Would be interested to know this too — from my role and perspective in the 2016 conference, the fiscal organization’s responsibility is a big one, but the overhead of securing one every year is a lot more work, emotional and bureaucratic, than having an established one would be. I would envision the relationship with the fiscal organization as being an ongoing one similar to the annual one we have with a different entity each year. The actual work of the conference is likely to remain a lot of hard work on the part of the conference organizers year to year.
I recognize there may be concerns about the impact a relationship like this would have on the operations of Code4Lib outside of the conference, I’d be interested to hear them too. On 6/7/16, 4:55 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Tom Johnson" <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU on behalf of johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Can you say more about what you expect "the emotional and bureaucratic >expense" to be? > >And especially, how it doesn't just reflect the existing costs of running >the conferences? Do we really believe there is overhead associated with >establishing a fiscal organization once, rather than doing it on the fly >each year? > >- Tom > >On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Mike Giarlo <mjgia...@stanford.edu> wrote: > >> Can you say more about what you expect "the emotional and bureaucratic >> expense" to be? >> >> -Mike >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU> on behalf of Eric >> Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 13:49 >> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU >> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib? >> >> > I'm also interested in investigating how to formalize Code4Lib as an >> > entity, for all of the reasons listed earlier in the thread… >> >> >> -1 because I don’t think the benefits will outweigh the emotional and >> bureaucratic expense. We already have enough rules. >> >> — >> ELM >>
