Hi, On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Chris Cormack <chrisc@catalyst.net.nz>wrote:
It's scheduled at a time that won't conflict with Kohacon. Almost every other community has regional meetings, if nothing else it helps to cut down on carbon emissions.
And, of course, there's the omnipresent factor that it's the rare library that is in a financial position to send a staff member overseas for a KohaCon. For that matter, there are many libraries that are hard pressed to send somebody out of state for a conference. I personally have found it a great privilege to attend KohaCon and meet with my colleagues in person. We move KohaCon around the globe so that more people have a chance to enjoy that privilege, but we can do more -- and I hope that a North American conference will become a regular event to help spread the benefit of meeting other Koha users to more people -- and thereby to help strengthen the _global_ community. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc@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