[Chicago] aaronsw memorial hackathon documentation

[eviljoel]

Hey All,

I'll be in attendance.

- eviljoel


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Sean Farley
> <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:17 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
> [...]
>>> I have mixed feelings about Mendeley due to the possible buy out by
>>> Elsevier.
>>
>> That would be a huge disappointment.
>>
>>> Maybe it is akin to how people feel when google buys a
>>> company?
>>
>> Absolutely not. Elsevier is purely evil and that is all I will say
>> about them on a public list.
>
> Well, there are other tools we could look at. I wasn't sure how
> ambivalent to be. I didn't know if it would be like Google getting
> etherpad, or like yahoo getting delicious, or like twitter getting
> twitter and killing use of its api by third party clients.
>
>>> On the other hand, a lot of scientists use the tool and I
>>> would like to help the population of scientists. And, if devs in
>>> Mendeley have requests and are willing to talk to me, I appreciate
>>> that and it would help for a hack night. And, they do have open source
>>> tools that interact with their api.
>>
>> We will have to see. I've heard of other apis and whatnot and this
>> meeting might be a good reason for me to investigate those more
>> thoroughly.
>
> Yeah, I tried to list alternatives in the gist, and I've also been
> trying to follow discussions here and there and in the other mailing
> list and have bookmarked some of what I've found.
>
> check #mendelete on twitter, for some example commentary
>
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/117663015413546257905/posts/NqpsAJHYHHp
> for a g+ discussion
>
> --
> sheila
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