Please add Keynote speaker nomination using the template below. See [https://wiki.code4lib.org/2025_Keynote_Speakers_Nominations 2025 Keynote Speakers Nominations[2026_Scholarship_Documents|2026 Scholarship Committee Documents]] as example.
Keynote speaker nominations for the Code4Lib The 2026 Conference will be accepted through October 24, 2025Scholarship Committee used this timeline to track tasks and deadlines. Committee members signed up for tasks based on interest and capacity.
If you would like {| class="wikitable"|-! Task / milestone! Date(s) ! Notes! Team|-| Call for committee volunteers| 10/2026|| ALL|-| Initial committee meetings| 10/??/2025| | ALL as available|-| Finalize the number of scholarship recipient seats to nominate anonymouslyhold for registration| 11/without Code4Lib wiki account12/2025|| Chair|-| Finalize call for applications & application format| 11/24/2025|| |-| Put out call for applications| 11/26/2025 and 01/??/2026| Includes identifying channels, you can send email communities, organizations to [mailto:msl321@lehigh.edu Maccabee Levine] and he target||-|-| Review evaluation rubric| 11/24/2025| ||-| Application deadline| 01/16/2026|||-| Confirm application receipt| | Applicants will add receive a confirmation when submitting the nominee to this pageform. ||__TOC__|-| Review & rate applications individually==Kate Deibel==| 01/16/2026 - 01/30/2026Katherine | "KateIndividually" Deibel has had a varied career as in academia working within and across many disciplineseach committee member| ALL|-| Committee meeting to discuss applications, including computer science, education, disability, comics, digital literacies, and libraries. After transitioning in her first year of graduate school, she earned her PhD in computer science and engineering at choose recipients| 02/02/2026| Committee will communicate via email during the University of Washington in 2011 with review but will set up a multidisciplinary study meeting if needed| ALL - multiple meetings if needed or send written feedback|-| ''Finalize number of the social and technological factors that hinder adoption available scholarships; notify LPC of reading technologies among adults with dyslexia. As an ardent advocate for usable and accessible technologies, she works and educates registration spots to ensure that library technologies are effective tools for both library patrons and staff. Having worked in library technologies at the University of Washington and Syracuse University Librariesrelease''| || ''Budget & sponsorship committees''|-| Notify recipients, she now is the systems librarian at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicinewaitlisted, spearheading their adoption of open library systems such as FOLIO and VuFind.non-recipients; ask recipients for confirmation [https:| 02/02/www.dropbox.com2026|| |-| Recipients confirm participation| 02/scl09/fi2026|||-| Follow up with waitlisted applicants| 02/xs3p6vfnjkx5h9gw2f4sz10/deibel2026|||-cv.pdf?rlkey=5428wdpyauvmpvmtelqlqy89r&e=1&dl=0 CV]| Announce awardeesEmail contact information [mailto:katherine.deibel@gmail.com]| 03/2026| Announced at conference==Analee Newitz==| |-Annalee Newitz is a science journalist who also writes science fiction. They are the author of several books, including Automatic Noodle, | Recruit conference buddies| ??/??/2026| Send an instant USA Today bestseller, The Terraformers, which was nominated for the Nebula Award, email awardees and Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age. They have listserv to recruit||-| Send a monthly column in New Scientist magazine, and are reminder for the cobuddy program| ??/??/2026| ||-host of the Hugo| Match awardees with conference buddies| ??/??/2026| Assume ongoing basis -winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. (from Website)some awardees may change their minds or people may volunteer late|Newitz was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 2002 to 2003, supporting them |-| Travel & housing planning| | A Very Informative Email like logistics| |-| Coordinate with CONCENTRA: awardee names & contact email| | Rolling as a research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[8] From 2004 to 2005 Newitz was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and from 2007 to 2009 was on the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. confirmations come in| |-| Coordinate with conference MC(from Wikipedias): scholarship winners recognition, name pronunciation| [https:| | |-| Conference guide /social stuff email| || ALL|-| Conference!| 03/www.techsploitation.com02/2026-03/05/ Website]2026[https:|||-| Group lunch| ??/??/en.wikipedia.org2026|||- | Lessons learned| ??/wiki??/Annalee_Newitz Wikipedia]2026|Email contact information [mailto:annalee@gmail.com]| ALL|-==FirstName LastName==| Post-conference feedback| ??/??/2026Description of the person | Create & send survey, review feedback| (100 words or lesssurvey & email), ALL (review feedback)|-[https:| Documentation| ??/??/wiki.code4lib.org2026| Share committee documents & participant feedback with other committees and/2026_Keynote_Speakers_Nominations Relevant websites, if any]or post on wiki as appropriate| Email contact information [mailto:someone@example.com someone@example.com]|-|}