Kelly, Great ideas I was trying to express similar ideas. Thanks, Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Kelly Quinn <kquinn8@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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Message: 3 Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:25:46 -0700 From: Alexander Halavais <halavais@gmail.com> To: aoir list <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Voting Open & A Question for Candidates Message-ID: <CAKxz= uCM39JsXP75ES0Hh7Bqspwm-feq6W2tejCJgy47HPZjrw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
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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