If you are interested in awesome European conferences, it's probably hard to beat Cycling For Libraries.
http://www.cyclingforlibraries.org Multiple rides this year, with the main conference being from Montpellier-Lyon and anther group doing rides in the Batlic ( https://www.facebook.com/events/433696566736171/ ) best,chris. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Edward M. Corrado <ecorr...@ecorrado.us>wrote: > I'm for Italy, but if Giulio is correct that the Open Source development in > Italy is a small group, one can look towards France as am alternative. > There is a lot of activity there, at least in the Koha world. > > Edward > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Giulio Bonanome <giu...@comperio.it> > wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > +1 for the idea :) > > > > But for my experience there are not enough people in Italy :( I mean, > > there are few companies actively involved in (open) development of > software > > for libraries and even a smaller group of developers inside libraries. > > Like Raffaele said there's a list dedicated to libraries and wikipedia. > > Last october it was organized an event ( Bibliohackathon < > > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/Biblioteche/ > > Bibliohackathon/Firenze,_26_ottobre_2013>) were I expected a lot of dev > > and didn't see too much :( > > Also, in Italy there was an event called SoftXBIB during the annual > > conference Stelline <www.convegnostelline.it/home.php>, but in recent > > years no longer been organized for lack of interest. > > > > As far as I know there would be roughly 10-15 interested people for the > > entire nation. > > > > Cheers > > Giulio > > > > > > -- > > Giulio Bonanome > > @ Comperio Srl | http://www.comperio.it > > Phone: +39 0425 471482 > > FAX: +39 0425 1662008 > > Mail: supp...@comperiosrl.zendesk.com <mailto:support@comperiosrl. > > zendesk.com> > > Support: http://comperiosrl.zendesk.com/ > > >