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This is worth taking the OCLC Bacon Seal of Approval out of its velvet-lined case and affixing that stamp upon the awesome work that the Research Triangle group did on the last conference. Congratulations and a huge thanks! Roy On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Tim McGeary <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Colleagues, > > I wanted to report on the financial closing of the Code4Lib 2014 account. > All of the bills have been paid for and the reimbursements have been sent. > This year, we have a surplus of $29,419.80 that we will be able to pass > onto the Code4Lib 2015 committee. I can say with great confidence that > much of this surplus is possible through the excellent contract negotiation > and cost management of CONCENTRA, whom we hired this year. > > The very first action CONCENTRA enabled for us was to change hotel venues > because the first hotel contract we reviewed was overly restrictive and > provided no incentives to the conference. At the venue were the conference > was located, we received a sizeable number of kick backs of hotel rooms > that offset costs of scholarship awardees and the keynote speakers, in > addition to CONCENTRA's experience in estimated the number of meals needed > so that we did not overcommit. Finally, CONCENTRA was instrumental in > getting the hotel to not only improve the wireless, but also have the > charges withdrawn for the days in which the wifi service was unacceptable. > These are just a few of the examples of financial savings CONCENTRA's work > provided. Thank you to Ann Elsner and her staff at Duke University for > hosting the financial services for the conference! > > I am very proud of the hosting efforts of my colleagues at Duke > University, NC State University, and UNC Chapel Hill, most especially of my > co-Chair Emily Lynema. None of this would have been possible without all > of the excellent volunteers locally, as well as those of you in the > community who volunteered in other ways. > > If anyone has any final questions about Code4Lib 2014, please do let me > know. Otherwise, I look forward to a successful Code4Lib 2015 in Portland! > > Cheers, > Tim > > -- > Tim McGeary > Director of Library & Information Technology > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > > [log in to unmask] > GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary > 484-294-7660 (cell) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "code4libcon" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [log in to unmask] > To post to this group, send email to [log in to unmask] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/code4libcon/CALBScSSgT-wBzsgjACCBp2%3D3pz2Q8f_UMKCYU%2Bg%2BLZ1tkZM6Pw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/code4libcon/CALBScSSgT-wBzsgjACCBp2%3D3pz2Q8f_UMKCYU%2Bg%2BLZ1tkZM6Pw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >