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About Code4Lib

• About Code4Lib - Background and history of the community
• A Guide for the Perplexed - Building skills for working with library technologies
• How to hack code4lib - For those newer to the community
• Code4Lib Indoctrination (This is a Google doc open to all including anonymous feedback.)
  • "How do we make code4lib a more inclusive place for newcomers?
    Or, how do we quickly indoctrinate newbies to our values and ways of doing things?"
  • Suggestions, ideas, and follow-up actions solicited.
• One recommended tool/resource for n00bs - For new coding librarians/library Coders
• Mentorship Program
• Zoia or the Code4Lib IRC bot

Code4Lib 2013 Conference

See also the Category:Code4Lib2013 category

• 2013 Schedule
• Volunteer to help plan 2013 conference
• During the conference volunteer signup
• 2013 Invited Speakers Nominations -- nominations close Aug. 31, 2012.
• 2013 preconference sessions - try to sign up by Jan 15th
• 2013 talks proposals - due Friday, Nov 9
• 2013 t-shirt design proposals - due Monday, Dec. 31

• Social Activities for 2013 Conference
• Travel Advice and Getting To and From the 2013 Conference
• 2013 Conference Room and Ride Share
• Connecting to the UIC's Wifi

Local / Regional Groups

• Code4LibNYC - NYC and surrounding areas
• New England Code4lib - New England
• Code4Bib - Dutch Code4Bib
• Code4libMDC - Maryland, Washington D.C, Virginia, and surrounding areas
• PNWCode4Lib - Pacific Northwest
• code4lib North - Ontario and surrounding areas (new for Jan 2010!)
• Code4Lib Midwest - Wherever that is...
• Code4lib.hu - Group of Hungarian library developers
• Code4Lib Japan - (new in 2010!), see also tweet from Jerry Lee
• Code4GLAM Australia - coders, hackers, developers and technologists in the Australian GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) sector.
• Code4Lib Great Eastern - Atlantic Provinces
• Code4Lib Mid-Atlantic - Philadelphia and the Greater Tri-State Area

Interest Groups

• ILS Interoperability - A group working to develop an infrastructure for interoperating between discovery layers and integrated library systems.
• Open Source Book Widgets - A list of open source book widgets
• Open Source Discovery - Open Source application to enhance and support "discovery" in libraries
• Mobile Applications - A group interested in mobile web and native application development for libraries
• Sources Of Metadata - list of api's and sources of interest to libraries

Software Usage and Documentation

• Umlaut - OpenURL link resolving middleware
• Patterns for Collaborative Code - Patterns to make your open source 'more open', more amenable to distributed development and use at multiple institutions without forking.
• ILS Documentation
• OSS Directory
• Working with MARC
• Rogue - principles for standards creation
• ProjectManagement - list of project management and issue tracking software that are frequently mentioned on the Code4Lib mailinglist

Code4Lib Journal

• Code4Lib Journal - information and working documents

Current topics

• Code4Lib Website Update
• OCLC Policy Change
• SirsiDynix: Integrated Library System Platforms on Open Source
• Parsing Library Data
• Robots Are Our Friends

Other Code4Lib Sites

• code4lib.org
• planet.code4lib.org
• journal.code4lib.org

Earlier Conferences and events

Conference Financial History At A Glance

Code4Lib 2012 Conference

See also the Code4lib2012 category

• 2012 home
• Volunteer to help at code4lib 2012
• Volunteer to help plan 2012 conference
• 2012 Preconference Proposals--due Sunday, November 20
• 2012 Talk Proposals--due Sunday, November 20
• Social Activities - ideas and sign-up
• Rideshare-Roomshare
• T-shirt contest
• Put your ideas for 2012 here!
• 2012 Call For Host
• How To Plan A Code4LibCon
• LinkedIn Event
• List your Twitter handle here
• Lightning Talks Signup
• IRC Channel Timeline & Log
• Conference Livestream (non-attendees only, please!)

Code4Lib 2011 Conference

See also the Code4lib2011 category

• C4L2011 Home
• Registration Information!
• 2011 Committees Sign-Up - Volunteer to help
• How To Plan A Code4LibCon
• Social Activities - ideas & sign-up
• Put your ideas for 2011 here!
• Facebook Event Page
• LinkedIn Event Page
• Airport Ride Share and Carpooling
• Hotel room share

Code4Lib 2010 Conference

See also the Code4lib2010 category

• Finalized schedule
• 2010 Lightning Talks Signup - sign up to give a lightning talk
• 2010 Breakout Sessions - suggest a breakout here
• 2010 Conference Buzz - Conference announcements and a place for code4libbers to plan stuff
• Social Activities - ideas & sign-up
• Committees sign-up page - Volunteer to help
• Put your ideas for 2011 here!
• Asheville Airport to Hotel Van Manifest
• General shared travel/transportation planning
• Roommates, Rides, Etc
• Manning Publications Discount - discount code (40% off) for use by attendees through Feb. 28, 2010
• Thanks also to our other sponsors!
• 2010 Planning
• 2010 Planning Wishlist - planning page for issues, expectations, etc. for the 2010 conference

Code4Lib 2009 Conference

• BookRaffle - coordinate begging publishers for books to raffle off at the conference
• Get FOAFed - add your FOAF profile to the network of c4l2009 attendees
• PreConferences:
  • GIS_preconf_code4libcon2009 - Open source GIS just like mom used to make
  • LinkedData - A proposal for a linked-data code4lib2009 pre-conference
  • LibX_Preconference - Proposal for a half-day pre-conference targeted at developers who wish to use the LibX 2.0 platform
  • OCLC Grid Services Preconference
• RoommatesRidesEtc - Find roommates for Code4Lib 2009, share rides, etc.
• 2009 Conference Buzz - Conference announcements and a place for code4libbers to plan stuff

Other workshops

• SearchCampDC - barcamp style event in DC with usual suspects from code4lib
• code4lib/elag2010 - 1-day code4lib preconference at elag2010

Archived topics

• Logo Design Process

AdminToDo - ideas and tasks for maintaining the Code4Lib sites