Re: [Koha] Conference stuff
Just saying, I will probably never be able to make a conference in August. Flights and hotels are more expensive, it is the only time we have reliably decent weather here*, and my other life as a performer at summer festivals gets in the way. If it were mid-week, I could get to it on the city bus or by bicycle, and I didn't have to plan it. . . I might make it. It could well be that the host picks the best time for their locality and then sees how many others can make it. I thought KohaCon worked pretty well running in tandem with the Reno library conference this year. Rather than avoiding these things, perhaps we should embrace them? At any rate, I look forward to being able to attend when I can, which is more likely if it's on the same continent. *(Here being Seattle). Elaine On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:46 PM, BWS Johnson abesottedphoe...@yahoo.comwrote: Salvete! I completely appreciate your desire to host a meeting in the DC area. Thank you. I respect your mana and apologise if I've ruffled any feathers, however I feel it necessary to outline my thoughts so that you can see them before you clearly. Those of us who spent time talking together discussed various times of year to hold a meeting and came up with the later summer being the best, since springtime is when most state library associations host their own conferences. I am trying my best not to conflict with other events, but I think I would have to draw the line at the State level since things can get quite tricky with that many moving parts. I will of course bear that in mind and try and navigate as best as might be expected so that as much of the Community can come as possible, though. What I'm hoping you will do is respond to our call for proposals for a meeting with your own proposed dates and location rather than publicly proposing your own meeting. We'll add your proposal into the mix along with others and let everyone vote on when and where they would like to go. I'm a bit mystified about this new process. Our International process is quite simple, and while it's had it's bumps, I think that we've been refining things over the years to try and keep things as fair and equitable while retaining as few articulations as possible. I got the distinct impression that this process would disqualify me on several counts. Please do humour me while I dissect my thinking interspersed with your initial announcement. A group of Koha users is planning on hosting a meeting for Koha users based in the United States and Canada. I was hoping to welcome the wider North American Community at my event. While the US and Canada are two of the big three (Mexican Libraries have been involved a number of years) in terms of land mass, I did not wish to forget the rich cultures of the Carribean and others in Latin America [1]. This is true in especial when citizens of some of those Nations made the long trip to our last KohaCon in Reno. We intend to hold this meeting next year, 2014, sometime during the month of August. I read this, and it processed, which was why I announced my intentions so as not to conflict, but to add to the wealth of the Community. 2015 wouldn't be a major election year here, which is a factor for me to keep in mind. When I proposed hosting the International in 2013, that was also on my mind. Things are easier logistically even if one were to back up to July. We would like to invite proposals from agencies and libraries in the United States to host this meeting. As a consultant, I do not view myself as an Agency nor a Library. While bids from just the US would be an attractive proposition in terms of my chances, I do not wish to disenfranchise others. It certainly could be that no one outside of the US wishes to host, but I would rather the gates to the process stand open. We envision that the meeting would span 2-3 days. Please email your proposals to me, nbl...@masslibsystem.org. Information in your proposal should include (but does not need to be limited to) the following information: That span is certainly amenable to me, and we've heard from others that they like it as well. 1. The location and what kind of conference facility would be offered. Confirm that the site would have internet and other technology available to enable presentations and general connectivity. 2. Dates when the meeting could occur at the proposed location. Since this is nascent, I have several prospects in mind. In my experience with this Community and in other settings a venue was not firmly announced until after (and sometimes well after, though that is not my intent at all) one won the bid and had settled upon dates or narrowed them down sufficiently to secure quotes or provisional agreements. It was my intent to give the Community a choice of precisely where Conference was held and provide a small
Re: [Koha] Conference stuff
That being said, I offer once again to host a Pacific Northwest Koha Conference anytime y'all want here in Portland. We've got a beautiful meeting room now with several hotels in the area in a wide range of prices. Perhaps we could get someone to come in and teach us all to program in PERL so we can all become debuggers? Half conference/half hackfest? May or September? Lenora Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission From: Elaine Bradtke e...@efdss.org To:BWS Johnson abesottedphoe...@yahoo.com CC:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz, koh...@lists.bywatersolutions.com koh...@lists.bywatersolutions.com Date: 12/20/2013 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [Koha] Conference stuff Just saying, I will probably never be able to make a conference in August. Flights and hotels are more expensive, it is the only time we have reliably decent weather here*, and my other life as a performer at summer festivals gets in the way. If it were mid-week, I could get to it on the city bus or by bicycle, and I didn't have to plan it. . . I might make it. It could well be that the host picks the best time for their locality and then sees how many others can make it. I thought KohaCon worked pretty well running in tandem with the Reno library conference this year. Rather than avoiding these things, perhaps we should embrace them? At any rate, I look forward to being able to attend when I can, which is more likely if it's on the same continent. *(Here being Seattle). Elaine On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:46 PM, BWS Johnson abesottedphoe...@yahoo.comwrote: Salvete! I completely appreciate your desire to host a meeting in the DC area. Thank you. I respect your mana and apologise if I've ruffled any feathers, however I feel it necessary to outline my thoughts so that you can see them before you clearly. Those of us who spent time talking together discussed various times of year to hold a meeting and came up with the later summer being the best, since springtime is when most state library associations host their own conferences. I am trying my best not to conflict with other events, but I think I would have to draw the line at the State level since things can get quite tricky with that many moving parts. I will of course bear that in mind and try and navigate as best as might be expected so that as much of the Community can come as possible, though. What I'm hoping you will do is respond to our call for proposals for a meeting with your own proposed dates and location rather than publicly proposing your own meeting. We'll add your proposal into the mix along with others and let everyone vote on when and where they would like to go. I'm a bit mystified about this new process. Our International process is quite simple, and while it's had it's bumps, I think that we've been refining things over the years to try and keep things as fair and equitable while retaining as few articulations as possible. I got the distinct impression that this process would disqualify me on several counts. Please do humour me while I dissect my thinking interspersed with your initial announcement. A group of Koha users is planning on hosting a meeting for Koha users based in the United States and Canada. I was hoping to welcome the wider North American Community at my event. While the US and Canada are two of the big three (Mexican Libraries have been involved a number of years) in terms of land mass, I did not wish to forget the rich cultures of the Carribean and others in Latin America [1]. This is true in especial when citizens of some of those Nations made the long trip to our last KohaCon in Reno. We intend to hold this meeting next year, 2014, sometime during the month of August. I read this, and it processed, which was why I announced my intentions so as not to conflict, but to add to the wealth of the Community. 2015 wouldn't be a major election year here, which is a factor for me to keep in mind. When I proposed hosting the International in 2013, that was also on my mind. Things are easier logistically even if one were to back up to July. We would like to invite proposals from agencies and libraries in the United States to host this meeting. As a consultant, I do not view myself as an Agency nor a Library. While bids from just the US would be an attractive proposition in terms of my chances, I do not wish to disenfranchise others. It certainly could be that no one outside of the US wishes to host, but I would rather the gates to the process stand open. We envision that the meeting would span 2-3 days. Please email your proposals to me, nbl...@masslibsystem.org. Information in your proposal should include (but does not need to be limited to) the following information: That span is certainly amenable to me, and we've heard from others that they like it as well. 1. The location and what kind
Re: [Koha] Conference stuff
How's the fishin' up there? I think I could do a trip to Portland. I'd like to see the sandbox demo again a couple of times. Someday I might have time to process a few signoffs. May is good, September is dicey. -- Greg Lawson Network Administrator Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 - On 12/20/2013 03:18 PM, Lenora Oftedahl wrote: That being said, I offer once again to host a Pacific Northwest Koha Conference anytime y'all want here in Portland. We've got a beautiful meeting room now with several hotels in the area in a wide range of prices. Perhaps we could get someone to come in and teach us all to program in PERL so we can all become debuggers? Half conference/half hackfest? May or September? Lenora Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission -whack- ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
