I also am unsure, Eric, how you imagine we could have a "smaller" annual
meeting. Clearly the community wants to go. It is large. Tickets sell out
quickly. I couldn't have gotten a ticket for this year's even if I had not
been in the process of moving to Notre Dame and thus between funding,
because I was in meetings during the ticket sales and hadn't expected them
to go that fast. Who would get to decide who gets to go to this small,
not-big-deal Code4Lib? Longtime insiders like you? People who've only been
around a few years and thus have more to gain like me? Students? People
lucky enough not to be in meetings when tickets go on sale?
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Ruth Tillman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ++ 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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