Dear IAOA-Members, (01)
at this year's FOIS conference in Toronto (http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca/),
we will have the first
face-to-face General Assembly Meeting of the IAOA. The meeting
will take place on Thursday 13th May 2010, 4pm-6pm local time, in Room
MC101, Mechanical Engineering Building, University of Toronto. Access
to the meeting will also be available online for virtual participation
(details at the end of this email). The meeting will be recorded. (02)
The draft agenda is given below; we invite further topics for
discussion and comments. (03)
Particularly relevant will be any thoughts and suggestions that you
might have about further activities that the association can take on
in 2010 and after. What role can the association play in taking
ontology and its applications further (agenda point 4)? (04)
The meeting will also include introductions by the members of the
newly elected executive council, discussion of the budget, and
summaries of what has been happening so far. So we very much look
forward to your active participation, either face-to-face or virtual. (05)
Proposed Agenda: (06)
1. Opening Remarks and Welcome to the General Assembly
2. Summary report from the previous year's IAOA activities
3. Presentation of the new IAOA Executive Council members
4. Open discussion on future activities, in particular:
4.1 Education
4.2 Liasons with other associations/initiatives
4.3 Outreach initiatives; ways to get new members
4.4 Interest groups: creating temporary or permanent
groups with specific interests relevant to
the association: which areas should we
target?
4.5 Lobbying/public positions on specific relevant issues
4.6 Ways to circulate information among members (Announcements,
discussions...)
5. Budget status and future perspectives
6. Any Other Business
7. Closing (07)
Virtual participation will be provided by joining the following
conference call: (08)
* Start Time: 10pm CEST / 9pm BST / 5am (+1) JST / 4pm EDT /
1pm PDT / 8pm UTC
** ref: World Clock (09)
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=13&month=5&year=2010&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=250
* Dial-in Number: (domestic long distance cost will apply)
** from a US telephone (US): +1-218-844-8060
** When calling in from a phone, use Conference ID: "4389979#"
** from Europe, call:
o Austria 0820-4000-1577
o Belgium 070-35-9992
o France 0826-100-280
o Germany 01805-00-7642
o Ireland 0818-270-037
o Italy 848-390-179
o Spain 0902-886-056
o Switzerland 0848-560-327
o UK 0844-581-9148
** callers from other countries please dial into either one of the US
or European numbers (010)
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