A big +1 from me!<br clear="all"><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Dan Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan@coffeecode.net">dan@coffeecode.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Dan Scott <<a href="mailto:dan@coffeecode.net">dan@coffeecode.net</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> I'd like to see keynote speakers who have some relationship to<br>
> Evergreen. On that front, I recommend George Oates - she is the lead<br>
> for OpenLibrary, deeply understands open source and open data, and is<br>
> a great speaker.<br>
><br>
> And of course Evergreen and OpenLibrary have a close relationship:<br>
> OpenLibrary is the default added content provider for Evergreen, and<br>
> Evergreen 2.2 will include the ability to read or borrow OpenLibrary<br>
> books.<br>
><br>
> More about George at <a href="http://abitofgeorge.com/" target="_blank">http://abitofgeorge.com/</a><br>
<br>
</div>And if that link doesn't work for you for some reason, and you're not<br>
immediately bowled over by a Google search for "George Oates", check<br>
out <a href="http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/smithsonianlibraries/2011/03/save-the-date-march-15-george-oates-a-conversation-with-nancy-gwinn.html" target="_blank">http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/smithsonianlibraries/2011/03/save-the-date-march-15-george-oates-a-conversation-with-nancy-gwinn.html</a><br>
for a recent bio of George when she was speaking at the Smithsonian.<br>
Two great quotes from that page:<br>
<br>
* "[Prior to becoming lead of OpenLibrary], she served as the Senior<br>
Program Manager for Flickr, where, she developed the successful Flickr<br>
Commons environment that provided a ground-breaking platform for<br>
cultural heritage organizations to crowdsource and community-build<br>
around their photographic collections."<br>
<br>
* "She has been appointed a Research Associate for Smithsonian<br>
Institution Libraries in 2011."<br>
(<a href="http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/smithsonianlibraries/2011/01/george-oates.html" target="_blank">http://smithsonianlibraries.si.edu/smithsonianlibraries/2011/01/george-oates.html</a>)<br>
<br>
See also <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/minimum-viable-record.html" target="_blank">http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/minimum-viable-record.html</a><br>
<br>
She's also a heck of a designer. Maybe she would be interested in<br>
participating in the Hackfest to help us apply some more design<br>
sensibility to the TPAC... :)<br>
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