Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-20 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > So are you saying that there can only be one worldwide Koha group, and > that there cannot be national or regional level Koha groups and > corresponding meetings? Of course not. It's good to get together and talk things through. What I am saying is that folks should not call the

Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-20 Thread Robin Hastings
The wording on the request for proposals is unfortunate, but it's an artifact of the fact that the people involved in the conference planning have been in the US and preferred a US destination for travel. For what it's worth, I wouldn't disqualify a Canadian library organization who wanted to throw

Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-20 Thread Owen Leonard
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:40 PM, glaws wrote: > Brooke: > > A. Inclusiveness > > So are you saying that there can only be one worldwide Koha group, and > that there cannot be national or regional level Koha groups and > corresponding meetings? This sounds like a straw man argument. Brooke doesn't

Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-19 Thread Paul A
At 04:42 PM 11/19/2015 -0600, glaws wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America -> With respect, in turn, the right hand column specifically says "Countries 23", with a link to those 23: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_North_America. The

Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-19 Thread glaws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America -> With respect, in turn, the right hand column specifically says "Countries 23", with a link to those 23: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_North_America. The list of 45 includes territories. Greg -

Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-19 Thread Paul A
At 03:40 PM 11/19/2015 -0600, glaws wrote: Concession: there is sometimes, and possibly in this case, the tendency to equate North America (23 countries per Wikipedia) with the United States. That is more a careless, linguistic peccadillo, I suggest, than a felony warranting a call-to-arms. Ver

Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-19 Thread Bob Birchall
As a total outsider, I did have a wry smile about a group calling itself North American insisting its meeting venue be within the US. But I should let the Mexicans and Canadians speak for themselves, of course. In general, any forum that facilitates the coming together of Koha users to share e

Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-19 Thread glaws
Brooke: A. Inclusiveness So are you saying that there can only be one worldwide Koha group, and that there cannot be national or regional level Koha groups and corresponding meetings? Do you presume that anyone from outside North America would be unwelcome at a North America/United States meetin

Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-19 Thread Paul A
At 08:19 PM 11/19/2015 +, BWS Johnson wrote: Salvete! > The Koha North America User’s Group would like to invite agencies and > libraries located within the United States to host its third annual meeting > held in early August, 2016. This meeting offers participants two days of > instructio

Re: [Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-19 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! > The Koha North America User’s Group would like to invite agencies and > libraries located within the United States to host its third annual meeting > held in early August, 2016. This meeting offers participants two days of > instructional sessions and presentations, followed by a two d

[Koha] Fwd: RFP: 3rd NAKUG/KohaNA meeting

2015-11-17 Thread Christopher Davis
Greetings all, The Koha North America User’s Group would like to invite agencies and libraries located within the United States to host its third annual meeting held in early August, 2016. This meeting offers participants two days of instructional sessions and presentations, followed by a two da