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

Wed May 29 10:11:04 PDT 2013

Hi Alex and all,

Alex, thanks for your question.

I think some great suggestions have been made here. I would add that I
believe one of the best ways to impact the conference is by influencing
what goes on between conferences. I think organically cultivating
relationships through the email lists (and as I mentioned specifically in
revamping the grad student list) would help to make the conference less
intimating to first time goers, and give people another reason to go (I'd
like to meet these people I've been communicating with).

To Kelly's point, I really like the idea of appointing individuals to
coordinate AoIR meet-ups at other conferences. I think that is a "between
the conference" activity that would help further the goals of growing
membership, fostering relationships, and generating build up to our own
conference that helps get people excited about who we are and what we do.

Alex, thanks again for your question.

Cheers,
Stacy

On May 24, 2013 8:53 PM, "Kelly Quinn" <kquinn8 at uic.edu> wrote:

> Hi Alex and all,
>
> The suggestions from Jeremy, Ruth, Jenny and Darren the conference
> activities are great. I'd like to see additional opportunities for our
> members to connect with each other too, so I'd like the Exec Board to go a
> little further than just 'encourage' our members to get together at other
> conferences. I'd like to see us establish an informal group of members who
> will be responsible to organize meet-ups at the various major and
> not-so-major conferences that our members attend. Informal, because the
> sole
> responsibility would be to establish a place and time for AoIR-ists to meet
> during these other conferences. Group, because to make this work
> consistently we need people that attend (or reside in host cities) a
> variety
> of conferences. This group would simply be charged with opening the AoIR
> embrace a little wider; we would have additional opportunities to network
> with each other; and we can get more of our members involved. In the past,
> a
> few key members have taken on this responsibility on their own (thank
> you!),
> but sharing responsibility among our members to do this on an ongoing and
> regular basis will sustain the effort and energy. Putting just a little
> structure around the process would give an opportunity for any of our
> members to pitch in to make sure these meet-ups take place.
>
> Since many of the conference dates and acceptances are out by October, we
> can collect information and recruit willing volunteers at our annual
> meeting. Meet-up information can be published on the listserv and also
> posted on the website. While I anticipate that several members would step
> up
> to this role for the 'greater good,' perhaps the Exec Board might even kick
> in an extra drink ticket at the conference banquet for anyone who organized
> a meet-up event during the past year ;-)
>
> Kelly
>
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> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:25:46 -0700
> From: Alexander Halavais <halavais at gmail.com>
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> 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-votin
> g-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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