<div dir="ltr">Hi Galen,<div><br></div><div>I appreciate the feedback and am definitely leaning this direction. I want to be clear this isn't a request for a budgetary expenditure from the board as the host, Evergreen Indiana, will be picking it up.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 3:18 PM Galen Charlton <<a href="mailto:gmc@equinoxoli.org">gmc@equinoxoli.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Rogan,<br><br>On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:24 AM Rogan Hamby via Board <<a href="mailto:board@list.evergreen-ils.org" target="_blank">board@list.evergreen-ils.org</a>> wrote:<br>> The Hack-A-Way is going online again. Our dates will be October 25th - 27th. We are looking <br><div>> at products. So far the lead alternative to Hopin is Pheedloop. However, it is much more <br></div><div>> expensive with a base cost of $1,000 a month. While we found Hopin to be problematic for <br></div><div>> a scheduled conference it has worked well for the Hack-A-Way in the past and likely would <br></div><div>> again. It also has the advantages of being low cost and a known entity.</div><br></div>This was discussed during the board meeting today, and we agree that it makes sense to use Hopin for the Hack-A-Way and look at other systems to host the next main conference.<br><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Galen<br></div><div><div>--<br>Galen Charlton<br>Implementation and IT Manager<br>Equinox Open Library Initiative<br>gmc@equinoxOLI.org<br><a href="https://www.equinoxOLI.org" target="_blank">https://www.equinoxOLI.org</a><br>phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)<br>direct: 770-709-5581</div></div></div>
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