* Scott Hanrath
* Karen Coyle
* Charles Draper
* David Uspal
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu

==Half Day Afternoon==
=== Data Visualization Hackfest ===
* Chris Beer, cabeer at stanford.edu
* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in data visualization? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3.html Access 2010 Hackfest]. We propose a half-day hackfest with a focus on visualization library data -- think stuff like library catalog data, access/circulation statistics, etc. Here's how it works, roughly:
- we'll (you'll!) do lightning tutorials for some data visualization tools, toolkits (R? d3js? ?), datasets.
- we'll separate into groups and hack on stuff.
- at the end of the day, we'll present our progress.

Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable!

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Devon Smith
* Esha Datta
* Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
* Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
* Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
* Jason Stirnaman (jstirnaman at kumc.edu)
* Joshua Gomez
* Ayla Stein
* Harrison Dekker
* Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
* Scott Hanrath
* [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
* James Van Mil
* Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
* Karen coyle
* David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
* mark matienzo
* David Uspal
* Emily Lynema
* Sean Chen
* Donald Mennerich

=== Intro to Hydra ===
* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (awead at rockhall.org)
* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts (justin.coyne at curationexperts.com)
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)

Hydra (http://projecthydra.org) is a free and open source repository solution that is being used by institutions on both sides of the North Atlantic to provide access to their digital content. Hydra provides a versatile and feature rich environment for end-users and repository administrators alike. Leveraging Blacklight as its front end discovery interface, the hydra project provides a suite of software components, data models, and design patterns for building a robust and sustainable digital repository, as well as a community of support for ongoing development. This workshop will provide an introduction to the hydra project and its software components. Attendees will leave with enough knowledge to get started building their own local repository solutions. This workshop will be led by Adam Wead of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Jeremy Prevost
* Dennis Ogg
* Terry Brady
* Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Brendan Quinn
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu
* Steven Villereal
* Ryan Eby
* Dean Farrell
* Ian Chan
* Mark Mounts
* Carl Jones
* Laney McGlohon
* Nancy Enneking
* First and last name

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)
* Jason Ronallo, NC State (jronallo at gmail.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, (shaune@princeton.edu)

Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, NC State, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&A around local issues people might encounter.

Note: this workshop will be tailored as a follow-on to the morning's RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails workshop, but everyone is welcome

'''I plan on attending:'''
* John MacGillivray
* Jon Stroop
* Jeremy Morse
* Karen Miller
* Tommy Ingulfsen
* Chung Kang
* Santi Thompson
* Brandon Dudley
* Ken Irwin
* Hillel Arnold
* Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}com
* Chris Sharp - csharp{at}georgialibraries{dot}org
* Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at} pratt{dot} edu
* Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
* Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org

=== DPLA Intro/Hacking ===

* Presenter(s)/Leader(s): TBD
* Guy Who'd Be Interested in Helping: Jay Luker, Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System (jluker at cfa.harvard.edu)

This is a stub proposal entered solely to beat the submission deadline. I think there's be sufficient interest in this session, but only thought of it yesterday and haven't had time to coordinate with actual DPLA'ers and confirm that any of them are definitely coming.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name

=== Fail4lib ===
* Jason Casden, NCSU Libraries (jmcasden at ncsu.edu)
* Andreas Orphanides, NCSU Libraries (akorphan at ncsu.edu)

The Code4lib community is full of driven people who embrace the risks that are often associated with new projects. While these traits lead to the incredible projects that are presented at Code4lib, creative technical work also often leads to unexpected, vexing, or disappointing results even from eventually successful projects (however you define the term). Learning more about how our colleagues deal with failure in various contexts could lead to the development of better methods for communicating the value of productive failure, modifying project plans ("The Pivot"), and failing more cheaply.

Hopefully we can define the format as a group, but a fairly high level of participation is crucial if this is to be a worthwhile preconference. Some possible agenda items that could be mixed and matched to fill the afternoon:

# Given willing presenters, a series of 10-20 minute presentations that go into some depth about specific failures.
# Depending on the number of participants, either a multi- or single-track series of unconference-like themed discussions on various aspects of failure, possibly including themes like:
#* Technical failure
#* Failure to effectively address a real user need
#* Overinvestment
#* Outreach/Promotion failure
#* Design/UX failure
#* Project team communication failure
#* Missed opportunities (risk-averse failure)
#* Successes gleaned from failures
# A panel of participants who have prepared in advance to answer moderator and audience questions about their experience with failure.
# A prepared reading assignment that we could all forget to read, creating a shared fail in order to start the preconference on the right foot.

I'll serve as a moderator (if needed) and participant and would welcome more organizers. I am happy to be outvoted by participants on any of these points--I just want to get us talking about our screw-ups, blind spots, and anvils dropping from the sky.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Becky Yoose
* Lisa Rabey
* Cynthia Ng

=== Solr 4 In Depth ===
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidworks.com)

The long awaited and much anticipated Solr 4 has been released! It's a really big deal. There are so many improvements, it makes the head spin. This session will cover the major feature improvements from Lucene's flexible indexing and scoring API up through SolrCloud in a digestable half-day format. Sounds like this is an evening thing that might happen at a bar somewhere?

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Erin Fahy
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jon Stroop
* Adam Constabars
* Kevin Clarke
* Jacob Andresen
* Ted Lawless (tlawless at brown dot edu)
* Jay Luker
* Tom Burton-West
* Curtis Thacker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Bess Sadler (bess at stanford dot edu)
* Michael North
* Charles Draper
* Nick Cappadona

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