[Koha] Kohacon2020!

[Kathryn Tyree]

On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 12:49 +1100, Irma Birchall wrote:
> Hi Kathryn 
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> Good idea ...
> The IFLA conference is usually held in August.
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> http://www.ifla.org/annual-conference
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> Hope this helps.
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> On 27 October 2016 at 08:17, Kathryn Tyree <kathryn at catalyst.net.nz>
> wrote:
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>         Kia ora koutou,
>         
>         I'm Kathryn, if you don't know me, I work on the Koha team at
>         Catalyst
>         IT from the Wellington NZ office.
>         
>         Kohacon2020 you ask? Well, I don't know what I'm doing in 2020
>         either,
>         but it turns out some people are already making plans :)
>         
>         I  attended a meeting recently because New Zealand is bidding
>         for two
>         international library conferences in 2020, and Kohacon could
>         make it
>         three. The other two conferences that will have bids in from
>         NZ are:
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>               * http://ifla.org/ The International Federation of
>         Library
>                 Associations and Institutions, which some of you may
>         have
>                 attended in Ohio USA this year
>               * and http://www.iamslic.org/ The International
>         Association of
>                 Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information
>         Centers,
>                 that recently held their annual conference in Mexico.
>         
>         
>         Koha will be 20 years old in 2020, and some guy who's been
>         working on
>         Koha for a long while started a rumor that we should bring it
>         back here
>         for the big celebration. So, I will follow how the bids for
>         IFLA and
>         IAMSLIC go over the next year, as it's possible we could try
>         and bring
>         the conference dates together. Not that we can do much about
>         it from a
>         Koha perspective until 2019!
>         
>         I would be curious to hear from any Koha libraries out there
>         who
>         regularly or sometimes attend either of the other two
>         conferences.
>         
>         Best wishes,
>         Kathryn
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>         Kathryn Tyree // Project and Account Manager
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>         kathryn at catalyst.net.nz
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