Comments on: I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours

By: josh

josh — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:00:26 +0000

Librarians and library students need time to play with this sort of stuff.

Hell yes! Not only do we need solo playtime (paid, natch!), we need to have play dates, when we get together and share our toys with each other.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:37:06 +0000

I am actually considering letting people [students, non-john librarians] play around with an installation of Joomla I have running on a server.

Maybe Drupal oughta go that way too.

Librarians and library students need time to play with this sort of stuff.

By: josh

josh — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:28:31 +0000

Oh, and I’m glad I could make you laugh, Jennifer. Any day I can make at least one person laugh is a good day.

By: josh

josh — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:53:17 +0000

Right, Steve. Which is why I think that as significant as John’s action is, Libraryland needs more of it. More sharing, more open source, more “out of the box” tools that people can easily set up. Maybe it seems like pie in the sky, but it doesn’t have to be.

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:31:50 +0000

True. But those of us without Johns (heh) would still need a “mini-John” to implement this stuff. I mean, my library has III, but I’m not really up to installing Drupal, downloading John’s tarball, and setting up something that the man himself says “will definitely not work out-of-the-box.”

Still, cool stuff as usual from John, and a worthwhile challenge to the rest of us to figure out how we are going to take advantage of all this coolness.

By: Jennifer Macaulay

Jennifer Macaulay — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:22:28 +0000

You just made me laugh out loud!!!!!