HubDirector :: growing centers of interest

What or who is a Hub Director?

It’s my personal definition of anyone organizing a group, community, conference, unconference, barcamp, open space, event, meeting, or gathering revolving around one or more topics of interest. In fact I chose Hub because my idea and actual experience of a conference fits nicely with its etymology:

perhaps from hubbe, originally ‘lump’, the source of hob of a fireplace and hobnail, as in boots. A wheelwright’s word, not generally known or used until c.1828; it reached wider currency in connection with bicycles. Meaning ‘center of interest or activity or importance’first recorded 1858 in writings of Oliver W. Holmes.

I was originally leaning towards something like Hub Facilitator because facilitation is, again, more in line with my idea of the role but I wasn’t completely satisfied with it, something was missing. And then I thought about an orchestra Director and that was it