Re: [AISdiscuss] a few topics for the Board Meeting

[Robt R Pries <rpries@sbcglobal.net>]

 I would like to correct a couple of statements. It is
not a popular idea to change the symposium. The board
meeting in the fall did not authorize or promote such
a change. Indeed, the report I gave of the survey of
members attending the convention noted that a large
number of people wrote in on the questionnaire that
although they liked the bulletin they would like to
see less, not more, business in it and have more
articles. Placing the symposium question into the
bulletin would go against what the vast majority of
members have been saying. It is believed by many that
one of the reasons why we loose so many new members is
that the bulletin is not offering enough in the way of
articles and that too much that is in it is AIS
business and that turns off new members. There are
several vocal older members who do not wish to loose
the archive that the bulletin represents. The thought
has been to possibly remove much of this material to a
supplement that would still be archival but would
allow the bulletin to be more appealing especially to
new members. Adding yet another degree of business to
the pages of the journals seems like defeating the
strategy for gaining membership while barely saving
any money. Considering the cost of the pages in the
bulletin it may actually be more expensive. I pity the
person recording the symposium ballets if we do this
because I know how badly people write numbers. 

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