Region 3 Director's Message
March 12, 2007

SoutheastCon 2007 -- Plans are in place.  Leadership Development
training starts at 10:00 a.m. on Friday.  Rooms for the overflow
attendees are available in a second hotel.  The super-organized
conference committee has been working down its list of 188 action items
and promise us a great conference, student competitions, and Region
meeting.

Membership Development -- Lee Stogner and Jim Howard, plus IEEE staff,
will be offering a day's training for MD chairs at SoutheastCon in
Richmond.  Please make sure your section takes advantage of it.  If you
don't have a MD chair, please appoint one.

Information Reports -- Sections are urged to file electronic reports of
their activities, which can be discussed at the Area/Council meetings on
Friday evening.  The same (or updated) reports will appear on the
Information Agenda for the Sunday morning Region meeting.  Please focus
on problems and successes in your reports.  We would like to distill
section best practices from a compilation of the information you
provide.  If you have current problems you need help with from Region 3,
please advise me to put your report on the Discussion Agenda for the
Region meeting.

Posting Section Reports -- Some sections are posting their Excom minutes
and chapter reports on their web sites, where they are available in a
long-term archive. By making Excom activities visible to other section
members in this way, some additional volunteers may emerge for helping
with section activities.  IEEE is the world's largest professional
technical organization that is largely volunteer-driven; we need new
volunteers to carry the work forward.

Region 3 Initiatives - As before, we will be reporting progress and
brainstorming on the nine Region 3 initiatives identified to serve you
better.  Your ideas are gratefully received.

Travel plans -- If you are traveling to SoutheastCon 2007, please be
sure to include your travel plans in your registration information.  See
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/excom/meetings/2007-03/index.html

Travel safely.  Looking forward to seeing you in Richmond!

George McClure

George F McClure
g.mcclure @ ieee.org
1730 Shiloh Ln
Winter Park, FL 32789
407 647-5092
Fax 407 644-4076
Mobile 407 758-0321