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Detailed Instructions for Tech Campers are now available. Please ensure you read these carefully and check for updates in the lead up to the event. Look at the Camp Speakers page, decide which workshops you might like to attend and check the workshop requirements. |
VALA is delighted to announce a NEW Day 0 program for Tech Camp 2017, made possible by our PD Partner, EBSCO and supported by our Tech Partner, AARNet.
Day 0 (Wednesday 12 July 2017) will feature 2 NEW Workshop opportunities for Tech Campers; cost of attendance is INCLUDED IN YOUR TECH CAMP REGISTRATION FEES. (That’s right, there is no additional cost for Tech Campers to participate in a Day 0 Workshop.)
Here’s what on offer, from EBSCO and AARNet:-
This half-day Workshop (1.00-5.00pm) provides a hands-on introduction to the FOLIO library services platform.
The FOLIO project is a community collaboration to develop an open source library services platform. The project has engaged a growing community of librarians, developers and commercial entities, and design and development of the platform has progressed at a steady rate. Most importantly, the platform fundamentals have been established through a network of participants who are focused on delivering an architecture for evolution and growth.
With development well underway, this Workshop will introduce developers to FOLIO. Get down and get dirty with the FOLIO team to:-
Developers and testers need to efficiently discuss various topics such as issues, usage quirks, new features, and documentation improvements. Participants will also gain an understanding of the FOLIO communication spaces and how to use them, as the FOLIO project has four primary communication channels and several secondary communication channels.
Participants should have a genuine interest in creating an open future for libraries. In the workshop you will have a willingness to contribute via code, testing, and sharing functional knowledge in any area of library workflows.
Prerequisites:
You Must Register: attendance is free to Tech Camp delegates, but online registration is essential and numbers are strictly limited. First in, best dressed with only 25 spaces available.
What Else?
Drinks after! Yes, that’s right. The FOLIO Workshop Networking Hour, involving great company, good food and a drink or two – follows immediately after the Workshop, and is provided by the generous folk at EBSCO. Onsite at the bar, Level TBA, William Angliss Conference Centre – 5.00-6.00pm. Again, registration is essential - please indicate your attendance when you register for the workshop.
AARNet is the VALA Tech Camp 2017 Tech Partner – which means nothing happens without them, including Day 0. We are chuffed that AARNet has also come on board to support our Workshop program, and will be offering some hands on for network speed testing and problem solving on data movement based on digitisation workflows.
Your Presenters: Ingrid Mason +1
Who Should Attend: those with some knowledge of or practice in digital collection management, digitisation, or research data management, and an interest in tools and techniques that support data and technology intensive workflows.
What You Must Do: before the Workshop, you’ll need to test the speed (download and upload) of the broadband connections at home, at work or on the go with a speed test tool provided locally e.g. iinet, Telstra, Optus and record the device used, e.g. laptop or desktop computer, phone or tablet. We’ll send more instructions about this nearer to the event.
You Must Register: attendance is free to Tech Camp delegates, but online registration is essential and numbers are strictly limited. First in, best dressed with only 25 spaces available.
Applications are invited from across Australia for the first VALA Diversity Scholarship, generously sponsored by Linux Australia. The Scholarship will fund one individual’s attendance at VALA Tech Camp 2017, in Melbourne, between 12-14 July.
CLICK HERE for more details about the Diversity Scholarship and to submit an application.
Registrations Are Open
Sign up, sign up! Registrations are now open for VALA Tech Camp 2017. VALA – Libraries, Technology and the Future, Inc, together with our Tech Partner, AARNet, invites you to the inaugural Australian gathering of technologists who work for and with libraries, galleries, archives and museums. Prepare for an intensive, active, hands-on learning and sharing experience run for and by the people who code, build, teach and maintain technology for libraries and collections. CLICK HERE to download the Program |
TeCTOC – meet the people behind VALA Tech Camp 2017
Meet your Camp Leaders This awesome bunch of great people with serious tech cred are your Tech Camp Organising Committee (or TeCTOC for short). Be very nice to them when you meet them, they are very tired volunteers….
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The VALA Tech Camp sponsorship prospectus is now available.
VALA is seeking tech-savvy partners and sponsors to aid in the delivery of Tech Camp 2017. This is your opportunity to position your brand alongside one of the most trusted professional library technology networks in Australia. With 40 years’ experience and 18 successful national conferences behind us, the VALA brand has both reputation and visibility with technologists in the GLAM sector.
CLICK HERE to download the prospectus
Right now, we want input from VALA Members about the things you want to hear, learn and experience at VALA Tech Camp.
Send us your ideas, and we'll do the rest.
Complete the Call for Ideas form by Monday 5th December and help shape VALA Tech Camp 2017.
VALA Tech Camp 2017 will be the inaugural Australian gathering of technologists who work for and with libraries, galleries, archives and museums.
Comprising 60 minute workshops, 15 minute short talks and a 'make and hack' day, Tech Camp 2017 will be an intensive, active, hands-on learning and sharing experience for everyone who codes for libraries.
We’ve set affordable registration fees (VALA members $295, Non-members $395) and will be working closely with the VALA community to build a program that reflects your needs.
Mark your diaries and come Tech Camping in 2017.