Have you heard of the movie "Ocean's 11" ? In the movie, eleven thieves work together to rob a Las Vegas casino, an act that was essentially considered impossible before because it is just to huge and complex a task. Well, I'm not saying that any of us are thieves or crooks, but I'd like to introduce you to "Air's 13" : 11 people on the exec, the program chair, and the local person. Essentially, it is the work of these 13 people (and whoever they can push into volunteering) that makes our conferences happen. Think about that. That's really a pretty remarkable accomplishment, and all of them are doing it on a volunteer basis, with no compensation, and many of the 13 do it without even getting release time from their employers/universities. I've been around AoIR long enough (first as a student volunteer for the first conference, then as an exec member) to realize that if the people in charge COULD accommodate all the wonderful ideas that are raised on air-l and air-conf and air-meet every year, they WOULD do it in a heartbeat. But it's just not possible without help from you, the conference attendees and/or members. We've been able to do some things (in addition to improving and growing our conferences). For example, we have a video with conference scenes from the first conference, even streamed, created by some of my students from back then as a student project. We had a CD-ROm once with conference papers on it. Both of these were volunteer projects. So, if you want AoIR to go virtual now *and in the future*, then someone has to step forward and take on the responsibility of investigating that option and then we can decide whether we'll try to implement it or not. Then we'll need a bunch more people who help implement it. Similarly with access to the conference papers. Jeremy ends up having to put all of them online himself, because despite his call for volunteers, no one stepped forward. And Jeremy already spends several hours a week (if not day) working for AoIR. I'm feeling a little like I'm wagging my index finger in your faces saying, "You bad, bad child." And I do want to make you feel a little guilty. I want to remind you that our association and our conferences are operating at a level of professionalism, scope, and quality that far exceeds what you would normally expect if you knew that there are only 13 people behind it, Air's 13, and their (mostly student) recruits. Please continue to discuss ideas, as the exec learns from that. But if you want to make sure that any of them get implemented, you need to pick up that keyboard and start by writing to Nancy or any of the other execs and giving them a concrete idea of what you *can* and *will* contribute. For much of our work, it doesn't matter where you are, whether it's Budapest or Cairo or a non-English speaking European country or Tokyo or the US. Ulla