[Air-l] AoIR elections forum

[Steve Jones]

Dear AoIR members and air-l list participants,

We are currently entering the discussion period for the AoIR 
elections. It will proceed until July 11, 2003. A reminder of the 
elections timeline:

1. CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Elapsed
2. END OF NOMINATION PERIOD:  Elapsed
3. DISCUSSION PERIOD BEGINS:  <---------------NOW
4. DISCUSSION PERIOD ENDS:  July 11, 2003
3. VOTING PERIOD BEGINS: July 14, 2003
4. VOTING PERIOD ENDS: July 28, 2003
5. NEW COMMITTEE ASSUMES DUTIES: At the end of the General Meeting at
the fourth annual AoIR conference, October 16 - 19, 2003.

This year we are trying a web forum for the discussion period before 
elections. You will find it at http://aoir.org/forum.

To use this forum, please go the above url and read the nominee 
information (some nominee information is still forthcoming) and ask 
questions and discuss AoIR, the election positions, and what you 
would like for AoIR to become or how you might like it to change. In 
short, nearly any topic related to AoIR is open to discussion in the 
forum.  However, we ask that you maintain a general decorum 
appropriate for such discussions.  (Moderation or other tools may be 
used to maintain this.)  You do not have to create an account, and 
log in to post, but if you do log in, you can then edit and delete 
your posts.  Limited anonymity is allowed by the system but postings 
which identify the poster as another known party will be deleted by 
request or at the discretion of the moderators.  The moderators for 
this discussion are the President, the Vice-President and the two 
Publication Officers of AoIR, none of which are running for >>> 
election.

Again, the url for the discussion period is: http://aoir.org/forum. 
Many thanks to Jeremy Hunsinger for the technical work of setting up 
the forum and to the members of the AoIR Executive Committee for 
their input and feedback during its testing.

Thank you,
Steve Jones
Sj