At the KUDOS meeting at ALA in July there was talk of doing a US Koha users conference in spring. The thinking is that it would not conflict with the November 2010 KohaCon in New Zealand and at some point Chris and I talked about that. <br>
<br>The delegate idea is very reasonable. That is exactly how the CODI organization handled it for Dynix and Horizon users. Unfortunately, it's not likely that public institutions in the US would pay for employees to attend a conference in New Zealand.<br>
<br>A co-worker and I talked about going to New Zealand (on our own dime), but we are slated to migrate in fall 2010 so it's not likely. But we will see!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:00 AM, paul POULAIN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.poulain@biblibre.com">paul.poulain@biblibre.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Walls, Ian a écrit :<br>
<div class="im">> First off: welcome, BSZ!<br>
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> Secondly, a proposal:<br>
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> A set of annual conferences per region/continent to address local concerns and save on travel costs. Delegates from each regional conference could then be sent to the international conference (through some kind of sponsorship or conference award, perhaps?) to represent the region and/or give a report on the results of the regional meeting.<br>
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> That said, I'm still going to ask my boss about funding my trip to NZ...<br>
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</div>imo, there are 2 different things :<br>
- KohaCon for libraries and librarians => this one can be<br>
region/continent wide, time for librarians and hackers to meet and<br>
present future, propose ideas, ... it's feature-oriented.<br>
- KohaCon hackfest for developers => we saw how invaluable it is for<br>
developers to have a 3-5 days of physical meeting. It's highly worth the<br>
ticket ! But for this, we need a worldwide conference. it's code-oriented.<br>
<br>
So, I think we could split in 2:<br>
- KohaCon<br>
- KohaHack. Of Course, KohaHack will be just before or after a regional<br>
KohaCon.<br>
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does this list like this suggestion?<br>
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