++ to Tom on this as I see a tremendous emotional and bureaucratic expense
every year for the organizing committee (or at least the last 2, where I've
paid attention to it). It is certainly distributed in different locales who
are hosting, but it already exists. I don't think we can deny that it's
there just because we don't happen to be involved in it this year.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Tom Johnson <[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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