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Welcome to code4lib Code4Lib BC! Begun in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas.

Begun You can find the public discussion channel on the Code4lib Slack in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas#c4lbc.

If you're interested in hosting, please [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mh8haGBziQHiBkG_0byNgIEPxWIsBjKAXOss0cE9fJs/edit?usp= sharing take a read over our Planner'''Code4lib BC Unconference 2016''' =s Guide].

== '''[https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2016-code4libbc-unconference-tickets-26429947685 Registration is now open]Eleventh Code4Lib BC Unconference 2026''' for Code4Lib BC's fourth annual unconference!==

* December 1 and 2Save the date! This year's C4LBC will be held in Vancouver, 2016BC, and hosted by Vancouver Public Library. * Dodson RoomThursday, Irving K. Barber Learning 26 November and Friday, 27 November Location: Library Square Conference Centre, UBC350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver BC* in the [https://www.eventbritevpl.ca/erentals/2016alice-code4libbcmackay-unconference-tickets-26429947685 Register nowroom Alice McKay Room] ($30 for both days)* . [https://maps.app.goo.gl/forms/YFrcIF4UpQRnj5eD3 Propose a lightning talk or breakout sessionMtUfLCKdoag7CFvA9 Map to get to Library Square].

The event will feature most often features lightning talks in the mornings, and breakout sessions in the afternoons, with coffee, tea and snacks provided. Lightning talks are brief presentations which are typically , 10-15 minutes in length minute presentations on topics related to library technologies. Breakout sessions are an opportunity to bring participants together in an ad hoc fashion for a short, yet sustained period of problem solving, software development and fun. If there is a neat project you're been working on, a cool new tool you want to show off, or an interesting development in the world of library technology that you want to discuss, Code4Lib BC is a great opportunity to share with the community - [https://goo.gl/forms/YFrcIF4UpQRnj5eD3 let us know about it]! '''What's included''': wifi, power, coffee/snacks '''What's NOT included/what to bring''': a laptop, lunch (on-campus options [http://www.food.ubc.ca/feed-me/ here] and [http://www.ams.ubc.ca/foodanddrink/ here]), your ideas and enthusiasm '''Hashtag''': #c4lbc '''Code of Conduct''': As a Code4Lib event, we adhere to the [http://bit.ly/coc4lib Code4Lib Code of Conduct], which seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment. === Program === Here's a partial list of talks and breakout sessions that have already been confirmed for this year's unconference. There are more to come - watch this space! ==== Lightning Talks ==== * MediaConch, video format validation for Archivematica (Sarah Romkey)* TechBC Memory Project metadata upgrade (Holly Hendrigan)* A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews (Daniel Sifton)* simple library apps with Google Apps Scripts (Terry Brady)* Defining Projects using Gherkin Syntax (Sara Allain)* UX design on research data site (Jessica Gallinger)* Islandora On This Day module (Mark Jordan)* Provincial Digital Library update (Daniel Sifton/Caroline Daniels)* ElasticSearch API: Using Aggregation Queries to Do Cool Stuff (Schuyler Lindberg)* Introduction to Docker (James Fournie)* Web Analytics with Piwik (Jonathan Schatz)* Getting Things Done: Understanding and Analyzing Workflow (Cynthia Ng)

* Intro '''What to SQL (Alex Garnett)* Awesome Excel tips (Trevor Smith)* PDL technologies Up Close (Daniel Sifton)* FOLIO (Andrew Nagy)* reSearcher bring''': your ideas and project sustainability* Intro to Git and GitHub for libraries (Sara Allain/Mark Jordan)* Using Islandora for Publishing XML (Michael Joyce)enthusiasm.

==== Thursday, December 1 ===={| class="wikitable"| 8:30 || Doors open|-| 9:00 || Welcome & Announcements|-| 9:15 || Lightning Talks* Provincial Digital Library Update (Daniel Sifton/Caroline Daniels)* Building Quick and Dirty Library Tools with Google Apps Script (Terry Brady)* Makerspaces and the Maker Community in the Lower Mainland (Maryann Kempthorne)* Web Analytics with Piwik (Jonathan Schatz)* TechBC Memory Project metadata upgrade (Holly Hendrigan)|-| 10'''Code of Conduct''':30 || Coffee break|-| 10:45 || Lightning TalksAs a Code4Lib event, cont'd* ElasticSearch API: Using Aggregation Queries we adhere to Do Cool Stuff (Schuyler Lindberg)* Getting Things Donethe [http: Understanding and Analyzing Workflow (Cynthia Ng)* Defining Projects using Gherkin Syntax (Sara Allain)|-| 11:30 || Lunch (On Your Own)|-| 1:00 || Breakout Sessions* Intro to git/github for libraries (Sara Allain/Mark Jordan)* PDL technologies up close (Daniel Sifton)|-| 2:30 || Break|-| 2:45 || Breakout Sessionsbit.ly/coc4lib Code4Lib Code of Conduct], cont'd* FOLIO (Andrew Nagy)* Digital Collections (Terry Brady)|which seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-| 4:00 || Breakout Reports|-| 5:00 || Social Event|}free environment.

===Registration and Call for Proposals = Friday, December 2 ===={| class="wikitable"| 8:30 || Doors open|-| 9:00 || Announcements|-| 9:15 || Lightning Talks* A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews (Daniel Sifton)* Introduction to Docker (James Fournie)* Makers Making Change (Harry Lew)* MediaConch: A Video Format Validation Tool for Archivematica (Sarah Romkey)|-| 10:30 || Coffee break|-| 10:45 || Lightning Talks, cont'd* A Single Page Web App to Inventory 900,000 Books! (Terry Brady)* UX Design of a Research Data Management Micro-site (Jessica Gallinger)* Islandora On This Day module (Mark Jordan)|-| 11:30 || Lunch (On Your Own)|-| 1:00 || Breakout Sessions* Needling The Haystack: An Introduction to SQL and Query Languages (Alex Garnett)* reSearcher (CUFTS/GODOT) and project sustainability|-| 2:30 || Break|-| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd* Using Islandora for Publishing XML (Michael Joyce)* Awesome Excel Tips (Trevor Smith)|-| 4:00 || Breakout Reports|-| 4:30 || End of Day|}

Comments or questions? Get in touch with We want to thank [https://www.vpl.ca/ Vancouver Public Library] for hosting us at c4lbc-organizers@googlegroups, and the [https://bc.libraries.comcoop/ BC Libraries Cooperative] for the continued administrative and fiscal support.

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