[Fis] New Course Novelties

Tue Oct 8 03:54:09 CEST 2019

Dear Marcin and colleagues, 
I think that the idea giving the official status of an Ambassador to some active members of IS4SI can be very fruitful. It might strengthen the organization structure of the Society and provide condition for its growth. It might be useful to make a special page in the IS4SI web site for ambassadors and their activity. Such a page can contain recommendations for ambassadors how to more efficiently to organize their work. 

Sincerely , 
Mark Burgin 

P.S. I noticed that there were more Marks in FIS. 

From: "Marcin SCHROEDER" <mjs at aiu.ac.jp> 
To: "Pedro C. Marijuan" <pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es>, fis at listas.unizar.es 
Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2019 12:24:33 AM 
Subject: Re: [Fis] New Course Novelties 

Dear Pedro, Joseph and other FIS colleagues, 
I am just starting my work at the new university and I am not yet ready to engage more substantially in my new responsibilities in IS4SI. However, I already started teaching and looks like I will be ready with the huge paperwork soon. 
At this moment only few words about chapters. I think it is a very important direction of the development of IS4SI. The location of biannual summit changes continent and each time (for obvious reason - cost of travel) there is shift of the audience. There are many other reasons for formation of chapters. Probably the most important are continuity and recruitment of new members. For this reason I proposed in Berkeley to establish the function of ambassadors of IS4SI understood as local representatives of the organization in countries when we don't have active members (e.g. Board members). My proposal was approved at the General Meeting of IS4SI at the Summit in Berkley. I was approached by some participants of the summit with questions about the possibility to start a local chapter. For instance, Rafal Maciag from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland volunteered to recruit members for the chapter and to coordinate its formation. There are many people interested in the study of information in Poland (there are uasually some participants from Poland at IS4SI summits), but there is no organization of this type with interests outside of computer science. I am thinking about formation of Japanese chapter. I talked to (interested) individuals from other countries (e.g. Romania, Italy). 
The main issue is that the people who are engaged in the formation of a chapter need some authority to recruit members for IS4SI, i.e. to identify themselves as representing IS4SI. For this reason (and for other reasons), I think it will be good to have ambassadors. 
Regards, 
Marcin 

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:56 PM Pedro C. Marijuan < pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es > wrote: 

Dear Joseph, 

Thanks for the response. For me the event was quite curious, the opportunity to watch some parties close to the "guru" category, to respire the atmosphere of Silicon Valley, and also the opportunity to watch the steady advancement of our Chinese colleagues. Indeed the organization of a strong (IS4SI) National Chapter like they have done, could be suggestive for Europeans and US parties. Don't you think that we should promote these "continentals" arrangements? A similar US Chapter a EU Chapter --each one with its own thinking style and focus-- would provide more leverage for the common "Study of Information", including the foundations of information science and information philosophy as well. 

About changing the titles of strings, it depends! In some cases it looks better to maintain them (e.g. for people who could be interested in later consult) and in others it is better to clarify it is a different subject... 

Best wishes--Pedro 

El 01/10/2019 a las 18:32, Joseph Brenner escribió: 

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Dear Pedro, 

Thank you for all the good work! From All, I really look forward to some impressions from Berkeley , having missed it. 

I agree with three messages per week, and take this opportunity to ask a question about their titles. From time to time, if it looks as though a long string of messages is starting, I change the title of mine to make it more specific. Is this desirable or undesirable? 

Best wishes, 

Joseph 

From: Fis [ mailto:fis-bounces at listas.unizar.es ] On Behalf Of Pedro C. Marijuan 
Sent: mardi, 1 octobre 2019 14:44 
To: 'fis' 
Subject: [Fis] New Course Novelties 

Dear FIS & IS4SI Colleagues, 

We start this 23rd year of activities in the list with the novelty commented in my last message: the incorporation of IS4SI Board members. We will count with a network of a dozen correspondents or so who will keep all of us updated on a variety of fields belonging to "the study of information" on a seasonal basis. Of course all members of the list are invited to participate in this periodic informative contact too. Whatever matters to our common interest on information might be reflected by someone in the list. The new purpose is that this list becomes not only an arena of discussion, as we have so much accumulated in the past (see https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/ ), but also a dynamic repository of exciting ideas & criticisms, of relevant scholarship of articles and bibliography, of new insights on contemporary problems, etc. Everyone in his/her style, we could work as a collective intelligence trying to make better sense of our strange times. 

For a start I would suggest a rough evaluation of the past meeting in Berkeley (could it be possible some comment from your side, Terry?). It was really an experience listening to technological avantgarde's prognostics & criticisms. Possible exits to the contemporary crossroads are difficult to foretell... In my opinion, a monumental misunderstanding of information underlies a good portion of the conceptual disorientation among the cognoscenti. I will try to argue more concretely about this along the debates of this New Course. The new inscribed parties may present themselves and produce their arguments when they wish (with the traditional limitation of two messages per week). 

But we are far less people than before in the list (sadly the University of Zaragoza's mindless application of the European Law on Data Protection decimated this list), so to facilitate the new functioning, maybe relaxing the two messages per week could be a good idea now. What about putting the limit in three messages per week? 

Finally, to the group of veteran FISers who have spent 20 years or more in this list, a strong hug. Let us hope the new venture with IS4SI will mean a new horizon of creativity and influence for our long-term project. 

Best regards 

--Pedro 
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