[Evergreen-catalogers] Mashcat: call for proposals for face-to-face event (Boston, 13 January 2016)

[Galen Charlton]

We are excited to announce that the first face-to-face Mashcat event
in North America will be held on January 13th, 2016, at Simmons
College in Boston, Massachusetts. We invite you to save the date, and
we hope to have registration and a schedule for this low-cost (less
than $10), 1-day event announced in November.

At present, we are accepting proposals for talks, events, panels,
workshops or other for the Mashcat event. We are open to a variety of
formats, with the reminder that this will be a one-day, single-track
event aiming to support the cross-pollination goals of Mashcat (see
more below). We are open to proposals for sessions led virtually.
Please submit your proposals using this form:

http://bit.ly/mashcat15_proposals

All proposals must be received by November 1st, 2015, midnight, and we
will respond to all proposals by November 8th, 2015.

Not sure what Mashcat is? "Mashcat" (http://mashcat.info/) was
originally an event in the UK in 2012 which was aimed at bringing
together people working on the IT systems side of libraries with those
working in cataloguing and metadata. Three years later, Mashcat is a
loose group of metadata specialists, cataloguers, developers and
anyone else with an interest in how metadata in and around libraries
can be created, manipulated, used and re-used by computers and
software. The aim is to work together and bridge the communications
gap that has sometimes gotten in the way of building the best tools we
possibly can to manage library data.

Thanks for considering, and we hope to see you in January.

-- 
Galen Charlton
Infrastructure and Added Services Manager
Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
email:  gmc at esilibrary.com
direct: +1 770-709-5581
cell:   +1 404-984-4366
skype:  gmcharlt
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