Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog

These notes are a best effort. Blog your corrections and commentary.

Attendees:

AH: Ann House
MW: Mal Watlington
BS: Brett Stilwell
BW: Bill
LW: Lisa Williams
SR: Shimon Rura
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EG: Erica George
JG: Joe Green from The Facebook
RF: Randy Fenstermacher

• Introductions
• RSS Remixing? — nope, not tonight
• Questions/comments from new bloggers
• Recap: Combining our group with the Boston Weblogger Meetup Group once a month
  • It sounds like we’re in agreement to do this; let’s pick a week
  • Sooz’ survey for us to pick a week
• Berkman Open House on Wednesday, 9/21
  • EG’s going to represent the group
  • If anyone is free, come to Berkman
  • Learn about Berkman’s other projects

• Bill Ives at Berkman’s Luncheon Series on Tuesday, 9/27
  • RSVP to EG between 9/21 and 9/23
  • not available on the Web yet
• Outreach to tech folks in town for Wendy’s wedding next week
  • We don’t know exactly who’ll be coming, but there are some big names.

• Dim sum on Sunday the 25th, 1 pm, Chau Chow City, 83 Essex Street, Chinatown, Boston
  • j will send something to the list.

• What to tell librarians about feeds

• j submitted an updated listing to the Harvard University Gazette
• It’s probably even more inevitable that we’ll talk about the schedule again… AND IT WILL BE GLORIOUS! (-sr)
  • j sincerely hopes this is the last talk about the schedule for the foreseeable future.
  • LW has not done anything w/ the schedule she proposed
  • SR proposed that LW, EG, and j be involved in scheduling
  • j pointed out that this is how scheduling has been happening
  • j feels very frustrated that everyone seems to be in favor of having guest speakers, but people are unwilling to help coordinate their appearances.
  • RF suggested we get some environmental librarian to come talk to the group.
  • JA reports that the majority of the survey respondents want at least one free meeting each month.
  • Several people in the group have also requested having free time each meeting in case of anything special coming up. We will try to honor both requests.
• JG: showed a little bit about what he works on
• the mic – we need to buy a new one
  • LW: I probably have another mic at home
  • RF: I have an MP3 recorder, too.
• LW: I need to share some cool tools. What do you like?
  • list of cool stuff on eHub
• What else?
• Eat:
  • Last week: Yenching!