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
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> > Cornell University
> > (607) 255-0653
>