I guess that would be ONE way of dealing with the audience for Code4Lib 
greatly exceeding the capacity of the conference.

I definitely couldn't get funding to go to the Netherlands.  But I might 
be willing to pay for it myself, since I'd like to visit there anyway. I 
guess February is probably as cheap plane tickets as anytime for there, 
weather's not so great.

But holding the main c4l in a non-US location is definitely going to 
greatly cut down US attendance, to those who are able to afford it. That 
may or may not be a good thing.

Jonathan

Ed Summers wrote:
> Wow, this sounds too good to be true. Perhaps this is premature, but
> do you think there might be interest in hosting a code4lib2010 in the
> Netherlands? (he asks selfishly).
>
> I see you started a wiki page [1]. If at any point you want
> nl.code4lib.org (or something) to point somewhere just say the word.
>
> //Ed
>
> [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/NL
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Posthumus, Etienne
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>   
>> At various tech related library gatherings here in the Netherlands there
>> have been discussion about setting up a regional Code4Lib (or something
>> similar)
>> So as a start, if there any subscribers on this list who are in the
>> vicinity of Netherlands/Belgium and interested, please give me a shout.
>>
>> We can then argue about a date/venue/agenda for an inaugural meeting.
>>
>> Etienne Posthumus
>> TU Delft Library   -  Digital Product Development
>> t: +31 (0) 15 27 81 949
>> m: [log in to unmask]
>> skype:  eposthumus
>> twitter: http://twitter.com/epoz
>> http://www.library.tudelft.nl/
>> Prometheusplein 1, 2628 ZC, Delft, Netherlands
>>
>>
>>     
>
>   

-- 
Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886 
rochkind (at) jhu.edu