Hi, A quick welcome to the close to 10,000 (!) subscribers on this list!
I want to cordially invite you to jump into this discussion group and introduce yourself. I know there are a ton of ya'all who don't feel comfortable posting to the whole list, because you feel like your small voice gets drowned out by some more frequent posters. Now - a week before the conference - is a great time to say "Hi", introduce yourself to the list, and engage in some of these threads. While others we may agree or disagree on particular ideas, WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME TEAM. Your voice counts. I also want to reaffirm why we all belong to this list. IxDA is a member supported organization committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community. We provide a forum for the discussion of interaction design issues. IxDA's mission includes evangelism of our field, innovation in our discipline, professionalism in our standards of practice, support for interaction design education in academic programs, and community building for our growing global community of interaction design professionals. These initiatives bring us together, and these are places where your voice can be heard and where you can contribute. Finally, to quote briefly from the set of guidelines you agreed to when you joined this list (you can view the whole set of guidelines here - http://www.ixda.org/about_guidelines.php): == We expect professional courtesy from subscribers who actively participate in discussions. Please refrain from using profanity. Our list administrators do not tolerate any sort of harassment of list subscribers. Flaming, name-calling, insults, taunts, or other behaviors that inhibit the free expression of thought on the Discussion List are cause for the offending subscriber's being permanently banned from the list. Our Discussion List exists so members of the interaction design community can easily communicate with one another. Excessive posting by any one subscriber tends to inhibit others' participation in the discussion, and it becomes difficult to maintain a plurality of voices. If an individual subscriber consistently makes excessive postings to this list (more than 10 messages a day or 50 messages a week) the list administrator will warn that subscriber. If this pattern of behavior continues, the list administrator will remove that subscriber from the list. == See you in Vancouver. JK -- http://interactions.acm.org http://www.thoughtsoninteraction.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
