jake (and other free software) goings on at ALA Chicago

[Daniel Chudnov]

(pardon x-posts)


For folks heading to Chicago, be on the lookout for all things jake and
library software of the free variety.  Among the opportunities to hear
more/chat with developers/schooze with other jake/OSDLS/Avanti/OSCR users
will be the following:

o MARS hot topic session, Sat 7/8 (am):
  (see http://www.nd.edu/~crichter/mars/hot_topics.html)

  Kimberly Parker, Donna Stevenson, and I will be speaking at this
jake-specific session along with many interested others.


o Practical Solutions for Libraries: Open Source Software, Sat 7/8 (pm):
  (more details at http://oss4lib.org)

  LITA's OSSIG is hosting this exciting half-day session, featuring a
keynote from Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly & Associates (everybody's fave tech
publisher :), along with talks by Peter Schlumpf on Avanti, Jeremy Frumkin
on OSCR and OSDLS, and myself on jake.


o O'Reilly & Associates has _very_ graciously offered space at their booth
in the ALA exhibit hall for several of us oss4lib types (including those
mentioned above) to show off our various projects.  Look for their booth
and stop by to say hi; we're going to do our best to keep our part of the
booth manned through the whole weekend.  Maybe next year we'll get some
tote bags made. :^p


This is all very cool and (to speak for others, whom I expect would agree)
we're very much looking forward to meeting as many folks as possible.  If
you're interested in any of these projects and how you might use them in
your library, or how you might get involved to help make them better, or
what free software is all about in general, this is a great opportunity
for you to find out more.

Please feel free to pass this message around to other lists and your
friends and enemies.  The more the schmoozier. :)


  Hope to see you in Chicago,
 
  -Dan


Daniel Chudnov
Systems Architect
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Yale University School of Medicine
(203) 785-4347