This is simply to confirm what both Matthew and Radhika just wrote. As a long-time lurker on this list, a fairly new official member to AoIR and a first-time attendee to the conference, I should add that it was an altogether great experience over the last few days. The papers were interesting, the dancing was fun and most of all the people were curious, open-minded and interested in often similar issues. They were also, despite all sentimental talk about the conferences 1.0 and 2.0 (history in the making ;-), VERY open to any newbie like me. More importantly maybe, they made clear that all of us out there can still get involved in the real workings of the association and/or the organisation of the next conference if we so want. Now THAT's a promise!!!

The only disadvantage: getting back to work is hard.

All the best,

Maren