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We continue the
promotion of NPSS membership and NPSS activities by providing brochures
and leaflets for the conferences that we sponsor, setting up a membership
booth and manning it, ensuring that screens promoting NPSS and its
activities are playing before and between talks, and by maintaining
our web site. All this work is done by volunteers and I would like
to thank them all for their time and effort.
Of course, NPSS is a Society of all its members and without the
active help of members, journals would not be published and meetings
would not be organized. The profession relies on the volunteerism
of its members to ensure that the communication that stimulates
innovation and accelerates progress is facilitated. In addition,
the printed record provides an archive of progress in our fields
and help, inspiration, and stimulation to those who can not attend
meetings.
We each play our part and the main work of the communications committee
is to collect the promotional and general informational material,
package it and ensure its distribution. Of course, I am not referring
to technical articles here, but to information about the activities
and information about the fields of engineering and science that
we serve. We are looking for input all the time including photographs
that we can use, and proposed web pages that inform the nonmembers
and the general public about the fields that we work in. What else
can you think of to help send our message?
I encourage you to go to our web pages and review them with the
question in your mind that if you were a member of the public, what
information would be useful here? Of course, I am extremely interested
in receiving proposed new pages to add!
We are always looking for volunteers to help with the activities
and so please do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested!
The brochures for this year and next year have now been printed
along with two leaflets. One leaflet is new and I would especially
welcome constructive comments on it.
Peter Clout, chair of the Communications Committee, can be reached
at Vista Control Systems Inc., 176 Central Park Sq., Los Alamos,
NM 87544-4031, Phone: +1 505 662-2484; Fax: +1 505 662-3956; E-mail:
clout@vista-control.com.
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