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		<title>HubDirector = director of a center of interest or activity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What or who is a <strong><em>H</em></strong><em><strong>ub</strong> <strong>D</strong><strong>irector</strong></em>?</p>
<p>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 <em><strong>H</strong></em><em><strong>ub</strong></em> because my idea and actual experience of a conference fits nicely with <a title="Hub etymology" href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hub" target="_blank">its etymology</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>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 ‘<strong>center of interest or activity or importance’</strong>first recorded 1858 in writings of Oliver W. Holmes.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>I was originally leaning towards something like <strong>Hub</strong> 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 <strong>D</strong><strong>irector</strong> and that was it <img src="http://blog.hubdirector.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" /></p>


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