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> Does anyone else want to self-nominate, to join a group to investigate > making Code4Lib fiscally sustainable? Does someone want to *organize* that > group? (Put the group on some communications medium, make deadlines, keep > people on task -- stuff like that.) To be clear: nobody is proposing that > it be a decision-making body; it would just be a fact-finding group, who > would write up a list of the options to present to the larger community > (and maybe preside over some kind of vote? I don't know, I guess the group > will decide how to get the community to make decisions, too). I would like to be a member of this group. Let's do the legal due diligence, put out feelers for partner orgs, and agree on a voting procedure. - Tom On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > If we wait to start talking about it until conference 2017, that means > conference committee 2018 will have to find its own temporary fiscal agent. > Or 2018 could just not happen at all, I guess. > > Even if we do all the pre-work and just wait to make the decision at the > conference, that doesn't leave much wiggle room for 2018. > > Also, if we only talk about it in person, we leave out everyone who is > unable to attend conference. That's potentially a lot of interested people. > I'm not sure we want to become *that *kind of library organization; our > virtual decision-making model is one of our most attractive features, in my > opinion (speaking as someone with disabilities and an uneven budget over > the last few years). > > So I would encourage anyone interested in exploring fiscal > sponsorship/becoming a nonprofit/[other solutions?] to form a group/task > force/committee/whatever and to start researching options now, with a > reasonable deadline for communicating back out to the whole community, so > that we can all take part in making an informed decision before the 2018 > conference committee needs to get started (if, indeed, our community's > consensus is to do 2018). > > Chad volunteered to help, and his knowledge about the 2016 process and > budgets will make him incredibly helpful. We should take him up on that. I > volunteered to help, and my previous research on starting a nonprofit > and/or finding a fiscal sponsor for a previous project will make me also > potentially helpful. Maybe we should take me up on that, or maybe the > committee should not have anyone *quite* as in favor of radical change (or > as new to the community) as I am. I defer to the group on that, once it > forms. > > Does anyone else want to self-nominate, to join a group to investigate > making Code4Lib fiscally sustainable? Does someone want to *organize* that > group? (Put the group on some communications medium, make deadlines, keep > people on task -- stuff like that.) To be clear: nobody is proposing that > it be a decision-making body; it would just be a fact-finding group, who > would write up a list of the options to present to the larger community > (and maybe preside over some kind of vote? I don't know, I guess the group > will decide how to get the community to make decisions, too). > > - Coral >