JAVS Fall 2012

AVS bylaws and to encourage more participa tion in the nominations process in the general membership. The proposed bylaws amend ments would then go to the general member ship for a vote. Chapters/Membership Report (Brown, Cordle): 1. Current list of official chapters are as follows: Utah, Tennessee, Southern California, South Carolina, Rocky Mountain, Ohio, Northern California, Missouri, Minnesota, Idaho, Florida, and Arizona Viola Societies. 2. Current list of viola clubs/organizations (unofficial chapters) are as follows: Virginia, Seattle, Philadelphia, Oregon, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Louisiana, Kentucky, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Central Texas, Alabama Viola Societies, and the Viola Club of MD, DC, and VA. 3. The IRS group exemption application is still awaiting a response from the IRS. 4. 2011 membership total was 733 and 2012 is 603—unfortunately, a decline. Since 2011 was a Primrose Competition year, the stu dent numbers were quite a bit higher. We would like to be able to retain these student members. 5. Continued discussion of a members-only sec tion of the website for job listings, teacher directory, school listings, etc. 1. The AVS online scores project continues to grow, and there are now fifty scores available. 2. The AVS has also commissioned its first work for the scores project, Scott Slapin’s Capricious (performed at the 2012 congress) and has cre ated a catalogue of published works that has run in this past year’s issues of the JAVS . 3. There have been eight new items published by the AVS, and eleven other new items have been added. 4. There are future editions up for considera tion, and there is a continued exploration and review of materials to add to the scores collection. Publications Report (Bynog, Cordle, Kimber, Ritscher)

Technology Report (Cordle, Steely, Albers, Thompson) 1. The AVS website is undergoing development to offer greater integration for AVS programs and also to cut costs. Aim to target students and young professionals to join by offering members-only section that will benefit them with information such as concert listings, job listings, teacher directory, etc. 2. We are now offering website advertising, including full homepage banners and large and small sidebar badges, which will click directly to vendors’ websites and will offer an additional source of income. 3. The website, following the conclusion of the international viola congress, will be transi tioned to Dreamhost, and a new Primrose site will be added to our current offerings through WordPress. Both of these will be cost savings measures. 4. A pedagogy blog has been created and will feature pedagogical approaches by different teachers. First teacher/studio will be Heidi Castleman’s Juilliard studio. Heidi and stu dents will contribute to this blog, which will be moderated and edited by Adam Cordle. 5. Social media: Twitter has been integrated within the current website interface. Information from WordPress and Twitter posts will now appear on both sites. Facebook is currently being run as a similar outlet to the yahoo Viola List. 6. Our website, Twitter, and newsletter are being used to distribute selected AVS viola news. 7. Content management: need for upgraded online system to update member information, provide chapter services, donor tracking, etc., beyond the current system. Several options are under consideration. 8. Organizational e-mail: need for organizational e-mail accounts. Maybe can do this through Dreamhost or Google. Education Ad Hoc (Kimber, Steely, Thompson) 1. Projects under discussion or underway include making pedagogical materials available either online or in AVS archives, such as:

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