Administrative Stuff

[Sara Allain]

Hi all,

Some administrative things:

1. Does anyone object if I make the discussion forums publicly accessible?
2. Myself, Danielle Robichaud, Sarah Simpkin and Mari Vihuri are meeting up on Friday to talk about some ideas we have for the group. This is very informal and not meant to be prescriptive at all - we just thought, since we're all free, that it would be nice to hammer out a Welcome Message for the group page and to tentatively begin to plan some events around this idea. If anyone else is interested in coming, we'll be meeting on the UofT campus at 4:30pm for about an hour and a half - email me if you want to join. Everything that we discuss will be brought back to the larger group for feedback!
3. While meeting above is planned for face-to-face, I think all future meetings should take place via Google Hangouts/Skype/whatever. Feedback on preferred technologies much appreciated.
4. Since this came together on Twitter, it seems appropriate to have a hashtag. We started out with #librarieslearningcode but that's too long! #libcode? As far as I can tell, it's pretty much unused.

Sara

[Sarah Simpkin]

No objections from me to making the forum public -- happy to hear from more folks though!

Just wanted to emphasize that I'm delighted we're doing this online, and that I'm so excited to work with all of you. 

On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:29:45 UTC-4, Sara Allain wrote:

Hi all,

Some administrative things:

1. Does anyone object if I make the discussion forums publicly accessible?
2. Myself, Danielle Robichaud, Sarah Simpkin and Mari Vihuri are meeting up on Friday to talk about some ideas we have for the group. This is very informal and not meant to be prescriptive at all - we just thought, since we're all free, that it would be nice to hammer out a Welcome Message for the group page and to tentatively begin to plan some events around this idea. If anyone else is interested in coming, we'll be meeting on the UofT campus at 4:30pm for about an hour and a half - email me if you want to join. Everything that we discuss will be brought back to the larger group for feedback!
3. While meeting above is planned for face-to-face, I think all future meetings should take place via Google Hangouts/Skype/whatever. Feedback on preferred technologies much appreciated.

Sara

[Andromeda Yelton]

appear.in is my new favorite video chat. (No login required; Firefox/Chrome only.)

Past a certain point video chat doesn't work; irc and etherpad are better.

Andromeda Yelton

LITA Board of Directors, Director-at-Large, 2013-2016

http://andromedayelton.com

@ThatAndromeda

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Sara Allain <sara.j...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

Some administrative things:

1. Does anyone object if I make the discussion forums publicly accessible?
2. Myself, Danielle Robichaud, Sarah Simpkin and Mari Vihuri are meeting up on Friday to talk about some ideas we have for the group. This is very informal and not meant to be prescriptive at all - we just thought, since we're all free, that it would be nice to hammer out a Welcome Message for the group page and to tentatively begin to plan some events around this idea. If anyone else is interested in coming, we'll be meeting on the UofT campus at 4:30pm for about an hour and a half - email me if you want to join. Everything that we discuss will be brought back to the larger group for feedback!
3. While meeting above is planned for face-to-face, I think all future meetings should take place via Google Hangouts/Skype/whatever. Feedback on preferred technologies much appreciated.

Sara

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[Sara Allain]

Agreed. Vid chat can be such a pain in the butt. Will keep in mind as we talk about the idea of an online hangout!

Thanks :)

On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 5:01:37 PM UTC-4, Andromeda Yelton wrote:

appear.in is my new favorite video chat. (No login required; Firefox/Chrome only.)

Past a certain point video chat doesn't work; irc and etherpad are better.

Andromeda Yelton

LITA Board of Directors, Director-at-Large, 2013-2016

http://andromedayelton.com

@ThatAndromeda

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Sara Allain wrote:

Hi all,

Some administrative things:

1. Does anyone object if I make the discussion forums publicly accessible?
2. Myself, Danielle Robichaud, Sarah Simpkin and Mari Vihuri are meeting up on Friday to talk about some ideas we have for the group. This is very informal and not meant to be prescriptive at all - we just thought, since we're all free, that it would be nice to hammer out a Welcome Message for the group page and to tentatively begin to plan some events around this idea. If anyone else is interested in coming, we'll be meeting on the UofT campus at 4:30pm for about an hour and a half - email me if you want to join. Everything that we discuss will be brought back to the larger group for feedback!
3. While meeting above is planned for face-to-face, I think all future meetings should take place via Google Hangouts/Skype/whatever. Feedback on preferred technologies much appreciated.

Sara

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[JR H]

I'm also hanging out in the #libcode IRC room on freenode....

[Thomas Guignard]

No objections for me either. Can't make it tomorrow night, but looking forward to read what you've been up to.

+1 on a text-based group chat solution for many different reasons. Easier to refer back to. Easier on people for whom English is not their first language. Applicable in situations where silence is required (eg library workspaces).

t.

On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 4:29:45 PM UTC-4, Sara Allain wrote:

Hi all,

Some administrative things:

1. Does anyone object if I make the discussion forums publicly accessible?
2. Myself, Danielle Robichaud, Sarah Simpkin and Mari Vihuri are meeting up on Friday to talk about some ideas we have for the group. This is very informal and not meant to be prescriptive at all - we just thought, since we're all free, that it would be nice to hammer out a Welcome Message for the group page and to tentatively begin to plan some events around this idea. If anyone else is interested in coming, we'll be meeting on the UofT campus at 4:30pm for about an hour and a half - email me if you want to join. Everything that we discuss will be brought back to the larger group for feedback!
3. While meeting above is planned for face-to-face, I think all future meetings should take place via Google Hangouts/Skype/whatever. Feedback on preferred technologies much appreciated.

1. Since this came together on Twitter, it seems appropriate to have a hashtag. We started out with #librarieslearningcode but that's too long! #libcode? As far as I can tell, it's pretty much unused.

Sara

[Sara Allain]

All really excellent points, thanks Thomas! I'm leaning towards maybe something like #libchat on twitter, but focused on (obviously) code/programming/dev/all the other things we're talking about. Whatever we do, I think it's probably got to be in the evenings (for those who don't have the flexibility to step away from their work) and casual (so that people with kids/other responsibilities can pop in as they have time). Making sure it's all text-based is a really good idea; maybe ensuring that things are storified/twarc-ed/etc. for later access.

Thanks again for your insight!

Sara

[Sara Allain]

Hi everyone!

On Friday, Mari Vihuri (Scholars Portal), Sarah Simpkin (U of Ottawa), Danielle Robichaud (UofT St Mike's College), and I met to talk about a shared vision for what this group might become. We all agreed that we wanted to have it grow organically. However, in these heady early days, we wanted to ensure that some structure was put in place to address and support various concerns/areas for improvement surrounding tech in GLAM. You can read the full notes from our first meeting here. (Thanks Mari!)

Three highlights:

1. A lot of great concepts, like "collaborative", "inclusive", and "safe" came up in our discussion - it was very nearly the first thing we talked about. These ideas are all things that we firmly believe must be the core of this group, and they will be incorporated into the Welcome Message for this group.
   
2. As an extension of our strong feelings about inclusivity and making this a safe space - and especially in light of the fact that the four of us represent just a narrow aspect of the library community as white cis women - we unanimously agreed that a Code of Conduct - one that we, the aforementioned moderators, will personally hold ourselves responsible for upholding - would be established and posted within the Welcome Message for the group.
3. One of the things that we all agreed on as an area of focus for this group was in curriculum development. We think that there is a strong community focus on how we learn within GLAM professions, as well as what we learn. Therefore, we strongly invite community participants who have engaged in training for librarians to participate in the group and in the adjacent dialogue about curriculum development (and any other discussion, of course).

We also discussed a few event-type things that we'd like to try out. The first is to take the #libchat model - a guided twitter conversation - and focus it on the technology/systems issues that the group is interested in. I'll be planning this and unrolling it soon for more feedback.

The second event-type thing we considered was a panel at next year's OLA (Ontario Library Association) Superconference (we all happen to work in Ontario). Mari is taking the lead on this and will have more information about our plan soon. If you are in Ontario, have a interest in attending OLA, and would like to be a panellist, please contact Mari via the Members page.

Cheers,

Sara