Report

SoutheastCon Support Committee (ad-hoc)
Charles Lord, Chair

The SoutheastCon Support Committee was formed in 2001 as a
subcommittee of the R3 Conferences Committee as an operating group to
provide services to the current SoutheastCon operating committees as
needed.  At Director Howard's request, I have agreed to serve in the
capacity of Chair of this committee at least through the 2002
conference in Columbia.  In this capacity, I report to the Chair of
the Conferences Committee (Don Hill) and the Chair of the SoutheastCon
2002 Committee (Nancy Gunderson).

At the request of the 2002 SoutheastCon committee, we are providing
registration services for the 2002 conference.  This consists of the
maintenance of all registration forms that are published on the web
and paper, the receipt and processing of those forms, reporting of
registration statistics to the conference, and all on-site
registration duties including badging.

Tasks accomplished:

We have provided a registration form in both paper (Word) and web form

We have server space reserved on a server that provides SSL (secure)
connections for on-line credit card transactions.  One benefit of this
is that we have applied for registration of the www.southeastcon.org
and www.southeastcon.com domain names - a long-term goal of the
conferences committee.

Equipment has been ordered to provide the on-site registration
capability at Columbia.  Most of the equipment is being donated to us,
keeping costs down.

Badge and ticket (meal, reception, tour, etc) supplies have been
ordered.

Tasks remaining:

Receive and process any and all mail and fax registrations: none have
been received yet.

A merchant account is being applied for to allow us to directly charge
credit cards to the conference Concentration Banking Account (CBA).
This is on hold pending Region 3 approval.

Create and post an on-line registration form including credit card
processing.  This is on hold pending the creation of the merchant
account.

Training of personnel for on-site registration at Columbia

11 January 2002
c.j.lord@ieee.org