2017 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.

Committee Members

Norma Palomino - Primary Contact aka Chair
Your Name Here - Secondary Contact aka Co-Chair
Joshua Gomez - Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
Brian Rogers - Local Planning Contact (Chattanooga)
Your Name Here - Documentarian
Mark Sandford - Volunteer

Related Info

2017 Keynote Speaker Nominations

Meeting Minutes

Tuesday, October 4, kick-off meeting:

Attendees: Brian Rogers, Joshua Gomez, Mark Sandford, Norma Palomino, Selena Chau

Minute notes:

Process milestones: 1) Call for nominations from today (Oct 4th) until Friday, October 14th. 2) Poll from October 15 through October 21st. 3) Shortlist of candidates: by Friday, Oct 21st. Committee meets again.

Required materials:

Wiki page: http://wiki.code4lib.org/2017_Keynote_Speakers_Nominations
Diebold-o-Tron poll (Chris Beer, cabeer@stanford.edu)
Letters to nominees, samples: http://wiki.code4lib.org/Keynote_Committee_Duties#Initial_Nominee_Contact

Action items:

Norma to send the wiki page link to the listserv for people to nominate
Norma to warn Chris Beer about this upcoming poll
Norma to send a new Doodle poll to book a meeting the week of Oct 24 to go over the nominees list

Thursday, November 10, wrap-up meeting: