The report from Liss Jeffrey, conference coordinator, was inadvertently omitted from the report posted yesterday. Here it is (thanks Liss!): The Toronto crew continues to work on the "Broadening the Band" conference. Check out the web site www.ecommons.net/aoir for updates. An online forum has just started up on the site ( <http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/p/list.php?f=2>http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/p/list.php?f=2 ) so that our conference delegates can locate room-mates and enjoy a more affordable stay at the downtown Hilton, our AoiR 4.0 network central. A bit of cash raised in seed funding from the Bell University Labs at the University of Toronto has been put to work to develop an easier way to update the Program databases that we have created. You will see results soon. After the Toronto conference, we will donate this basic software to AoiR. (Thanks David Mason, Christie Hurrell, Bernie Hogan and the working group for help with this, and Matt Allen for handling the updates.) Please register if you have not yet < <http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=5WS1&&>http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=5WS1&& > Information on hotel registration can be found here: < <http://ecommons.net/aoir/registration.html#hotel>http://ecommons.net/aoir/registration.html#hotel > Hoping that perhaps those running for graduate student representative might volunteer to help with special plans for grad students, welcomes and birds of a feather at the Toronto conference. If you are interested, please contact Olivia Robertson <olivia.robertson@utoronto.ca>, who is our chief volunteer wrangler. BTW the new directors of the AoiR Toronto 2003 not for profit are: Liss Jeffrey, Catherine Middleton and Olivia Robertson. We have started to assign some chairs to panels, and to schedule certain special events ( including a memorial moment for Professor Ron Kling by some of his former students and colleagues), so if you are interested in chairing or have an idea that might help conference life, please drop a note to aoir@ecommons.net -- Francophones especially encouraged to apply! Our meetings continue 4 - 6 PM every Monday, so if you want to join in, come along or drop us an email. Hope you are enjoying the summertime and see you in Toronto for October's northern air :). -- Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas 102 Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org