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Implementing or hacking an Open Source discovery system such as VuFind or Blacklight? Interested in learning more about Lucene/Solr applications?

Join the development teams from VuFind and Blacklight at PALINET in Philadelphia, November 6, 2008, for day of discussion and sharing. We hope to examine difficult issues in developing discovery systems, such as:

* ILS Connectivity
* Authority Control
* Data Importing
* User Interface Issues

Date and time: November 6, 2008, 9:00am to 4:00pm

Registration Fee: $40 for PALINET members and $50 for PALINET non-members.

For more information and how to register, visit our conference wiki:
http://opensourcediscovery.pbwiki.com

In your preparations for Software Freedom Day (9/20/08), don’t forget your official 2008 t-shirt.

Sales only open for another few days so get in soon! All proceeds go to supporting teams around the world with goodies for their events.

I’d love to hear if any libraries are planning a Software Freedom Day event on September 20th, 2008.

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business — in short, everywhere! The non-profit company Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their own communities.

If you didn’t know about the day and want to host an event at your library - check out the official page and register your event.

If you’re in the area and want to learn about open source, you might want to attend this event at the Cherry Hill Public Library hosted by the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative:

August 13: Tech Talk: All Grown Up: Open Source for Libraries:

“Open Source” - a term you may have heard thrown about at conferences and on mailing lists - but what does it mean? This session will not only define the term “Open Source” but will show librarians exactly how it can be used within their libraries.

Learn to separate the myths from the facts, learn about the tools that are available to your libraries and most importantly learn about how open source can free you from the costs associated with many proprietary library products. Click here for complete details and registration form.

If you can’t make this one, check out my presentation schedule to see other classes I’m offering on open source.

PLA is coming upon us very quickly! I just wanted to let you all know that I’ll be there probably at the booth most of the time - so stop by and see me. I also want to bring your attention to the Koha Interest Group meeting that we’re holding.

Time and Place
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location: Hyatt Regency Minneapolis (Greenway Ballroom on the 2nd floor)
Street: 1300 Nicollet Mall
City/Town:Minneapolis, MN

You can join the event on Facebook or see more information on the LibLime site.

I hope to see some of you there and meet some new people

PS. I still have more Code4Lib summaries to write up - keep an eye out!!