To piggyback onto Liss's announcement, for those who have had concerns about SARS, WHO lifted its advisory for Toronto, and the U.S. CDC lifted its travel alert for Toronto, as more than 30 days (or three SARS incubation periods) have elapsed since the date of onset of symptoms for the last case. Looking forward to seeing as many of you as can make it to the conference, and thanks to Liss and her group for all of their efforts to make the conference a terrific one! Sj At 3:18 PM -0400 7/10/03, Liss Jeffrey wrote:
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Greetings to all Our AoiR conference team is looking forward to welcoming all of you here in Toronto for our annual conference, October 16 - 19. Come early or stay longer if you can. The pre conference workshops take place on October 15.
Please note that the early bird registration closes on July 15th, so we hope that you will signal your intention to come (and save some money) by signing up now. <http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=5WS1&&> or click into it from the front page of the Conference web site www.ecommons.net/aoir . We are updating our conference web site frequently, and will be adding the roommate finder (thanks Jeremy), and an easier to navigate program guide soon. You who have done this organizing for AoiR before know that it is always a lot more work than (as volunteers) you are quite prepared to handle. If anyone wants to add a pre conference workshop, please do contact our coordinator, Olivia Robertson - U of T <olivia.robertson@utoronto.ca> and the committee will consider your request. So far we have planned some fine workshops which will charge a fee, and a free local labs tour. Details soon on the web site. All is coming along, if a bit more slowly than we might like. We appreciate any help that has been supplied so far.
Take care. Liss Jeffrey, PhD McLuhan Program, KMDI, University of Toronto aoir@ecommons.net