[Air-l] registration form -agency

Frank Thomas frank.thomasftr at free.fr
Fri Aug 30 08:41:21 PDT 2002


Dear Monica,

thank you for your work. Yes, I was somewhat surprised that the gender 
issue was treated this way in the Netherlands. Anyway, I look forward to 
meet all the AoIR people in your nice city.

Cordialement

Frank Thomas

Monica.Murero at MERIT.unimaas.nl a écrit:

>Dear Frank, 
>
>As you know, the registration form is handled by an external company,Cal
>conference agency. They might have been pretty inappropriate using
>"gender", I know. They have database and procedures limits, but they
>will update their system soon. 
>However, their intentions are good in that they simply would like to
>communicate with registrant in an appropriate manner, especially in case
>of unfamiliar names for Dutch culture, like "ya yon chi".  
>Registrants are free to choose the gender they want, especially here in
>the Netherlands  :) but I have already made sure that in the
>registration form nobody is "forced" to chose. 
>
>cheers!
>Monica Murero
>Conference Chair
>
>Monica Murero, PhD
>Project Leader and Senior Researcher 
>International Institute of Infonomics 
>University of Maastricht (NL) 
>
>TEL.+31-45-4000-540 
>FAX +31-45-4000-545 
>
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