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Dear Code4Libbers: First, thank you to everyone who worked on this and pulled all the content together. Some feedback to help potentially understand some of us are reluctant to act. Here's my perspective: * I have never attended a C4L conference (content at other conferences always fit better), so I do not feel strongly about it. * Also because I haven't been to the conference, I feel somewhat fraudulent in participating in a vote for how they are managed.*** * It took me an hour to read that document before I could vote. For someone who has no vested interest (like, I assume, many of us who haven't tried to host one, or simply abhor thinking about finances/taxes), that's a looooot of reading. All good info (although I still don't know what LPC stands for), but the structure is inconsistent, and there's just a lot of words. * I do not understand non-profit financial status, so I didn't feel like I was a suitable voter. The document covers the points well enough to vote though if one reads it. * I wouldn't suggest anyone vote unless they have read that document, and it can be very hard for those of us mostly interested in the listserv's non-conference-y-content, which, based on attendance vs. list subscribers, is likely high, to find the pure motivation to care enough to read a really long document to provide a vote. ***That said, it seems that the direction this goes may affect those simply interested in the listserv (specifically, requiring membership at a potential institution), so despite my points, it does seem necessary to vote. Thank you again, and good luck. P.S. I voted. Do I get a sticker? In peace, Amy M. Drayer, MLIS User Interface Developer [log in to unmask] http://www.puzumaki.com On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Oct 30, 2017, at 2:00 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > If your vote is for "do nothing/keep the status quo," then you need to go > > make that vote, rather than expecting us to throw out this election just > > because fewer than 3500 people have participated in it. If your vote is > > anything besides that status quo, you *also* need to go make that vote, > > because I just told the status quo voters to vote. ;) No matter what you > > feel is the right decision, *please*, go make your voice heard, so that > we > > don't have to spend November fighting about whether or not this election > is > > representative. Please. > > > I concur. Please vote, and your vote really does count/matter. —Eric Morgan >