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CVu Journal Vol 31, #1 - March 2019
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Title: View from the Chair

Author: Bob Schmidt

Date: 01 March 2019 15:39:32 +00:00 or Fri, 01 March 2019 15:39:32 +00:00

Summary: Bob Schmidt, chair@accu.org

Body: 

ACCU 31st Annual General Meeting

ACCU’s 2019 Annual General Meeting will be held Saturday 13th April 2019 at 13:30, in the Bristol Marriott City Centre Hotel, in conjunction with ACCU’s annual conference [1]. Although the agenda has not been set as this is being written, the table below contains the remaining critical dates leading up to the AGM.

Important dates for the ACCU AGM 2019

Event Date Countdown
Agenda freeze 16 March 2019 AGM - 28
Voting opens 23 March 2019 AGM - 21
AGM 13 April 2019  

These dates have been posted to the web site, which will be updated with the agenda as it becomes available.

BSI Standards Awards

As reported last issue, Francis Glassborow was nominated for a 2018 BSI Standards Award in the category of International Standards-Maker. From the Nominees announcement:

This award is to recognize an exceptional contribution to representing, championing and safe-guarding a UK committee’s position in European and/or international standards-making and recipients will have demonstrated how their contribution has specifically supported UK interests/positions in the development of a standard(s) which has a significant impact on industry, the economy and/or the public good.

This category had the most nominees, by far – with 19 nominations, it was a very crowded field. In the end, 8 nominees were selected for the award; unfortunately, Francis was not among them. A complete list of BSI Standards Awards winners and their biographies is available on the BSI web site [2].

Congratulations once again to Francis for his well-deserved nomination.

Beginners welcome

CVu and Overload have a reputation for presenting advanced and cutting-edge material. Programmers at the beginning of their careers may find these articles intimidating, and wrongly think that ACCU is an organization only for the experienced. In order to reach out to those who are just starting their professional careers, and hopefully encourage them to become members, we are soliciting articles that deal with subjects that those with more experience take for granted.

Authors, please submit your ideas and articles to Fran [3] or Steve [4] – whether for beginners or not. If you have never before written for ACCU, they make the process easy and enjoyable.

References

[1] ACCU 2019: https://conference.accu.org/

[2] BSI Standards Awards: https://www.bsigroup.com/globalassets/localfiles/en-gb/about-bsi/nsb/standards-awards/2018/bsi-standards-awards-2018-winners.pdf

[3] Frances Buontempo, Overload editor: overload@accu.org

[4] Steve Love, CVu editor: cvu@accu.org

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