To: Region 3 ExCom 
Fr: David Green, Region 3 ECSC 
Sb: Electronic Communications Systems Coordinator Report 
Dt: 11 December 2006

The electronic services used by IEEE volunteers includes E-mail, mailing
lists, Newsgroups, Web services, TWiki Site, IRC, eNotice, aliases,
Region 3 OnLine Community, the Region 3 Meeting server, and as well as
experimental capabilities like richer conferencing environments and
collaboration services.

I continue to work with others in Regional Activities to start up a
super-project to develop tools for the Sections and Chapters.
The group has held a few face to face meeting, and many IRC and 
teleconferences related to two projects:

   * Meeting Facilitation (announcement creation, registration, etc.)
     - expected to Beta March/April 2007.
   * Data driven web site (near automatic maintenance of a minimal 
     web site using data already reported officers, meetings 
     (other project)
     - expected to Beta September 2007.

A Region 3 Volunteer Blog test has been established.  If you have content
that should be considered for this blog, please send it to me.  The blog
is at https://ieeer3.blogspot.com/ and one can subscribe to an RSS feed
to it.  Presently the Secretary is posting items to the blog for the 
Region.