> Michael J. Giarlo said the following on 02/20/2008 10:35 AM:

>>On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Emily Lynema <emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu> wrote:

>>> If we've done fine voting online in the past (and I think we have), I
>>> don't see why we need to change that process now at the last minute.

> Well, in the past is once. And since the conference hasn't happened yet,
> we don't know how it will turn out (not that I doubt Jeremy and his team
> will do a great job). The first two locations weren't really chosen by vote.

> Also, nothing in my idea said we weren't going to vote online. In fact
> the suggestion strongly implied it would be online voting open to people
> who are and are not at the conference.

>>Indeed.  I'm sure many of us have more pressing things to attend to,
>>anyway.  I hereby retract the suggestion.

> Why I am sure there other pressing things, and some more important to
> many, if not most, code4libbers, I think people being able to make what
> they feel is informed decisions about which location they vote for is an
> important decision.

>>Here's a naive proposal on how to proceed:

>>* Collect proposals until midnight Pacific Daylight Time;
>>* Voting may commence immediately thereafter (I'll ping the main
>>code4lib list to let them know it's votin' time);
>>* Accept votes until midnight Pacific on February 26th (first day of the conf);
>>* Announce the winner at the conference on February 27th.

>>I will work with Ross to get all of the proposals into the
>>ConferenceKeeper system and we'll send out a URL once it's ready.
>>There will not need to be a test round this time, so hopefully there
>>will be less confusion.

>>Comments?  Questions?  +1s?  -1s?

> -1

> I still like the idea of a meeting in person. Kind of like a caucus idea
> that Michael, Dan, I, and others have mentioned. I don't see it as a
> session where a  binding vote would take place or anything like that -
> and definitely nothing mandatory to attend, but I think it would be a
> good to get a feel why other people think one proposal is better than
> another. I think I saw a little of this on the #code4lib IRC channel
> last time around (although I don't remember much discussion), but as
> been pointed out a number of times before a lot of the community can't
> hang around IRC all of the time to join in on such a discussion. I guess
> it could happen via e-mail to some extent, but I think we have the
> opportunity with the conference coming up to have a good discussion that
> will inform voters like me why Location A is better than location B and
> what concerns Person C has about location D. I think this would allow
> people who attend to feel that they have made a better informed decision
> about how they are voting.

> Edward

>>-Mike