Pronounceable acronyms, or why you should come to the LITA Open Source Systems Interest Group meeting at ALA Midwinter

I just realized something — I’ve never heard anybody refer to the LITA OSS IG as the “awww-zig”. Probably just as well.

Anyway, here’s my pitch for the meeting, which is today, 9 January 2011, at the San Diego Convention Center in room 31C. By design, the IGs in LITA are perhaps the wildest and wooliest part of ALA, being forums for like-minded librarians and library techies to discuss and work on cool toys and share ideas for the benefit of their libraries. The OSS IG is no exception; one of the best parts of our meetings is going around the table and having everybody present discuss what they’ve been up to with F/OSS. Think of it as Code4Lib where ties and jackets are allowed!

There is also a business meeting, which co-chair Daniel Lovins and I will keep as short as possible, but fortunately, there’s little in the way of administrivia to talk about. The main agenda item for the business meeting: what does the OSS IG group want to do next? To toss some ideas out:

• Find good speakers for a managed discussion for the meeting at the next Annual.
• Do a workshop or preconference. The migrating to open source systems preconference at ALA Annual last year was a success, so we know we can do it again.
• Organize a LITA webinar or web class.
• Post to the LITA blog.
• Do something neat on the LITA sandbox server.
• Or do something else entirely.

I look forward to seeing friends of F/OSS, the curious, and even the dubious for what will be a great discussion.

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