IEEE VIRGINIA COUNCIL REPORT TO REGION 3 EXCOMM July 14, 2003 The Virginia Council met in Jamaica at Southeastcon, and via e-conference on June 10, 2003. At the Jamaica meeting Sean Haynes (past Va Council Chair) proposed that the Council consider hosting Southeastcon 2007. Sean and Adeeb Hamzey (Richmond Section Chair) agreed to form an ad hoc committee to plan and report to the Council in September. The Public Relations and Webmaster committees were combined and re-named the Communications committee. Bill Clayton will continue to serve as chair. The committee consists of the Chair, plus all Section web masters, newsletter editors, and listserv owners. The Council listserv experienced a deluge of spam in May. The communications committee took several steps to prevent this, including limiting "write" access to list, and eliminating "mailto:" references on the web site. This seems to have been effective. We are still struggling to fill all officer slots at the Council level. Respectfully, Dave Geer David H. Geer, Chair IEEE Virginia Council d.geer@ieee.org 540-774-4905