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 > > >
