From the chair

I would like to extend a warm invitation to you and your invited guests to attend "<i>The Fourth Annual ACM-SIGMIS Reception,</i>" to be held as an ACM-SIGMIS event prior to the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2004) in Washington, D.C. USA, December 12--15, 2004. Light refreshments will be served.

<ul><li>What: <i>Fourth Annual ACM-SIGMIS Reception</i></li> <li>Where: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2004) Washington, D.C. USA Grand Hyatt Washington Room to be announced</li> <li>When: 6:00 to 8:00 pm Saturday, December 11, 2004</li> <li>Who: All ACM-SIGMIS members and their invited guests are welcome</li></ul>

Please consider hosting a future SIGMIS CPR (Computer Personnel Research) Conference. We are currently accepting Calls For Proposals for the SIGMIS CPR'06 Conference. Let's make the SIGMIS CPR Conference a continuing success! If you are interested, please email me ([email protected]) to briefly provide insight about your interest, potential locations, potential conference committee members, potential themes if you have any, and any other relevant information. For your reference, the website for CPR'04 held April 22-24, 2004 in Tucson, AZ USA was: http://monet.ecom.arizona.edu/~misweb/cgi-bin/transition/web/sigmis2004

The Call For Papers for SIGMIS CPR'05, to be held April 14-16, 2005 in Atlanta, GA USA can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigmis/CFP2005.html

Finally, I would like to encourage you to become an officer of SIGMIS. The slate of candidates for Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary/Treasurer is to be sent to ACM headquarters by December 1, 2004. If you would like to run for office, please email the following information to George Kasper ([email protected]), Chair of the Nominating Committee: <ul><li>The office for which you are a candidate</li> <li>Name</li> <li>Address (current and future if an address change is expected before elections are completed)</li> <li>Phone</li> <li>Email address</li> <li>ACM Membership Number</li></ul> Candidate's name as it appears on the ACM Membership Roster

Thank you for your continued support of SIGMIS. Your comments and suggestions are encouraged. Please feel free to contact any one of us.

We look forward to seeing you at ICIS'04!