[Air-l] CFP: Graduate Student Research Group

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

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i snipped and answered in line.

>> What is this new organizational structure's relationship to AoIR
>> working groups?
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> No specific relationship. These are more ad hoc.

Umm, you can't really be more ad hoc than a working group.  the  
working group is only determined by its mission.   these look to have  
more than a mission.
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>> Is AoIR going to become some sort of research consultancy,   where
>> AoIR produces research instead of the members producing research?
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> No. I don't know where this question is coming from. Please refer  
> to the terms in the CFP.

This question is whether this will be considered a published paper's  
series of AoIR, commissioned by AoIR and published by AoIR.   If that  
is so, then AoIR is producing research, which is a significantly  
different project than any of its former projects.   Promoting  
research is somewhat different than producing research.  Producing  
research seems to be the direction this is going.   That is fine, but  
you might have to update the mission and bylaws, because neither  
mention this type of activity in any way. They talk of promoting,  
disseminating, etc.

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>> Who decides who gets to be on which project, given the natural
>> tendency for some projects to be more interesting than others?
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> Anyone who qualifies (a student and a member) wants to participate  
> in s GSRT will be able to, so it's  self-selection. Many hands make  
> light work. In the case of topics that may not seem interesting I  
> will likely ask people to step up. I have faith that those who  
> volunteer for the GSRG will during the year feel obligated to be a  
> member of a GSRT. Overall, I will manage the project as Grad rep.
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>> How does this fit with the mission and bylaws?
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> Looks like it fits right in there to me, do you have some specific  
> concerns that this project steps out-of-bounds in specific or in  
> general?

it transforms the organization from one that promotes the research of  
its members to one that produces research under its own auspices.    
it is a minor change, but unaccounted for in the mission or bylaws.   
I think.    It depends on how narrowly or broadly you read the terms.

The difference in my mind, and this is just me probably, is at what  
point does AoIR now become something more like Pew Internet and  
American Life project in publishing data and reports.   Is that the  
sort of work that will eventually be performed.


jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
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