Re: [CODE4LIB] Communications — conference and otherwise

[Katherine Deibel]

Just one thing to consider in regards to Google Docs: accessibility. 
Google Docs are a bit notorious for being accessible (to screen readers) 
one week and not the next. To be fair, ChromeVox usually works with 
them, but very few people use ChromeVox at all.

A practical approach would be to go with Google Docs but include a "If 
you have trouble editing the Google Doc file, please contact X."


Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist
Information Technology Services
University of Washington Libraries
http://staff.washington.edu/deibel

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"When Thor shows up, it's always deus ex machina."

On 2015-02-17 11:14 AM, Becky Yoose wrote:
Cary,

I can speak to the signup for the Newcomer Dinner signup - previous years
had the signup on the wiki, but this year we decided to try something
different for the signup that didn't require an additional account to sign
up. This should have given Ryan a bit of a break with people requesting
wiki accounts last minute to sign up for the dinner. The link to the Google
Doc was posted in the wiki, under the Newcomer dinner entry. Communications
to the list and users have linked to the wiki page (though I do count one
communication to the group that I directly linked to the Google Doc).

If folks did not like the Google Docs setup for the dinners this year,
please let me know and I can always bring the signups back to the wiki for
future dinners. Again, it was an experiment for this year :c)

I cannot speak for the Eventbrite pages, but my understanding that
Eventbrite came with DLF handling registration finances this year.

Thanks,
Becky

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Cary Gordon <listu...@chillco.com> wrote:

This really speaks to the c4l who’s-in-charge-here / nobody is in charge /
take the ball and run with it zeitgeist.

We have one person — Ryan Wick — who carries most of the load for the
website and the wiki. I don’t think that he, or anyone else, takes
responsibility for organizing the content. From here,it looks like
everything is a mix of tradition and fire prevention. Accordingly, this
year we had:

— The conference web pages on code4lib.org
— The usual assortment of pages on wiki.code4lib.org
— The newcomer dinner page on Google Docs
— Stuff on Eventbrite

Resulting in a mix of the usual symptoms:

— No single place to find stuff
— Conflicting information
— Not clear editorial policy

So, what do we do, and who is this “we," anyhow?

The conference organizers have control, in theory, but I think that they
are understandably loath to mess with the traditional mix. There is no
place for them to ask a question and get a single, cogent, authoritative
answer.

Code4lib itself isn’t really a thing, just an us, and we have been loath
to form standing committees, although we have done that after a fashion for
scholarships and the Journal. I think that the time has come for a Code4lib
communications task force —I love that name — to address the structure of
our public-facing resources. Any takers.

In lieu of blessings from an executive structure, the task force can do
something with pasta to confirm its authority.

Any takers?

Thanks,

Cary

On Feb 13, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Heller, Margaret <mhell...@luc.edu> wrote:

I think Sarah is absolutely right that we should have updated the
conference information page with information about streaming, as I don't
think most people not attending the conference would think to look at the
wiki. Even if everyone forgot to do it during the conference that's a note
to the future to remember to do it during the conference, and I've edited
the page at http://code4lib.org/conference/2015 to give the link to the
YouTube channel.

And thanks so much video team!

Margaret Heller
Digital Services Librarian
Loyola University Chicago
773-508-2686

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On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Francis Kayiwa <kay...@pobox.com>
wrote:


Planning these things is tough work with numerous moving parts. Could
it have been posted once we were underway? Perhaps. That said there
was 450 odd people who were there none of whom (the author included)
thought to send a message on availability of video to this listserv.
(I know for certain it was tweeted and re-tweeted)



I see what you are saying. I realize that logistics are tricky. I would
have probably missed a mailing list message if it had come last minute. And
I wasn't checking Twitter in a timely manner for updates on a conference I
wasn't attending and therefore wasn't all that aware of the exact timing
of. (Perhaps this is a great time to bump that librarians list to a more
visible position in my Twitter feed...)

And I should say that I'm glad that there is video to watch at all and
grateful to the volunteer videographers that made it happen.