MediaShelf

I’ve posted my last videos to the Code4Lib & Dev8D 2010 channel on Vimeo. (NB: the Dev8D responses are all on YouTube, not Vimeo).  We only had a half day on Thursday but I managed to run around and gather enough video for one montage of hello messages and three mini-interviews. I convinced Thursday’s emcee [...]

It’s extremely gratifying to attend a conference where super smart presenters don’t shy away from showing real code.  It’s even better to be at a conference where the presenters manage to show complex code while making it understandable even to people who don’t use the related systems.  Every presenter today has managed to do that [...]

Media, Blacklight, and Viewers Like You Chris Beer from WGBH (Boston’s Public Television; producers of Nova, Julia Child, etc.) walked us through the inner workings of the new WGBH website that runs on Blacklight, Fedora, and LightHTTPD.  Without getting bogged down in the details, he touched on many of the technical and organizational challenges they [...]

We had intended to do live streaming chats on ustream, but as it turns out, that is too much of a strain on the wifi here in Asheville.  As a result, I’ve set up a channel on vimeo titled Code4Lib & Dev8D 2010.  Our first video is up there now. Hello to Dev8D from Code4Lib from [...]

The first day of Code4Lib has drawn to a close.  The irc channel was flooded with raucous banter and twitter was very active as well.  In the evening, one person who had only followed the tweets commented to me that “people at this conference are very polite”.  I jokingly assured her that all of the [...]

Today is the day for Code4Lib pre-conferences.  Things are already roaring ahead.  A couple of items have jumped to the foreground that might not be obvious to new arrivals or to people watching from afar. Code4Lib Twitter List There is a code4lib twitter list.  This is an aggregation of all of the tweets by people [...]

In order to take advantage of the fact that Code4Lib and Dev8D are happening simultaneously this year, we’re going to try to facilitate a bit of Transatlantic crosstalk. After all, how could thousands of miles, five time zones and a couple trillion gallons of water keep developers apart? Nerdy enthusiasm knows no boundaries. With these [...]

In early 2009, I chanced upon becoming the only person to attend both Dev8D in London and Code4Lib 2009 in Providence, Rhode Island. While at Code4Lib, I had every intention of posting a comparison of the two conferences, but eventually decided that nobody would care to hear about it.  The blog post sat unfinished for a [...]

This week the University of Prince Edward Island hosted the second installment of Red Island Repository Institute (RIRI).  Participants came from North America and Europe to get a week-long intensive immersion in all things Fedora.  The institute is organized by Mark Leggott and the team at UPEI who created Islandora, a plugin that integrates Fedora [...]

Leading up to this year’s Open Repositories, it became clear that there was demand for a BOF (Birds of Feather) session focused on agile languages and Fedora. I pitched the idea in an email to a couple colleagues beforehand and then announced the BOF at my presentation on Monday morning. Rather than constricting it to Fedora, I billed it as Agile Languages and Repositories. About 30 people showed up. We all exchanged info and I set up some new collaboration email lists.