[Air-l] August 2002 executive committee report

[Steve Jones]

August 16, 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. We 
are a scant two months from our annual conference, this year in 
Maastricht, the Netherlands, and I am greatly looking forward to 
seeing many of you there.


2.  Executive Officers' Reports

2.1 President (Jones)

2.1.1 Participation in AoIR work and initiatives as always welcomed. 
Feel free to contact me or any of the executive committee members or 
working group leaders with questions, input and interest.


2.2 Vice President (Baym)

2.2.1 No report.


2.3 Secretary (Bunz)

2.3.1 No report.


2.4 Treasurer (Bates)

2.4.1 I'm back on duty, caught up with payments, etc., but still have 
to move accounts info
to new computer.  Thanks (a lot!) to Steve and Jeremy for filling in. 
Also pretty current
in terms of sending out reminders on expiring/expired memberships.


2.5 Open Seats (Silver, Wellman)

2.5.1 Silver: Nothing to report.

2.5.2 Wellman: Informally discussed with putative conference 
organizer a forthcoming
Conference on Universal Usability bringing together social scientists and
computer scientists and adaptive tech folks.


2.6 Appointed Seats (Allen, Shade)

2.6.1 Allen: Busy with my leave, doing research etc; have been 
encouraging locals to join
AoIR.

2.6.2 Shade: Nothing to report.


2.7 Student Seat (Klastrup)

2.7.1 No report.


2.8 Publications Officers (Hunsinger, Breindahl)

2.8.1 Hunsinger: doing some list stuff
doing some server stuff
doing more server security stuff
doing some related stuff
promoted aoir in brisbane a bit
helped charlie a little
helped KBJ and Monica a little

2.8.2 Breindahl: I have been developing a small database-driven web 
site for last year's pre-conference workshop. Like the members area, 
it is based on PHP and MySQL. It is not quite finished yet, but will 
be announced soon.

I have started asking new AIR-L subscribers to confirm their identity 
via e-mail. This is to prevent spammers and trolls from 
(re)subscribing.


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

2.9.1 Murero:  Nothing to report.

2.9.2 Jensen: I have been working with Monica Murero and Jeremy 
Hunsinger in finetuning the preliminary program for AoIR 3.0. An 
update will be online shortly, including abstracts of papers and 
panels.


2.10  AoIR Ethics Working Group (Charles Ess, Chair)

2.10.1 A fourth draft of the report from the aoir ethics working committee is
currently circulating among committee members for comments and suggestions
for improvements.
The final version will be posted for all interested aoir members to review
in early September.  We are hoping to gather comment and perhaps additional
suggestions for improvement prior to the report's presentation to the aoir
membership in Maastricht in October.
My thanks to all of the committee members who have contributed so
significantly to the quality and scope of the report


2.11 AoIR Elections Working Group (Nancy Baym, Liaison)

2.11.1 No report.


2.12 AoIR Net Resources Working Group (Charlie Breindahl, Liaison)

2.12.1 Nothing to report.




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