Category Archives: event

Community discussions 2

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

It’s been a funny few weeks, with Easter meaning that various people have been out-and-about at various times, but as always, the community never rests… Following on from Community Discussions (1), here are the latest goings-on to raise your interest … Continue reading →

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Day 3 of the March Sprint

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

This morning we were buzzing from the Meet-up, excited about the interesting people we met and the cool things they talked about. Graham Steel, who was in town for yesterday’s event, stopped by to see what the team was up … Continue reading →

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#OpenDataEDB: the results

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Last night was the first OKFN Meet-Up in Scotland* at the Ghillie Dhu, Edinburgh, run in collaboration with DevCSI. 19 people attended from around the city and nearby, including Glasgow, and those visiting for the Open Biblio Sprint represented Cambridge, … Continue reading →

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Day 2 of the March Sprint

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Today started well: Berkeley and PubMed contacted us about running a BibServer, which is great! It was also a day of comings and goings: Etienne arrived to code with Mark, Richard Jones of Cottage Labs dropped by to play around … Continue reading →

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Day 1 of the March Sprint

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Agendas are funny things; you have an idea of what you want to do, you write a few bullet-points to focus it a little and you presume things will naturally lead on from one thing to the next… Well, not … Continue reading →

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March Sprint and Meet-up

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

There will be a coding and planning sprint for the project team in Edinburgh on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th March, with tying-up of loose ends on Wednesday 14th for those still around. Following on from the productivity of January’s … Continue reading →

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Sprint videos

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Last week’s sprint produced more than just parsers, game-plans and blog posts (Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3): it also allowed Peter and Naomi to stretch their directorial wings and produce some video blogs to record what we were … Continue reading →

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Thursday 19th January – Open Biblio Sprint: Day 3

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Today we were joined by additional members of the OKFN team from various parts of the world – Ira, Sam and Primavera. Then the fun began… Sam and Mark discussed the interface between Open Biblio and the TEXTUS project, looking … Continue reading →

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Wednesday 18th January – Open Biblio Sprint: Day 2

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

BibServer took precedence this morning, with Etienne, Ed and Mark continuing to develop the BibServer parsers… By March we want people to be able to download and run their own instance of the Server, or to provide a service whereby … Continue reading →

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Tuesday 17th January – Open Biblio Sprint: Day 1

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Today Etienne, Ed, Rufus, Mark, Peter and I met up to start the first sprint of the new year. We began by clarifying the purpose of the sprint, today’s agenda and the project overall. We stated our aims as follows: … Continue reading →

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