On Jul 13, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Kake L Pugh wrote:
On Wed 11 Jul 2007, "M.B.Gaved" M.B.Gaved@open.ac.uk wrote:
should we be sticking up all the presentations we've done into a central collection somewhere for reference (and plundering when we get put on the spot and ask to create a presentation quickly)?
Happy to put up my Wikisym 06 presentation and paper.
Yep, I think this is a good idea. Maybe we could start by just having a page on the dev wiki where we link to these things? I can provide hosting of papers/slides/etc if anyone needs it (as, I'm sure, can many others on the list).
Speaking of:
The talk I gave went well. The slides are (now permanently) available at http://twincities.openguides.org/mplspm_slides/index.html
I think I may have gotten some people interested in adding to the guide, and I certainly sparked an interesting discussion of Geodata and it's relative openness in the US vs in the UK. I also got an offer from Dave Rolsky who runs VegGuide.org for a dump of his data which is a very clean source of Vegan/Vegetarian restaurants (especially here in the Cities). I also got the feeling that he might be open to more inter-working between the guides and his website if we have a way to standardize our interstitial communications. He (and Ian both actually) suggested I try talking to some of the local media and Dave knew someone who might be interested in that vein. I may try to follow up on that sometime soon and start trying to pimp the Twin Cities guide some more.
-Chris