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2013 social activities
- Aviary: super-crazy cocktails. http://www.molecularrecipes.com/molecular-mixology/aviary-cocktails/ . List your name if you're interested, whether Sunday, Monday, and/or Tuesday (after newcomer dinners) work, and whether you're just interested in stopping by, or doing a 7 cocktail tasting flight.*
- statsfool: sunday/monday/tuesday, either drinks or flight.
- Amyhannah: monday/tuesday, drinks, probably not the flight.
- anarchivist: sunday/monday, prefer drinks over flight but could be convinced
- highermath: monday (could use 10 cocktails after Drupal subCon, I am sure). Uber now works in Chicago, so I would do the flight.
- pberry: any night but Wednesday (that's Goose Island night) and I'd be up for drinks or flight, although leaning away from flight.
- thatandromeda oh my gosh yes, any time, probably not the flight.
- gdave beautiful site, I would be interested, Sun,Mon,Tues. either drink or flight.
- shawnc12: sunday/monday, either drink or flight
- wdenton: any night, either drink or flight
- beatricep: sunday/monday drink, highly susceptible to flight by peer pressure..
- ryan hess: sunday/monday drink or flight
- infosoph: sunday/monday yes/yes!!
- Pfeeley: sunday/monday/tuesday, either drink or flight
- Ksprague: tuesday, drink or flight
- schwartzray: anything on any day
- Brewery tour - some possible candidates would be Goose Island, Brew Bus http://www.chicagobrewbus.com/, Piece, Revolution, Half Acre.
- Library field trips - because we're library geeks. Possible places include Newberry and Read/Write.--Read/Write Library confirmed for February 11.--Newberry Library confirmed for February 14.
- Art Institute of Chicago - Only open until 5pm, but possible for people coming in early enough on Sunday. There seems to be enough interest here to actually have a group, when and where should we meet? I added my email so that we could discuss details off the wiki.
- escowles: I'm getting in around noon on Sunday, and interested in this.
- pgrayove at gmail dot com: I'm getting in around noon on Sunday too. I'm interested.
- ranti: And I am.
- tshearerlib: Coming in at around the same time and hope to get to the museum by 1:00. Lunch first?
- Local Option http://localoptionbier.com/ - So you've heard of Hopleaf, you've heard of Maproom. Come to Chicago's *ahem* best kept secret for good food and an evening session on Monday. We will need a tally to make requisite arrangements. Target for arrival at bar: 7ish. Probably a group gathering to head north around 6:30 in hotel lobby (if you want to take the #8 Halsted bus that is).
- kayiwa
- Linda Ballinger
- Courtney Greene
- John Pillans
- +6 from NCSU incl one Bret Davidson
- Megan Kudzia
- Andrew Darby
- erinrwhite
- Will Clarke
- Cody Hanson
- Jesse Brown
- Matt Cordial +1 (my friend and I were already planning a Monday trip here)
- Ray Schwartz
- Eric Larson
- David Cliff
- Ken Irwin
- Dileshni Jayasinghe
Planned Events
Read/Write Library Field Trip, Monday 2/11
Field trip to the Read/Write Library 6:30PM-9PM
Drop in whenever during this time.
Come help catalog the Read/Write Library catalog and hack on the library catalog. We will get food or go to a nearby restaurant depending on interest. We will also invite friends from Code for America to hang out and talk civic data. Bring your laptop along if you have one.
Let us know if you are coming so we can figure out food:
- Margaret Heller
- Ranti Junus
- Wayne Schneider
- jrochkind will try to make it
- emily shaw (may be a little late)
kenirwin - bailed on acct of pre-conf brain death - Andromeda - yes, unless someone gets Aviary reservations
- Chris Clement - may attend
(hey, there are great bars in that neighborhood!)
- wdenton
Directions to the library from UIC:
Take the #8 Halsted Bus north to Chicago (Bus will say "#8 Halsted/79th North to Broadway/Waveland") Take the #66 Chicago Bus west to California (Bus will say either "#66 Chicago west to Austin" or "#66 Chicago West to Pulaski." You can take either one because both Austin and Pulaski are further west than we are so both stop at California) The Chicago bus stops on the west side of California, which is the side of the street we're on. On California, walk a block north to Walton.
Train + Bus (slightly faster/more reliable, but only by about 5-10 minutes)
Walk to the UIC/Halsted Blue Line Take the O'Hare train (toward the Loop) and go all the way through the Loop and back west. Get off at Chicago and use the exit that says "North side of Chicago Ave" (or something similar — I don't remember exactly). Take the #66 Chicago Bus west to California (Bus will say either "#66 Chicago west to Austin" or "#66 Chicago West to Pulaski." You can take either one because both Austin and Pulaski are further west than we are so both stop at California) The Chicago bus stops on the west side of California, which is the side of the street we're on. On California, walk a block north to Walton.
Newcomer Dinner, Tuesday 2/12
First time at code4lib? Join fellow c4l newbies and veterans for an evening of food, socializing, and stimulating discussions about demonstrations of the many uses of bacon dongles XML.
Code4Lib veterans, you're invited too. Join us in welcoming the newcomers!
- When: Tuesday evening (2/12)
- Time: 6 PM (ish) or whenever you can get your group together
- Mastermind (if you have any questions): Becky Yoose
- Max of 6 per group
- Please, no waitlisting
- ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group
- New folks - n
- c4l vets - v
- One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group)
- Leader duties
- Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library tech type folks
- Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)
- Leader duties
Restaurants within .25 miles of the hotel
Athena (Greek)
- Al Cornish - v (leader)
- Carolyn Cole - n
- Dileshni Jayasinghe - v
- Will Clark - n
- Adam Constabaris - v
- Patrick Hogan - n
- Capped at 6
We will meet in the hotel lobby. Leave at 6:15 PM, reservation for six at the Athena at 6:30 PM. It is a short walk down Halsted.
Dine (Contemporary)
Girl and the Goat (American) Top Chef fans take note! This is Stephanie Izard's award-winning resto. Totally booked.
Izard just opened a diner across the street from G&G that is walk-in only. (very good, probably a wait but they also have a bar in the back --wickr)
We'll meet in the lobby of the hotel at 6:30 and walk over. No reservations.
- Mark Matienzo (leader) - v
- Andromeda Yelton - n
- Hillel Arnold (intern) - veteran newbie
- Kelly Lucas (will meet at restaurant) - n
- Chris Clement - n
- Erin Fahey (will meet at restaurant) -n
- Beatrice Pulliam - n
Haymarket Pub & Brewery (Pub food) - Reservations at 6:30pm. Meet in conference hotel lobby at 6:10pm
- Ryan Wick (leader) - v
- Dan Fehrenbach - n
- Pierre Nault - n
- Minh-Quang Nguyen - n
- Matt Bernhardt - n
- David Gonzalez - n
- Capped at 7
Karyn's on Green (Vegan) Completely vegan and close to the conference hotel. We'll meet in the conference hotel at around 6:45 (reservation at 7:00 for 6). Google maps says it is a 5 minute walk.
- Jason Ronallo (leader)- v
- Alicia Cozine - n
- Mark Mounts - v
- Amy Deschenes - n
- Adam Strohm - n
- Jacob Reed - n
- Capped at 6
Nia (Mediterranean tapas)
Pegasus (Greek) - reservation at 6:30 for 6. We'll meet in the hotel lobby at 6:15 and walk down.
- Erin White (leader) - v
- Don Mennerich -n
- John MacGillivray
- Santi Thompson - n
- Jan Waterhouse - n
- Nell Taylor - v
- Capped at 6
Roditys (Greek) -- Reservations made for 6:30pm. Let's meet in the hotel lobby at 6pm and walk over from there. Its ok if you're a bit late to the lobby, we'll wait. If you have any questions email Rosalyn (Rosy) rosalynmetz at gmail dot com
- Rosalyn Metz (leader) - v
- Cary Gordon - v
- Jacob Andresen - n
- Karen Miller - n
- Dre - v
- Mahria Lebow - n
- Capped at 6
Restaurants between .25 miles and .5 miles of the hotel
Code4lib Chicago Celery Salt Society - Al's Beef
- Jason Casden (leader) - v - No reservations. We can walk from the hotel at 7.
- Charlie Morris - n
- Cory Lown - v
- Carolina Garcia - n
- Cody Hanson - n
- Ken Varnum - v
- Capped at 6
Avec (Small plate)
Family-style small plate and tapas. Great Yelp reviews. We'll meet in the conference hotel at 6:00 6:45 (they don't take reservations, but have stuff to sip on if there's a wait). Less than 10 minute walk from hotel.
- Shaun Ellis (leader) - v
- Jon Stroop - v
- Paula Gray-Overtoom - n
- Emily Zervas - n
- Cynthia Ng - neither
- Sarah Dooley - n
- Capped at 6
Baba's Village (Indian/Pakistani)
Blackbird (Contemporary)
(Since the reservation is late, does anyone want to meet for drink in the hotel bar beforehand? There's really no place to wait at the restaurant, and there's no nice bar nearby that I can recall. cm)
- Justin Coyne (reserver) - v - Reservation for Blackbird for 6 at 8:30pm (justin at curationexperts.com)
- Matt Cordial - v
- Christine McClure - n
- Devin Higgins - n (devinhiggins at gmail)
- Ken Irwin
- Tad Merchant - n (tadoneus @ gmail)
- Capped at 6
Carnivale (Nuevo Latino)
- Nettie Lagace - n/v - reservation is at 8 pm; let's meet at the hotel bar beforehand and merge with the Blackbird group for a bit. I have a red sweater and purple glasses / nettiel at gmail dot com
- Rebecca Jones - n/v
- Ben Burbridge - n
- Andrea Schurr - n/v
- Geoff Boushey - n
- James Staub - n > v
- Capped at 6
De Cero (Mexican)
Dragonfly (Chinese, sushi)
Giordano's (Chicago Style Pizza) This place should be able to handle multiple groups... Meet at hotel lobby at 6ish and we can walk over around 6:15-6:30.
- Andrew Nagy (leader) - v
- Virginia Schilling - n
- Jane Sandberg - n
- Richard Aroksaar - n
- Jesse Brown - n (jfbrown78 at gmail dot com)
- Bob Haschart -v
- Alicia Morris
- Ayla Stein - n
- Sharona Ginsberg - n
- Andrew Myers - n
- Jim LeFager - n
- Stephen Eisenhauer - n
- Xiaoming Wang -n
- Greg Murry -n
Grange Hall Burger Bar (Local food)
I Dream of Falafel (Mediterranean) -- No reservations -- this is a casual place. Supposed to be an 8 minute walk from the hotel. Let's meet at 6:20pm in the Crowne Plaza lobby. I have chin-length brown hair and probably will be holding a paper scribbled with 'falafel.'
- Emily Lynema (leader) - v
- Christie Peterson - n
- James Stuart - v
- Emily Shaw - n (emilyfshaw at gmail dot com)
- Ian Chan - n (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Zeno Tajoli - n
- Capped at 6
Jaipur (Indian; Reservation made for 6 at 6:30) -- Let's meet in the crowne plaza lobby @ 6:15; it's supposed to be a 6 minute walk
- Andrew Darby (leader) - v
- Josh Wilson (joshwilsonnc at gmail) - n
- Tim Thompson - n
- Mariela Hristova - n
- ryan hess - n
- Patrick Feeley - n
- Capped at 6
La Sardine (French)
MyThai Takumi (Japanese Thai) Reservation at 6:15. Meet in the hotel lobby at 6 pm. Look for the women in a trench coat and hat.
- Becky Yoose (leader) b dot yoose at gmail - v
- May Chan - n
- David Anderson - newby
- Terry Brady - new
- Dave Menninger - n
- Shawn Carraway -n
- Capped at 6
Nellcôte (French)
Province (American with Central/South American/Spanish influence)
The Publican (Seafood)
- Jay Luker (eater) - v - Rezzie is for 8pm
Mark Matienzo (tweeter) - vstarted a new newcomer dinner! - Devon Smith (pickle eater) - repeat offender
- Chris Sharp (dead horse beater) - v
- Michael B. Klein (greeter) - v
- Bill McMillin (meeter) - n
- Tom Johnson (treater) -v
- Capped at 6
Saigon Sisters (Vietnamese) Reservation for 6:15, meet in hotel lobby at 6. I am the one who has been running around in pink tights all day.
- Margaret Heller - v and leader
- Sharon Clapp - n
- Meghan Finch - n
- James Griffin - n
- Maura Byrne - n
Thai Urban Kitchen (Thai, sushi)
Trattoria Isabella (Italian)
Vivo (Italian)
Wishbone (Southern Reconstruction)
- Rachel Shaevel (herder, self-proclaimed dictator, and reservation maker) - n (we're on for 6:15! Meet by the women's restroom when the sessions are over.)
- Myrna E Morales (follower) - n
- Sarah Thorngate - n
- Steven Marsden - n
- David Lacy - v
- Luke Gaudreau - n
- Capped at 6
Restaurants between .5 miles and .75 miles of the hotel
Currents on the River (Eclectic)
N9NE Steakhouse (Steak)
Vera Chicago (Spanish)
Restaurants between .75 miles and 1 mile of the hotel
The Berghoff (German)
- Declan Fleming - v (leader) I checked reservations, and for 6 people, the first time open after the conf is 7:30, so I grabbed that.
- Let's meet in the lobby at 7p and walk over!
- Dave Green - n
- Steven Villereal - n
- Peter Murray - v
- Trey Terrell - n
- Mike Giarlo - v
- Capped at 6
Frontera (a Rick Bayliss Mex-American restaurant) Reservations are for 7:30, so perhaps the group could get a drink in the lobby beforehand. Either way, we'll depart at 7pm.
- (note: the drinks at the bar at frontera are very tasty.)
- Dan Suchy (leader and over-eater) - v
- Matt Critchlow - v
- Carmen Mitchell - v
- Maureen Callahan - n
- David Cliff - n
- Patrick Berry - 3rd year red-shirt freshman
- Capped at 6
Native Foods (Vegan) lots of vegan, vegetarian, gluten free options. No reservations needed. We could meet near the convention center or Daley library around 6 and take the train together. Lots of places to get drinks afterwards.
I will wait at 5:30 at outside the UIC forum for anyone who wants to meet here. We'll pick up everyone else at Daley library at 6, then walk to the train station together.
- Annie Pho(potential leader) - n
- Lauren Magnuson - n
- Bennett Magnino - n (meeting outside the Daley library sounds good)
- Kelly Thompson - n
- Audrey Altman - n
- Mackenzie Brooks - n
- Steven Bassett - n (Can't wait! Native Foods is awesome!).
- Capped at 7 Unless you can handle more folks!
Restaurants more than 1 mile from the hotel
Green Zebra (Vegan)
Honky Tonk Barbeque (BBQ) ---- I'm interested in Game Night this evening, so I'll make reservations for early dinner at lunch time (when there's some hope of the HT answering the phone). Please let me know if 6:30 is not OK. Lets leave from the UIC Library (front door) at 6:10. It's a moderate walk (a bit less than a mile) from campus; I also have a car, and can drive a couple people if you want.
- Allan Berry (leader) - n
- Jason Raitz - n (The #60 bus looks like it would save those of us with a bus pass the walk.)
- Brian Wu - n (pwu14 at illinois dot edu)(EDIT: Plans sound good. I am also interested in game night. If somehow we don't make it, I have a 4 player game in my hotel room.)
- Gary Maixner - n
- Keith Nickum -v
- Capped at 6
Karyn's Cooked (Vegan)
La Taberna Tapas (Mediterranean)
Morgan's on Maxwell (Pub food)
Chez Joël (French/Tangiers food) I am leaning towards an early dinner of 6:15 as I have to take-off to make sure the Game Night takes off without a hitch. So leave the conference hotel by 5:45 if it is walk weather or 6PM if it is taxi weather.
- Francis Kayiwa (knackered leader) - v
- Megan O'Neill Kudzia - n
- Esther Verreau - n
- Michael Neidhardt - n
- Rikke Willer - n
- Esme Cowles - v
- Capped at 6
Veg*n Dinner
Let's have dinner at a veg*n-friendly place one night of the conference. Folks of all eating styles welcome.
Max *6* people per party this year.
Party #1: Chicago Diner, Wednesday Night http://www.veggiediner.com/ "meat free since '83" Will they easily be able to accommodate 6 folks walking in? We'll plan on meeting in the conference hotel at 6pm and taking the 8 bus up there (3411 N. Halsted St Chicago, IL 60657).
- Jason Ronallo (email@example.com)
- Linda Ballinger (linda dot ballinger at gmail)
- May Chan (msuicat at gmail dot com)
- Demian Katz (demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu)
- David Uspal (david dot uspal at villanova dot edu) In for the Country Fried StAEk and/or the Soul Bowl. Ex-Vegetarian (which may make it a crime for me to go), so if the list is full and you still want in, feel free to email me and I'll gladly turn over my spot to an actual Veg*n.
- Cynthia Ng (cynthia dot s dot ng at gmail)
Capped at 6
Code4lib/Goose Island Brewing Pull Request
When: Wednesday, 2/13, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
More information and sign up at [1]
Bourbon and barbecue
When: Wednesday, 2/13, 7:00 PM
Friend of mine tells me his cousin manages a Chicago restaurant, Chicago q, and I should go there and tell him my friend sent me. Menu keeps talking about artisanal barbecue and extensive bourbon options. DONE.
Reservation is at 7 for a party of 8. Add yourselves.
We can take the number 20 bus to the Red Line. We should plan to meet in the lobby at 6:10; that way we can work with the bus tracker and make a leisurely trip over.
- Andromeda Yelton
- Chris Day [cday2 at saic.edu]
- Abigail Goben
- Dileshni Jayasinghe [d dot jayasinghe at utoronto dot ca]
- Ray Mathew
- Dre (Barbecue, yes. Bourbon... well, we'll see.) akorphan at ncsu.edu
- Sean Chen schen at law.duke.edu
Islandora Dinner
When: Wednesday, 2/13, Meet at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Lobby at 6:10PM or Meet at Pegasus by 06:30PM.
Where: Pegasus
Contact: @jrgriffiniii (griffinj at lafayette dot edu)
Update: Tables Reserved
We've reserved tables for 15 people. Unfortunately, this seems to be the limit set by Pegasus. If you wish, you may attempt to form a second party and reserve the table(s) for 06:30PM.
Discuss and exchange ideas related to the Drupal-based front-end to the Fedora Commons repository! Freely discuss the status of Islandora 7, DiscoveryGarden, Inc. projects, your institutional repository instance(s), non-Islandora experiments in Drupal/Fedora interfacing, or any specific layer of the Islandora application stack.
Non-beery get together
When: Wednesday, 2/13, Meet at hotel lobby at around 6:30 (and take public transport over to the park) OR meet us at the rink at 6:45, skating rink closes at 8 PM
Where: McCormick Tribune Ice Rink
Contact: @dchud, @ranti, @yo_bj (b dot yoose at gmail), @wendyrlibrarian
Cost: $10 skate rental, people watching free
Come and (attempt to) skate with us! This is also a good people watching opportunity, so if you don't want to skate, there will be places to hang out around the rink and the park. There is a cafe near the rink as well, with hot drinks and food.
FYI - For those of you who want something else to munch on while hanging out, there's a Garrett Popcorn Shop a couple blocks away.
- Chris Sharp (indicating interest)
- Becky Yoose (ready to fall on her butt repeatedly for the entertainment of others)
- Peter Murray
- Shawn Carraway
- Karen Coombs
- Michael Levy
- Andrew Pasterfield
- Virginia Schilling
- Al Cornish
- Sibyl Schaefer
- Kalee Sprague
- Luis Baquera (ready to distract everyone with his own fantastic wipeouts while Becky composes herself)
- Maccabee Levine
- Sarah Shealy (I'm pretty sure I'll fall spectacularly as well :) )
- Emily Lynema (interested!)
- Gabriel Farrell
- Gary Maixner (former hockey player! so no falling from me)
- Tim Shearer
Flying Trapeze
When: Monday, 2/11, TBD
Contact: rosalynmetz at gmail dot com
Class is full.
No this is not a joke. If you haven't heard Rosy is an aspiring trapeze artists and wants to bring the fun to her friends in Code4Lib. There is a trapeze rig in Chicago and she plans on visiting it and hopes that some of you can come along as well. If its your first time taking a trapeze class, they'll start you off learning a knee hang and depending on how that goes you might be able to catch it at the end of class. If you have any questions about whether or not this is for you, TSNY Chicago's website should have the answer, if not feel free to contact Rosy.
Trapeze classes are $57, last 2 hours, and are limited to 10 people. Currently TSNY Chicago hasn't release their class schedule for February -- they should be doing that around Jan. 1. If we can get enough people interested before then, we can buy out a whole class. If not it'll be first come, first serve (along with the general public).
If you're interested in signing up, feel free to add your name and contact info to the list below.
Sign Up List
- Jay Luker (first!)
- Bill McMillin
- Bess Sadler
- Karen Coyle
- Sibyl Schaefer
- Rosalyn Metz (because I'm organizing)
- Alicia Cozine
- Gabriel Farrell
Game Night!
See the http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2013_game_night page for the latest details and to sign up for individual games or add games you're willing to lead/teach!
Moved this from idea to an actual event. Still getting some details, but here's what we know:
Game Night! Type of games might vary due to interest and what people bring. Looks like interest right now is mostly on light to mediumish games with a dash of abstracts ;).
Rough Schedule:
- 7:30 setup
- 7:45 start playing games!
- 10:00 start winding down (don't start new games)
- 10:30 all done, turn off the lights
- I highly recommend that people walk in groups to get back to their respective lodgings. I'll ask folks still around at the end to help me clean up so we can walk back to the conference hotel*
Please bring your badge with. (You don't need to wear it on the way, but that'll help us make sure everyone in the room is supposed to be there.)
We have a conference room (1-470) at the UIC library (Richard J. Daley Library, 801 S. Morgan, Chicago) reserved for 7:30 on Tuesday the 11th. I'll try to show up at the lobby and hang out there for at about 7:15. I'll be the guy with a code4lib nametag and a box of games ;). Not sure how late we'll play, it looks like the library is open till 1:00am, but I suspect I will for now put a rough ending time of 11pm.
(Note, there's also some discussion on Cards Against Humanity. I will try to make sure there's an alternative game, but I don't know if I want to prohibit any games. I would say though to remember to be respectful and courteous to those around you. I will probably be pondering this issue for a while)
The original list of people who signed up is below.
I (Jon Gorman) will bring some board games and pick up some cards. Add your name to the list below if you're interested in attending. Also not if you can bring games. Bringing games is NOT REQUIRED. If you can bring a game you can teach, that's great and will make sure we're not just stuck playing the games I bring.
(I've added some comments to the game lists below)
- jtgorman, aka Jon Gorman: I'll bring Time's Up: Total Recall, Tsuro, Hey, That's My Fish, Hive, and some more I haven't decided on yet. (My profile over at http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ is jtgorman as well if you want to browse my games and make requests)
- yo_bj: I have some games I can bring as well (Kill Doctor Lucky, Fluxx, Godzilla: Stomp, Munchkin Zombies, etc.). Monday doesn't have anything major planned...
- danwho: I 'll bring the Cards Against Humanity set.
- escowles (Mon/Tue preferred): I've got lots of games I could bring like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Age of Renaissance, Elfenland, Agricola, Le Havre, Smallworld, RoboRally, etc. etc.
- Take your pick! All good games. I'll try to finalize my list of games before Friday - JonG
- jen_young: I'm local and I have quite a few games. Just about every version of Fluxx, Bananagrams, Gloom, Munchkin Cthulu,Cards Against Humanity, Apples to Apples, Risk, Last Night on Earth, etc.)
- All good games! If you don't mind bringing a box that would be awesome. I particularly like Apples to Apples, Last Night on Earth and Gloom - JonG
- decasm: Interested in Go (aka igo, weiqi, baduk) anytime, not just game night. I can do Catan as well. (And as much as I love it, Cards Against Humanity is probably a violation of the new Code of Conduct.)
- I look forward to losing my first game of Go to you ;) - JonG
- I'd love to learn Go.
Perhaps after the newcomer dinner?Oof... won't make for Tues. But would still be interested to learn. --ranti.
- csharp: I'm interested in playing games - whatever people bring. I almost always travel with a pack or two of playing cards ;-). Monday or Tuesday nights are fine.
- moneill: I would love to join in! I have a version of Catchphrase floating around somewhere, and I think I have Battleship...I need to go weed around in that drawer and see what else presents itself. Tuesday would be my preferred night, but I will make it work!
- Don't worry too much about bringing a game if transportation is a problem. One thing I've done w/ stuff like catchphrase is not take the box but to put pieces and cards in a bag - JOn G
- demiankatz: I'm always up for a game. I'm hoping to travel light so probably shouldn't bring anything, but if there's a local game shop, I might be persuaded to pick up something new as a souvenir.
- Don't worry, I think there will be plenty of games - JonG
- sekjal: I've got Dominion, 7 Wonders, Bang!, EcoFluxx and Guillotine that I can bring. ++ on Cards against Humanity! Prefer non-conflict with beer night.
- Also all good games. I have 7 Wonders, but can bring some other games if you bring that. - Jon G
- arty: so totally interested. Unfortunately, I have no games to contribute.
- No prob.
- sanderson: I would be interested. I can bring Citadels (2-7 players)
- Citadels would be awesome and means I don't have to bring it ;) - JonG
- dvdndrsn: Definitely in! Can bring Innovation, Tichu, Dominion, but Cards Against Humanity sounds good.
- I'll put in a vote for Tichu, heard good things about it - Jon G
- smkiewel: I'm likely to join. Can bring Arkham Horror and Munchkin.
- Arkham Horror seems rather bulky to travel with, but if you want to play bring it ;) - Jon G
- mbutler: If someone actually brings Arkham Horror I'd throw down. Otherwise, whateve.
- jkwilson: I'd like to attend Monday or Tuesday. I have a bunch of games but I'd prefer not to travel with them, and anyway it sounds like they're covered above. I'll bring the 5-6 player Catan extension.
- ejlynema: Interested, but will probably attend Newcomer dinner on Tuesday. Like Dominion and 7 Wonders, but probably don't have room to bring in suitcase. Anyone bringing Tsuro?
- I can bring Tsuro - Jon G
- Christie Peterson (save4use): Also interested, but also probably attending newcomer dinner on Tuesday. Can bring Bohnanza and one deck of Set.
- Bohnanza and Set would be awesome - JonG
- Done! I will bring them both -- C
- dgcliff: I'd be interested. Can bring Ticket to Ride.
- mbklein: definitely interested. Will check on my (currently unpacked) games. I am dying to play Cards Against Humanity. If we can't find a way to reconcile it with the Code of Conduct, we need a different Code of Conduct.
- Considering that this is a public event, and that no one knows everyone's sensitivity levels in the room, it might not be a good idea to break out a crass, adult version of apples to apples in the middle of the gaming room. :cP (yo_bj)
- duspal: In. My board game collection is small but mighty (Arkham Horror, Catan, Vampire: Prince of the City, Deadlands: Battle for Slaughter Gulch, Arabian Nights, Diplomacy, Shogun, and Cosmic Encounter off the top of my head, amongst a few others). Let me know ahead of time if anyone is interested, since they're all relatively big...
- If you really want to play Cosmic Encounter, I can bring my copy (Fantasy Flight edition, 3 expansions), just let me know - JonG
- librarywebchic: I'm willing to bring a set and teach folks how to play Majhong. Need at least three to play though.
- beatricep: Uno gets no respect. ;-) @librarywebchic: I have always wanted to learn to play Majhong. If you're still bringing it, I'm in!
- Agreed, I don't know Majhong and I love learning new games. - JonG
- I actually know a few different rule sets. It's too bad I don't have a travel set or I'd bring a 2nd one -Arty
- I'm local and can bring a mahjong set. I've had no one to play with for years, so have probably forgotten how. -Linda B
- jcraitz: I'm in after the newcomer dinner. I'll bring Citadels and Bang!
- I think someone higher in the list offered to bring citadels, but won't hurt to have two copies just in case one of you don't show ;) - JonG
- Aww no. left my games at the office. Looks like I'll have to jump in someone else's game.
- julia: I'll be the freeloader who showed up and didn't bring any games.
- kenirwin: interested in attending
- sdellis: attending
- ianc: interested in attending, a little rusty but definitely up for a couple rounds of Mahjong, also want to try something new too!
- haschart: Interested in attending, if I can make it work with the newcomer dinner. Big fan of Dominion lately, but probably cannot bring it `cause the "Big Box" with the base game and two expansion sets is bigger than my suitcase. I could bring "Race for the Galaxy" if there's any interest.
- jessebrown: Interested in attending. I can bring Set and Zombie Fluxx.
- terrywbrady: I would like to attend
- dan fehrenbach (dnfehren): I would like to attend, can bring Pandemic if anyone is interested.
- dileshni: interested in attending.
- Corey Harper: definitely interested in attending if space allows.
- saverkamp: interested in attending.
- Emily Shaw: I like games.
- Alan Dyck: I play Carcassonne and Munchkin among others. I see those listed so I'm bringing a game some friends and I have been creating: Wandering Monster.
- Heidi Frank (firstname.lastname@example.com) - I love card games like gin/rummy, but am open to anything.
- Sibyl Schaefer - attending, and will bring anything that fits in my carry-on
- cpsarason - I'm up for whatever!
-- *Please, please, please, if you're signing up on this list, also sign up for a paritcular game slot to start out the evening or put your game in: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2013_game_night we're having so many people sign up after Jan. 14th we're in risk of overflowing the room. (I should have put in a cap limit, but given how late I realized this, I haven't *
I have to confess, I started trying to organize what games certain people were bringing, but it got confusing fast and I don't want anyone to feel compelled to bring anything or feel bad if they can't make it. So if there is something you're dying to play, let me know and I'll try to bring it if I have it.
UNC v Duke?
I'm going to watch the UNC/Duke game somewhere in the lobby of the conference hotel. Probably won't be there when it starts at 8:00 but will as soon as skating is done.
Tim Shearer (tshearer at email dot unc dot edu) - instigator
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Layar: augmented reality Code4Lib view of Chicago
There's a "Code4Lib 2013" layer in Layar, an augmented reality app that runs on both Android and iOS. You can use it to scan around the city to see two kinds of things: 1) tweets using the #c4l13 or #code4lib hashtag (if the tweets are geolocated so they can be nailed to a point) and 2) points of interest from the shared Google Map.
To use it:
- install Layar on your phone
- run it and click to go into Geo Layers mode
- search for "code4lib 2013"
- launch the layer and look around
See Code4Lib people and events overlaid on top of Chicago, in real time! See an alternate view of the city that's all about libraries and coders!
To make your own tweets appear, use the #c4l13 hashtag and make sure the tweet is geolocated. In Twitter's client you need to do this by enabling geolocation in settings and then enabling it for each tweet.
Source code running this: Laertes. Bill Denton set it up and is very curious to find out if it's useful, so let him know if you try it out.
Local Events
Events Listings
- Chicago Reader http://www.chicagoreader.com/
- The City of Chicago's Events Guide: http://www.choosechicago.com/
- Metromix Chicago: http://chicago.metromix.com/events
- Timeout Chicago: http://timeoutchicago.com/
- Chicago Studio Club's Live Music Google Calendar
Local Food
Local Drinks
Chicago Events Feb 10-14
Sunday February 10
Theater - Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind "...with its ever-changing "menu," is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes. " 7pm.
Theater - Chunks : Funny, Heartbreaking, Gross. 7pm & BYOB!
Monday February 11
Music - Robbie Fulks at the Hideout
fedora4lib - 7 pm to whenever
Tuesday, February 12
Concert - The Fat Babies playing at an awesome venue, The Green Mill.
fedora4lib - 7 pm to whenever
Wednesday, February 13
Thursday, February 14
Tour of the Newberry Library -- 3:30 p.m. This will be a special tour for Code4Lib attendees, so please sign up below if you are interested, as I'll need to give the tour guide an estimate of how many people will come. Details on how to get to the Newberry will follow. Questions? Contact ballingerl at newberry dot org
Directions: The Newberry is at 60 W Walton St. It could take half an hour to get there from the conference hotel via CTA, so those of you who wish to take public transit as a group can meet me (look for the very long green & white scarf) in the hotel lobby by 3:00. We will then go to the UIC-Halsted El stop (5 blocks from hotel), change trains in the Loop, then walk 3-4 blocks to the Newberry. Otherwise, plan on making your preferred way there and meet in the Newberry lobby by 3:30.
Sign Up List
- Michael Doran - email@example.com
- William Denton - firstname.lastname@example.com
- Wayne Schneider - firstname.lastname@example.com
- Matt Cordial - rev3lator [at] gmail.com
- ryan hess - mhess8 [at] depaul.edu
- Richard Aroksaar - email@example.com
- Laurie Lee Moses - lmoses [at] colum.edu
- Ray Schwartz - firstname.lastname@example.com
- May Chan - msuicat [at] gmail.com
- Nick Cappadona - email@example.com
- Zeno Tajoli - z.tajoli [at] cineca[DOT]it
- Tod Olson - tod at uchicago
There's a Code4Lib 2013 in Chicago collaborative playlist on Rdio. If you're a subscriber, have a look, and add something you think everyone would like to hear or use as their personal soundtrack while they're hacking and exploring Chicago.


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(WASHINGTON, D.C., AP) – President Barack Obama's call to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour and boost it annually to keep pace with inflation is already getting a trial run.
Ten states make similar cost-of-living adjustments, including Washington state, where workers earn at least $9.19 an hour, the highest minimum in the country.
In all, 19 states and the District of Columbia have minimum wages set above the federal rate of $7.25, a disparity Obama highlighted in his State of the Union address as he seeks to help the nation's lowest paid workers.
Obama's proposal is renewing the age-old debate between advocates who claim boosting the minimum wage pumps more money into the economy, helping to create new jobs, and business groups that complain it would unfairly burden employers and curb demand for new workers.
And it faces certain hurdles in Congress, as top Republicans including House Speaker John Boehner wasted little time dismissing the proposal.
More than 15 million workers earn the national minimum wage, making about $15,080 a year. That's just below the federal poverty threshold of $15,130 for a family of two.
Selling his plan to a crowd in Asheville, N.C., on Wednesday, Obama said it's time to increase the minimum wage "because if you work full-time, you shouldn't be in poverty."
Advocates say a minimum wage increase can lead to even broader economic benefits.
"These are workers who are most likely to spend virtually everything they earn, so it just pumps money back into local economies," said Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project, a worker advocacy group.
But William Dunkelberg, chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Business, said the increase would hit businesses hard and only hurt low-wage workers by reducing demand for their services.
"The higher the price of anything, the less that will be taken, and this includes labor," Dunkelberg said. "Raising the cost of labor raises the incentive for employers to find ways to use less labor."
Economists have long disputed the broader impact of setting a minimum wage. A major 1994 study by labor economists David Card and Alan Krueger found that a rise in New Jersey's minimum wage did not reduce employment levels in the fast food industry. Krueger now is chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Yet that study has come under fire from other economists, who argue that comparing different states over time shows that raising the minimum wage hurts job growth.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said that a higher minimum wage would boost incomes for some poorer workers. But it would also discourage employers from hiring more of them.
"So on net, I am not sure it helps," he said.
The government first set a minimum wage during the Great Depression in 1938. It has been raised 22 times since then — the last increase went into effect in 2009 — but the value has eroded over time due to inflation.
Obama's latest plan would raise the hourly minimum to $9 by 2015 and as well as increase the minimum wage for tipped workers, which has not gone up for more than two decades.
As for states that have already set minimum wages above the federal rate, they range from $7.35 in Missouri to the high of $9.19 in Washington. In 10 of those states, the minimum wage is automatically adjusted every year to keep pace with the rising cost of living – Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.
Women represent nearly two thirds of minimum wage workers, while black and Hispanic workers represent a higher share of the minimum wage work force than whites, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The last federal minimum wage increase was signed into law by President George W. Bush, when it increased from $5.15 to $7.25 in a three-step process between 2007 and 2009.
The last recession began in the middle of that process and took an especially heavy toll on middle-wage positions, which accounted for 60 percent of jobs lost in the crushing downturn. Most of the job growth since the 2010 recovery has been in low-wage jobs. Owens, for one, contends: "There's no compelling case to be made that raising the minimum wage triggered job losses."
Doug Hall, director of the liberal Economic Policy Institute, estimates that raising the minimum wage to $9 would pump $21 billion into the economy and lead to the creation of 120,000 jobs.
But Randel Johnson, vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for labor issues, said the increase would come "on the backs of employers" who would hire fewer people and cut overtime.
"You don't put new burdens on employers when they are trying to recover in a tough recessionary time," he said.
Johnson also warned against tying wage increases to inflation.
"Employer profits are not magically indexed somehow to always go up," Johnson said. "Congress needs to look at the validity of raising the minimum wage in the context of the economic times in which it's being proposed."
That concern is expected to drive Republican opposition in Congress. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who delivered the GOP response to Obama's State of the Union address, said Wednesday that boosting the minimum wage is the wrong way to help workers increase wages.
"I don't think a minimum wage works," Rubio said on "CBS This Morning. "I want people to make more than $9 dollars an hour. The problem is, you can't mandate that."
Boehner, the House speaker, told reporters Wednesday: "When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it."
The White House is pointing to companies such as Costco, Wal-Mart and Stride Rite that have supported past increases in the minimum wage, saying high wages help build a strong work force and lower turnover helps improve profitability over the long run.

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The latest in our Artists Respond series is by Antonio Mendoza and a French artist known as Jimpunk. Inspired by Drawing Surrealism, the two artists are collaborating from afar, creating a video mashup that transforms found material into a dynamic ongoing collage that changes daily. The project is called Dysleksic. (Note: depending on your internet connection and various other factors, and in keeping with the nature of the artists' work, the project may not play perfectly in all browsers or for all users.)
Here's what Antonio had to say about the project:
I've always loved surrealism. I've been working with collage – video or physical – for twenty years. I've been collaborating with Jimpunk, who is based in Paris, for awhile and decided to go back to the surrealist roots in Paris and do a project with him.
Describe the project?
We take these found videos and pile them on top of each other. It's kind of like an exquisite corpse. We're trying to use random material, creating a clashing of signs and a never-ending collage that has a lot of sound. Our goal is to keep this process going for awhile, loading new videos. It's interesting to see how our respective contributions load and how they affect each other. It pushes the limits of the browser, but doesn't quite crash. I think the surrealists would do something like that.
I don't see what Jimpunk is doing, and he doesn't see what I'm doing. We just started piling it on top of each other. Now we're blending it – I'll take stuff he uses and remix it and he's been doing the same. At the end of the day it's not clear who did what. Sometimes when I watch the videos I'm not even clear what part I did and what part he did. I'll take something he did and alter it, he'll take something I did and alter it.
The piece is chronological, in that whatever new material we add appears at the top. It's set to play six videos at a time, and then when you scroll things will be static for a moment and then it starts playing again. It loads, then it will pause. We both like the jerkiness of the whole process, of stressing the system so that it's working hard to play. It's related to the surrealist ideal of going for the unexpected, the accidental.
I've removed three videos that weren't playing the way I was hoping they'd play, but mostly I like the way it plays. Sometimes I don't and I wish it would play a little bit differently, but that's part of the process. Some of the artifacts from the compression become part of the piece. I've worked on other pieces that use that kind of datamoshing, an elaborate process where you take out the key frames from the videos, and then there are these strange artifacts that are fascinating. I'm sure we'll introduce some of that; once you run out of ideas you just datamosh it and it's cool again!
What's the current state of so-called "net art"?
Net art happened in the mid-1990s to about 2005. There were a lot of people exploring how to make something look interesting out of web pages. Messing up the code. Trying to hack the web browser to do things that it wasn't meant to do. The godfather and godmother of net art were a couple, a collective, called Jodi. Once everyone saw jodi.org, they wanted to do something like that. Overall, I feel like everything that could be done with code and a browser has been done. I might be wrong. Mobile is maybe the new thing. Until I get a better phone I'm not going to be able to do anything with mobile!
What's it like collaborating with Jimpunk?
We met five or six years ago because we do the same type of work. We talk by email a lot. I understand 50% of what he tells me and he understands 50% of what I tell him. I don't know exactly what he's thinking right now! Jimpunk is great in that you say let's do this, and he's like a machine. He just starts doing it.
In response to Dysleksic, Drawing Surrealism curator Leslie Jones said, "It gives new meaning to André Breton's words "Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be at all."
Amy Heibel


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LOS ANGELES — Chris Brown is scheduled to return to a
Los Angeles courtroom for the first time in more than a year amid
questions about his community service.
The R&B singer is on probation for the 2009 beating of his then-girlfriend Rihanna
and had been ordered to perform six months' worth of community service,
including graffiti removal, roadside cleanup and other manual labor.
Brown has completed his terms with praise from a judge, however a
prosecutor raised concerns about how many hours he had completed.
The singer has received praise from a judge overseeing his probation
for the 2009 beating of Rihanna, but an audit of his community service
was ordered in July.
Brown was also ordered to appear in court for a review of his probation on Monday.


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