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Welcome to the home of the new Ontario/Canada chapter of [http://code4lib.org/ Code4Lib].  Our aim is to create more opportunities for Code4Lib folks in the Ontario/Quebec/Manitoba/Northeast USA area to meet up in person.
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[[File:C4l north logo.png|thumbnail|Code4Lib North Logo]]
  
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==Mailing list==
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Welcome to the home of the Ontario/Canada chapter of [http://code4lib.org/ Code4Lib].  Our aim is to create more opportunities for Code4Lib folks in the Ontario/Quebec/Manitoba/Northeast USA area to meet up in person.
  
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Want to participate in Code4Lib North meetups and receive "North"-oriented Code4Lib announcements?  Join the code4lib mailing list. (The code4lib-north mailing list was discontinued.)
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==Code4Lib North: the Tenth. McMaster University.  May 30-31, 2019==
  
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==Code4lib North Meetups in Toronto==
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The 2019 Code4Lib North meeting will be held at [https://scds.ca/ the McMaster Sherman Centre]. We'll begin each day at a suitable time, like 9:30 am.
  
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'''Purpose:''' To connect with other code4libbers in the area and start building a code4lib community in Toronto, Ontario. (blatantly copied from the Ottawa group)<br>
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[https://www.google.com/maps?q=43.262680900000,-79.917828000000 Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship<br />Mills Memorial Library<br />1280 Main St. W.<br />Hamilton, ON L8S 4L6]
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'''Hashtag:''' #code4libTO also used: the general #code4lib
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===Next Meetup===
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The next meetup is to encourage collaboration between different libraries to do a presentation or workshop together! It will also be a great opportunity to brainstorm possible hackfest ideas as well. You can of course just come to hang out and chat too.
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As this will be a drop in session, no reservations are needed, just show up! Hope to see you there
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[https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/code4lib-north-2019-tickets-59046220836 Registration is available through Eventbrite.]
  
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When: Friday, April 19, 5-7pm
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We will be observing the Code4Lib [https://github.com/code4lib/antiharassment-policy/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md Code of Conduct].
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Where: Mozilla Toronto, 5th floor, [http://goo.gl/maps/rSxzs 366 Adelaide West]
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Suggested beery place to gather afterwards: [http://towncrierpub.ca/ Town Crier Pub] at 115 John St (just 3 blocks away)
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===Schedule===
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''Subject to change''
  
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===Past Meetups===
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The first meetup was a simple social meetup on June 21, 2012. The idea is that other meetups will have presentations/talks to be had either before or during.
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August 14, 2012 - [http://cynng.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/code4lib-cool-tool-day/ Cool Tool Day]
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Learning R for data analysis with the Ontario Sunshine List dataset (John F.) 15
  
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December 13, 2012 - [http://wp.me/pHQ83-rb Talk Notes]
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Building a successful documentation initiative (Kaitlin N.) [[https://slides.com/librarypixels/docs Slides]] 15
  
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== Code4lib North Meetups in Ottawa ==
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''Morning break ''
  
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'''Purpose:''' To connect with other code4libbers in the area and start building a code4lib community in Ottawa, Ontario
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Quick tricks to make your images look good (Thomas G.)  10
  
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===Next Meetup===
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'''Theme:''' Meet, and share your favourite Library technology
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Beyond Alt-Text: Trends in Online Accessibility (Ian F.) [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/5zxev0a2ohy1h3t/Code4Lib%20North%20-%20Beyond%20Alt-Text%20-%20Trends%20in%20Online%20Accessibility.pdf?dl=0 Slides]] 45
  
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'''Date:''' Tuesday April 30th, 2013, 5:30PM
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Why Vue.JS (Rachel W.) [[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14xDy2ylz0JoNm4n8hV2ApfH-dtEUwy7Wq96OnRJpTkI/edit?usp=sharing Slides]] 15
  
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'''Location:''' Fox and Feather Pub, 283 Elgin St., Ottawa, ON ([http://maps.google.com/maps?q=283+Elgin+St.%2C+Ottawa%2C+ON map])
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Balancing centralized project commitments with local priorities (Cameron M.) [[https://wiki.code4lib.org/images/8/82/Code4libNorth2019-CMetcalf.pdf Slides]] 10
  
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The inaugural code4lib Ottawa meetup occurred on March 28, 2012 and was a simple meet-and-greet at a local pub. Since then, we try to combine this social event with some short interesting talks. Here is what we have learned about in recent meetups:
 
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'''June 13, 2012 - Lightning Talks'''
 
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| '''Devin Crawley''' from the Ottawa Public Library gave us a quick preview of the API to their BiblioCommons catalogue. The API will be publicly available this fall.
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| Cluster Computing for Humans -OR- Have you heard of this HPCPack? (Tim R.) [[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jr18eiRO5nseSEz_Dtk8ofnlm1MyI2rTZblRWs2a0MY/edit#slide=id.p Slides]]
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| Lightning Talks (PowerBI & Jupyter notebooks - Tim R., PyMarc - John D. [[https://slides.com/jdingle/c4l19n Slides]])
 
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| '''[[User:Bethmaru|Mary Beth Baker]]''' spoke about the [[North/Possible Collaborators Ottawa|local tech scene in Ottawa]] and got us to consider the potential for collaboration with other groups.
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| [http://twitter.com/maxneuvians Max Neuvians] || [http://social-biblio.ca/ Social-biblio.ca] : An approach to Twitter data visualization, archiving, and the larger narrative.
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| [http://twitter.com/scilib Richard Akerman] || [http://twitter.com/scilib Richard Akerman] and [http://twitter.com/bethmaru Mary Beth Baker] are organizing a Reading Garden at the upcoming Canadian Library Association conference. They are seeking advice on how to provide wireless access. Anyone with ideas is encouraged to get in touch with them.
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| [http://twitter.com/warlayton Warren Layton] || A quick demo of [http://www.jasongriffey.net/librarybox/ LibraryBox], a wireless filesharing device, which may have interesting applications in government and other libraries where IT restrictions can limit network use.
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| Social - [https://www.meritbrewing.ca/ MERIT Brewing], [https://goo.gl/maps/gHPqJHqCgEw3qA568 107 James St N.]
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'''Purpose:''' To connect with other code4libbers in the area and start building a code4lib community in Edmonton, Alberta.
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====Talk Sign Up====
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Code4Lib North is a great opportunity to talk about anything you are working on or pondering about. It can be as short as a 5 min lightning talk to just throw out some ideas or up to a 30 min talk on whatever you like
  
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===Inaugural Meetup===
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== Fourth Meeting: Ryerson University, May 23rd and 24th, 2013 ==
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This year we are proposing an un-theme for the un-conference: '''computational thinking''', inspired by Jonathan Rochkind's blog post: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/computational-thinking-getting-started/
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| Tim Ribaric || Cluster Computing for Humans? || 20 minutes || @elibtronic tribaric@brocku.ca
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| Sarah Romkey || How we Github: a journey || 15 minutes || @ArchivesSarah sromkey@artefactual.com
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|Thomas Guignard || Quick tricks to make your images look good || 10 minutes || @timtomch tom@timtom.ca
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&#42; Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions.  Feel free to [mailto:kaitlin@scholarsportal.info contact us instead] if you don't want to enter anything here.
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|Thomas Guignard || Update the [https://github.com/librarycarpentry/lc-webscraping/ Library Carpentry Web Scraping lesson] as part of the [https://librarycarpentry.org/blog/2019/03/lc-mozilla-global-sprint/ Library Carpentry global sprint] || [https://twitter.com/timtomch @timtomch], [mailto:tom@timtom.ca tom@timtom.ca]
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&#42; Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions.  Feel free to [mailto:kaitlin@scholarsportal.info contact us instead] if you don't want to enter anything here.
  
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*Hashtag: [http://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23c4ln19 #c4ln19]
  
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[http://goo.gl/maps/n6tpI Map] - Approximately 5 minute walk from the Heaslip House
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* Join the #code4lib channel on the [https://code4lib.slack.com code4lib slack]
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'''Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Toronto'''
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Code4lib North attendees can enjoy a 10% discount when traveling with VIA Rail. Use the information below when booking your tickets. Please note that VIA Rail has no service to Hamilton, attendees will need to transfer to GO Transit in Aldershot, Oakville or Toronto. The discount only applies to the portion of the trip operated by VIA Rail. GO Transit does not offer conference discounts :( If you have a Presto card, you can use it to pay for your GO Transit fare.
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[http://goo.gl/maps/pb2Ea Map] - Approximately 10 minute walk from the Heaslip House
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'''Discount code:''' 13938
  
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'''Instructions:''' Log in or create a profile on the VIA Rail reservation system prior to booking. On the Passenger information screen, select "Convention fare" from the “Discount Type” drop-down menu, and enter the discount code above for your convention or event in the “Discount code” field. The conference fare will be shown on the next page.
  
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'''Best Western Primrose Hotel Downtown Toronto'''
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'''Discount:''' 10% off the best available fare in Economy, Economy Plus, Business, Business Plus, Sleeper class. "Subject to the conditions and restrictions of the fare plan to which the additional discount is being applied." Discount does not apply in any Escape fares and Prestige Class.
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[http://goo.gl/maps/vrtAe Map] - Approximately 10 minute walk from the Heaslip House
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'''Valid:''' May 28th, 2019 to June 2nd, 2019 from all stations throughout the VIA system to Aldershot, Oakville or Toronto, Ontario and return.
  
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'''Restrictions:''' Fare applies to a maximum of two passengers per booking. One complimentary stopover is allowed at no additional charge. For travel on all fare plans in Business class, the first stopover is allowed at no additional charge, provided that this stopover takes place in Toronto, Montréal or Ottawa only.  
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===Sponsors===
  
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==Code4lib North Meetups in Toronto==
  
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== Third Meeting: University of Windsor, May 24 and 25th, 2012 ==
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[[Image:code4libnorth.png|code4libnorth logo]]
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August 14, 2012 - [http://cynng.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/code4lib-cool-tool-day/ Cool Tool Day]
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The schedule has now been moved to an editable google doc at : http://led.uwindsor.ca/c4ln otherwise known as: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dlTqrBNfiYwjRpVnUvJbtW0K7en1ndVp84WqWbfOrvE/edit
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December 13, 2012 - [http://wp.me/pHQ83-rb Talk Notes]
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===Past Meetups===
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For those who love experimental film, there is the [http://mediacityfilmfestival.com/films-and-schedule-2012/ Media City Film Festival] taking place in Windsor and Detroit. Jason Scott aka textfiles will be speaking at the  [http://www.aadl.org/events/list?id=14190 Ann Arbor Public Library] on Wednesday night
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But there is much more if we wander farther afield: [http://www.windsoreats.com/ WindsorEats]
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* [http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/19/1482082/restaurant/Detroit/Windsor-Seoul-Windsor Windsor Seoul]
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* [http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/19/1648665/restaurant/Detroit/Bibim-To-Go-Windsor Bibim-To-Go]
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* [http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/19/1549919/restaurant/Detroit/Hoi-Sushi-Windsor Hoi Sushi]
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* [http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/19/1426344/restaurant/Detroit/Bubis-Awsome-Eats-Windsor Bubis Awesome Eats]
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* [http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/19/1435280/restaurant/Detroit/Hurricanes-Windsor Hurricane's]
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=== Format ===
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'''Tuesday October 7th, 2014'''
  
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=== 20 minutes talks :: feel free to sign up ===
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* Mark Baker - Principal Architect at Zepheira provided a brief overview of some of Zepheira’s BibFrame tools in development.
  
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* Jennifer Whitney - Systems Librarian at MacOdrum Library presented OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) – a neat and powerful tool for cleaning up messy data.
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| Ted Lawless || easyArticle - streamlining access to library materials with OpenURL, automated interlibrary loan submission, vendor APIs, Django/Python.
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| Mita Williams || my sekret art project
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| John Fink and Warren Layton|| Embedded Hardware Hijinx
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| Alison Hitchens || RDA for coders/systems folk [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-0uT-iimjN0TEZLTUNVZ1JtN28 presentation in Google Docs]
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| Andrew McAlorum ||  Our favorite jQuery modules for Drupal 7
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| David Fiander || The state of the ebook marketplace
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| Dan Chudnov || backplane
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| William Denton || Having provocative fun with reference desk statistics in R
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=== 5 minutes talks :: feel free to sign up ===
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* Sarah Simpkin, GIS and Geography Librarian & Catherine McGoveran, Government Information Librarian (both from UOttawa Library) - presented on a recent UOttawa sponsored Open Data Hackfest as well as to introduce you to Open Data Ottawa.
  
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'''Location:''' MacOdrum Library, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Ottawa, ON ([https://www.google.ca/maps/place/1125+Colonel+By+Dr,+Carleton+University,+Ottawa,+ON+K1S+5R1/@45.3835317,-75.6975174,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4cce067662eae8cf:0x9cd8d41fd34473d1 map])  
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! Title
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| Nick Ruest || Other Redmine uses
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|-
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| Tim Ribaric || Circumvention using the Cloud? [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sPODaxy-XYkETVeqxY2ZVK8PGRnqyMELU3254E1gxWw/edit slides]
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| Alison Hitchens || #catcode: Cataloguers embrace Code Year [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-0uT-iimjN0cFNZbXBHWkZvaG8 slides on Google docs]
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|-
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| Mita Williams || "My god, it's full of <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">stars!</span> lists": building the library website that will incorporate [http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2011/05/code4lib-north-presentation-were-jamun.html Jamun.]
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| Dan Chudnov || occupy 1923
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| Graham Fawcett || A Web-based video annotation tool (for peer review, possibly captioning, maybe for some nefarious library uses we haven't imagined)
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=== 20 or 40 minute workshops: each one teach one ===
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'''April 30, 2013 - Meet, and share your favourite Library technology'''
−
 
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:: a workshop you are willing to lead
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::* Intro to Git, if demand warrants -- if not, no big deal (John Fink)
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::* Environmental monitoring on the cheap (Doug Sartori)
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::* (I program in a few languages, and could do a teaser-session on one of them if there's interest. Maybe [http://www.python.org Python], [http://www.haskell.org/ Haskell], [http://clojure.org/  Clojure] or [http://dlang.org D]?) (Graham Fawcett)
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::* [[C4LN 2012: Intro to the Twitter API|Intro to the Twitter API]], including how one might use it to make a Twitter bot ([[User:shadowspar|Rick Scott]])
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:: a workshop of what you would love to attend
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::* intro to IRC, meet zoia (Mita, Warren, Sarah, John F)
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::* how to create a twitter bot (Mita, John F, David F)
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::* intro to Git (Warren, Sarah, David F)
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=== hackfest ideas :: scheme schemas  ===
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- build your own twitter bot; bot battles
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=== hackfest ideas :: feel free to add to the list ===
+
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*twitter bot war with code4lib The Great Eastern? http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/GreatEastern
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*changing Odessi XML records to MARC XML so OCUL libraries can load MARC for Odessi, esp. Stats Can stuff. We started this project at TUG, so need someone to help me get further or finish! New note: Chris put what he did so far on [https://github.com/lib-uoguelph-ca/ddi2marc-xml github](Alison)
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*[http://twitter.com/CanadianPoetry @CanadianPoetry]  Sprint: [http://library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry Canadian Poetry Online] needs an overhaul! Canadian Poetry is a web anthology of contemporary Canadian poetry, providing biographies and full-text poems from Canada's leading poets. Join in this [http://drupal.org/node/247982 code sprint] to help with the migration to Drupal, site building, development, and theming of the new version. (Andrew)
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*[http://www.jasongriffey.net/librarybox/ LibraryBox] is a customized version of PirateBox that can run be run on the inexpensive TP-Link MR 3020. Currently, it acts as a simple file server but it could potentially offer a more library-focused service, such as [https://twitter.com/#!/djfiander/status/184315493157576704 an eBook server for nearby devices using OPDS]. (Warren)
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* [http://evergreen-ils.org/ Evergreen]: The Evergreen project is currently recruiting volunteers for the Google Summer of Code effort and has [http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:summer_of_coding_ideas#project_ideas a list of project ideas]. Some of these ideas, if not already claimed by a student GSoC participant, might make for interesting hackfest projects. Or we could rewrite the MARC editor in Dojo.
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* [https://github.com/wdenton/splurge/ SPLURGE]: The Scholars Portal Library Usage-Based Recommendation Engine began at a hackfest in February and has been worked on since then, but it needs one last push to get all of the pieces joined together so that an easy-to-use "people who borrowed this also borrowed that" service built on shared circ data can be tested. There are four parts to SPLURGE: data cleanup, getting it into a properly configured database, a web service that talks to the database, some Javascript that can dropped into a catalogue to talk to the web service. They all exist, but not all of them are quite done and they don't all talk to each other. The purpose of this hackfest project would be for people to familiarize themselves with the work that's been done, and then try to finish it up.
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=== code4lib north organizational team ===
+
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*Mita Williams
+
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*Karen Pillon
+
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*Peter Zimmerman
+
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*Jennifer Soutter
+
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*Cathy Maskell
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*Ranti Junus (Michigan State)
+
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=== hashtag and twitter list ===
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*c4ln2012
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*c4ln
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*https://twitter.com/#!/copystar/c4ln
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== Second Meeting: McMaster University, May 5-6, 2011 ==
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=== Sign Up ===
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We can handle a maximum of 50 people and you can signup here: http://c4ln2011.eventbrite.com/.
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=== When and Where ===
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Dates: May 5-6, 2011
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Location:
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* 1280 Main St. West, [http://www.google.com/maps/place?cid=4151756913136304412&q=mcmaster+university+mills+memorial+library&hl=en&dtab=0&sll=43.260928,-79.91933&sspn=0.773056,1.227722&ie=UTF8&ll=43.647007,-80.532532&spn=0,0&z=10 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario - ]  (map)
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* Mills Memorial Library, [http://library.mcmaster.ca/lyons Lyons New Media Centre] (4th floor)
+
−
 
+
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=== Accommodation ===
+
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Our helpful folks in Research Collections put this [http://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/visiting guide] together a while back.
+
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=== Parking, Campus Map, Public Transit ===
+
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* [http://parking.mcmaster.ca/ Parking] - I understand we have the most expensive parking in OCUL. I'm sorry :( - There is one bit of good news: if you park in the M lot, the day rate drops from $20 to $5. The M lot is about a 10-12 minute walk from the library, and there is a shuttle that will take you part of the way.
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* [http://parking.mcmaster.ca/June25UpdatedMapWithAutomation.PDF Campus map] - we are building #10 - Mills Memorial Library
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* [http://www.hamilton.ca/CityServices/transit?WT.mc_id=hsr&WT.hamilton_redirect_friendly=1/ Public Transit]
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* HSR buses that come to campus are: [http://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/F831E17F-2373-48C8-A808-F7DB7873400E/0/JA11Route1.pdf 1], [http://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/FB34FB4E-EF3A-4154-AF2D-46C06F05F06F/0/JA11Route51.pdf 51], [http://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/53F0A87E-6DA9-4E04-A6A6-6BF5E7482806/0/JA11Route5.pdf 5c], [http://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/B25032CD-ABC4-40D3-8509-FA6CCB7DB4CA/0/JA11Route52A.pdf 52], and [http://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/650AA6C2-DD5F-422F-86A6-E0D6EA688CEE/0/JA11Route10.pdf 10] - The 10 and 52 drop off by the hospital, the others drop off right outside Mills.
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=== Cost ===
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+
−
 
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=== Format ===
+
−
Day 1:
+
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* Hackfest (send problems/proposals to John Fink and Nick Ruest)
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Day 2
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* 5-minute lighting talks
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* 20-minute talks
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* BOAF/breakouts
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−
 
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=== 20-minute talks ===
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I'd like to start a new tradition with Code4Lib North and deposit the slides and *maybe* recordings of the presentations in our IR. If people are cool with this, I can get it all setup prior to the event.
+
  
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'''June 13, 2012 - Lightning Talks'''
 
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! Name
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! Description of Talk
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! Title
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|-
 
|-
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| William J Turkel || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/9/ Functional Programming Workout]
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| '''Devin Crawley''' from the Ottawa Public Library gave us a quick preview of the API to their BiblioCommons catalogue. The API will be publicly available this fall.
 
|-
 
|-
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| Dileshni Jayasinghe & Majid Valipour || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/8/ Programming at Scholars Portal: apps and APIs]
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| '''William Wueppelmann''' talked about what's going on at Canadiana.org and how they host and manage their huge digital collection and their efforts to achieve certification as a Trusted Digital Repository (TDR).
 
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|-
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| William Wueppelmann || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/1/ The Canadiana Web API]
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| '''[[User:Bethmaru|Mary Beth Baker]]''' spoke about the [[North/Possible Collaborators Ottawa|local tech scene in Ottawa]] and got us to consider the potential for collaboration with other groups.
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| Dan Chudnov || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/7/ WWIC? Linked Library Data as a Customer Service Medium]
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| Mita Williams || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/3/ We're jamun (and we hope you like jamun too)]
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| William Denton || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/10/ Getting started with R]
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| Alan Harnum || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/5/ When All You Have Is XSLT, Everything Looks Like XML: Heterogeneous Cloud-Based Content Management Using Google Docs and Other Services]
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| Wendy Huot || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/12/ Why can't a web page be more like a book? Using LaTeX with Readability to generate better 'print friendly' versions of web pages]
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| Chris Charles || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/11/ Introduction to Google Refine]
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| Karen A. Coombs || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/2/ Zend Framework: making using web services easier]
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=== 5-minute lighting talks ===
+
'''April 24, 2012 - Show and Tell Session'''
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! Title
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| Andrew McAlorum || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/4/ Transition to Unity]
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| [http://twitter.com/maxneuvians Max Neuvians] || [http://social-biblio.ca/ Social-biblio.ca] : An approach to Twitter data visualization, archiving, and the larger narrative.
 
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| Dale Askey || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/6/ Fun with Failure, or, Learning to Stick a Fork in Things]
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| [http://twitter.com/scilib Richard Akerman] || [http://twitter.com/scilib Richard Akerman] and [http://twitter.com/bethmaru Mary Beth Baker] are organizing a Reading Garden at the upcoming Canadian Library Association conference. They are seeking advice on how to provide wireless access. Anyone with ideas is encouraged to get in touch with them.
 
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| Alison Hitchens || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/13/ Getting testers to test what you need to have tested!]
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| [http://twitter.com/warlayton Warren Layton] || A quick demo of [http://www.jasongriffey.net/librarybox/ LibraryBox], a wireless filesharing device, which may have interesting applications in government and other libraries where IT restrictions can limit network use.
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| Alison Hitchens || [http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/c4ln/13/ Using RT Tracker for user feedback]
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== First Meeting: Kingston ON, May 6-7, 2010 ==
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==Code4lib North Meetups in Montreal==
  
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=== Sign up ===
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'''Status''': Active
  
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Free registration -- but registration is now closed (we have 40+ signed up).
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'''Purpose:''' To connect with other code4libbers in the area and start building a code4lib community in Montreal, Quebec. (blatantly copied from the Ottawa and Toronto groups)<br>
  
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=== When and Where ===
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'''For more information:''' Please email Clara Turp (clara.turp@mcgill.ca) for more information.
  
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'''May 6-7, 2010'''  
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'''Slack Channel and Hashtag:''' #code4lib-mtl
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* Friday: 9am-4:30pm
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Meeting location:
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* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&source=embed&msa=0&msid=103786326471006763157.0004700577498a9166e33&ll=44.227888,-76.494584&spn=0.009226,0.012875&z=15| 93 University Ave, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario] (map)
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* Meeting room: [http://library.queensu.ca/library/floorplans/index.php?library=Douglas&floorpos=4F&section=North_Reading_Room#map| 1966 North Reading Room, Level 7, Douglas Library Building] (floorplan) - located on the top floor, just follow the signs to find the room.
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=== Cost ===
 
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=== How to get involved ===
 
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=== Format ===
 
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* 20-minute talks
 
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=== How many are attending? ===
 
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=== Program ===
 
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'''Thursday May 6:'''
 
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* 9am-4:30pm: Schedule currently "under construction" -- see table below.
 
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| William Denton || OpenFRBR
 
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| Walter Lewis || Exposing Linked Data
 
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| Art Rhyno || Open Layers and Newspapers (Walter Lewis)
 
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|-
 
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| MJ Suhonos || [http://mytpl.ca Location-aware Mobile Search]
 
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|-
 
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|Alan Harnum || Building A [http://beta.torontopubliclibrary.ca/ Library Website] with [http://www.endeca.com/ Endeca] technology
 
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|Wendy Huot || "Your feedback, please": library web design critique
 
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|Glen Newton || [http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html Using Open Source Tools for Visualization and Semantic Mapping in a Large Scale Article Digital Library]
 
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| Eric Palmitesta || XQuery
 
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| John Miedema || [http://code.google.com/p/openbook4wordpress/wiki/index OpenBook WordPress Plugin Update - Why It's Cool to Love OpenURL +++]
 
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== Who's interested in Code4Lib North? ==
 
== Who's interested in Code4Lib North? ==
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* [https://ernieejo.github.io/ Erin Johnson], [https://www.lib.uwo.ca/ Western Libraries]
 
* Wendy Huot, Queen's University
 
* Wendy Huot, Queen's University
 
* Michael Vandenburg, Queen's University
 
* Michael Vandenburg, Queen's University
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* Robin Isard, Algoma University (Sault Ste Marie ON)
 
* Robin Isard, Algoma University (Sault Ste Marie ON)
 
* Pat Moore, Carleton University (Ottawa ON)
 
* Pat Moore, Carleton University (Ottawa ON)
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* [http://wagathon.tumblr.com/ Alan Harnum], Toronto Public LIbrary (Toronto ON)
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* [http://alanharnum.ca Alan Harnum], Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University (Toronto ON)
 
* Colin Prince, University of Toronto Libraries
 
* Colin Prince, University of Toronto Libraries
 
* Tom Keays, Syracuse University LIbrary (Syracuse, NY)
 
* Tom Keays, Syracuse University LIbrary (Syracuse, NY)
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* [http://twitter.com/edbilodeau Edward Bilodeau], [http://www.mcgill.ca/library/ McGill University]
 
* [http://twitter.com/edbilodeau Edward Bilodeau], [http://www.mcgill.ca/library/ McGill University]
 
* Andrew McAlorum, University of Toronto Libraries
 
* Andrew McAlorum, University of Toronto Libraries
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* Marc d'Avernas, Waterloo Region District School Board
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* Whitni Watkins, St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY)
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==Mailing list==
  
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Latest revision as of 14:30, 4 June 2019

Code4Lib North Logo

Welcome to the home of the Ontario/Canada chapter of Code4Lib. Our aim is to create more opportunities for Code4Lib folks in the Ontario/Quebec/Manitoba/Northeast USA area to meet up in person.

Code4Lib North: the Tenth. McMaster University. May 30-31, 2019

The 2019 Code4Lib North meeting will be held at the McMaster Sherman Centre. We'll begin each day at a suitable time, like 9:30 am.

Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship
Mills Memorial Library
1280 Main St. W.
Hamilton, ON L8S 4L6

Register

Registration is available through Eventbrite.

We will be observing the Code4Lib Code of Conduct.

Schedule

Subject to change

Thursday May 30 Friday May 31
10:00-10:30 Doors open, coffee/snacks Doors open, coffee/snacks
10:30-12:00 Opening Remarks 10

Learning R for data analysis with the Ontario Sunshine List dataset (John F.) 15

Building a successful documentation initiative (Kaitlin N.) [Slides] 15

Morning break

Quick tricks to make your images look good (Thomas G.) 10

Day 1 Hackfest/Discussion Recaps 10

Beyond Alt-Text: Trends in Online Accessibility (Ian F.) [Slides] 45

Why Vue.JS (Rachel W.) [Slides] 15

Balancing centralized project commitments with local priorities (Cameron M.) [Slides] 10

12:00-13:30 LUNCH LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Cluster Computing for Humans -OR- Have you heard of this HPCPack? (Tim R.) [Slides] Lightning Talks (PowerBI & Jupyter notebooks - Tim R., PyMarc - John D. [Slides])
14:00-15:00 Hackfest and group discussions Hackfest and group discussions
15:00-15:15 Afternoon break Afternoon break
15:15-16:30 Hackfest and group discussions continue Hackfest and group discussions continue

16:15 - Wrap-up and closing remarks

17:30 Social - MERIT Brewing, 107 James St N.


Talk Sign Up

Code4Lib North is a great opportunity to talk about anything you are working on or pondering about. It can be as short as a 5 min lightning talk to just throw out some ideas or up to a 30 min talk on whatever you like

Name Topic Time (5 Min - 30 min) Way to contact* (twitter, email, etc.)
Kaitlin Newson Building a successful documentation initiative 15 minutes @kaitlinnewson
Tim Ribaric Cluster Computing for Humans? 20 minutes @elibtronic tribaric@brocku.ca
Sarah Romkey How we Github: a journey 15 minutes @ArchivesSarah sromkey@artefactual.com
Rachel Wang Why Vue.js? 10 - 15 minutes @rwangca
Thomas Guignard Quick tricks to make your images look good 10 minutes @timtomch tom@timtom.ca

* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to contact us instead if you don't want to enter anything here.

Hackfest & Group Discussion Ideas

We will spend some time running HackFest & Breakout Discussions. Add your ideas here.

Name Idea Way to contact*
Thomas Guignard Update the Library Carpentry Web Scraping lesson as part of the Library Carpentry global sprint @timtomch, tom@timtom.ca
Kaitlin Newson Create a "Hosting Code4Lib North" page for the wiki @kaitlinnewson

* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to contact us instead if you don't want to enter anything here.

Socials & things to do besides c4l

  • There will likely be a conference social on Thursday night, details TBA.

Twitter

Slack

  • Join the #code4lib channel on the code4lib slack
  • Instructions to join the code4lib slack are found here

VIA Rail discount

Code4lib North attendees can enjoy a 10% discount when traveling with VIA Rail. Use the information below when booking your tickets. Please note that VIA Rail has no service to Hamilton, attendees will need to transfer to GO Transit in Aldershot, Oakville or Toronto. The discount only applies to the portion of the trip operated by VIA Rail. GO Transit does not offer conference discounts :( If you have a Presto card, you can use it to pay for your GO Transit fare.

Discount code: 13938

Instructions: Log in or create a profile on the VIA Rail reservation system prior to booking. On the Passenger information screen, select "Convention fare" from the “Discount Type” drop-down menu, and enter the discount code above for your convention or event in the “Discount code” field. The conference fare will be shown on the next page.

Discount: 10% off the best available fare in Economy, Economy Plus, Business, Business Plus, Sleeper class. "Subject to the conditions and restrictions of the fare plan to which the additional discount is being applied." Discount does not apply in any Escape fares and Prestige Class.

Valid: May 28th, 2019 to June 2nd, 2019 from all stations throughout the VIA system to Aldershot, Oakville or Toronto, Ontario and return.

Restrictions: Fare applies to a maximum of two passengers per booking. One complimentary stopover is allowed at no additional charge. For travel on all fare plans in Business class, the first stopover is allowed at no additional charge, provided that this stopover takes place in Toronto, Montréal or Ottawa only.

Contact

Questions and/or concerns? Please contact Kaitlin Newson.

Sponsors

Code4Lib North would like to thank McMaster University for providing space for this meeting.

Code4Lib North Past Events

To see past Code4Lib North events, go to the past events page.


Code4lib North Meetups in Toronto

Status: Active

Purpose: To connect with other code4libbers in the area and start building a code4lib community in Toronto, Ontario. (blatantly copied from the Ottawa group)

Meetup Group: code4lib toronto

Website & Blog: code4libtoronto.github.io

Mailing List: code4libtoronto-list@meetup.com

Hashtag: #code4libTO also used: the general #code4lib

Past Meetups

The first meetup was a simple social meetup on June 21, 2012. The idea is that other meetups will have presentations/talks to be had either before or during.

August 14, 2012 - Cool Tool Day

December 13, 2012 - Talk Notes

April 19, 2013 - session to encourage collaborative talks/presentations/hackfest ideas


Code4lib North Meetups in Ottawa

Purpose: To connect with other code4libbers in the area and start building a code4lib community in Ottawa, Ontario

code4lib Ottawa meetups are now organized using Meetup.com. Sign up to be informed of upcoming meetings.

Keep an eye on the Meetup page for further details.

Past Meetups

The inaugural code4lib Ottawa meetup occurred on March 28, 2012 and was a simple meet-and-greet at a local pub. Since then, we try to combine this social event with some short interesting talks. Here is what we have learned about in recent meetups:

Tuesday October 7th, 2014

Speakers:

  • Mark Baker - Principal Architect at Zepheira provided a brief overview of some of Zepheira’s BibFrame tools in development.
  • Jennifer Whitney - Systems Librarian at MacOdrum Library presented OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) – a neat and powerful tool for cleaning up messy data.
  • Sarah Simpkin, GIS and Geography Librarian & Catherine McGoveran, Government Information Librarian (both from UOttawa Library) - presented on a recent UOttawa sponsored Open Data Hackfest as well as to introduce you to Open Data Ottawa.

Location: MacOdrum Library, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Ottawa, ON (map)

April 30, 2013 - Meet, and share your favourite Library technology

June 13, 2012 - Lightning Talks

Description of Talk
Devin Crawley from the Ottawa Public Library gave us a quick preview of the API to their BiblioCommons catalogue. The API will be publicly available this fall.
William Wueppelmann talked about what's going on at Canadiana.org and how they host and manage their huge digital collection and their efforts to achieve certification as a Trusted Digital Repository (TDR).
Mary Beth Baker spoke about the local tech scene in Ottawa and got us to consider the potential for collaboration with other groups.

April 24, 2012 - Show and Tell Session

Presenter Description of Talk
Max Neuvians Social-biblio.ca : An approach to Twitter data visualization, archiving, and the larger narrative.
Richard Akerman Richard Akerman and Mary Beth Baker are organizing a Reading Garden at the upcoming Canadian Library Association conference. They are seeking advice on how to provide wireless access. Anyone with ideas is encouraged to get in touch with them.
Warren Layton A quick demo of LibraryBox, a wireless filesharing device, which may have interesting applications in government and other libraries where IT restrictions can limit network use.


Code4lib North Meetups in Montreal

Status: Active

Purpose: To connect with other code4libbers in the area and start building a code4lib community in Montreal, Quebec. (blatantly copied from the Ottawa and Toronto groups)

For more information: Please email Clara Turp (clara.turp@mcgill.ca) for more information.

Slack Channel and Hashtag: #code4lib-mtl

Wiki page: Code4Lib_Montreal - check here for upcoming or past meeting information.


Who's interested in Code4Lib North?

Declare your interest in a Code4lib North chapter:

  • Erin Johnson, Western Libraries
  • Wendy Huot, Queen's University
  • Michael Vandenburg, Queen's University
  • William Denton, York University
  • John Fink, McMaster University
  • Nick Ruest, McMaster University
  • Walter Lewis, Halton Hills/OurOntario
  • Edward Corrado, Binghamton University (NY, USA)
  • Warren Layton, Library of Parliament (Ottawa)
  • Pascal Calarco, University of Notre Dame (IN, USA)
  • Rob Fox, University of Notre Dame (IN, USA)
  • Mita Williams, University of Windsor
  • John Fereira, Cornell University
  • MJ Suhonos, Toronto Public Library
  • Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University
  • David Fiander, University of Western Ontario
  • Peter Schlumpf, Avanti Library Systems
  • Roy Zimmer, Western Michigan University
  • Kimberly Silk, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto
  • Andrew Darby, Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)
  • Laura Harris, Grand Valley State University (western Michigan)
  • Tim Ribaric, Brock University
  • Sibyl Schaefer, University of Vermont
  • Peter Ellinger, Ontario Legislative Library, Toronto
  • Keith Jenkins, Cornell University
  • Patrick M. Lozeau
  • Mike Kreyche, Kent State University
  • Graham McCarthy, Ryerson University
  • John Miedema
  • Janey Chen, Ontario Legislative Library, Toronto
  • Rob McDonald, Carleton University
  • Amy Buckland, McGill University
  • Tricia Williams (pgwillia), Consultant/OurOntario
  • Mike Beccaria, Paul Smith's College (Paul Smiths, NY)
  • Amanda Etches-Johnson, McMaster University
  • Art Rhyno, University of Windsor
  • Mary Beth Baker, CIC (Ottawa)
  • Wayne Schneider, Hennepin County Library
  • Carol Serroul, CISTI
  • Graham Stewart, University of Toronto Libraries
  • Peter Zimmerman, University of Windsor
  • Margaret Kipp, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
  • Dan Scott, Laurentian University
  • Lawrence Wardroper (Courts Administration Services Library, Ottawa)
  • Matt McCollow, McMaster University
  • George Duimovich, NRCan Library (Ottawa)
  • Bobbi Fox, Harvard University Library (Massachusetts)
  • Dileshni Jayasinghe, OCUL, University of Toronto
  • Eric Palmitesta, OCUL, University of Toronto
  • Alexander O'Neill, Robertson Library, University of Prince Edward Island
  • Chris Beer, WGBH (Massachusetts)
  • Robin Isard, Algoma University (Sault Ste Marie ON)
  • Pat Moore, Carleton University (Ottawa ON)
  • Alan Harnum, Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University (Toronto ON)
  • Colin Prince, University of Toronto Libraries
  • Tom Keays, Syracuse University LIbrary (Syracuse, NY)
  • Chris Charles, University of Guelph (Guelph, ON)
  • John MacGillivray, Carleton University (Ottawa ON)
  • Lester Webb, Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Kingston ON)
  • Elizabeth Goldman, Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Kingston ON)
  • Jennifer O'Donnell, Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Kingston ON)
  • David Smith, Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Kingston ON)
  • Loren Fantin, Our Ontario,Knowledge Ontario
  • Daulton Theodore, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON)
  • Peter MacDonald, Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
  • Rebecca Larocque, North Bay Public Library (North Bay, ON)
  • Doris Rankin, Library and Information Management Consultant, Ottawa, ON
  • Diane Bédard, Learn Ontario & Our Ontario; Knowledge Ontario
  • Andre Vellino, CISTI / University of Ottawa
  • Mark Swartz, Queen's University
  • Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives (Cleveland, OH)
  • Pramila Thakur, Ontario Legislative Library, Toronto
  • Anthony Petryk, University of Ottawa
  • Jan Dawson, Ask Ontario, Knowledge Ontario
  • Glen Newton, Carleton University
  • Patrick McMaster, Leeds & the 1000 Islands, Rideau Lakes, and North Grenville Public Libraries
  • Nasser Saleh, Queen's University (Kingston ON)
  • Stéfan Sinclair, McMaster University
  • William J Turkel, University of Western Ontario
  • Shirley Lew, Vancouver Community College, (Vancouver BC)
  • Edward Bilodeau, McGill University
  • Andrew McAlorum, University of Toronto Libraries
  • Marc d'Avernas, Waterloo Region District School Board
  • Whitni Watkins, St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY)
  • Jess Whyte, University of Toronto

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