Dear All The birds of a feather sesions at AoIR this year are organised along new lines that we hope will help to enable networking and communication amongst delegates. During the first session of thw conference (on Sunday afternoon) all of the conference rooms are available for Birds of a Feather meetings. We hope this session will give people time to organise further meetings throughout the conference (both using the conference rooms and meeting off campus) - the conference rooms are all available throughout the lunch period which is 1.5 hours - which should give time for further short meetings where required. There will also be a further slot to be announced. To make the opening meetings as productive as possible we ask that you use the Birds of a feather forums ( http://forums.aoir.org/index.php?f=1 ) as well as this list to organise groups who would like to meet at the conference. Rooms can be allocated up to the conference as we can use the registration area to carry notices about these. I hope this is clear and that these sessions will contribute to open communication at the conference. All the best Kate