Title: View from the Chair

Author: Bob Schmidt

Date: 01 March 2018 15:40:40 +00:00 or Thu, 01 March 2018 15:40:40 +00:00

Summary: Bob Schmidt, chair@accu.org

Body: 

This will be a short View, as it is the last before the Annual General Meeting, and I don’t have much to report.

2018 Annual General Meeting

This will be your last reminder – ACCU’s 2018 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Saturday, April 14th, 2018, at the Marriott City Centre in Bristol, UK, in conjunction with the 2018 ACCU conference. The table below shows the important, remaining dates associated with the AGM (the Proposal and Nomination deadline has already passed).

Please take the time to vote when your notification arrives via email.

Important dates for ACCU AGM
3 March 2018	Draft agenda	42 days prior to AGM
17 March 2018	Agenda freeze	(28 days prior to AGM)
24 March 2018	Voting opens	(21 days prior to AGM)

Code of conduct

The website page previously titled ‘Diversity Statement’ has been renamed ‘ACCU Values’, and a generalized Code of Conduct has been added. This Code of Conduct was derived from the conference Code of Conduct; it is considerably shorter, since it concentrates more on our expectations of courteous conduct and less on the punitive and administrative aspects of enforcement.

All people at any event held under the auspices of ACCU are expected to abide by the Code of Conduct. The more expansive Conference Code of Conduct will be used during the ACCU Conference.

For more information, refer to the Code of Conduct [1] and the Conference Code of Conduct [2]. If you have any questions, comments, or criticisms, please contact me.

Web site redesign

I have received some feedback on my previous requests for comments on web site platforms. My thanks to Hubert Matthews, Russel Winder, and Martin Moene for their responses. There is certainly a lot to be considered prior to starting a project of this scope. I hope to have further discussions on the topic at the conference in April.

Web site status

After working on the backlog for several months, I now believe that the web site is up to date with respect to CVu and Overload articles and book reviews. PDF and HTML versions of all articles published since 1 July 2017 are posted, and the by-author and by-article bibliographies are caught up. In addition, I have made changes to several of the informational pages to bring them up to date.

We are still searching for a full time web editor. It has been taking me approximately three to four hours a month to get the magazines posted and the bibliographies created. If you are interested in volunteering for the position, please let me know.

I know I have said this several times over the past 8 months, but it needs repeating – I am very grateful for all of the work Martin Moene did creating multiple sets of instructions prior to his retirement from the role of web editor last year, and for all of the help he has provided me while I’ve stumbled around trying to keep up with the work since. My failures as interim web editor are my own, and my successes are directly related to Martin’s legacy and ongoing help.

ACCU 2018

As mentioned above, the next ACCU conference will be held in Bristol, U.K., from the 11th through the 14th of April, 2018, with pre-conference workshops on April 10th. Barring some unforeseen circumstance, I will be there. Stop by the ACCU table between sessions and say hello.

References

[1] General Code of Conduct: https://accu.org/index.php/aboutus/diversity_statement

[2] Conference Code of Conduct: https://conference.accu.org/coc_code_of_conduct.html

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