Would be interested to know this too — from my role and perspective in the 2016 conference, the fiscal organization’s responsibility is a big one, but the overhead of securing one every year is a lot more work, emotional and bureaucratic, than having an established one would be. I would envision the relationship with the fiscal organization as being an ongoing one similar to the annual one we have with a different entity each year. The actual work of the conference is likely to remain a lot of hard work on the part of the conference organizers year to year.
I recognize there may be concerns about the impact a relationship like this would have on the operations of Code4Lib outside of the conference, I’d be interested to hear them too.
On 6/7/16, 4:55 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Tom Johnson" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Can you say more about what you expect "the emotional and bureaucratic
>expense" to be?
>
>And especially, how it doesn't just reflect the existing costs of running
>the conferences? Do we really believe there is overhead associated with
>establishing a fiscal organization once, rather than doing it on the fly
>each year?
>
>- Tom
>
>On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Mike Giarlo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Can you say more about what you expect "the emotional and bureaucratic
>> expense" to be?
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Eric
>> Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 13:49
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?
>>
>> > I'm also interested in investigating how to formalize Code4Lib as an
>> > entity, for all of the reasons listed earlier in the thread…
>>
>>
>> -1 because I don’t think the benefits will outweigh the emotional and
>> bureaucratic expense. We already have enough rules.
>>
>> —
>> ELM
>>
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