Walker, David wrote: >> I think a good compromise is to have local meeting >> conversations on the code4libcon google group. >> > > this! > +1 for me too. Although I knew I wasn't going to be attending the C4L conference in Asheville I still followed most of the messages related to conference. Even though it had a lot of traffic about logistics that was of no interest to me there was also a lot about what was going to presented there, virtual participation information (twitter tags), and other discussions that were of general interest. While I won't be attending a C4L midwest conference (sorry, Eric) I might read something there that I might use for the C4L North conference that I'll more likely attend. Even though most of the discussions on a code4libcon conference might be regional a lot of it may be on issues that are going to be appropriate for a conference, no matter where it's located. Subject line tagging (i.e. C4LNorth) would make it easy to filter out posts when planning is underway for conferences in different areas. Moving conference related discussions to a separate conf list would also improve signal to noise ratio on code4lib. -- John Fereira Cornell University Twitter: @john_fereira Google Wave: [log in to unmask]