[Air-L] Voting Open & A Question for Candidates

[Deller, Ruth A]

Oooh, difficult question as I think there are several things we could do, some of which others have mentioned.

I'm interested in the conference becoming a bit more creative and dynamic so I would encourage conference and programme chairs to think about what they might want to do to shake the programme up - this might change each year depending on where we are and who the team are.  But I'd encourage more flexibility in thinking about things like keynotes, plenaries or even panel formats.  Not necessarily to do away with things but to allow freedom to try new things out.  In that vein, given that many of our members can't get to the conferences due to the costs of flights etc, I would like to see something in the programme whereby we could connect with them - streaming talks (or some of the talks) and maybe even having some of them present virtually in certain panels.  I would look to work with the programme and conference chair about this to see if we can get the technology to make it happen.


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From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Halavais
Sent: 24 May 2013 00:26
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Subject: [Air-L] Voting Open & A Question for Candidates

Dear AoIR Members (and members of the broader community),

Just a reminder that AoIR elections are now open, and will be until the end of the month. I want to encourage all members to vote. There are lots of ways to help contribute to and shape the future of an organization like ours, and electing an executive committee that represents your interests is one of these.

I have not yet voted and I'm hoping the candidates can answer a question for me. (And I hope others will ask questions as well, despite the looming
deadline!)

I've looked over your candidate statements (linked here:
http://aoir.org/2013-executive-committee-election-candidate-statements-voting-information/
)
and I recognize and agree with the need to increase connections among members outside of the conference setting--something that several of you noted. That said, I wonder what single, concrete change you would most like to see in the conferences themselves, and how you might suggest bringing that about. What would you like to see in, say, Bangkok for 2014 that we haven't seen in previous conferences? (If anything!) And what can you do to help make that happen?

Thank you all for running, and I look forward to your responses.

Best,

Alex



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