Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib Hotel
Hi Francis, I was able to make a reservation at the conference rate, but it looks like the conference rate isn't available on the night of February 14. Although spending the night in the conference hotel on Valentine's Day isn't romantic to me, I was curious if there's any possibility that the conference rate would be available for that night as well. Thanks again. You're doing a heck of a job. Mark On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu wrote: Thanks for your patience. While the management assures us that they have increased the block I would ask (unlike the conference there isn't as big a rush to get a hotel room :-)) you attempt tomorrow so that this local decision bubbles up to their hotel registration software. (This is my speculation) Otherwise you may have to pick up the phone and speak with a human. Please attempt to register tomorrow and should you fail shoot me a note at firstname.lastn...@gmail.com Again apologies for the inconvenience and thanks for the patience. Cheers, ./fxk -- With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm?
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib Hotel
Hi Mark, In previous situations like yours that I've been in, I've found that if you call the front desk of the hotel (not the reservation line or whatever, the actual front desk of the actual hotel -- don't let them transfer you!) they're usually happy to extend your stay at the conference rate. Worth a shot, anyway. -dre. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Mark A. Matienzo mark.matie...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Francis, I was able to make a reservation at the conference rate, but it looks like the conference rate isn't available on the night of February 14. Although spending the night in the conference hotel on Valentine's Day isn't romantic to me, I was curious if there's any possibility that the conference rate would be available for that night as well. Thanks again. You're doing a heck of a job. Mark On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu wrote: Thanks for your patience. While the management assures us that they have increased the block I would ask (unlike the conference there isn't as big a rush to get a hotel room :-)) you attempt tomorrow so that this local decision bubbles up to their hotel registration software. (This is my speculation) Otherwise you may have to pick up the phone and speak with a human. Please attempt to register tomorrow and should you fail shoot me a note at firstname.lastn...@gmail.com Again apologies for the inconvenience and thanks for the patience. Cheers, ./fxk -- With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm?
Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal
Yes, that's a good place to start. Once you have git installed and link it up to your github account, you can follow the same Contribute steps that are on the README of the anti-harassment policy: 1.) Fork the codebase e.g. to https://github.com/your-username/issue-manager 2.) Clone your fork locally (git clone g...@github.com:your-username/issue-manager.git my-antiharassment-policy) 3.) Create a branch to hold your changes (git checkout -b my-changes) 4.) Commit the changes you've made (git commit -am Some descriptive text around what you've added) 5.) Push your branch to github (git push origin my-changes) Once you do that, we can test it out for you before merging. -Shaun On 12/4/12 5:45 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: I'd check out the links under Bootcamp here: https://help.github.com/ On 12/4/2012 5:18 PM, Mark Pernotto wrote: As I'm clearly not well-versed in the goings-on of GitHub, I've 'forked' a response, but am not sure it worked correctly. I've zipped up and sent updates to Tom. If anyone could point me in the direction of a good GitHub tutorial (for contributing to projects such as these - the 'creating an account' part I think I have down), I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Mark On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: Let's have mine be the canonical version for now. It will be too confusing to have two versions that don't have an explicit fork relationship. https://github.com/tomkeays/issue-manager Tom On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Beat me by one minute Tom! And here it is in code4lib github https://github.com/code4lib/IssueManager On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote: You can upload it to your account and then someone with admin rights to Code4Lib can fork it if they think our Code4Lib Journal custom code should be a repo there. Doesn't really matter if they do actually. I think for debugging, it's best to point folks to the actual code the journal is running, which was forked from the official one on the Codex, right? It was written for the Journal and originally kept in a Google Code repo (this is before Github became the de facto). After the author left the journal, he did a couple of updates which he uploaded to the WP Codex, but nothing for a few years. Anyway, here it is: https://github.com/tomkeays/issue-manager -- Shaun D. Ellis Digital Library Interface Developer Firestone Library, Princeton University voice: 609.258.1698 | sha...@princeton.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib Hotel
Hi everyone, not sure if it's just me, but I still didn't get the conference rate to show up when trying to reserve online through the links provided on the Code4Lib site or in emails, but I've used the hotel's chat service and am able to make it that way. and just an fyi...the last night, Thursday Feb.14th was not included at the conference rate, but they've made a separate reservation at the regular rate (mine was $155/night). thanks, and looking forward to my first Code4Lib!! heidi Heidi Frank Electronic Resources Special Formats Cataloger New York University Libraries Knowledge Access Resources Management Services 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003 212-998-2499 (office) 212-995-4366 (fax) h...@nyu.edu Skype: hfrank71 On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote: Hi Mark, In previous situations like yours that I've been in, I've found that if you call the front desk of the hotel (not the reservation line or whatever, the actual front desk of the actual hotel -- don't let them transfer you!) they're usually happy to extend your stay at the conference rate. Worth a shot, anyway. -dre. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Mark A. Matienzo mark.matie...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Francis, I was able to make a reservation at the conference rate, but it looks like the conference rate isn't available on the night of February 14. Although spending the night in the conference hotel on Valentine's Day isn't romantic to me, I was curious if there's any possibility that the conference rate would be available for that night as well. Thanks again. You're doing a heck of a job. Mark On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu wrote: Thanks for your patience. While the management assures us that they have increased the block I would ask (unlike the conference there isn't as big a rush to get a hotel room :-)) you attempt tomorrow so that this local decision bubbles up to their hotel registration software. (This is my speculation) Otherwise you may have to pick up the phone and speak with a human. Please attempt to register tomorrow and should you fail shoot me a note at firstname.lastn...@gmail.com Again apologies for the inconvenience and thanks for the patience. Cheers, ./fxk -- With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm?
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib Hotel
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:14:28AM -0500, Mark A. Matienzo wrote: Hi Francis, I was able to make a reservation at the conference rate, but it looks like the conference rate isn't available on the night of February 14. Although spending the night in the conference hotel on Valentine's Day isn't romantic to me, I was curious if there's any possibility that the conference rate would be available for that night as well. You seem to be suggesting Chicago is not a Romantic destination. To that I say BOOO! We have... 'er We have... hey our city occasionally smells like Chocolate [0] No harm in asking this. Would be cool if there are others (many birds and one stone to stand up and be counted) Also for you Mark shoot your conf. number to firstname.lastn...@gmail.com Cheers, ./fxk [0] http://www.wbez.org/series/dynamic-range/blommer-where-???-bridges-smell-chocolate???-101620 Thanks again. You're doing a heck of a job. Mark On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu wrote: Thanks for your patience. While the management assures us that they have increased the block I would ask (unlike the conference there isn't as big a rush to get a hotel room :-)) you attempt tomorrow so that this local decision bubbles up to their hotel registration software. (This is my speculation) Otherwise you may have to pick up the phone and speak with a human. Please attempt to register tomorrow and should you fail shoot me a note at firstname.lastn...@gmail.com Again apologies for the inconvenience and thanks for the patience. Cheers, ./fxk -- With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm? -- With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm?
Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal
Jonathan/Shaun, Thanks for the direction. I've followed the steps suggested, I think. Please let me know if you have any questions or don't see anything. Thanks, Mark On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote: Yes, that's a good place to start. Once you have git installed and link it up to your github account, you can follow the same Contribute steps that are on the README of the anti-harassment policy: 1.) Fork the codebase e.g. to https://github.com/your-username/issue-manager 2.) Clone your fork locally (git clone g...@github.com:your-username/issue-manager.git my-antiharassment-policy) 3.) Create a branch to hold your changes (git checkout -b my-changes) 4.) Commit the changes you've made (git commit -am Some descriptive text around what you've added) 5.) Push your branch to github (git push origin my-changes) Once you do that, we can test it out for you before merging. -Shaun On 12/4/12 5:45 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: I'd check out the links under Bootcamp here: https://help.github.com/ On 12/4/2012 5:18 PM, Mark Pernotto wrote: As I'm clearly not well-versed in the goings-on of GitHub, I've 'forked' a response, but am not sure it worked correctly. I've zipped up and sent updates to Tom. If anyone could point me in the direction of a good GitHub tutorial (for contributing to projects such as these - the 'creating an account' part I think I have down), I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Mark On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: Let's have mine be the canonical version for now. It will be too confusing to have two versions that don't have an explicit fork relationship. https://github.com/tomkeays/issue-manager Tom On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Beat me by one minute Tom! And here it is in code4lib github https://github.com/code4lib/IssueManager On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote: You can upload it to your account and then someone with admin rights to Code4Lib can fork it if they think our Code4Lib Journal custom code should be a repo there. Doesn't really matter if they do actually. I think for debugging, it's best to point folks to the actual code the journal is running, which was forked from the official one on the Codex, right? It was written for the Journal and originally kept in a Google Code repo (this is before Github became the de facto). After the author left the journal, he did a couple of updates which he uploaded to the WP Codex, but nothing for a few years. Anyway, here it is: https://github.com/tomkeays/issue-manager -- Shaun D. Ellis Digital Library Interface Developer Firestone Library, Princeton University voice: 609.258.1698 | sha...@princeton.edu
[CODE4LIB] LC Class to OCLC Conspectus hash table? Anyone?
Sam, did you manage to massage the conspectus into a friendly format? I find myself in need of doing the same thing. On Jul 11, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Sam Kome wrote: From: Sam Kome Sam_Kome_at_nyob Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:19:13 + To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU Bueller? We'll work with http://www.oclc.org/collectionanalysis/support/conspectus.xls unless there's something more rdbms/api friendly. Thanks! Sam Kome | RD Librarian |The Claremont Colleges Library Claremont University Consortium |800 N. Dartmouth Ave |Claremont, CA 91711 Phone (909) 621-8866 |Fax (909) 621-8517 |sam_kome_at_cuc.claremont.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Senior Software Developer at GWU
You might have seen this come through here overnight: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/4888/ That's us, we're hiring at GW Libraries. You may wonder: what makes this position different from others like it? Wonder no longer... Five reasons to work at GW Libraries as a software developer 1. Competitive salary (commensurate with experience) with an annual opportunity for merit increases, and a benefits package including a tuition discount for employees and their family members. We encourage use of the tuition discount and offer scheduling flexibility. I'm finishing my second full class now and am registered for a third class next term. 2. Foggy Bottom in DC offers all the perks of a bustling downtown location - great restaurants, cultural venues, landmarks, and an international vibe. I run into the Obamas all the time. Well, I bike past their house regularly... and sometimes am delayed by motorcades. Still. 3. Formal approval from university administration to release software with a free software license. Almost everything we do is on github: https://github.com/gwu-libraries 4. This position is a member of our Library Council (an HR designation akin to a tenure-like system). As such you would be eligible for additional benefits such as a paid sabbatical. 5. We need you and are ready for you. Our team is growing, taking on more work, and still establishing best practices, so it's a great time to join us as an experienced developer. Thanks for reading. Please consider applying! https://www.gwu.jobs/postings/12663 (go here to apply) -Dan p.s. we have several other jobs open now; seven total, to be precise: http://library.gwu.edu/about/organization/jobs/librarian
[CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Datahttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summaryhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary is easy to read version of the above -- its the summary I wrote about the results. Included is a brief intro, charts (from above), and a summary of the results. Let the discussion begin, Rosalyn P.S. Much thanks to Karen Coyle for reviewing the summary for me before I sent it out. Also if there are any typos or grammar mistakes, please blame my friend Abigail who behaved as my editor.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Senior Software Developer at GWU
And you get a chance to work with many of us...the GW team already in code4lib: Josh Gomez, Rosy Metz, Laura Wrubel, Jackie Shieh, etc. Karim Boughida kbough...@gmail.com bough...@gwu.edu On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Daniel Chudnov daniel.chud...@gmail.com wrote: You might have seen this come through here overnight: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/4888/ That's us, we're hiring at GW Libraries. You may wonder: what makes this position different from others like it? Wonder no longer... Five reasons to work at GW Libraries as a software developer 1. Competitive salary (commensurate with experience) with an annual opportunity for merit increases, and a benefits package including a tuition discount for employees and their family members. We encourage use of the tuition discount and offer scheduling flexibility. I'm finishing my second full class now and am registered for a third class next term. 2. Foggy Bottom in DC offers all the perks of a bustling downtown location - great restaurants, cultural venues, landmarks, and an international vibe. I run into the Obamas all the time. Well, I bike past their house regularly... and sometimes am delayed by motorcades. Still. 3. Formal approval from university administration to release software with a free software license. Almost everything we do is on github: https://github.com/gwu-libraries 4. This position is a member of our Library Council (an HR designation akin to a tenure-like system). As such you would be eligible for additional benefits such as a paid sabbatical. 5. We need you and are ready for you. Our team is growing, taking on more work, and still establishing best practices, so it's a great time to join us as an experienced developer. Thanks for reading. Please consider applying! https://www.gwu.jobs/postings/12663 (go here to apply) -Dan p.s. we have several other jobs open now; seven total, to be precise: http://library.gwu.edu/about/organization/jobs/librarian
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Datahttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summaryhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary is easy to read version of the above -- its the summary I wrote about the results. Included is a brief intro, charts (from above), and a summary of the results. Let the discussion begin, Rosalyn P.S. Much thanks to Karen Coyle for reviewing the summary for me before I sent it out. Also if there are any typos or grammar mistakes, please blame my friend Abigail who behaved as my editor.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
Ross, I totally get what you're saying, I thought of all of that too, but according to everything I was reading through, the likelihood that the survey's results are a fluke is extremely low. Its actually the reason I put information in the write up about the sample size (378), population size (2,250), response rate (16.8%), confidence level (95%), and confidence interval (+/- 4.6%). Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Data https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summary https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary is easy to read version of the above -- its the summary I wrote about the results. Included is a brief intro, charts (from above), and a summary of the results. Let the discussion begin, Rosalyn P.S. Much thanks to Karen Coyle for reviewing the summary for me before I sent it out. Also if there are any typos or grammar mistakes, please blame my friend Abigail who behaved as my editor.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
Hmm, it's quite possible you know more about statistics than me, but... Usually equations for calculating confidence level are based on the assumption of a random sample, not a volunteering self-selected sample. If you have a self-selected sample, then the equations for how likely is this to be a fluke are only accurate if your self-selected sample is representative; and there aren't really any equations that can tell you how likely your self-selected sample is to be representative, it depends on the circumstances (which is why for the statistical equations to be completely valid, you need a random sample). Is my understanding. On 12/5/2012 2:18 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: Ross, I totally get what you're saying, I thought of all of that too, but according to everything I was reading through, the likelihood that the survey's results are a fluke is extremely low. Its actually the reason I put information in the write up about the sample size (378), population size (2,250), response rate (16.8%), confidence level (95%), and confidence interval (+/- 4.6%). Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Data https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summary https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary is easy to read version of the above -- its the summary I wrote about the results. Included is a brief intro, charts (from above), and a summary of the results. Let the discussion begin, Rosalyn P.S. Much thanks to Karen Coyle for reviewing the summary for me before I sent it out. Also if there are any typos or grammar mistakes, please blame my friend Abigail who behaved as my editor.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
Right, what I'm saying is that this survey is subject to response bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response_bias - It also occurs in situations of voluntary response, such as phone-in polls, where the people who care enough to call are not necessarily a statistically representative sample of the actual population), which doesn't render it irrelevant, it just can't, by itself, be declared representative of the non-participating community's demographics. My point here isn't that it's not representative, it's that we can't know because the subject matter of the survey (which is about gender inequality, esp. among females) inherently produces statistical bias. -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hmm, it's quite possible you know more about statistics than me, but... Usually equations for calculating confidence level are based on the assumption of a random sample, not a volunteering self-selected sample. If you have a self-selected sample, then the equations for how likely is this to be a fluke are only accurate if your self-selected sample is representative; and there aren't really any equations that can tell you how likely your self-selected sample is to be representative, it depends on the circumstances (which is why for the statistical equations to be completely valid, you need a random sample). Is my understanding. On 12/5/2012 2:18 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: Ross, I totally get what you're saying, I thought of all of that too, but according to everything I was reading through, the likelihood that the survey's results are a fluke is extremely low. Its actually the reason I put information in the write up about the sample size (378), population size (2,250), response rate (16.8%), confidence level (95%), and confidence interval (+/- 4.6%). Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Data https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summary https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary is easy to read version of the above -- its the summary I wrote about the results. Included is a brief intro, charts (from above), and a summary of the results. Let the discussion begin, Rosalyn P.S. Much thanks to Karen Coyle for reviewing the summary for me before I sent it out. Also if there are any typos or grammar mistakes, please blame my friend Abigail who behaved as my editor.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
delurking from all the gender-related threads That was my understanding as well. I would at least like to see the limitations of the survey addressed in the document, such as response and selection biases, at least for those folks who may not be familiar with the existence of such biases. Interesting numbers, yes. Statistically significant? I think the biases need to be considered for answering this one. /delurk Thanks, Becky, survey non-respondent On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hmm, it's quite possible you know more about statistics than me, but... Usually equations for calculating confidence level are based on the assumption of a random sample, not a volunteering self-selected sample. If you have a self-selected sample, then the equations for how likely is this to be a fluke are only accurate if your self-selected sample is representative; and there aren't really any equations that can tell you how likely your self-selected sample is to be representative, it depends on the circumstances (which is why for the statistical equations to be completely valid, you need a random sample). Is my understanding. On 12/5/2012 2:18 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: Ross, I totally get what you're saying, I thought of all of that too, but according to everything I was reading through, the likelihood that the survey's results are a fluke is extremely low. Its actually the reason I put information in the write up about the sample size (378), population size (2,250), response rate (16.8%), confidence level (95%), and confidence interval (+/- 4.6%). Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Data https://docs.google.com/**spreadsheet/ccc?key=** 0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1N**mo0akNhZlVDTlEhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summary https://docs.google.com/**document/d/1Hbofh63-** 5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juq**GLQ1E/edithttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary is easy to read version of the above -- its the summary I wrote about the results. Included is a brief intro, charts (from above), and a summary of the results. Let the discussion begin, Rosalyn P.S. Much thanks to Karen Coyle for reviewing the summary for me before I sent it out. Also if there are any typos or grammar mistakes, please blame my friend Abigail who behaved as my editor.
[CODE4LIB] C4L13 Pre-Conference Sign Up Call for Volunteers
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
I just want to say BIG thanks to Rosalyn for running this survey and putting together the summary for all of us to view. The most interesting part to me was that 22 % (female) and 14. 8 % (male) of people bothered to take the survey even though they identified themselves as not a member of the community. Wondering what that really means... ~Bohyun From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Becky Yoose [b.yo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 2:39 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results delurking from all the gender-related threads That was my understanding as well. I would at least like to see the limitations of the survey addressed in the document, such as response and selection biases, at least for those folks who may not be familiar with the existence of such biases. Interesting numbers, yes. Statistically significant? I think the biases need to be considered for answering this one. /delurk Thanks, Becky, survey non-respondent On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hmm, it's quite possible you know more about statistics than me, but... Usually equations for calculating confidence level are based on the assumption of a random sample, not a volunteering self-selected sample. If you have a self-selected sample, then the equations for how likely is this to be a fluke are only accurate if your self-selected sample is representative; and there aren't really any equations that can tell you how likely your self-selected sample is to be representative, it depends on the circumstances (which is why for the statistical equations to be completely valid, you need a random sample). Is my understanding. On 12/5/2012 2:18 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: Ross, I totally get what you're saying, I thought of all of that too, but according to everything I was reading through, the likelihood that the survey's results are a fluke is extremely low. Its actually the reason I put information in the write up about the sample size (378), population size (2,250), response rate (16.8%), confidence level (95%), and confidence interval (+/- 4.6%). Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Data https://docs.google.com/**spreadsheet/ccc?key=** 0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1N**mo0akNhZlVDTlEhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summary https://docs.google.com/**document/d/1Hbofh63-** 5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juq**GLQ1E/edithttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary is easy to read version of the above -- its the summary I wrote about the results. Included is a brief intro, charts (from above), and a summary of the results. Let the discussion begin, Rosalyn P.S. Much thanks to Karen Coyle for reviewing the summary for me before I sent it out. Also if there are any typos or grammar mistakes, please blame my friend Abigail who behaved as my editor.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
Thanks Bohyun! I also thought the most revealing information was in male and female responses regarding whether or not they felt they were part of the community. Regardless of whether or not there is sampling bias, I think that its showing us some trends we shouldn't dismiss. Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Bohyun Kim k...@fiu.edu wrote: I just want to say BIG thanks to Rosalyn for running this survey and putting together the summary for all of us to view. The most interesting part to me was that 22 % (female) and 14. 8 % (male) of people bothered to take the survey even though they identified themselves as not a member of the community. Wondering what that really means... ~Bohyun From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Becky Yoose [b.yo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 2:39 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results delurking from all the gender-related threads That was my understanding as well. I would at least like to see the limitations of the survey addressed in the document, such as response and selection biases, at least for those folks who may not be familiar with the existence of such biases. Interesting numbers, yes. Statistically significant? I think the biases need to be considered for answering this one. /delurk Thanks, Becky, survey non-respondent On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hmm, it's quite possible you know more about statistics than me, but... Usually equations for calculating confidence level are based on the assumption of a random sample, not a volunteering self-selected sample. If you have a self-selected sample, then the equations for how likely is this to be a fluke are only accurate if your self-selected sample is representative; and there aren't really any equations that can tell you how likely your self-selected sample is to be representative, it depends on the circumstances (which is why for the statistical equations to be completely valid, you need a random sample). Is my understanding. On 12/5/2012 2:18 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: Ross, I totally get what you're saying, I thought of all of that too, but according to everything I was reading through, the likelihood that the survey's results are a fluke is extremely low. Its actually the reason I put information in the write up about the sample size (378), population size (2,250), response rate (16.8%), confidence level (95%), and confidence interval (+/- 4.6%). Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Data https://docs.google.com/**spreadsheet/ccc?key=** 0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1N**mo0akNhZlVDTlE https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summary https://docs.google.com/**document/d/1Hbofh63-** 5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juq**GLQ1E/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary is easy to read version of the above -- its the summary I wrote about the results. Included is a brief intro, charts (from above), and a summary of the
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
I'd been staying out of this discussion, but the thought occurs to me that someone with access to the list of subscribers might run that against a list of traditional boy/girl names, and be able to make some guesses…. On Dec 5, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Hmm, it's quite possible you know more about statistics than me, but... Usually equations for calculating confidence level are based on the assumption of a random sample, not a volunteering self-selected sample. If you have a self-selected sample, then the equations for how likely is this to be a fluke are only accurate if your self-selected sample is representative; and there aren't really any equations that can tell you how likely your self-selected sample is to be representative, it depends on the circumstances (which is why for the statistical equations to be completely valid, you need a random sample). Is my understanding. On 12/5/2012 2:18 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: Ross, I totally get what you're saying, I thought of all of that too, but according to everything I was reading through, the likelihood that the survey's results are a fluke is extremely low. Its actually the reason I put information in the write up about the sample size (378), population size (2,250), response rate (16.8%), confidence level (95%), and confidence interval (+/- 4.6%). Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Data https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summary https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary is easy to read version of the above -- its the summary I wrote about the results. Included is a brief intro, charts (from above), and a summary of the results. Let the discussion begin, Rosalyn P.S. Much thanks to Karen Coyle for reviewing the summary for me before I sent it out. Also if there are any typos or grammar mistakes, please blame my friend Abigail who behaved as my editor.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
Which, if I read you right, Ross, is you're saying the results were overly optimistic in terms of % of women on c4l list. I, too, thought it sounded higher than I would have expected. I looked to see if the subscriber list is available, but couldn't find it. That would have its own problems, of course, but could be a way to get a second opinion on the numbers. However, I think if we can get over the need to quantify we can probably agree that quality-wise, more participation from women is a good thing. More participation from women would be more representative of the field of librarianship and also of the general population. I saw a report recently that said that more than 60% of library users (and I think this was US public libraries) are women, which is higher than the general population. And unless we believe that there are no differences between men and women, that would lead one to conclude that it's important for library services to be both male and female friendly. Which to me means that we need to have men and women working together to design all aspects of the library's public face. kc p.s. Like Bohyun, I found the number of respondents that do NOT consider themselves part of the community to be intriguing. On 12/5/12 11:31 AM, Ross Singer wrote: Right, what I'm saying is that this survey is subject to response bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response_bias - It also occurs in situations of voluntary response, such as phone-in polls, where the people who care enough to call are not necessarily a statistically representative sample of the actual population), which doesn't render it irrelevant, it just can't, by itself, be declared representative of the non-participating community's demographics. My point here isn't that it's not representative, it's that we can't know because the subject matter of the survey (which is about gender inequality, esp. among females) inherently produces statistical bias. -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hmm, it's quite possible you know more about statistics than me, but... Usually equations for calculating confidence level are based on the assumption of a random sample, not a volunteering self-selected sample. If you have a self-selected sample, then the equations for how likely is this to be a fluke are only accurate if your self-selected sample is representative; and there aren't really any equations that can tell you how likely your self-selected sample is to be representative, it depends on the circumstances (which is why for the statistical equations to be completely valid, you need a random sample). Is my understanding. On 12/5/2012 2:18 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: Ross, I totally get what you're saying, I thought of all of that too, but according to everything I was reading through, the likelihood that the survey's results are a fluke is extremely low. Its actually the reason I put information in the write up about the sample size (378), population size (2,250), response rate (16.8%), confidence level (95%), and confidence interval (+/- 4.6%). Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Data https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summary https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
For me this unofficially confirms what many unofficially suspect, which is the gender distribution of presenters at Code4LibCon does not reflect the gender distribution of the community. The interesting thing is that the Code4Lib community is (unofficially) more balanced than most tech communities (code in name = tech), which is, to me, a very good thing. Cary On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Bohyun Kim k...@fiu.edu wrote: I just want to say BIG thanks to Rosalyn for running this survey and putting together the summary for all of us to view. The most interesting part to me was that 22 % (female) and 14. 8 % (male) of people bothered to take the survey even though they identified themselves as not a member of the community. Wondering what that really means... ~Bohyun From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Becky Yoose [b.yo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 2:39 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results delurking from all the gender-related threads That was my understanding as well. I would at least like to see the limitations of the survey addressed in the document, such as response and selection biases, at least for those folks who may not be familiar with the existence of such biases. Interesting numbers, yes. Statistically significant? I think the biases need to be considered for answering this one. /delurk Thanks, Becky, survey non-respondent On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hmm, it's quite possible you know more about statistics than me, but... Usually equations for calculating confidence level are based on the assumption of a random sample, not a volunteering self-selected sample. If you have a self-selected sample, then the equations for how likely is this to be a fluke are only accurate if your self-selected sample is representative; and there aren't really any equations that can tell you how likely your self-selected sample is to be representative, it depends on the circumstances (which is why for the statistical equations to be completely valid, you need a random sample). Is my understanding. On 12/5/2012 2:18 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: Ross, I totally get what you're saying, I thought of all of that too, but according to everything I was reading through, the likelihood that the survey's results are a fluke is extremely low. Its actually the reason I put information in the write up about the sample size (378), population size (2,250), response rate (16.8%), confidence level (95%), and confidence interval (+/- 4.6%). Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Data https://docs.google.com/**spreadsheet/ccc?key=** 0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1N**mo0akNhZlVDTlEhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summary https://docs.google.com/**document/d/1Hbofh63-** 5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juq**GLQ1E/edithttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary is easy to read version of the above -- its the summary I wrote about the results. Included is a brief intro, charts (from above), and a summary of the results. Let the discussion begin,
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
I filled out the form and submitted my answers (male, not part of the community) before seeing I can call myself part of the community according to Ross's example Are you part of the community questions. But that's just me :) On 5-12-2012 20:56, Bohyun Kim wrote: I just want to say BIG thanks to Rosalyn for running this survey and putting together the summary for all of us to view. The most interesting part to me was that 22 % (female) and 14. 8 % (male) of people bothered to take the survey even though they identified themselves as not a member of the community. Wondering what that really means... ~Bohyun
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i think ross only brought up this point to see if i could still maintain the pretty formatting in addition to adding something extra to the summary. well ross challenge accepted and met. so :P On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Data https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summary https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbofh63-5F9MWEk8y8C83heOkNodttASWF5juqGLQ1E/edit Gender Survey Summary is easy to read version of the above -- its the summary I wrote about the results. Included is a brief intro, charts (from above), and a summary of the results. Let the discussion begin, Rosalyn P.S. Much thanks to Karen Coyle for reviewing the summary for me before I sent it out. Also if there are any typos or grammar mistakes, please blame my friend Abigail who behaved as my editor.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
Sara Amato sam...@willamette.edu On Dec 5, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Hmm, it's quite possible you know more about statistics than me, but... Usually equations for calculating confidence level are based on the assumption of a random sample, not a volunteering self-selected sample. I'd been staying out of this discussion, but the thought occurs to me that someone with access to the list of subscribers might run that against a list of traditional boy/girl names, and be able to make some guesses…. With my (rather dusty through lack of formal use) stats grad hat on, I'd say Jonathan Rochkind is correct: the assumptions behind those calculations are violated. http://www.jerrydallal.com/LHSP/ci.htm explains more about confidence intervals, but the usual calculations require independent random sampling. (LHSP was a good web book and may be worth a read if you want help with stats, but it seems that there won't be any more web editions for now, thanks to the evil Kindle system. If only it were FOSS.) What happened here is sometimes called a Self-selected Listener Online Poll, like the radio stations or newspapers do, and it's not random. It may still be informative, but I'd not suggest the calculated confidence intervals are valid. Guessing from the names may be informative - especially about how many people use forms that aren't easily identifiable in that way - but I think the usual approach would be to use random numbers to draw a sample from the subscribers and just ask those the detailed questions. Then you could work out a CI and so on in the usual way. Some years ago, I wrote more about surveying at http://people.debian.org/~mjr/surveys.html#advice if you want overkill. Some links are stale at the moment. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/
[CODE4LIB] Hotel registration using an alias
If this is any one of you do let us know so you can get the LIB rate. We are near certain we have everyone but these two people are registered for the exact time as the Conference but I'm not seeing them on the Conf. Attendees. Jan Walls James Eric or (Eric James) Antonio Barrera Cheers, ./fxk -- With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm?
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On 06/12/12 09:05, Sara Amato wrote: I'd been staying out of this discussion, but the thought occurs to me that someone with access to the list of subscribers might run that against a list of traditional boy/girl names, and be able to make some guesses…. That idea runs into problems both with non-western names (there is more than one kind of diversity) and those people whose experience of gender in the workplace have led them to use non-gender-specific identifiers. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
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fwiw, Ian Walls is a frequent Code4Liber On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu wrote: If this is any one of you do let us know so you can get the LIB rate. We are near certain we have everyone but these two people are registered for the exact time as the Conference but I'm not seeing them on the Conf. Attendees. Jan Walls James Eric or (Eric James) Antonio Barrera Cheers, ./fxk -- With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm? -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
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So rather than focusing on statistics and math, I'd like to steer the conversation in a different direction. Let's say Ross is right and more women chose to take the survey based on the topic -- maybe that's a way to get women involved in Code4Lib. Karen had the idea of creating a women Code4Lib IRC channel, maybe that can be a place to start. Or maybe we have a few women that are willing to step up and be a Code4Lib mentor to other women -- similar to what we do for the new member event at the conference. I'd even be willing to step up and organize that if people like the idea. Thoughts? On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:00 PM, stuart yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nzwrote: On 06/12/12 09:05, Sara Amato wrote: I'd been staying out of this discussion, but the thought occurs to me that someone with access to the list of subscribers might run that against a list of traditional boy/girl names, and be able to make some guesses…. That idea runs into problems both with non-western names (there is more than one kind of diversity) and those people whose experience of gender in the workplace have led them to use non-gender-specific identifiers. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/**library/http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
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As is Antonio Barrera (abarr...@princeton.edu)... Kevin On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: fwiw, Ian Walls is a frequent Code4Liber On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu wrote: If this is any one of you do let us know so you can get the LIB rate. We are near certain we have everyone but these two people are registered for the exact time as the Conference but I'm not seeing them on the Conf. Attendees. Jan Walls James Eric or (Eric James) Antonio Barrera Cheers, ./fxk -- With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm? -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
Oh well, I'll bite: despite the Are you part of the community questions, I just couldn't bring myself to feel that having had an article published in the Code4Lib journal made me part of a community rather than part of a table of contents. :-) Certainly lurking doesn't qualify for my personal definition (I've lurked in all *sorts* of places); I felt community requires (among other things) a modicum of two-way communication. Such as if, for example, I should ever feel myself called to answer an email on the listserv Deborah -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bohyun Kim Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2012 8:56 a.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results I just want to say BIG thanks to Rosalyn for running this survey and putting together the summary for all of us to view. The most interesting part to me was that 22 % (female) and 14. 8 % (male) of people bothered to take the survey even though they identified themselves as not a member of the community. Wondering what that really means... ~Bohyun From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Becky Yoose [b.yo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 2:39 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results delurking from all the gender-related threads That was my understanding as well. I would at least like to see the limitations of the survey addressed in the document, such as response and selection biases, at least for those folks who may not be familiar with the existence of such biases. Interesting numbers, yes. Statistically significant? I think the biases need to be considered for answering this one. /delurk Thanks, Becky, survey non-respondent On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hmm, it's quite possible you know more about statistics than me, but... Usually equations for calculating confidence level are based on the assumption of a random sample, not a volunteering self-selected sample. If you have a self-selected sample, then the equations for how likely is this to be a fluke are only accurate if your self-selected sample is representative; and there aren't really any equations that can tell you how likely your self-selected sample is to be representative, it depends on the circumstances (which is why for the statistical equations to be completely valid, you need a random sample). Is my understanding. On 12/5/2012 2:18 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: Ross, I totally get what you're saying, I thought of all of that too, but according to everything I was reading through, the likelihood that the survey's results are a fluke is extremely low. Its actually the reason I put information in the write up about the sample size (378), population size (2,250), response rate (16.8%), confidence level (95%), and confidence interval (+/- 4.6%). Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the survey's topic (note, I am not saying that women aren't underrepresented in the Code4lib program). If 83% of the mailing didn't respond, we simply know nothing about their demographics. They could be 95% male, they could be 99% female, we have no idea. I think it is safe to say that the breakdown of the 16% is probably biased towards females simply given the subject matter and the dialogue that surrounded it. We simply cannot project that the mailing list is 57/42 from this, I don't think. What is interesting, however, is that the number roughly corresponds to the number of seats in the conference. I think it would be interesting to see how this compares to the gender breakdown at the conference. This doesn't diminish how awesome it is that you put this together, though. Thanks, again to you and Karen! -Ross. On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends, I put together the data and a summary for the gender survey. Now that conference and hotel registration has subsided, it's a perfect time for you to kick back and read through. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Data https://docs.google.com/**spreadsheet/ccc?key=** 0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1N**mo0akNhZlVDTlEhttps://docs.google.c om/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqfFxMd8RTVhdFVQSWlPaFJ2UTh1Nmo0akNhZlVDTlE Gender Survey Data is the raw data for the survey. Not very interesting, but you can use it to view my Pivot Tables and charts. [Code4Lib] Gender Survey Summary
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Karen had the idea of creating a women Code4Lib IRC channel, maybe that can be a place to start. I understand the motivation to create a safe space for women, but please let's not do this. Separate but equal has never been shown to make progress toward equality, and I doubt this situation would be any different. I believe it would instead make things worse, by balkanizing the community rather than encouraging good behavior within a unified group. In other words, the solution will never be reached without active participation by men. Roy
Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal
Instead of maintaining a custom codebase to try and force WP to do what you want, why not just use a tool purpose-built for this kind of job? The open-source, Open Journal Systems from PKP might be a good fit: http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs Ed Sperr, M.L.I.S. Copyright and Electronic Resources Officer St. George's University esp...@sgu.edu __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
I second this, in its entirety. Michele -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 4:35 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Karen had the idea of creating a women Code4Lib IRC channel, maybe that can be a place to start. I understand the motivation to create a safe space for women, but please let's not do this. Separate but equal has never been shown to make progress toward equality, and I doubt this situation would be any different. I believe it would instead make things worse, by balkanizing the community rather than encouraging good behavior within a unified group. In other words, the solution will never be reached without active participation by men. Roy
Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal
We've looked at OJS in the past and not been happy with it, we're pretty happy with WordPress, and not really looking to migrate all our operations to different software. But thanks for the suggestion. (I do think there are probably ways we could keep using WP without a custom codebase, which I personally would prefer, but it's all tradeoffs.). On 12/5/2012 5:05 PM, Ed Sperr wrote: Instead of maintaining a custom codebase to try and force WP to do what you want, why not just use a tool purpose-built for this kind of job? The open-source, Open Journal Systems from PKP might be a good fit: http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs Ed Sperr, M.L.I.S. Copyright and Electronic Resources Officer St. George's University esp...@sgu.edu __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
I think a coed group would be great. It might be nice to have a separate IRC channel for testing things out where people wouldn't have to worry about bothering people or looking foolish. I think an intro to IRC and quick rundown of all the zoia commands would be a great thing to do in the Open space pre-conf. -Esme -- Esme Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring On 12/5/2012, at 4:45 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Roy, It wasn't for safety -- it was for training. Some of us haven't spent much time on IRC -- I never know what to do when I get there -- can't remember commands, even with a decent GUI. So I was trying to think of places (e.g. Github, IRC) where we'd like to have more women participating and how we could give them a chance to learn.* Lots of people are afraid of making mistakes in front of others, and we know that women/girls take fewer chances in mixed classrooms. Once they get adept at the environment they can participate in the group list with more confidence. Training, mentoring -- it all blends together. In fact, I'm thinking that at c4l we could put up some big pieces of paper (I love the giant post-it paper) and have people make lists of their favorite tools, hangouts, etc. Then we could use those lists as ways to figure out what people need to learn to feel more like part of the community and to feel more confident about participating. kc * Look at the list of edits on the anti-harassment policy -- not many women there. I suspect it's unfamiliarity with Git. If we're going to use a tool as a community, then I want more women to be familiar with it. If someone else wants to train men or a coed group, that's fine. On 12/5/12 1:35 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Karen had the idea of creating a women Code4Lib IRC channel, maybe that can be a place to start. I understand the motivation to create a safe space for women, but please let's not do this. Separate but equal has never been shown to make progress toward equality, and I doubt this situation would be any different. I believe it would instead make things worse, by balkanizing the community rather than encouraging good behavior within a unified group. In other words, the solution will never be reached without active participation by men. Roy -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
I'm fine with naming it code4lib-learning or whatever. It must be clear that it is an area for testing, hanging out, learning (we could even schedule learning times to meet there -- following Esme's suggestion of having a time at Chicago, and could include folks who aren't at c4l13). And, as you say, anyone can create any channel they want, and if some folks want a channel, there's no reason why they can't have one. You know, it might even turn out that there's room for more than one c4l channel, based on interests and activities. I honestly don't care if it turns out that men are predominantly in one and women are predominantly in the other. The point is that people should gather in the space that is most useful to them. My interest is in making sure that the under-represented women on the list learn enough about the available tools to decide what works for them. If it turns out not to be useful it will fade away as all unused social spaces do. kc On 12/5/12 2:49 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: That makes sense, but I predict that if you create such a channel, even if the intention is for training (in recognition that many women are more comfortable training in a single gender environment, as kcoyle says) -- people (mainly women people) will end up 'hanging out' in there instead of in #code4lib, resulting in fewer women hanging out in #code4lib. Which I guess you could think is a fine thing, or could think is an unfortunate thing. I agree with royt that it would be an unfortunate thing, for a bunch of different reasons. Of course, like most any other project or venue of code4lib, we don't all need to agree on this, and no approval needs to be had -- if someone wants to create an IRC channel for 'code4lib women' or something, they can do so on freenode. But I agree with royt it'd be unfortunate. If the intent really is just for 'training', then maybe call it #code4lib_learning_irc or something, to try and reduce the chances of it vacuuming women's participation out of main #code4lib, even if that wasn't the original intent. On 12/5/2012 4:45 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: Roy, It wasn't for safety -- it was for training. Some of us haven't spent much time on IRC -- I never know what to do when I get there -- can't remember commands, even with a decent GUI. So I was trying to think of places (e.g. Github, IRC) where we'd like to have more women participating and how we could give them a chance to learn.* Lots of people are afraid of making mistakes in front of others, and we know that women/girls take fewer chances in mixed classrooms. Once they get adept at the environment they can participate in the group list with more confidence. Training, mentoring -- it all blends together. In fact, I'm thinking that at c4l we could put up some big pieces of paper (I love the giant post-it paper) and have people make lists of their favorite tools, hangouts, etc. Then we could use those lists as ways to figure out what people need to learn to feel more like part of the community and to feel more confident about participating. kc * Look at the list of edits on the anti-harassment policy -- not many women there. I suspect it's unfamiliarity with Git. If we're going to use a tool as a community, then I want more women to be familiar with it. If someone else wants to train men or a coed group, that's fine. On 12/5/12 1:35 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Karen had the idea of creating a women Code4Lib IRC channel, maybe that can be a place to start. I understand the motivation to create a safe space for women, but please let's not do this. Separate but equal has never been shown to make progress toward equality, and I doubt this situation would be any different. I believe it would instead make things worse, by balkanizing the community rather than encouraging good behavior within a unified group. In other words, the solution will never be reached without active participation by men. Roy -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
[CODE4LIB] Job: Systems Engineer at Columbia University
Columbia University Libraries seeks a linux systems engineer for our RHEL, CentOS, and Xen VM environment. The systems engineer will, under supervision, assist in designing, developing, installing, securing, documenting, and monitoring our approximately 100 servers and VMs. The systems engineer will install, support, configure, and sometimes extend or modify open-source software such as Nginx, Apache, WordPress, Tomcat, and Blacklight; vendor- supplied software such as Atlassian Jira and Confluence; and in-house applications written by our development teams. The systems engineer will address support requests from both Library developers and general Library staff on these applications. Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and 2-4 years of relevant experience (or the equivalent combination of education and experience). In-depth knowledge of Unix/Linux environment. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Knowledge of programming principles and at least one higher-level programming language. Must be able to balance priorities and meet deadlines on multiple task Preferred Qualifications: Experience with MySQL, virtualization with Xen, RHEL/CentOS, configuration management systems, storage/backup management. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/4913/
[CODE4LIB] Job: Programmer/Analyst—User Interface Design and Development at New York University
NYU Digital Libraries group seeks a coding designer, someone with great user interface and interaction design skills, who's also comfortable coding web pages and employing the latest techniques in responsive design. The Position is charged with working across a portfolio of projects to design, build, and maintain front end software for web-based systems that support and enhance accessibility and user experience for the Digital Libraries. Overall the position relies on user and project manager feedback to drive improvements. Visualization Skills / Design Process: Experience with some of: Wireframes, Sketching User Interfaces, Paper Prototyping, Interactive Prototyping, HTML/CSS/JS Mockups, Photoshop Mockups, Usability Testing Web / Graphic / Interaction Design Skills: Grid systems? Äicss frameworks, Typography? Äi Especially web fonts, Visual Hierarchy, Style guides? ÄiFollowing and Creating, Color Theory, Image Optimization CSS / HTML Skills: Familiarity with CSS3 and browser prefixes, Familiarity with / interest in CSS preprocessors such as Sass, Compass, or Less, Familiarity with / interest in Responsive Web Design / Mobile First / CSS Sprites Languages: Advanced CSS HTML, Familiarity with / interest in : CSS3, HTML5, jQuery, PHP (Drupal Themeing), Bonus: Javascript, YUI, MySQL, Mustache, other Frameworks Visual Design Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, OmniGraffle etc Technical Tools: Local Web Development (WAMP/XAMP/MAMP or equivalent), Command Line Navigation Unix/Linux/Mac Os X, SSH SFTP SCP, Version Control, Systems SVN GIT etc. Qualifications/Required Education: Bachelor's degree Preferred Education: Required Experience: 3 years of experience in web user interface design and development and services or equivalent combination of education and experience. Preferred Experience: Experience developing start-up web 2.0 and / or social networking applications Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: (include unique competencies, certification, licenses, etc.): Strong, demonstrated experience in Web 2.0 user interface design, development, and deployment using technologies such as HTML, XHTML, JavaScript (including AJAX), and CSS; knowledge of UI design methodology and processes such as user-centered design; demonstrated experience with one or more of the following languages and frameworks: Java/JSP, Perl CGI, Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP, Ruby; demonstrated experience with XML and XSLT; experience with search engine optimization; experience with source code version control; demonstrated experience with UNIX/Linux command line tools; demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills; excellent interpersonal, communication and collaboration skill; flexibility to work in a dynamic and evolving area both independently and as part of a team. Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: (include unique competencies, certification, licenses, etc.): Experience in web user interface programming frameworks such as JQuery, CoffeeScript, Blueprint, SASS, and/or other WebUI frameworks. Experience with HTML5; experience with web content management systems, specifically expertise in Drupal Theming and Drupal module development; expertise in web development frameworks, such as Rails; advanced Unix/Linux command line interface skills, work experience in an academic library or research university; knowledge of Library and Academic standards such as METS, MARC, MODS, OAC, EAD; familiarity with ADA requirements and methods of achieving compliance; familiarity with web security standards and methods of achieving compliance; demonstrated experience with distributed source code version control systems such as Git; demonstrated ability to take initiative to improve current services offered by the organization and to document procedures. Relational database experience, preferably MySQL and Postgres. Experience with webservers such as Apache httpd and Nginx and Java Servlet containers such as Apache Tomcat. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/4901/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results
And it's not like there is some limitation to the number of rooms you can hang out in. Someone could hang out in #code4lib and #code4lib-something-else just as easily (perhaps participating in different ways in the different spaces). I wouldn't see a second room as pulling away participants from the first. Two IRC spaces are different than two mailing lists, imho. Kevin On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: I'm fine with naming it code4lib-learning or whatever. It must be clear that it is an area for testing, hanging out, learning (we could even schedule learning times to meet there -- following Esme's suggestion of having a time at Chicago, and could include folks who aren't at c4l13). And, as you say, anyone can create any channel they want, and if some folks want a channel, there's no reason why they can't have one. You know, it might even turn out that there's room for more than one c4l channel, based on interests and activities. I honestly don't care if it turns out that men are predominantly in one and women are predominantly in the other. The point is that people should gather in the space that is most useful to them. My interest is in making sure that the under-represented women on the list learn enough about the available tools to decide what works for them. If it turns out not to be useful it will fade away as all unused social spaces do. kc On 12/5/12 2:49 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: That makes sense, but I predict that if you create such a channel, even if the intention is for training (in recognition that many women are more comfortable training in a single gender environment, as kcoyle says) -- people (mainly women people) will end up 'hanging out' in there instead of in #code4lib, resulting in fewer women hanging out in #code4lib. Which I guess you could think is a fine thing, or could think is an unfortunate thing. I agree with royt that it would be an unfortunate thing, for a bunch of different reasons. Of course, like most any other project or venue of code4lib, we don't all need to agree on this, and no approval needs to be had -- if someone wants to create an IRC channel for 'code4lib women' or something, they can do so on freenode. But I agree with royt it'd be unfortunate. If the intent really is just for 'training', then maybe call it #code4lib_learning_irc or something, to try and reduce the chances of it vacuuming women's participation out of main #code4lib, even if that wasn't the original intent. On 12/5/2012 4:45 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: Roy, It wasn't for safety -- it was for training. Some of us haven't spent much time on IRC -- I never know what to do when I get there -- can't remember commands, even with a decent GUI. So I was trying to think of places (e.g. Github, IRC) where we'd like to have more women participating and how we could give them a chance to learn.* Lots of people are afraid of making mistakes in front of others, and we know that women/girls take fewer chances in mixed classrooms. Once they get adept at the environment they can participate in the group list with more confidence. Training, mentoring -- it all blends together. In fact, I'm thinking that at c4l we could put up some big pieces of paper (I love the giant post-it paper) and have people make lists of their favorite tools, hangouts, etc. Then we could use those lists as ways to figure out what people need to learn to feel more like part of the community and to feel more confident about participating. kc * Look at the list of edits on the anti-harassment policy -- not many women there. I suspect it's unfamiliarity with Git. If we're going to use a tool as a community, then I want more women to be familiar with it. If someone else wants to train men or a coed group, that's fine. On 12/5/12 1:35 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Karen had the idea of creating a women Code4Lib IRC channel, maybe that can be a place to start. I understand the motivation to create a safe space for women, but please let's not do this. Separate but equal has never been shown to make progress toward equality, and I doubt this situation would be any different. I believe it would instead make things worse, by balkanizing the community rather than encouraging good behavior within a unified group. In other words, the solution will never be reached without active participation by men. Roy -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
