I think everyone needs to pause and reflect on what the goal of this process is, because we seem to be continuing to dig this hole deeper instead of climbing out.
> all face-to-face meetings will be > held within the contiguous U.S. to ensure that U.S. Koha users have a > better chance to attend them (for many, travel outside of the U.S. is > prohibited). The goal of this process is to define the terms of a Koha user group which meets within the contiguous United States. This narrow definition is of the location of the meetings, not of those who are welcome in the group. This rule about meeting locations is not made in order to be exclusionary, but in order to create more opportunities for U.S. members to participate. The United States is big, travel is expensive, and libraries don't like to spend money. I would encourage everyone to make suggestions which don't have "North America" or "America" as a basis. Both terms include areas which are outside the contiguous United States and thus explicitly excluded. Take a look at the maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas Terms like "North America" and "America" are WHY we're hot water in the first place. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
