[Air-l] AOIR in Toronto

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

> Mr. Hunsinger who brought the matter up and I had to respond to it.


I brought the matter up, but I gave my understanding of the situation  
was was based on fiscal concerns with translation and organizational  
problems.

The actual composition of the exec at the time 2002 was 3 Europeans,  
Ulla, Charlie, and Lisbeth, 2 Canadians Leslie and Barry, then the  
rest of us, everyone in exec in varying capacities likely reads or  
speaks at least one other language to some degree of competency.     
The 2003 exec was likewise diverse, but had more Asian representation  
and even less North American participation.  The past exec listing is  
at http://www.aoir.org/?q=node/591 .  The lingua franca is English  
because that is what AoIR has for the majority has held in common.

Remember first and foremost the conferences have been AoIR  
conferences, and not 'locality' conferences, that is a confusion that  
often causes misunderstandings.   As we attempt to further our  
internationalization, we will bring more people into AoIR and we'll  
expand as appropriate, but in my minds the pragmatics of the  
organization such as not going bankrupt come first


Jeremy Hunsinger
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