Ed Summers wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Walker, David <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>   
>> Some of us can barely afford to get to the east coast of the United States, let alone Europe.  Not that you have to cater to us poor state university folk, or anything. ;-)
>>     
>
> There are university folk in the Netherlands too right?
>   
Definitely.  I'm currently working on a project in collaboration with 
the FAO and an international agriculture organization located at 
Wagningen University (an hour or so from Amsterdam) that is not all that 
dissimilar from some of the activities at Code4Lib.  At some point this 
year there will be a face-to-face meeting of those involved in the 
initiative (currently 7 of us, on four continents) so there would a 
remote possibility I could attend a European Code4Lib only because my 
travel would be funded by FAO. 

It's not just the smaller state universities that are being impacted by 
the economy.  I've essentially been limited to one business travel trip 
this year funded by our travel budget (at that's going to be Code4Lib in 
Providence).  I'm even on the planning commitee for a conference in 
March that I won't be attending due to budget cuts.  I was on a planning 
commitee conference call about an hour ago for that conference and our 
registered attendees number are less than half of what they were last 
year six weeks prior to the conference.