Letter from the chair

All are welcome to attend ...

"The Eighth Annual ACM-SIGMIS Reception," to be held as an ACM-SIGMIS event prior to the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2008) in Paris, France on Saturday, December 13, 2008. Light refreshments will be served.

The forthcoming SIGMIS CPR'09 Conference will be held May 28-30 2009 in Limerick, Ireland. Organized and hosted by the University of Limerick, this conference venue is 3 miles from Limerick city centre and 20 miles from Shannon International Airport, with a scenic 300 acre riverside campus. The theme of this year's conference is "New Concepts and Practices in Preparing, Recruiting, and Retaining IS Professionals in the Global Context." Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the refereed conference proceedings which will be distributed at the conference. Additionally, the 2009 conference will include a doctoral student consortium on Thursday, May 28, 2009. An award for best doctoral consortium paper will be presented. For more information, the direct link to the conference website is: http://www.sigmis.org/CPR_2009_Home_Page.htm

Please consider volunteering to serve on the Program Committee for the 2009 conference. Members of the Program Committee serve as reviewers and assist in identifying session chairs and discussants. If you would like to serve on the Program Committee, please contact: Program Co-chairs: Jack Downey, University of Limerick, Ireland Damien Joseph, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore at [email protected]. If you haven't yet attended ACM-SIGMIS CPR, this year is the year to enjoy the 47th successive conference, only the second meeting to be held outside of the US. Let's continue to make the SIGMIS CPR Conference a success!

As Data Base enters its 40th year of publication, please consider sending your best research to this valued publication outlet. Please submit your manuscript at the Data Base website at: http://the-database.org.

Finally, I would like to encourage you to become an officer of SIGMIS. The Chair of the SIGMIS Nominating Committee is Deb Armstrong, Florida State University.

The slate of candidates for Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary/Treasurer is to be sent to ACM headquarters by December 1, 2008. If you would like to run for office, please email the following information to Nominating Committee Chair Deb Armstrong, [email protected]:

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