Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I live in a cute small town that is in the wine country of California, Petaluma. Also, the town is scenic with lots of good restaurants and shopping. We're 30 miles from the ocean, 45 minutes from San Francisco, and we have three international airports all within 1 to 1.5 hours from here. Now that we have Koha libraries (and more on the way) here in California, it would be great to have a conference here so they could attend.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We have a Sheraton in town plus some other economy hotels so we could hold the meeting at the Sheraton (depending on cost) or possibly at our community college or junior college or possibly one of several other venues here. I haven't checked into anything but the Sheraton.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any interest?</div><div><br></div><div>Lori</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/13 Chris Cormack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisc@catalyst.net.nz">chrisc@catalyst.net.nz</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">* MJ Ray (<a href="mailto:mjr@phonecoop.coop">mjr@phonecoop.coop</a>) wrote:<br>
<br>
Hi MJ<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> M. Brooke Helman wrote:<br>
> > Surely, surely there are folks out there that these magic pixels will<br>
> > reach that harbour a burning passion to host a Koha Conference. Step up and<br>
> > declare your intent, please. The clock is ticking if we really do want an annual<br>
> > Conference. Toss your hat in the ring. After all<br>
> ><br>
> > "How hard could it be?"<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://software.coop" target="_blank">software.coop</a> has agreed to evaluate the idea of hosting #kohacon11<br>
> but we've been a bit busy (as ever). What do they need to know?<br>
><br>
> We're still a fairly small company (not being able to pawn the company<br>
> makes growth slower but stabler) so how many people would we need?<br>
><br>
> Any notes the people at Catalyst can share? HLT? Plano? France?<br>
><br>
> Is <a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Conference_Bidding" target="_blank">http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Conference_Bidding</a><br>
> current?<br>
><br>
</div>Sorta<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Talk:Koha_Conference_Bidding" target="_blank">http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Talk:Koha_Conference_Bidding</a> is<br>
worth readint too, as well as<br>
<a href="http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon2011_Proposals" target="_blank">http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon2011_Proposals</a><br>
<br>
My suggestions learnt from hosting Kohacon10 .. get a venue and dates as<br>
early as possible, to give people plenty of times to organise travel.<br>
Then get speakers lined up, once you have those 3 things, everything<br>
else starts clicking into place.<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
> Hope that helps,<br>
> --<br>
> MJ Ray (slef), member of <a href="http://www.software.coop" target="_blank">www.software.coop</a>, a for-more-than-profit co-op.<br>
> Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster.<br>
> In My Opinion Only: see <a href="http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html" target="_blank">http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html</a><br>
> Available for hire for Koha work <a href="http://www.software.coop/products/koha" target="_blank">http://www.software.coop/products/koha</a><br>
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