Colette, many thanks for your comment. Please just allow a my short comment: you write: " would potentially deprive the other International Committees of their young members" This is real in the mind of who see the young group as a threat for other committee. But it is not true, Young (or "young adult") can have the free to choose to be a member (voting or not voting) of this committee (when and if will be create inside ICOM) and of other Committees. Will be a challenge for other committee to be sure that their young members don't escape or leave their committee. There is any real need to don't choose to be a member of one, two or more committees (I don't remember if there is a limit)? Any member can decide if they want to have decision power (vote) in the committee he/she thing is the more near to their work. Must to be clear that no-one have interest to catch members from other committee, this not a game where who have more members win the game. Is a common challenge in the interest of ICOM, Museums and colleagues. Other committee don't be worry, no-one want to leave it any "power". I hope the situation is now clear definitively. Mario On 26-08-2005 16:54, "Colette Dufresne Tassé" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Mario, > > To Patrick's opinion, I would like to add that this new international > committee would potentially deprive the other International Committees of > their young members. This, I think would be a very sad reprecaution. > > In all this business of young people, one should remember that until very > recently, enven graduates students in museum studies were not allowed > membership! So with the change in ICOM membership rules, we could expect to > see many more young people participating to conferences and other > activities. > > C. Dufresne-Tassé, > President CECA > > > Le 25/08/05 06:57, « P Boylan » <[log in to unmask]> a écrit : > >> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Mario Bucolo wrote: >> >> +++++ [CLIP] +++++ >> >>> Last week I meet, informally, in Paris the ICOM General Secretary and we >>> talk about this idea. He was happy about this initiative and he want to look >>> again to the proposal after a better definition about who will join the >>> group, the group goals and strategic plan to achieve the goals. >>> He was very clear that the creation of a new International Committees inside >>> ICOM it will be difficult (also regarding burocracy) and with long times >>> (about Vienna 2007 general assembly). >> >> ================= >> >> Mario: >> >> Please remember that if your suggested Group is eventually constituted as >> an official ICOM International Committee any "younger" ICOM member joining >> it would not be allowed to be a full ("voting") member in any other >> International Committee, such as the International Committee for their own >> academic or professional specialisation (ICME, Nat Hist, CECA, ICMS or >> whatever). (This is clear under the Statutes and Rules of ICOM, which >> allow full membership in only one International Committee at a time.) >> >> I am sure that nobody - least of all the younger members - would want to >> cut themselves off from perhaps more senior professional colleagues in >> their own specialisation in this way, so some other structure would be >> needed. >> >> >> >> >> Patrick Boylan >> >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> >> Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the >> archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the > archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html -- Mario Bucolo, ABIS MultiCom & Museumland CEO Skype user: mariobucolo Visit http://www.museumland.net The WorldWide Portal to museums and cultural heritage CulturMed Conference http:// www.culturmed.info ABIS MultiCom S.r.l. - Multimedia & Communication Via Milano n.61 - 95127 Catania - Italy Ph: +39-095-38.70.92 Ph: +39-02-38596640 No fax, just email! Email: [log in to unmask] Http://www.abis.it - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html