Title: View from the Chair

Author: Bob Schmidt

Date: 01 January 2019 15:49:49 +00:00 or Tue, 01 January 2019 15:49:49 +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 the Bristol Marriott City Centre Hotel, in conjunction with ACCU’s annual conference [1]. Although the agenda has not yet been set, the critical dates leading up to the AGM are shown in the table below.

Important dates for the ACCU AGM 2019

Event	Date	Countdown
Announce date	13 January 2019	AGM - 90
Nomination proposal deadline	12 February 2019	AGM - 60
Draft agenda	2 March 2019	AGM - 42
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. The time of the meeting will be announced as soon as it has been set.

BSI Standards Awards

The committee was notified by BSI that our very own Francis Glassborow has been nominated for a 2018 BSI International Standards Maker Award [2]. Here’s the text of the letter:

To whom it may concern:

I am not certain if you are the best person / this is the best e-mail at your organization to contact about this news but I hope that, if you are not, you would be so kind as to forward my e-mail to the appropriate person. One of your members and / or colleagues has asked us to let you know that they were nominated for a 2018 BSI Standards Award. Francis Glassborow was nominated for an International Standards Maker Award.

The BSI Standards Awards are the most prestigious awards BSI gives to standards makers and were created to recognize outstanding contributions by emerging standards-makers, industry leaders, consumer champions, international standards-makers and committee chairs and secretaries. In addition, with the special Wolfe Barry Medal, BSI recognizes exceptional commitment and contribution to standards-making by an individual. Through their services to standards-making, BSI Standards Awards nominees are helping their sectors to develop and grow and helping to safeguard consumers. Their nomination for an award is a form of recognition and appreciation in and of itself and so we thought you would be interested to learn of it.

[…]

Kind regards,

Stephanie Eynon

Please join me in congratulating Francis for his nomination.

The awards ceremony was held 29 November, 2018. I sent an email to Ms. Eynon requesting she provide us with a list of the winners, but she had not responded as of the deadline for this issue of CVu. I will provide the results in the next CVu.

Late edit: Unfortunately, Francis did not win his category. I’ll try to have more information in the next CVu.

ACCU Committee

As listed above, nominations for ACCU committee positions are due by 12 February, 2019. (This will be the last issue of CVu prior to the nomination deadline.) Recall from the last issue that we have two executive committee positions that we know need to be filled – Treasurer and Chair – and all other positions will be open for new candidates. Please contact me or any other committee member if you are willing to stand for any of the positions.

Best ACCU Magazine Articles 2018

Voting is now open for the selection of the Best ACCU Magazine Articles from 2018. Go to Survey Monkey UK [3] to cast your vote for up to three articles from each magazine. The winner from each magazine gets an additional 15 minutes of fame in an upcoming issue, and bragging rights for a year. Vote now!

References

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

[2] BSI Standards Awards:https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/about-bsi/uk-national-standards-body/BSI-Standards-Awards/

[3] Survey Monkey:https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/HNP773J

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