First off: welcome, BSZ! Secondly, a proposal: 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. That said, I'm still going to ask my boss about funding my trip to NZ... Ian Walls Systems Integration Librarian NYU Health Sciences Libraries 550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016 (212) 263-8687 -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Nicolas Morin Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:23 PM To: BWS Johnson Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha support by BSZ 2009/9/10 BWS Johnson <mhelman@illinoisalumni.org>:

Salvete!

...

Maybe we should do a KohaCon Europe in 2010... Cheers, Nicolas

I'm all for that in 2011, but I'm pushing for NZ in 2010. I think we owe Chris 10th Anniversary drinks for giving up his millenial, not to mention the rest of us ought to be jet lagged at some point so we know what they go through all the time to see us ;)

The 2 ideas might not be exclusive. The "official", worldwide kohaCon in NZ. A KohaCon US: given the state of the economy, I doubt many people in the US will have founding to go over to New Zealand, so a KohaCon US is in order in any case. And a KohaCon Europe, for the same (sad, economic) reasons. Or: KohaCon NZ in 2010. KohaCon US in 2010 too. KohaCon Europe in 2011. But I personally would love (I don't know how to stress this enough) to go to Wellington, visit Levin and Horowhenua LT, meet with some people in Real Life for the 1st time. And there are French-speaking islands in the South Pacific too: maybe I can go visit them to try to convince them to switch to Koha. Cheers, Nicolas

Cheers, Brooke _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

-- Nicolas Morin Mobile: +33(0)633 19 11 36 http://www.biblibre.com _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ------------------------------------------------------------ This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is proprietary, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender by return email and delete the original message. Please note, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The organization accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. =================================

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. 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. 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! On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:00 AM, paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>wrote:

Walls, Ian a écrit :

...

First off: welcome, BSZ!

Secondly, a proposal:

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.

That said, I'm still going to ask my boss about funding my trip to NZ...

imo, there are 2 different things : - KohaCon for libraries and librarians => this one can be region/continent wide, time for librarians and hackers to meet and present future, propose ideas, ... it's feature-oriented. - KohaCon hackfest for developers => we saw how invaluable it is for developers to have a 3-5 days of physical meeting. It's highly worth the ticket ! But for this, we need a worldwide conference. it's code-oriented.

So, I think we could split in 2: - KohaCon - KohaHack. Of Course, KohaHack will be just before or after a regional KohaCon.

does this list like this suggestion?

-- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08

_______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

-- Vicki Teal Lovely Software Applications Supervisor South Central Library System vtl@scls.lib.wi.us (608)261-9109