[CODE4LIB] RailsBridge preconf attendees
Hi, If you've signed up for the RailsBridge preconference, please either add your email address to the wiki page after your name [1] or send me your email address if you don't want to add it to the wiki. I'll be sending out a short survey soon that will help with planning the morning. There will also be some pre-preconference communications to help us all be prepared to make the most of our time. Thank you, Jason [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2013_preconference_proposals#RailsBridge_Intro_to_Ruby_on_Rails
Re: [CODE4LIB] RailsBridge preconf attendees
Hi Jason, I'm in that session, and my email (as you can plainly see) is jgmo...@umich.edu. Thanks, Jeremy On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Jason Ronallo jrona...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, If you've signed up for the RailsBridge preconference, please either add your email address to the wiki page after your name [1] or send me your email address if you don't want to add it to the wiki. I'll be sending out a short survey soon that will help with planning the morning. There will also be some pre-preconference communications to help us all be prepared to make the most of our time. Thank you, Jason [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2013_preconference_proposals#RailsBridge_Intro_to_Ruby_on_Rails
[CODE4LIB] Library CDNs
Is anybody out there using a CDN[1] that is separate from their website to host JavaScript, CSS, and image files? I'm looking for a one place where I can consolidate and organize these files that is reliable (good uptime and good response time) and affordable (less expensive than hosting a complete website). In-as non-technical folks may need to access it, the interface for managing the files and directories needs to be friendly. E.G., AWS's native interface is too convoluted for newbies, but a program or web app built as a front-end designed to have simple management functions is the kind of thing I'm looking for (and something that mirrored AWS's built-in versioning would be awesome). Tom [1] CDN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
Re: [CODE4LIB] Library CDNs
Tom, We use Rackspace's Cloud Files for Cloud Server backup, not CDN, but it is built for that. You can use it with Akamai to serve content. It has versioning and mobile UIs: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/files/technology/ Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Tom Keays [tomke...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 9:48 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Library CDNs Is anybody out there using a CDN[1] that is separate from their website to host JavaScript, CSS, and image files? I'm looking for a one place where I can consolidate and organize these files that is reliable (good uptime and good response time) and affordable (less expensive than hosting a complete website). In-as non-technical folks may need to access it, the interface for managing the files and directories needs to be friendly. E.G., AWS's native interface is too convoluted for newbies, but a program or web app built as a front-end designed to have simple management functions is the kind of thing I'm looking for (and something that mirrored AWS's built-in versioning would be awesome). Tom [1] CDN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
Re: [CODE4LIB] Library CDNs
Tom -- I use Amazon CloudFront and a plugin on my WordPress blog to automatically push media files to an S3 bucket (which Amazon then automatically distributes). There are a couple of front-ends to S3 that are fairly user friendly (Transmit on the Mac is the one I use most often). Peter On Jan 4, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: Is anybody out there using a CDN[1] that is separate from their website to host JavaScript, CSS, and image files? I'm looking for a one place where I can consolidate and organize these files that is reliable (good uptime and good response time) and affordable (less expensive than hosting a complete website). In-as non-technical folks may need to access it, the interface for managing the files and directories needs to be friendly. E.G., AWS's native interface is too convoluted for newbies, but a program or web app built as a front-end designed to have simple management functions is the kind of thing I'm looking for (and something that mirrored AWS's built-in versioning would be awesome). Tom [1] CDN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network -- Peter Murray Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS peter.mur...@lyrasis.org +1 678-235-2955 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 800.999.8558 Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org LYRASIS: Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Library CDNs
I haven't used it but I've heard good things about cloud flare: http://www.cloudflare.com/ . It also has a free plan. -Nate Nathan Sarr Senior Software Engineer River Campus Libraries University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 (585) 275-0692 ns...@library.rochester.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Keays Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 10:48 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Library CDNs Is anybody out there using a CDN[1] that is separate from their website to host JavaScript, CSS, and image files? I'm looking for a one place where I can consolidate and organize these files that is reliable (good uptime and good response time) and affordable (less expensive than hosting a complete website). In-as non-technical folks may need to access it, the interface for managing the files and directories needs to be friendly. E.G., AWS's native interface is too convoluted for newbies, but a program or web app built as a front-end designed to have simple management functions is the kind of thing I'm looking for (and something that mirrored AWS's built-in versioning would be awesome). Tom [1] CDN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt voting is now open!
Hi MJ, I just approved your account registration on code4lib.org. You should now be able to log in to both code4lib.org and vote.code4lib.org If anyone else is having account or voting login issues, please let me know. (ryanw...@gmail.com) Ryan Wick -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of MJ Ray Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 2:48 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt voting is now open! Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com Link is broken in my email program, so here it is again, further corrected. http://vote.code4lib.org/election/25 I don't see how to vote. There's a Show all descriptions button that does nothing when clicked and 7 links that do nothing when clicked. Switching CSS off (Firefox: View: Page Style: No style) lets me see the designs and also a sign-in form. So I'm guessing that maybe we need to be signed in, so I've filled out the form at http://code4lib.org/user/register but it redisplayed the same form with no confirmation message after clicking the Create new account button. But I just got email from it, so I guess it worked. I'm unsure if the list is the best place to send this, but there's no help in either site's navigation and it's somewhere to let people know how difficult/confusing I'm finding this vote. Thanks for any help you may offer, -- 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/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Diversity of presenters (was bibliotechy's fat fingers)
Although code4lib doesn't typically do panels, I thought this might be of interest: A Simple Suggestion to Help Phase Out All-Male Panels at Tech Conferences http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/13/01/a-simple-suggestion-to-help-phase-out-allmale-panels-at-tech-conferences/266837/ -- Michael -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:02 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Diversity of presenters (was bibliotechy's fat fingers) I'm more concerned about the latter ratio than the former (although we could probably question the demographics of the electorate, I think the process is about as open and fair and democratic as we can really hope for). The low percentage of female proposers is really the reason why there are so few female presenters. Add to it that 75% of them are recidivist presenters (which is, honestly, a problem that spans all Code4lib demographics), this doesn't do much to embiggen the tent. I would be interested to see the gender breakdown in the CfP for comparable conferences (LITA National, Access) and if Code4lib's numbers are noticeably lower, meeting with those groups to determine why. -Ross. On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Ooops. Hit the wrong key. So, about our presenters... Is it a problem that only 4 of our 33 presenters are women? Or that only 16 of 95 proposers were women? Is there something this community needs to do to encourage more women to feel like they can and should speak / propose sessions?
Re: [CODE4LIB] Diversity of presenters (was bibliotechy's fat fingers)
I want to give a thumbs up to Roy Tennant who evoked this recently (I was contacted by the organizer off-line since Roy's line in the sand left him a bit perplexed), and the upshot is that the panel will have at least one woman, maybe two. Roy, you deserve mega-credit for your role in this, even if it did take place behind the scenes. More than that I cannot say without asking various permissions. kc On 1/4/13 2:35 PM, Doran, Michael D wrote: Although code4lib doesn't typically do panels, I thought this might be of interest: A Simple Suggestion to Help Phase Out All-Male Panels at Tech Conferences http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/13/01/a-simple-suggestion-to-help-phase-out-allmale-panels-at-tech-conferences/266837/ -- Michael -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:02 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Diversity of presenters (was bibliotechy's fat fingers) I'm more concerned about the latter ratio than the former (although we could probably question the demographics of the electorate, I think the process is about as open and fair and democratic as we can really hope for). The low percentage of female proposers is really the reason why there are so few female presenters. Add to it that 75% of them are recidivist presenters (which is, honestly, a problem that spans all Code4lib demographics), this doesn't do much to embiggen the tent. I would be interested to see the gender breakdown in the CfP for comparable conferences (LITA National, Access) and if Code4lib's numbers are noticeably lower, meeting with those groups to determine why. -Ross. On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Ooops. Hit the wrong key. So, about our presenters... Is it a problem that only 4 of our 33 presenters are women? Or that only 16 of 95 proposers were women? Is there something this community needs to do to encourage more women to feel like they can and should speak / propose sessions? -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] Diversity of presenters (was bibliotechy's fat fingers)
Why thank you, Karen, that's very nice of you. I do try to walk my talk, although like anyone does from time to time I may not always do it well. You mentioned it taking place behind the scenes but that's exactly where most of this happens. Men must be willing to draw those lines without anyone but the organizer knowing, or else it's going to take a lot longer for us all to get to the promised land. Roy On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: I want to give a thumbs up to Roy Tennant who evoked this recently (I was contacted by the organizer off-line since Roy's line in the sand left him a bit perplexed), and the upshot is that the panel will have at least one woman, maybe two. Roy, you deserve mega-credit for your role in this, even if it did take place behind the scenes. More than that I cannot say without asking various permissions. kc On 1/4/13 2:35 PM, Doran, Michael D wrote: Although code4lib doesn't typically do panels, I thought this might be of interest: A Simple Suggestion to Help Phase Out All-Male Panels at Tech Conferences http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/13/01/a-simple-suggestion-to-help-phase-out-allmale-panels-at-tech-conferences/266837/ -- Michael -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:02 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Diversity of presenters (was bibliotechy's fat fingers) I'm more concerned about the latter ratio than the former (although we could probably question the demographics of the electorate, I think the process is about as open and fair and democratic as we can really hope for). The low percentage of female proposers is really the reason why there are so few female presenters. Add to it that 75% of them are recidivist presenters (which is, honestly, a problem that spans all Code4lib demographics), this doesn't do much to embiggen the tent. I would be interested to see the gender breakdown in the CfP for comparable conferences (LITA National, Access) and if Code4lib's numbers are noticeably lower, meeting with those groups to determine why. -Ross. On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Ooops. Hit the wrong key. So, about our presenters... Is it a problem that only 4 of our 33 presenters are women? Or that only 16 of 95 proposers were women? Is there something this community needs to do to encourage more women to feel like they can and should speak / propose sessions? -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] Library CDNs
I got 3 suggestions so far, all of them good. Thanks! I think I'm going to check out Rackspace Cloud Files. Though not free, it looks like it would fit my need. They seem to have a clearer web interface and API than other services I've looked at already. Not requiring a contract gives me some flexibility to use them on a trial basis and I don't have that many files at present that setting it up is going to be a hassle. If I do go with RackSpace, I'll report back what I thought of them. I had previously looked at Amazon CloudFront, and was initially excited about it, but finally concluded that it was more cumbersome to manage than I wanted. I haven't ruled it out though. Some sort of web app front end might swing me back. CloudFlare's CDN has the great price of free, but the complication to this one is that you need to use their DNS server for your site(s), effectively routing all your website's traffic through them. They provide not just CDN and unlimited free bandwidth, but website acceleration, server scaling, and security services (even with the free account). However, for my situation, where the purpose of the files I want to host (at least right now) are to overlay my library branding and navigation across several domains, including 4 vendor-hosted services, this just isn't going to work. Libraries are a messy use case, and the DNS part is not under my direct control. I can see it being useful for a single site though. Thanks, Tom
[CODE4LIB] Job: Site Reliability Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
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