We have just been shot down. Due to lack of budgeting for KohaCon 2012 in our current fiscal year, our requests here at Rolling Hills Library to attend have been disapproved. I understand fully that the community is busily preparing to attend the conference in Scotland, and I sincerely wish everyone the best fun ever in the world. However, life goes on, and I am are now working on next year's budget, which for us runs from 1 July - 30 June. I am preparing line items for conferences my team would like to attend, and that would include KUDOS 2012. Is there any further discussion, noting some emails on the subject already, we could have about KUDOS 2012 that would facilitate my budget input? Hold it at all? Where? When? Is there an EG or regional meeting we could collaborate with? I guess I can't ask the questions without volunteering something. 1. OK, look, we could hold it here at Rolling Hill, but St. Joseph isn't the most exciting place in the world; I can't imagine attendance would be that good. 2. August? 3. I could volunteer to be Sergeant at Arms where ever it's held. 4. I could do a presentation/demo of either RaCHeL, our inhouse development of a children's playstation, or LibPAC*, our public access computer system. 5. If I do end up attending, either the library proper, or me personally, will donate $100 USD towards bagels and cool-aid. 6. Riverwalk in San Antonio? Chena Hot Springs**, Alaska? Denver? Douglas County, Co? New Orleans? (are there any Koha libraries in any of these places?) -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-5479 *probably to be renamed **http://www.chenahotsprings.com #bit of a stretch, maybe