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I spoke at the MLC Annual Meeting a few weeks ago, and the slides from that talk are attached below. This talk was oriented toward the majority-administrator audience, focusing on the key aspects of why free software matters to me:

the freedoms to use, copy, study, and modify software the dominance of free software in the marketplace how we can make libraries better by understanding the above points

In the slides I highlight the Michigan Evergreen implementation , whose implementors were in the audience and had just gone live with the first two sites, quite happily, it seems. It's a very powerful argument to be able to say to a roomful of people \"it's already all around you, and you don't even have to go first now.\" Makes a speaker's job easier!

I've also taken another crack at framing the comparison between the Carnegie library development program and the availability of free software for building libraries in a more intuitive manner. For years I've been making this case, but it's never clear to me whether it resonates or sticks with people. Hopefully you'll see the effect in action.

After doing slides this way for a few years now, I'm fairly well committed to the \"many many slides with few few words on each\" approach. It seems to help keep focus and balance the story I want to tell with the power of a very few words: in this case, \"use study copy modify\".

Oh, and always, Always, ALWAYS make copies of your slides available as a PDF on a thumb drive, your email inboxes, a network drive, and anything else before you go to sleep if you're due to give a talk the next day. I needed the pull up every one of those and to beg for the help of several incredibly helpful folks at the event to finally get the talk working. I've long done this but never been so glad I do until I really needed 'em all this time!

Add new comment Slides from 2008 MLC Annual Meeting talk on free software by Dan Chudnov Questions for the 2008 presidential candidates October 9th, 2008 | posted by dchud

If I were at one of these debates, here are some questions I'd like to ask the Senators from Arizona and Illinois.

Why are there only two of you here? Shouldn't Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney, and Ralph Nader be up there with you?

Why is it that all our states still handle elections differently, use a mish-mash of unreliable technologies, and voters are being disenfranchised in more ways than we can imagine? What will you do to ensure and let me verify that my vote will count, and that all of us will trust that the outcome of the election will reflect the will of the people?

Why are we at war in Iraq?

Why is it legal to profit from the provision of health care and health care insurance?

Was the 1999 Gramm/Leach/Bliley Act a mistake? Should we reinstate the aspects of Glass-Steagall which disallow banks to trade in securities and insurance?

Why are we at war in Afghanistan?

Why are federal military troops being stationed inside U.S. borders? Do you support that decision?

What do you think of the trend toward relaxing limits on consolidation of media ownership rules?

1 comment Bail me out October 1st, 2008 | posted by dchud

Been offline and now i'm in a hurry so I haven't the proper time to prep a rant against the bailout. Here's a few tips, though:

If you have more than $80k combined at any one bank, move some of it into a new account at a different bank or into some other kind of investment. Immediately. Like, as soon as you read this. FDIC only ensures each individual up to $100k per bank. This is not a good time to be all in to any one thing. Are all your 401k/403b $$ in a single stock index fund? Best to move some over to treasuries. Are all your stock holdings are in one company? Think about the folks who held only AIG, or only Lehman Bros. Don't be like them. Looking for a stock to hold? I like Southwest Airlines because (a) I use their product all the time and (b) they've held up better financially than their peers and stand to gain as the others suffer some more. I also like Costco, since their business caters to people trying to save a few bucks, and that's pretty much all of us just now. They're also Apparently Not Evil. These two companies haven't paid off overwhelmingly in the time I've held them, but they've held up, and I hope that continues. Everbank's foreign currency-backed accounts look pretty interesting. If I had too much cash in one place (not even close!) I'd probably move some into one of their currency index CDs. I own one stock that I expect to go up (it's been going up steadily in the past weeks): BRK.B . It's not like I own very much of it - I'm a librarian, after all - but I've been steadily moving toward it for the past few years and it just keeps paying off. Check the headlines for clear signals that that's not going to change.

I don't like this bailout one bit. I haven't read the senate markup that passed tonight but the house bill was terrible. It doesn't address the key issues, it doesn't provide much potential benefit for the risk, and it's being crammed through like so many pre-emptive wars. *Nobody* I've listened to or read in the past few weeks who knows the history of bank panics, depressions, and credit crises seems to think this plan does anything to help people like you and me, and I'm inclined to agree.

I'm also inclined to never vote for anybody who supports it. Unless something changed drastically in the senate's approved version, this is a horrible, horrible mistake we'll all be paying for for a long time.

9 comments Lack of Access redux September 14th, 2008 | posted by dchud in access

For the second straight year , I won't be at Access , the best damned library conference anywhere. Last year I was busy with a project deadline. This year the event is too close to the jewish new year holiday, and if it weren't, I'd still have a conflict, because later that week I'll be speaking at MLC's annual meeting in Lansing, MI.

/me sighs deeply...

7 comments Thoughts on iPod event September 10th, 2008 | posted by dchud

The new iPods look nice, but not too surprising. What really surprised me was to see that the end-of-talk musical performance slot normally reserved for a John Mayer or John Legend went to Jandek.

The Rep's everywhere these days!

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