[openbiblio-dev] Bibserver Status

[Peter Murray-Rust]

In rare cases this can be done purely with community input. That happened
with Open StreetMap, with SAX (XML), with Blue Obelisk(chemistry) - none of
these required money. But my present project culdn't run without money. It
all deepdns on how much infrastructure there is to create and the size of
the volunteer pool.

What is certain is that it needs a lot of energy and a reasonably clear
program. Set incremental goals. Maybe hack gloabl hacks - these are now
relatively easy and if you can find firnds in different countries they will
also organise. We did this 3 weeks ago with Mozilla - two days of hack.
Very successful, but a lot of energy provided by Mozilla. But you can do a
lot with Google+ or whatever.

You'll almost certainly get OKF people interested.

Suggest you propose some small achievable goal which everyone can
participate in, and then discuss it here. And see whether we can get people
together.


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Alexander! Joe, let us know what kind of support you can use (even
> at the level of encouragement), and we can figure out how to make it happen
> (shared discussion somewhere, whatever).
>
> kc
>
>
> On 8/17/14, 3:20 PM, Alexander Garcia Castro wrote:
>
>> I volunteer.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Peter, I agree. But I also think it's really hard to take on such a
>>> project
>>> on your own. Can we gather a small cohort to give Joe a go-to place for
>>> questions, help, praise, reality checks, etc.? I'm willing, but can only
>>> really be helpful within my skill set (metadata, linked data, QC [I FIND
>>> BUGS!], and documentation). Can a few others with other skills
>>> volunteer? We
>>> can name our band whatever we want ;-).
>>>
>>> kc
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/17/14, 11:22 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is how I think projects should develop - someone enthusiastic picks
>>>> up where the last initiative finished.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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