Dear Nicola, (01)
many thanks for taking this action. I'm happy to help in this
initial phase. I also have no problems to participate to a meeting in trento.
:) (02)
Luciano (03)
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:24:06PM +0100, Nicola Guarino wrote:
> Dear colleague,
>
> this message reaches you since you expressed your interest in setting up the
>International Association for Ontology and its Application. We are happy to
>inform that this Association is now shaping up.
>
> 1. Thanks to the help of Peter Yim (who also set up this list server), a web
>site is up and running at the address www.iaoa.org<http://www.iaoa.org>.
>Obviously the site is almost empty right now, the only thing you can get there
>is the draft Statute, resulting from the interaction with various volunteers,
>and the contact address of our lab's secretary, Sira Greco, who is managing
>the mailing list of interested people. Notice that, despite the site is
>public, it does not make sense advertizing it before the association is
>formally constituted.
>
> 2. We shall collect comments on the Statute until the end of March. By April,
>1st we shall post the final version.
>
> 3. Next step will be the Association's Constitution Act. The Italian Law
>requires that this must be a document undersigned by an initial group of
>members, who recognize the Statute and elect the first Executive Council.
>According to the Statute, the first Executive Council will be a provisional
>body, whose main goal will be to lead the Association to the first ordinary
>meeting (which must take place within one year).
>
> 4. Our goal is to have a temporary Executive Council who is agile enough to
>trigger the startup process, and at the same time fairly representative of the
>community. However, we have the formal and practical problem of gathering
>together to sign the official document (a "physical signature" is required).
>Our proposal is to invite those of you who are willing to participate to the
>founding assembly to attend a small scientific workshop here in Trento, within
>the end of April, just to offer you a further opportunity to justify your
>trip. The founding assembly will elect the temporary Executive Council and
>undersign the constitution act. To confirm your interest to participate to the
>founding assembly, and to express your preference concerning the date, please
>visit
>
> http://beta.meetomatic.com/respond.php?id=F76K60
>
> 5. Please feel free to:
>
> - candidate yourself for the Executive Council;
>
> - suggest possible candidates;
>
> - suggest events and/or locations for the first ordinary assembly in a year
>from now;
>
> - express general comments concerning the association's startup.
>
> Note however that this maling list is moderated, so please answer to the
>senders of this message only. Requests fo be included into this mailing list
>should be addressed to greco@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:greco@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looking forward to your feedback,
>
> Nicola Guarino
> Stefano Borgo
> Sira Greco
>
>
> (04)
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