If you're driving to Corvallis for the conference and you'll have leftover space in your vehicle, please consider adding your name, email, point of origin (presumably Portland or Eugene airport), number of empty seats, and estimated time of departure to and from Corvallis below.

This will make it easier for financially constrained individuals like myself to score a cheap ride. ;)

Vote for the Code4lib 2006 presentations!

Please log in to participate in voting!

You may choose up to 11 proposals.

Voting closes at January 9th 11PM EST.

The 11 proposals with the most votes win. In case of a tie, we will have a "run off" election tomorrow, January 10th at 5PM - 11PM EST.

I will be deleting all votes cast before 5PM EST unless you specifically tell me that you have to vote early. So, be sure to tell me. Seriously. Send an email to ross.singer@library.gatech.edu.

Happy voting!

I would find it helpful if usernames on the www.code4lib.org website were hyperlinked to a profile for that user. I'm thinking in terms of the content available in the "view" and "contact" tabs of the user account. Naturally, the "edit" and probably the "track" tabs should either be disabled or better yet, not show up at all. This access might be restricted to other registered users... or not. I realize...

People interested in the same project/problem can hang out in a space together for 60-90 minute blocks. Somebody near to the project/problem can coordinate discussion, set up hackers, tackle a challenge session topic, etc. Larger groups will get separate space, smaller groups can just spread out in the larger conference room space.

If you have an idea for a breakout topic, you can add it here. (See below the fold for the current list of suggestions.)

The deadline for proposing a talk has been extended one week to Jan. 9. We've already got several very cool proposals but more is better, and there's plenty of room for spillover in the lightning sessions and breakouts.

To submit, read this first and then follow these instructions. Especially the 75-words-max part.

If you have a blog please consider adding a playing card to your site:

• http://www.code4lib.org/cards/code4lib1.png
  
• http://www.code4lib.org/cards/code4lib2.png
  

You can use the following HTML:

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<img src="http://code4lib.org/cards/code4lib1.png" 
  border="0" 
  alt="code4lib" 
  title="code4lib"/>
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Feel free to use the images directly from code4lib.org if you don't want to go through the effort of grabbing them. This will allow us to secretly discover your site by trawling our logs.

The code4lib planet aggregator has been given a facelift, and some new feeds have been added. If would like to have your blog aggregated please drop in irc, email the list or send a private email to ehs at pobox dot com.

Folks on the IRC channel #code4lib have geographically constrained themselves via the following map interface:

http://www.frappr.com/code4lib/

Feel free to add yourself in too!

Registration for Code4lib 2006 is OPEN Register early for a discount. Don't hesitate, or wait, or be late...register today!

suds4lib

So, code4lib'rs, what beer/s would you recommend?

• ph0rman: Guinness draught. Although, since moving to Seattle I'd go with Rogue Kells (tasty!)
• edsu: local stuff: last time I was in Corvallis I remember enjoying a pint or two of Rip Curl
• dchud: Deschutes Black Butte Porter.
• doran: Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale and Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA