[Noisebridge-discuss] Open source web based library catalog system?

[Miah Johnson]

RoR is a good choice I suppose, but here is what I was thinking. I just
hadn't cared enough to post to the list yet.

Considering that we do have a few programming classes, and quite a few
programmers. Not to mention quite a few connections to other hacker spaces.

Why don't we scratch the itch?

   - I can't imagine it would be too difficult for somebody at Noisebridge
   to implement this from scratch.
   - Make it a project of one of the programming classes.
   - Start a project that other hackerspaces can participate in.

The idea of spaces is great and all, but it doesn't seem like there is much
teamwork between different places, and it seems like projects that help make
running a hacker space easier would be a logical step in the right
direction.

Enjoy,
-Miah

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Ceren Ercen <ceren at magnesium.net> wrote:

> Alternative solution: http://www.rentalic.com/
>
> They were at Maker Faire. I think they're pretty neat. They have a free
> "cost" option. They're interested in doing a Noisebridge-specific
> subsite as an experiment in how they could build subdomains specific to
> communities or orgs.
>
> I think this is very cool.
>
> They've offered to bring pizza and beer and talk with us about our
> needs/wants; ie: anonymous "renters", api-downloadable data, etc?
>
> I think it'd be cool to encourage a company like this to build/provide
> an anonymous option for their product, too, even if other orgs generally
> wouldn't use it.
>
> hysteria and company-bashing may now commence but I'm gonna try to
> ignore it. I wasn't going to bring this up until I had more experience
> with their site, but it seems relevant right now.
>
> - Ceren
> (who's hereby volunteering to sit there with a barcode scanner for hours
> or typing ISBN numbers till her fingers get all numb.)
>
>
>
> Utterly tangental, does anyone know from where it might be fully legally
> allowable to do: "* Book search returns results with descriptions and a
> cover scraped from some other part of the internet." I suspect there are
> legal sources, I just don't know what they are.
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