SoutheastCon Support Committee Report

Registration Support:

Progress continues on providing registration support for upcoming
SoutheastCons.  We are in the process of setting up a US-based CBA for
2003 and setting up the on-line registration page.  Plans are to have
everything set up (including credit card processing) by December 15.
As the conference is being run from a Jamaica-based bank account, all
US advance registrations will go through the CBA, which will be swept
regularly for transfer to the Jamaican account.  Thanks in advance for
Mark Stokes' hard work to support this effort.  Preparation for 2004
is already underway.  I have agreed to serve as Registration Chair for
the 2004 conference.

Conference Training:

The updated version of my conferences training module was presented at
Sections Congress 2002.  It was very well received.  I will be
offering a R3-specific version of this (targeting SoutheastCon).  I
offer a discussion item for the Excom to determine the need for a
specific training session for early 2003 to prepare interested section
leaders for presenting 2005 and beyond proposals at the 2003
conference in Ocho Rios.

Charles J. Lord, PE, CQMgr
c.j.lord@ieee.org