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Discussion led by Eric Phetteplace

* What do we call ourselves? 
**Several suggestions, but Code4Lib NorCal won the vote

* Locations: 
**Sonoma might be an option. 
**San Luis Obispo would be good for NorCal SoCal meetups. 
**UC Berkeley and Stanford might be good hosts. 
**California Library Association meeting is in Oakland this year, November 7-9. Samuel Merritt University in Oakland could host something for Code4Lib NorCal. 
**Internet Archive? Maybe a tour or a hackathon there? 

* Frequency: 
**SoCal group has met twice in the last six months. 
**Twice a year to start for us might be good. 
**Times that don't conflict with National Code4Lib, so fall and summer. 

* Organization:
** We need people to handle some basic organization. Eric P. will coordinate a meeting to figure out those questions on Google Group. 

* Outreach: 
**Our group is almost entirely academic libs. Should we do outreach to public libraries? Patrick Newell would be willing to work with someone else to do this outreach. 
**Aaron Collier will reach out to the SoCal people to find out if anyone would want to do a joint meeting. 
**West Coast representation at National Code4Lib tends to be light. How can we make west coast libs more aware? Outreach to tech librarians. 
**Could we sponsor a diversity scholarship to National Code4Lib meeting? In conjunction with SoCal group. $500 should be enough to help get someone there.
**More outreach to the non-profit open access, open data, hackerspace communities. Big presence of these in the Bay Area. The [http://commoncrawl.org Common Crawl Foundation] is one that immediately comes to mind, as does [http://codeforamerica.org/ Code for America] where I've attended meetup events in the past

* Types of events: 
**A Hackathon meeting, something hands on. The ALA Midwinter hackathon was a good model. It was structured, and focused on 2 specifc APIs. One was more guided (showing people how to work with the API) and one was more free form (people who already knew how to work with APIs).
**If we did a hackathon it would be good to combine it with a meetup over a two days span to make travel easier for more far-flung folks. 

* What next?
**Eric P. will start to get discussion over the Google Group list over next steps.
**Aaron will see if we can configure an RSS feed for the Google Group. 
**We should advocate for more capacity at National Code4Lib (although it's tricky to find a balance between being open to people who want to come and maintaining a small conference)
**If we want to start thinking about hosting National Code4Lib in California we should start taking as a group. Might also want to collaborate with SoCal to find a good location.


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