Let me second Nancy's comments below ... while also noting (since she's too modest to do so) that she hosted the very first AoIR conference, and I'd suggest that any list of the association's major early organizers has to include her name as well. As long as I'm writing, though, I've got a quick question about Steve's mini-history: Was that first "let's do this" meeting at NCA or ICA? I've got a ragged brown T-shirt suggesting that this was ICA in May 1999 in San Francisco ... but maybe that was the second "let's do this" meeting? cheers gil Nancy Baym wrote:
Who is the single most important person? (not necessarily the current leadership)
Unless, of course, you mean this in terms of the original organization of AoIR, in which case...I guess it would have to be me.
It is not hubris for Steve Jones to say this, it's a simple fact. Although many of us contributed to getting it off the ground, the association would never have happened without Steve's leadership. And although he has stepped back from that role considerably now, his legacy looms large in the association's ethos.
Jeremy Hunsinger should also be noted for having built the technical structures through which AoIR has operated since 1998 (a role now served by Alex Halavais) and serving as program chair of our first conference.
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