From dgreen@uab.edu Thu Jan 27 12:12:06 2000 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:10:01 -0600 (CST) From: David Green To: Region 3 Executive Committee Cc: sec-r03@ieee.org Subject: Secretary's Report for January 29, 2000 Excom To: Region 3 EXCOM Fr: David Green, Region 3 Secretary Sb: Secretary's Report Dt: January 27, 2000 The Region 3 meeting information, agendas, and reports received are on-line at https://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/excom/meetings/2000-01/agendas.html I thank EXCOM members who have submitted their reports prior to the meeting according to the guidelines posted on the web. These reports are posted to the web linked with the agenda. This will also serve as the archival mechanism. Also available on the web (linked from the agenda) are the minutes of our past December EXCOM which were distributed after the meeting. The official approval of the minutes are on the consent agenda. We are continuing to refine our process for setting up information on our meetings, etc. on the web to assist the EXCOM. Please let me know where you think improvements could be made. Committees that wish to store items on the web may either do this through 1) the webmaster, 2) the Region 3 Secretary or 3) through a dedicated area that the committee controls. Please think through issues of maintenance, skills, and convenience before you decide since it is work to change the approach later. Brian Swail can inform you as to the tradeoffs between the approaches. As I write this, Atlanta has had a crippling ice storm, Birmingham and Atlanta are slated for snowfall as well as other parts of our region. While we still have to worry about power outages impacting our meeting, I am confident that the impact will be less than had we tried to travel this particular weekend. Hats off to Director Riddle for this initiative and to the E-Conferencing Committee for putting together a plan to make it happen! Dave -- David G. Green d.green@ieee.org IEEE Region 3 Secretary (98-00)