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Dear friends and colleagues, We are writing regarding the IFCoLog meeting at FLoC which will take place from 12.45pm and 1.45pm on Monday July 19th at: Seminar Room 1It is a public event so please feel free to join us at lunch time You all may have noticed the recent explosion in energy and upsurge in IFCoLog and its constantly improving website: http://www.ifcolog.net/We are now well on our way to rescue this federation as a truly independent and international institution. When Dov and Jörg took over after Moshe's resignation, we had about 40 (dormant) members and now we have well over one hundred and this process is still going on with likely more than 200 communities joining us this year alone. Also we have set up a new organisational infrastructure: - two intermediate/voluntary chairmen (Dov Gabbay and Jörg Siekmann) until the situation is stable again. - we have a director to run the show on an everyday basis (currently Mike Gabbay) - a coordinator (Jane Spurr). - a treasurer (Howard Barringer) - a secretary (Britta Seidel) - an executive board to help in the day to day business (currently Mike Gabbay, Christoph Benzmueller, Simon Colton, Michael Kohlhase). - a board of councilers to act as our figure heads: - Sergei Artemov- an advisory board: - Samson Abramsky- we are also looking for three new Vice chairmen to represent the three (currently) dominant regions in the global village (US, Europe, Asia). We are also starting to publish cheap workshop proceedings in the name of IFCoLog, joining EASYCHAIR as well as other new publication efforts All of this will continue to improve well over this and possibly next year's time span, in particular our efforts to represent the upcoming Asian countries China, Japan and others much better, where we have now established firm contacts. The same has to be done with Latin America, which is increasingly becoming independent from its northern brother. Look at the website regarding the latest news in the right sidebar (this comes out about once a week). But after all this becomes stable, Dov and Jörg will resign and offer the position of general chair for election: so then the pressing question is, how can we make it sustainable this time? An important issue is then to get a permanent position for a general secretary post. The idea is that the European institutions sponsor this, and we are talking to INRIA (France), DFKI, MPI(Germany), IRST(Italy) and possibly some institution in Britain; so that makes it 1/4 of a permanent position each - not much money by anybody`s standard. Also we have to improve our financial situation, we need a steady income to continue to sponsor small workshops and events as in the past, but we also plan for a financial service to all our more than 200 members (individual accounts, Ausfallbürgschaft, financial security). Judging from the experience of recent months we hope that the website will generate a bottom up activity just like Wikipedia or other web2.0 activities. All the best, Dov Gabbay and Jörg Siekmann -- |
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