Actually, my sense from last year's meeting, with significant
contingents from Europe and Japan, is that code4lib has become an
international conference.
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Michael J. Giarlo
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> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 13:16, Ross Singer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> This fits in well with something I was thinking about earlier. To me,
>> the best way to "solve" the problem is to simply have more
>> conferences. I, personally, would like to do with away with the
>> "regional" "brand" and just call everything by Code4Lib [Location]
>> (which is pretty much how we refer to any 'main' conference in the
>> past tense, anyway). This way, there is no 'main' event. There are
>> just events.
>>
>
> And I'd wager that our "national" events are largely attended by folks
> who live in the host's region. 'Course I could be wrong.
>
> I would support THATCampizing code4lib in such a way; in fact, we're
> moving CURATEcamp towards the same model.
>
> +1
>
> -Mike
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