[Themaintainers] News: Blog and Newsletter

[Lee Vinsel]

Hello,

In the next few weeks, we'll be bringing the Maintainers blog back to life
and starting a newsletter. I'm writing today both to let you know these
things are coming and to solicit any ideas, announcements, and other news
you might have.

We will be publishing new pieces and re-publishing papers from the
Maintainers conferences on the blog. We would love to hear any proposals
for it. One thing we've been focusing on is the possibility of putting out
sets of posts related to news and events, like, say, Infrastructure Week
<http://infrastructureweek.org/>. So, if you have a professional gathering
or conference panel related to maintenance, repair, infrastructure,
reliability, disasters (fast and slow), etc., and want to put something up
on the blog, please let us know. We are interested in all sectors,
everything from the Council on Library and Information Resources fellows'
work on digital conservation to the interesting research on maintenance in
heavy industry that Melinda Hodkiewicz, Bonita Carroll, and their
colleagues are doing at the University of Western Australia. In other
words, if you think you are doing something related to the blog, you
probably are. Please don't hesitate to reach out.

The newsletter will contain . . . news, announcements, CFPs, word about new
publications, Twitter chatter, etc. The goal is to make it a resource for
the community, so if you have anything you want to let people know about,
please drop us a note.

These new initiatives are made possible largely through the generosity of
Virginia Tech, especially my department Science and Technology in Society,
where I started working last month. VT has given me an assistant for a few
years. Daniel Chen, a new graduate student in my department, has stepped
into that role. Daniel is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia,
and among other things, he's interested in the role of hope in science and
technology. Next summer, we'll be launching a Maintainers podcast. More
about that down the road.

I look forward to hearing from you about these things and anything else.

Lee

-- 
Assistant Professor
Department of Science and Technology in Society
Virginia Tech
leevinsel.com
Twitter: @STS_News
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