Islandoracon registration reminder (and Call for Proposals)

[Arca Office]

Hi all,

Just in case you haven’t seen the messages floating about on various online channels, the biannual Islandora Conference is happening this October 7-11 in Vancouver, hosted by SFU at the Harbour Centre. The last two have been in Charlottetown, PEI and Hamilton, ON, so this is a great opportunity to attend an Islandora conference closer to home.

Early bird registration is open until July: https://islandora.ca/camps/islandoracon2019

And if you’ve anything you’d like to speak about, the call for proposals has been extended to April 26. Their theme is right up our alley in Arca and across BC:

We are seeking presentations that highlight collaboration and connections
within our community, with other open source communities, and with the
stakeholders we serve; presentations that deal with managing change, both
as a challenge and as an opportunity; and sessions that present new ways to
change and innovate with Islandora. Sessions should be roughly 30 minutes
(with time for questions).

If you’ve got a proposal to submit, you can do so here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1R8UPd51pgHoPhwUR9hBJHIfv8wc2-7PuaVzEi4C8s54

If you have ideas but aren’t sure if they would be appropriate for submission, please send me a note and I’d be happy to chat with you about it. (Or just submit it anyway — the worst that could happen is that it’s not accepted!)

Cheers,

Brandon Weigel
Arca Administrative Centre
BC Electronic Library Network
Email: arcao...@bceln.ca
Phone: 604.401.1794

Visit the Arca digital repositories: https://arcabc.ca

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From: Islandora Community <comm...@ISLANDORA.CA>

Subject: [CODE4LIB] Islandoracon Call for Proposals: EXTENDED!

Date: April 22, 2019 at 9:43:15 AM EDT

To: <CODE...@LISTS.CLIR.ORG>

Reply-To: Code for Libraries <CODE...@LISTS.CLIR.ORG>

Looking forward to Islandoracon this October? Have something great to share
with the Islandora community? You're got some extra time to write up a
proposal and send it in! The Islandora Call for Proposals deadline has been
extended from April 19th to April 26th.

Proposals may be submitted here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1R8UPd51pgHoPhwUR9hBJHIfv8wc2-7PuaVzEi4C8s54

Speakers will have access to a discounted Speakers Rate for registration.

This year will mark the third time that the Islandora community has come
together for our every-other-year weeklong conference, Islandoracon.
October 7th - 11th, in downtown Vancouver, Islandoracon will consist of a
day of in-depth "pre-conference" workshops, two days of regular main
conference sessions, a day of multi-track 90-minute workshops, and a
closing hackfest event where we can work together on projects to improve
our shared platform.

The theme of this year's conference is "Collaborate. CHANGE. Connect."
"CHANGE" is capitalized because our community is collectively facing the
need to manage major changes in the tools and platforms that make our own
Islandora platform work. Connecting and collaborating with others in open
source is our best method to manage those changes, not just as hundreds of
individual Islandora users, but as a community moving together.

We are seeking presentations that highlight collaboration and connections
within our community, with other open source communities, and with the
stakeholders we serve; presentations that deal with managing change, both
as a challenge and as an opportunity; and sessions that present new ways to
change and innovate with Islandora. Sessions should be roughly 30 minutes
(with time for questions).

For more information about the event, or to register, please visit
https://islandora.ca/camps/islandoracon2019

Thank you,

Islandoracon Planning Committee

[Brandon Weigel]

Hi all,

Just a reminder that registration is still open for Islandoracon, running October 7-11 in downtown Vancouver: https://islandora.ca/camps/islandoracon2019

Early bird registration has passed, but it's still open at regular rates.

If you wish to come for just one day, single-day registration opens on Monday, August 19. The rate will be $149 per day.

Cheers,

Brandon Weigel

https://arcabc.ca