My thanks to the Tennessee folks for handling this with such grace.
I can recall with visceral physicality the feeling of staring at the budget
commitments for 2015, in the days before registration opened. It's a deep
pit we dig ourselves into each year; and it's great that we reliably refill
it, but I think it's past time we as a community take responsibility for it
up-front.
- Tom
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> This can't have been an easy decision. Thank you, to the Chattanooga local
> committee, for all of the work you've already put in -- much of which will
> be, sadly, even more invisible, now that we are not holding the conference
> there.
>
> I'm not sad that we aren't holding the conference in Chattanooga--despite
> wanting to see the city and experience the conference that the locals would
> have planned!--because, finances aside, that legislation would have put
> some of our community members in a real bind, if it passed. I'm proud to
> see our community living its ideals.
>
> - Coral
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Schurr, Andrea <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Not only quite difficult, but fiscally irresponsible... We'd be asking
> an
> > organization unaffiliated with Code4Lib to guarantee contracts for
> hundreds
> > of thousands of dollars -- when there is a legitimate concern that
> > Tennessee could pass legislation that would cause almost half of our
> > community to refuse to attend (not to mention the very real possibility
> of
> > being boycotted by entire municipalities/states). In the end, we felt
> like
> > we made the only reasonable choice.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> > Collier, Aaron
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 1:28 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Update Regarding C4L17 in Chattanooga
> >
> > I would guess that the swing between "current" and "if passed" makes
> > securing the financial sponsor quite difficult.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> > Matt Sherman
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 10:20 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Update Regarding C4L17 in Chattanooga
> >
> > Just listening in, part of the discussion on Slack and IRC made it sound
> > like the financing was the bigger issue.
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Matt Connolly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Jun 7, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Brian Rogers <[log in to unmask]<mailto:
> > [log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> > >
> > > We’ve determined that given this community’s commitment to providing a
> > safe and accommodating environment for all attendees, it is morally and
> > fiscally irresponsible to continue the effort of hosting the annual
> > conference in Chattanooga. This decision was not an easy one, and there
> > were hours of discussion as to the pros and cons of proceeding, informed
> by
> > your responses to the survey, as well as our individual opinions.
> > >
> > > The survey results clearly show that the vast majority of respondents
> > were not interested in boycotting Code4Lib Chattanooga. What number would
> > have inclined you to proceed, if a 75% affirmative vote wasn’t positive
> > enough?
> > >
> > > — Matt
> > >
> > >
> > > -----------------
> > > Matt Connolly
> > > Applications developer, CUL-IT
> > > 218 Olin Library
> > > Cornell University
> > > (607) 255-0653
> >
>
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