It's an interesting question, but code4lib -- whatever exactly that is --
has managed to make all sorts of decisions, about where to hold
conferences, keynote speakers, etc. for over a decade without formalizing.
I am unclear on the exact details, but there is some carryover of
conference funds fr
I realize this is late on a Friday, but I did want to take a moment to tease
out an important distinction between establishing a governance structure for
Code4Lib and incorporating Code4Lib. While formal incorporation requires
governance, we could certainly formalize things without going to the
I think CLIR's fiscal sponsorship fee is amazingly generous to us.
And ALA's 26.4% of gross revenue is very high when considered as a fiscal
sponsorship fee. Fiscal sponsorship fees in general 501c3 world are
typically 9-15%[1], often on the low end of that.
Of course, ALA probably doesn't consid
Thanks!
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess wrote:
> Sorry, I meant "the least we could do for the people who are compelled to
> be members," NOT "the least we could do for ALA/LITA." (As the person who
> pulled together the LITA part of the report, obviously I am aware that we
Sorry, I meant "the least we could do for the people who are compelled to
be members," NOT "the least we could do for ALA/LITA." (As the person who
pulled together the LITA part of the report, obviously I am aware that we
owe LITA significantly more than that if they are our fiscal sponsor.)
I see
> Assuming we went with ALA/LITA as a fiscal sponsor, I feel like paying for
our conference chair's and vice-chair's membership to ALA/LITA is the least
we, as an organization, could do, given how much of their time we ask for.
To be clear, I believe we would be paying them substantially more than
I replied to your stack overflow question, but here's my solution in
JavaScript. Maybe it could be useful to you and others if port it over to R.
https://github.com/rayvoelker/js-loc-callnumbers/blob/master/locCallClass.js
I'm happy to answer any questions about it, but I found that the method I
My personal objection to the requirement for the conference leadership to
be a member of ALA / LITA is less financial and more philosophical. As
someone else had written, I became part of Code4Lib because I didn't really
believe (and still don't) that ALA and LITA does enough to represent what
Cod
Hi Bill,
Elizabeth Wickes from the uiuc iSchool suggested this.
https://github.com/libraryhackers/library-callnumber-lc/tree/master/python
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On Jul 21, 2017, at 9:43 AM, William Denton
mailto:w...@pobox.com>> wrote:
Sorting by LCC numbers has been solved in most popular lang
Hi all,
DuraSpace has a long history of stewarding open source software communities
as well as sharing infrastructure and resources for groups that need it. We
act as fiscal sponsor to groups within our community. If the Code4Lib
community thinks it could be a good fit, we can discuss what a poten
Thanks for the clarification, Andromeda.
I didn't mean to derail the larger discussion by mentioning that
requirement, sorry.
Assuming we went with ALA/LITA as a fiscal sponsor, I feel like paying for
our conference chair's and vice-chair's membership to ALA/LITA is the least
we, as an organizati
Hi Bill,
You might find answers to this question useful:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17531403/how-to-sort-a-character-vector-where-elements-contain-letters-and-numbers-in-r
.
Best,
Kai
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:43 PM William Denton wrote:
> Sorting by LCC numbers has been solved in mo
Point of order with respect to LITA interest groups: the *chairs and vice
chairs* of the groups must be ALA/LITA members, but the *members* need not
be. So LITA would require two LITA-member contact people for interest group
formation, but other C4L attendees/participants would not be required to b
Sorting by LCC numbers has been solved in most popular languages, but I couldn't
find any example of how to do it in R, nor could I figure it out, so in case
anyone is interested or can help, here's where I asked about it on Stack
Overflow:
How to sort by Library of Congress Classification (LC
Agreed, my support for working with CLIR is even stronger given this info.
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Kyle Breneman
wrote:
> I am involved in Code4Lib precisely because I cannot afford an ALA/LITA
> membership.
>
> Kyle Breneman
>
I am involved in Code4Lib precisely because I cannot afford an ALA/LITA
membership.
Kyle Breneman
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Jason Bengtson
wrote:
> Personally I agree that incorporation presents enough tangible advantages
> that we should seriously consider making that move, and Carol m
Personally I agree that incorporation presents enough tangible advantages
that we should seriously consider making that move, and Carol makes an
excellent point vis-a-vis the journal royalties, no matter how modest they
may be. I think a sponsor is also a workable model, and I agree with folks
that
I wonder if C4L could just decide to pay for ALA/LITA memberships for the
conference organizers? That way it wouldn't be a burden on them. I don't know
how much extra that would add to the cost of the conference but I wouldn't
think it would be much, relative to the other costs.
I don't really
I concur with Tim's assessment. If folks have limited funds for professional
development, they are less likely to become a member of an association that
requires them to join another organization as a prerequisite to membership.
Elizabeth Leonard
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