2007/05/27: projects for learning oss4lib and other whatnot

Today was the third installment of techbootcamp. We've now configured server hardware and gone through basic *nix commands. We can grep with the best of them now, but I still get a bit confused when piping commands. More practice will help.

Next steps? Take on a few projects and use them to train ourselves on particular open source applications. We have a few ideas in mind. My lib school student friends intend to digitize some out-of-copyright knitting patterns, get'em described, and make them available and searchable on the interbunny. They're considering using Greenstone.

For my part, I'm going to do something with ePrints. Not quite sure just what that will be yet, but I suspect it will involve images, batch importing, and metadata crosswalking. I'm totally open to suggestions if anybody has any.

Posts will be sporadic between now and 8/20. I'm leaving my current place of work on 5/30. I'm off on a few weeks vacation (culinary school!) then ALA, then more vacation, before starting the new job in August. I will not have a laptop. I've avoided purchasing one because I've been using my soon-to-be-former-place-of-work's equipment. That, obviously, can't continue after I quit. I do intend to purchase my own equipment but I'm not sure yet when that will happen. Depends on how much I spend on vacation.

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