Tim McGeary wrote:
The Open Library Environment (OLE, pronounced oh-lay) Project invites
you to apply to participate in a two day Regional Design Workshop. The
purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for representatives of
local research libraries and related institutions to discuss our work
surrounding the current Integrated Library System and ideas on what this
type of core system should incorporate. Workshops are being held in a
variety of locations in the US over the next 2 months. For more
information and to find a location near you, go to:
http://oleproject.org/workshops.
That's quite a collection of workshops schedule. I've been interested
in the project since John Little first mentioned it here. On behalf of
the Spring 2008 JA-SIG conference committee I invited him (and he
accepted) to do a birds of a feather session at the conference. There
are some things that I am working on that I think may fit well with the
project (I was also a developer for a piece of Kuali Rice, so I know
some of the Indiana folks) but I can't really tell from the number of
workshops how the will inter-relate. Since there were a few dates where
there are simultaneous workshops in different cities it would seem to me
that some sort of video conference and a real time collaborative system
(we used Macromedia Breeze for the Kuali project with developers at
Cornell and Indiana) would be useful.
With the current economy I know that travel budgets are undergoing a lot
of scrutiny (I've even heard of a very large university system out west
that may be halting all business travel for awhile) attending even one
of the workshops may be problematic.
