Date: Friday April 27, 2012, 9 am to 4 pm
Location: Homer Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT.
Hosted by: Archives and Special Collections at the
University of Connecticut Libraries’ Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
Day of info: See schedule at: s.uconn.edu/nefug2012
You are invited to an Unconference to share with fellow Fedora users, ideas, techniques, and approaches to building and sustaining digital objects, Fedora repositories, and digital preservation programs. This conference is not just for technical programmers, we welcome content managers, metadata specialists and anyone involved with curating, managing and delivering digital content in a Fedora-based environment to come and talk to their counterparts from other institutions in the Northeast.
In the tradition of the Unconference format, there will be no formal presentations. We will develop the topics for small group breakout sessions at the start of the day, have dork shorts at lunchtime, and then meet at the end of the day to share with everyone what we have talked about and learned.
Tentative Schedule
Here is the proposed schedule, flexibly subject to change (but not very extensible):
Suggest a Topic
If you have a session topic that you’d like to see discussed at the Unconference, go to the Topics page and suggest it.
Dork Shorts!
If you have a project, web site, or some other interesting thing you’d like to talk about at lunchtime, go to the Dork Shorts! page and sign up for your 2 minutes of fame!
Administrative details:
Thanks to the UConn Libraries and with additional support from Northeastern University, there is no registration fee, and morning coffee and snacks, and lunch will be provided. So that we can insure adequate meeting space and provide enough food for everyone, please register by April 6, 2012. Wireless connectivity will be arranged for attendees who indicate that interest on the registration form.
Accommodations:
For those of you traveling longer distances who wish to stay over, accommodations are available at the Nathan Hale Inn http://www.nathanhaleinn.com/ with rates beginning at $142/night (Sorry, there is no conference discount). The Nathan Hale Inn is located on the UConn campus a short walk from the Library.
Parking:
Paid visitor parking is available in the South Parking Garage, a short walk from the library. For more information and directions see the UConn Parking Services page.
Hashtag:
#nefug2012