Sorry about that!  SO.  MANY.  THREADS.

Anyway, sign me up on being on board with exploring that route, as well.

-Ross.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Kari R Smith <smit...@mit.edu> wrote:

> See again my post from 6/8 on this idea.
>
> Kari Smith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Ross Singer
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 11:51 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?
>
> I kind of agree with Shaun's point: why on earth would some organization
> want to assume this?
>
> In the interest of not limiting ourselves to one solution to this problem,
> I'll throw another possibility that I haven't seen raised (and definitely
> has downsides, but they all do):  what if we to set aside the
> organizational aspects of the annual conference and try to find an existing
> conference that Code4Lib could be a track or sub-conference or whatever
> within?  I'm not suggesting these conferences, per se, but using them for
> analogy: what would the downside of existing *within* ALA or CIL or an
> established conference be?  Are there advantages?  Are there conferences
> that would be particularly good fits?  Would we just be pushing our current
> headaches into other compartments?
>
> I guess for me, I'm not so hell-bent on the annual conference being it's
> own exclusive event as much as being able to have it at all.
>
> -Ross.
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Galen Charlton <g...@esilibrary.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess
> > <co...@sheldon-hess.org> wrote:
> > > Does anyone else want to self-nominate, to join a group to
> > > investigate making Code4Lib fiscally sustainable?
> >
> > I am interested in joining such a group. I have some relevant
> > experience to share, including stints as a member and chair of the
> > Evergreen project's oversight board. The Evergreen project became a
> > member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy in 2011; since
> > then, its conferences have been organized with Conservancy acting as
> > fiduciary and fiscal agent.
> >
> > --
> > Galen Charlton
> > Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Software, Inc. /
> > Open Your Library
> > email:  g...@esilibrary.com
> > direct: +1 770-709-5581
> > cell:   +1 404-984-4366
> > skype:  gmcharlt
> > web:    http://www.esilibrary.com/
> > Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org &
> > http://evergreen-ils.org
> >
>

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