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Welcome to the wiki home of the New England "chapter" of Code4Lib.

My friends, let's get something started, eh?

TBD. Suggest some Topics.

Should we have a one-day hack-a-thon, or more of a slideware event thing? Whatever facilities we procure could have an effect on this decision in terms of wifi, seating, available projector, etc.

A vote was held to determine our first gathering spot. Boston was chosen. Michael Klein has arranged a space for us at the Boston Public Library.

Jodi Schneider of Amherst College has already begun planning for a gathering hosted by Five Colleges. See below for possible dates.

Suggest some other, future locations below. Something not too hard to get to for folks in all corners of the N.E. area would be best

Somewhere in Western Mass (a.k.a. 413; a.k.a. Northampton, MA; a.k.a Hamp) - This would work best for me, the further West, the more likely I can make it (ecorrado)
I can probably offer free space in our Concord NH campus with good network and projectors, though I realize that may be too far north for some --Casey
Somewhere in the Boston area
Portland, Maine, of course. Where else? LibraryThing will buy donuts.
I could suggest New Haven, but it isn't exactly a central location for this group. --dlovins
+1 for Portland, ME. I might be able to arrange meeting space at the U of Southern Maine if this is a viable location. --jonvw
Forbes Library during their business hours
Possibly one of the Five Colleges?
Boston Public Library (end by 9pm Monday through Thursday, or end by 5pm Friday through Sunday)
Elsewhere? Add to this list...

We are in the process of settling on a date using WhenIsGood

Please let us know when works for you, at:

NECode4Lib #2: Amherst, MA

Feel free to add yourself.

Jay Luker, Ex Libris Software Engineer, lbjay#code4lib
Michael B. Klein, Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian at the Boston Public Library, mbklein#code4lib
Jodi Schneider, Science Library Specialist at the Amherst College Library, JodiS#code4lib
Casey Bisson, a person too lazy to list his own title
Daniel Lovins (Yale Library)
Tim Spalding (LibraryThing)
Jonathan Williams, URSUS Systems Manager, University of Maine System, jonvw#code4lib
Edward M. Corrado, Head of Library Technology, Binghamton University(NY); ecorrado#code4lib (yea, I know NY <> NE, but heck, if it is in the Western part of NE, I can make it)
Keith Jenkins (Cornell Univ.)
Winona Salesky, librarian in limbo
Andrew Bangert (Lewiston, ME)
Emily Alling (UMass Amherst)
Alison Babeu (Perseus Digital Library-Tufts University)
Greg McClellan (Brandeis University)
Chris Beer (WGBH)
Rosalyn Metz, Systems Administrator for Curricular Support (Wheaton College)
Jeffrey Barnett, Sr. Research Analyst (Yale University Library) and (yufind beta developer)

NERCOMP Beyond Information Discovery Monday 11/3
Mobile Mania: Developing information services for portable devices Wednesday 11/5 (Boston)
PALINET Open Source discovery systems day VuFind, Blacklight, Lucene/Solr applications Thursday 11/6 (Philadelphia)
NYC METRO Science Librarians: Rutgers on authentic digital objects; NSDL on updates Friday 11/7 1:30 PM (NYC)
OCLC/NYPL Labs Hackfest: Fri 11/7 & Sat 11/8 (NYC)
DLF Fall Forum, for DLF institutions: Weds-Fri 11/12-14 (Providence)