[Air-l] April 2002 executive committee report

[Steve Jones]

April 15, 2002
Report of the a(o).i.r. executive committee
Prepared by Steve Jones



AoIR Executive Committee
President: Steve Jones
Vice-President: Nancy Baym
Secretary: Ulla Bunz
Treasurer: Benjamin Bates
Open Seats: David Silver and Barry Wellman
Appointed Seats: Matthew Allen and Leslie Shade
Student Seat: Lisbeth Klastrup
Publications Officers: Jeremy Hunsinger and Charlie Breindahl
2002 Conference Coordinator: Monica Murero
2002 Conference Program Chair: Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Ethics Working Group Chair: Charles Ess


1.  Introduction & General (Jones)

Below is the monthly report from AoIR executive committee members.


2.  Executive Officers' Reports

2.1 President (Jones)

2.1.1 As you can tell from the below reports AoIR continues to make 
progress in fundamental areas. I am hopeful that we will soon have 
some opportunities for volunteers to join in, and that we will have 
some new initiatives to boot. At present we do have our hands rather 
full ensuring that the pieces are in place for continuity and quality 
when it comes to the annual conference, website and air-l.


2.2 Vice President (Baym)

2.2.1 I've participated in the ongoing discussions. I will be meeting 
with Steve Jones for some face to face discussion of the issues 
involved in running this association.


2.3 Secretary (Bunz)

2.3.1 David Silver, Matt Allen and I are continuing to make progress 
on the "list of lists" project. We have almost completed our research 
and are discussing website design/presentation/usability issues. 
Transforming the information into an online format is the last step 
before announcing the project to the
list. Except for active participation in the air-exec listserve 
(summary see below) I have no Aoir related business to report.

Summary March 12 - April 12, 2002

This month on the executive list:

* Completed preparations and charges for two volunteer work groups
(election, and Internet resources). The charges have been finalized and will
be distributed soon via email to Aoir members only. [Note: please notify
bjbates at utk.edu or bunz at scils.rutgers.edu of address and/or email address
information changes]
* Discussions on Netiquette, followed by the development of the Air-l
posting policy. The policy was posted to Air-l on March 21, 2002 by
President Steve Jones (see
http://www.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l/2002-March/001661.html). Air-l now
requires subscriber approval, but remains unmoderated.
* Repeated discussion (once in mid March, once in early April) whether Aoir
should provide feedback/rejection comments on conference submissions.
Overall agreement that the final decision lies with the program chair, not
the executive committee.
* Evaluation of various offers for member discounts; discussion on need for
guidelines/policy
* Discussion on possible collaboration for the design aspect of the "list of
lists" project; final decision pending
* Currently debating possible sponsorship for the Maastricht conference


2.4 Treasurer (Bates)

2.4.1 I've caught up with the slight backlog, and sent out renewal 
notifications to members with expiring, or recently expired 
memberships.  Will do that again before starting my round-the-world 
travels/travails (Ireland/Finland/NZ/LA).  Will be traveling May, 
June, and some of July (IAMCR- Barcelona) - should be able to handle 
things while in NZ, but there's a couple of weeks at the front and 
back end while travelling that I'm not sure I'll have full net access.


2.5 Open Seats (Silver, Wellman)

2.5.1 Silver: Contributing to conference planning.

2.5.2 Wellman: Suggested that AOIR adopt a policy that names of 
rejected paper-submitters not be made publiclly available. Suggested 
that AOIR provide reasons for rejecting papers from its conferences.


2.6 Appointed Seats (Allen, Shade)

2.6.1 Allen: No report.

2.6.2 Shade: Finished panel configuration reviews for AOIR 3.0


2.7 Student Seat (Klastrup)

2.7.1 On leave.


2.8 Publications Officers (Hunsinger, Breindahl)

2.8.1 Hunsinger: primarily technical things:
	server upgrades and maintenance
	installed calendar program for testing
other things:
working on eprints proposal
helped Klaus
worked on some conference materials for 3.0
promoted aoir at rubi-con
normal activities:
answered the suggestions at aoir.org questions or forwarded them to 
those who could answer them
checked the members area on the website, and approved a post, we 
could use more activity there.

2.8.2 Breindahl: I have mostly been involved in running the lists and 
facilitating a more active web-site.


2.9 2002 Conference (Monica Murero, Coordinator; Klaus Bruhn Jensen,
Program Chair)

2.9.1 Murero: I have been working on the conference organization 
details, in constant contact with Steve. Specifically we have made 
progresses on different issues, like invited speakers and the online 
registration process. Furthermore, I have been working with Klaus on 
the pre-conference workshops, the preliminary program. I have also 
worked on the conference organization steps for the next months.

2.9.2 Jensen: The past month has seen the completion of the review 
process, the notification of submitters, and the drafting of the 
preliminary program. I am grateful to the many air'ers who 
contributed actively to the planning of the program so far. 
Confirmations from conference participants are due by June 1. In the 
meantime, adjustments of the program will proceed, just as an 
announcement of preconference workshops is being prepared.


2.10  AoIR Ethics Working Group (Charles Ess, Chair)

2.10.1 No report.

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