[Air-l] Maastricht papers

[Steve Jones]

Steve,

I understand the frustration, but I ask that you understand the 
degree to which AoIR is a new organization, with few resources, and 
entirely operated on the basis of volunteer effort, and to understand 
that there are many people who presented papers but do not want them 
made available via AoIR. Making papers available even in the limited 
fashion we are able to make them available requires considerable 
effort, particularly on Jeremy's part. We are simply not able at this 
time to make the commitments of resources required to make papers 
available to non-members, nor do we wish to require presenters to 
make their papers available (preferring instead that they opt to do 
so at our suggestion), nor do we have the human or capital resources 
to create a CD-ROM of papers.

Best,
Sj

At 9:31 AM +0000 10/31/02, Walker, Steve            [IES] wrote:
>Hi Jeremy,
>
>Your about the availability of the Maastricht papers is rather disappointing
>to those of us who attended & presented at the conference, but (for whatever
>reason(s)) aren't AoIR members.
>
>If I understand correctly I don't have access to the papers - something
>apparently confirmed by trying to visit the site. This approach is somewhat
>unusual. AoIR 3.0 is the first conference I have attended where I have not
>had access to the papers either at or after the event. If it is necessary to
>restrict access to papers to the members (though, I suspect a bigger service
>to members would be to maintain a site where access to their papers were
>open to all, but that's another discussion), can I suggest that they are
>also distributed on CD-ROM, at least to those conference attendees who are
>not AoIR members? It's a rather frustrating conclusion to what was an
>enjoyable event.
>
>Steve
>
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>Steve Walker
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>Leeds Metropolitan University
>School of Information Management
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