<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Pedro, Joseph and other FIS colleagues,</div><div>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.</div><div>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).</div><div>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.</div><div>Regards,</div><div>Marcin<br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:56 PM Pedro C. Marijuan <<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
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<div>Dear Joseph,</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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...</div>
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<div>Best wishes--Pedro<br>
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<div>El 01/10/2019 a las 18:32, Joseph
Brenner escribió:<br>
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Pedro,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Lucida Sans
Unicode" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">Thank you for all the good
work! From All, I really look forward to
some impressions from <u></u><u></u>Berkeley<u></u><u></u>,
having missed it.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Lucida Sans
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Lucida Sans
Unicode" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">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?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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Unicode" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">Best wishes,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt">
Fis [<a href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>]
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Pedro
C. Marijuan<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
mardi, 1 octobre 2019 14:44<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
'fis'<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
[Fis] New Course
Novelties</span></font><font color="black"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dear
FIS & IS4SI Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">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 <a href="https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/" target="_blank">https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/</a>
), 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. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">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).<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">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? <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Best
regards<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<span id="gmail-m_-5154818474705178928tw-cst"></span>--Pedro<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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