Code4Lib 2020 Conference Committees
Code4Lib 2020 Conference Committees
Hosting a conference is incredibly complex, and it cannot be done without the help of the entire community. If you are interested in being an awesome person and applying your skills to a particular part of the Code4Lib 2020 conference, create an account on this wiki and sign-up for one or more of the groups below (please provide a contact). Each committee must have a Primary Contact (chair), Secondary Contact (co-chair), and Documentarian (secretary). The role of the Documentarian is to transcribe key information to future conference committees, such as timelines, costs, process, etc. Feel free to improve the summary statements for each of the committees. When adding your name, please indicate 'v' if you are a veteran on the committee so that we ensure committees are not made up entirely of newbies.
We will assign a local contact (LPC) to each committee.
Location and Dates
- Location: The Westin Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, PA
- Dates: March 08 (pre-con) - 22, 2020
- Pre-conferences: March 08, 2020
- Main meeting: March 09-11, 2020
- Post conference activities: Coming Soon
Local Planning Committee
This committee is charged with running the show such as overall timeline, budgeting, coordinating of locations and logistics, wrangler of committees, and communicating with the community.
- Ken Rose, Carnegie Mellon University - Chair, Primary Contact
- Jason Glenn, Carnegie Mellon University - Tertiary Contact
- Ann Marie Mesco, Carnegie Mellon University - Tertiary Contact
- Julia Corrin, Carnegie Mellon University - Tertiary Contact
- Dominique Luster, Carnegie Museum of Art - Tertiary Contact
- Gesina Phillips, University of Pittsburgh - Tertiary Contact
- Shannon Riffe, Carnegie Mellon University - Tertiary Contact
- Rashid Siddiqui, Carnegie Mellon University - Tertiary Contact
- Matthew Strauss, Heinz History Center - Tertiary Contact
- Molly Tighe, Chatham University - Tertiary Contact
- Tyrica Terry Kapral, University of Pittsburgh - Tertiary Contact
- Angelina R Spotts, Carnegie Mellon University - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
Website Working Group
This group will focus on content strategy (in collaboration with the Documentation Committee) and feature implementations to improve the overall user experience for users (i.e., on-site and remote attendees, speakers, potential sponsors, post-conference users).
2020 Website Working Group Documents
- Eric Phetteplace - Primary Contact aka Chair
- Julia Caffrey (newbie) - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Kaitlin Newson (v) - Volunteer
- Ranti Junus (v) - Volunteer
- Tom Keays - Volunteer
- Kelly Hiser (newbie) - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
Budget Committee
This group will focus on making sure we are appropriately planning for budgetary issues.
2020 Budget and Sponsorship Documents
- Hank Sway - Primary Contact AKA Chair (veteran of 2018)
- Galen Charlton - Secondary Contact and Co-Chair (veteran of 2017 and 2018)
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Galen Charlton - Documentarian (veteran of 2017 and 2018)
- Bethany Nowviskie - ex officio, fiscal host (CLIR/DLF)
Sponsorship Committee
This group involves working with the LPC and budget committee to close any budget gaps and talking to potential sponsors to find the level that is right for them.
2020 Budget and Sponsorship Documents
- Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
- Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
Keynote Committee
This group will: gather nominations from Code4Lib community; contact nominees to confirm their willingness and availability; collect bios from the available nominees and add them to the Diebold-o-Tron; support the voting process; work with the community's top nominees to schedule their keynotes; and collaborate with other committees and the community to ensure everything is communicated appropriately and logistical matters are given suitable attention.
- Dominique Luster, Carnegie Museum of Art - Primary Contact aka Chair
- Wladimir Labeikovsky, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair (newbie)
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Annapurni Subramaniam,Purdue University - Volunteer
- Clara Turp, McGill University - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
Pre-conference Committee
This committee plans the pre-conference day. It keeps strong lines of communications open with the Program Committee. It also helps shepherd events on the day itself.
- Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Tod Olson (v) - Volunteer
- Mike Taylor - Volunteer
- Kathleen Haley (v) - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
Program Committee
This committee plans the structure of the program, arranges the voting on presentations, etc. This includes soliciting regular talks. These folks will also manage the flow of the program at the conference -- introducing speakers or soliciting other volunteers to MC. Committee membership will be capped at 10 members.
- Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
- Gesina Phillips University of Pittsburgh - Local Planning Contact
- Lilly Ho - Volunteer
- Dre - Volunteer
- Julia Marden Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Documentarian? (new!)
- Matt Sherman - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
- Cary Gordon, Cherry Hill Company - Volunteer
Scholarship Committee
This committee works with funding institutions to arrange the scholarships offered. They solicit submissions and select winners of the scholarship(s). They also work with the winners to plan their travel and arrangements.
- Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Mairelys Lemus-Rojas - Volunteer
- Yoo Young Lee - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - (Volunteer)
T-Shirt Committee
This committee organizes the t-shirt contest, collecting submissions, and putting out the call for votes. This committee is also responsible for helping the local planning committee identify a vendor that will fit within the budget constraints for the conference. User sizes and preferences will be obtained as part of the registration process.
- Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
- Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Rashid Siddiqui Carnegie Mellon University - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
Onsite Volunteer Committee
This committee wrangles people to volunteer for the following duties:
Looking for opportunities to help out at the conference? See 2020 Conference Volunteers
2020 Onsite Volunteer Documents
- Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka (Co-)Chair
- Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Jennifer Cummings & Kathy Azevedo - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
Social Activities Committee
This committee works closely with the local programming committee in organizing events outside of conference hours. This committee is in charge of organizing the Newcomer Dinner (traditionally held the night before the first day of the main conference) as well as ensuring that there is a variety of different events to cater to different interests (alcoholic/non-alcoholic, carnivore/vegan, mainstream/niche, and everything in between).
Social Activities Documents (Members Only)
Conference goers - The page you are looking for is coming soon... 2020 Social Activities
- Dominique Luster, Carnegie Museum of Art - Co-Chair
- Becky Yoose - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
Streaming Video Committee
With the local program committee(as appropriate), organize the streaming and archiving of presentations at the conference. This could include securing A/V equipment, working with the conference venue w/r/t AV needs, choosing streaming and archiving providers, post-production editing and posting of videos, securing speaker releases for recording talks (?), and, of course, actually running the camera during the conference.
2020 Streaming Video Documents
- Peter Murray - Chair (note: what Cary doesn't have, I have.... ;-) )
- Roy Tennant - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Jennifer Cummings - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Cary Gordon, Cherry Hill Company - Volunteer (note: I have most needed equipment.)
- Li Fu, U.S. Naval Academy - Volunteer
Code4Lib 2021 Host Voting Committee
This committee organizes the call for hosts for the next annual code4lib conference as well as the voting process.
- Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
- Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
Book Giveaway Committee
This committee solicits free copies of books from various publishers or free keys/copies of programs from various companies (for example, free private repo from Github or license for oXygen). They also handle the raffle at the conference (with a randomizer to do the drawing of names).
- Julie C. Swierczek - Primary Contact aka Chair
- Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
IRC and Slack Committee
Coordinate with freenode to ensure that the #code4lib IRC & Slack channels can handle the extra traffic during the conference. Also responsible for recruiting and advertising IRC helpers at the conference.
- Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
- Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
Accessibility Committee
Document and address major points of the conference that are not accessible for conference attendees (physical and virtual).
- Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
- Your Name Here - Volunteer
Whatever Committee
Not a committee per se. This is a list of people who are willing to help the above committees with various tasks.
- Rebecca Holloway - Primary Contact aka Chair
- Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
- Your Name Here - Local Planning Contact
- Your Name Here - Documentarian
- Your Name Here - Volunteer