Comments on: My take on SWIFT http://llyfrgellydd.info/?p=40 It's Welsh for librarian. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:02:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Pattern Recognition » Blog Archive » Last thoughts on SWIFT at CiL2008 http://llyfrgellydd.info/?p=40&cpage=1#comment-32 Pattern Recognition » Blog Archive » Last thoughts on SWIFT at CiL2008 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:44:14 +0000 http://llyfrgellydd.info/?p=40#comment-32 [...] session were to build would be sharable and community driven. As Michael Sauers pointed out on llyfrgellydd.info, several presenters created tools for free, for the hell of it, that ended up being huge drivers of [...] [...] session were to build would be sharable and community driven. As Michael Sauers pointed out on llyfrgellydd.info, several presenters created tools for free, for the hell of it, that ended up being huge drivers of [...]

]]> By: Michael Sauers http://llyfrgellydd.info/?p=40&cpage=1#comment-20 Michael Sauers Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:20:09 +0000 http://llyfrgellydd.info/?p=40#comment-20 "...and in fact, there is already a Twitter account set up for the purpose of aggregating Twitter posts about Computers in Libraries." As the person who set up that account, and this is the third conference I've done it for, this is what makes me wonder why ITI didn't talk to any of us about creating tools to do what they were trying to accomplish. Speaking for myself I would have happily worked with them as I assume many others would have. (I also think of Meredith who creates the Wiki and Steve who creates the OMPL file but I do not speak for them.) At a certain level, the foisting of SWIFT upon us all without any of our input easily leaves a bad taste in the mouth of anyone that's already donated time to create some of the tools we're already using. --Michael Sauers “…and in fact, there is already a Twitter account set up for the purpose of aggregating Twitter posts about Computers in Libraries.”

As the person who set up that account, and this is the third conference I’ve done it for, this is what makes me wonder why ITI didn’t talk to any of us about creating tools to do what they were trying to accomplish. Speaking for myself I would have happily worked with them as I assume many others would have.

(I also think of Meredith who creates the Wiki and Steve who creates the OMPL file but I do not speak for them.)

At a certain level, the foisting of SWIFT upon us all without any of our input easily leaves a bad taste in the mouth of anyone that’s already donated time to create some of the tools we’re already using.

–Michael Sauers

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