beTech :: Evolve Already

Meeting: BeTech Presentation: VMware and You
Where: Newcomb Hall (Room 389)
When: Thursday, April 24th : 2:30 pm 3:30 pm (presentation) 3:30 pm - 4:00 (open discussion)

Join us this Thursday, April 24th, at 2:30pm for a presentation by Ian Brill from ITC Microsystems on the subject of VMware. Ian will discuss and demonstrate how departments can obtain and manage virtual servers using the VMware system here at UVa.

If you missed this jam packed VMware session at the LSP conference or would like follow up with a more interactive discussion about how you can take advantage of this rapidly growing resource at UVa, join us this Thursday.

On Wednesday, March 26, Madelyn Wessel and Bethany Nowviskie will present their experience in making the Library’s Blacklight project (http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/) open source.

When/Where:
* Wednesday, March 26
* 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
* Byrd Seminar Room in the Harrison/Small Library
(http://www.lib.virginia.edu/harrison/facilities.html#byrd)
(http://www.virginia.edu/webmap/ACentralGrounds.html)

Blacklight is an OPAC (online public access catalog) developed at the University of Virginia Library; it has been made public under an Apache 2.0 license. Blacklight was the first project made possible by beTech Labs and is the first project to come out of beTech Labs as open source.

Madelyn Wessel is Special Advisor to the University Librarian and Liaison to the General Counsel, focusing on a broad range of library system legal issues including intellectual property, copyright, licensing, and special issues arising in the area of digital scholarship.

Bethany Nowviskie is the Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at U.Va. Library. She is active in digital humanities and is an advocate for academic open source.

beTech Labs is a Web development environment where you can try out new ideas, explore mashups, and just plain push the envelope. You can join other projects (labs) or opt for a virtual machine lab environment of your own. If you’re raising the Web development bar at UVa, beTech Labs is the place for you!

Find out how to get involved in beTech Labs this Thursday at the monthly beTech Labs Community meeting:

beTech Labs: Community Meeting

• Thursday, September 27th
• 12:00-1:30PM
• Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room

The beTech Labs community conducts a public lunch-time meeting on the fourth Thursday of every month to discuss general Labs business, the direction of Labs, and current or requested Labs projects.

All beTech members are invited to participate and offer suggestions in an effort to mold beTech Labs into a powerful Web development resource here at UVa. Come join us!