August 16, 2002 Report of the a(o).i.r. executive committee Prepared by Steve Jones AoIR Executive Committee President: Steve Jones Vice-President: Nancy Baym Secretary: Ulla Bunz Treasurer: Benjamin Bates Open Seats: David Silver and Barry Wellman Appointed Seats: Matthew Allen and Leslie Shade Student Seat: Lisbeth Klastrup Publications Officers: Jeremy Hunsinger and Charlie Breindahl 2002 Conference Coordinator: Monica Murero 2002 Conference Program Chair: Klaus Bruhn Jensen Ethics Working Group Chair: Charles Ess 1. Introduction & General (Jones) Below is the monthly report from AoIR executive committee members. We are a scant two months from our annual conference, this year in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and I am greatly looking forward to seeing many of you there. 2. Executive Officers' Reports 2.1 President (Jones) 2.1.1 Participation in AoIR work and initiatives as always welcomed. Feel free to contact me or any of the executive committee members or working group leaders with questions, input and interest. 2.2 Vice President (Baym) 2.2.1 No report. 2.3 Secretary (Bunz) 2.3.1 No report. 2.4 Treasurer (Bates) 2.4.1 I'm back on duty, caught up with payments, etc., but still have to move accounts info to new computer. Thanks (a lot!) to Steve and Jeremy for filling in. Also pretty current in terms of sending out reminders on expiring/expired memberships. 2.5 Open Seats (Silver, Wellman) 2.5.1 Silver: Nothing to report. 2.5.2 Wellman: Informally discussed with putative conference organizer a forthcoming Conference on Universal Usability bringing together social scientists and computer scientists and adaptive tech folks. 2.6 Appointed Seats (Allen, Shade) 2.6.1 Allen: Busy with my leave, doing research etc; have been encouraging locals to join AoIR. 2.6.2 Shade: Nothing to report. 2.7 Student Seat (Klastrup) 2.7.1 No report. 2.8 Publications Officers (Hunsinger, Breindahl) 2.8.1 Hunsinger: doing some list stuff doing some server stuff doing more server security stuff doing some related stuff promoted aoir in brisbane a bit helped charlie a little helped KBJ and Monica a little 2.8.2 Breindahl: I have been developing a small database-driven web site for last year's pre-conference workshop. Like the members area, it is based on PHP and MySQL. It is not quite finished yet, but will be announced soon. I have started asking new AIR-L subscribers to confirm their identity via e-mail. This is to prevent spammers and trolls from (re)subscribing. 2.9 2002 Conference (Monica Murero, Coordinator; Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Program Chair) 2.9.1 Murero: Nothing to report. 2.9.2 Jensen: I have been working with Monica Murero and Jeremy Hunsinger in finetuning the preliminary program for AoIR 3.0. An update will be online shortly, including abstracts of papers and panels. 2.10 AoIR Ethics Working Group (Charles Ess, Chair) 2.10.1 A fourth draft of the report from the aoir ethics working committee is currently circulating among committee members for comments and suggestions for improvements. The final version will be posted for all interested aoir members to review in early September. We are hoping to gather comment and perhaps additional suggestions for improvement prior to the report's presentation to the aoir membership in Maastricht in October. My thanks to all of the committee members who have contributed so significantly to the quality and scope of the report 2.11 AoIR Elections Working Group (Nancy Baym, Liaison) 2.11.1 No report. 2.12 AoIR Net Resources Working Group (Charlie Breindahl, Liaison) 2.12.1 Nothing to report. ------------------------------------end of executive committee report------------------------------ The Association of Internet Researchers is a scholarly association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. It is a resource and support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association is international in scope. The association's web site is at http://www.aoir.org. Membership information is available at http://aoir.org/airjoin.html