GreatEastern

Welcome to Code4Lib Great Eastern, the chapter for the Atlantic Provinces! We're trying to create opportunities and connections for the Atlantic Provinces and neighbouring areas.

Our First Meet Up

We hope you'll join us for our first Code4Lib Great Eastern meet up!

When and Where

May 26 & 27, 2012
Killam Memorial Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS
contact: Krista Godfrey kgodfrey@mun.ca

Details

As our meet up follows the annual APLA conference, we'll be switching things around our first time. Presentations will be on Saturday with the Hackfest following on Sunday. More details about the day and location to come.
We're aiming for no cost to attend - stayed tuned.
We're aiming for around 30 people for our first meet up. To sign up for the event, go to http://code4libge.eventbrite.com

Presentations

Presentations will be 20 minutes. Have a presentation? Please share your topic below or contact Krista. Have a lightening talk (5 min. talk, max of 4 for the day), please share it here and note it as a lightening talk.

Presentation Topics:
CodeYear: what's the deal? (Lightening talk) - Krista Godfrey, MUN
Chat Software: IM VS SMS - Crystal Rose, MUN. We use Meebo for our "Ask Us" chat service, but we're currently evaluating other products. I'd love to hear about your library's experience with chat. What are you using? Love it, hate it, or meh?

Hackfest

Share your Hackfest ideas here!

Interested?

Let us know! Post your name here so we can get an idea of general interest in this group.

Krista Godfrey, Memorial University of Newfoundland