Following the debate on the IFIP 8.2 mailing list earlier this year, David Avison asked if I could facilitate this discourse at the working conference at Boise. Thus, over lunch on the last day of the conference, participants were asked to consider issues that they wanted to raise that did not fit within the normal agenda of the business meeting.

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In this Bumper Issue

* Secrets of IFIP WG8.2
* Minutes of business meeting, St. Louis, 1999
* A message to the librarian
* Communications
* The St. Louis conference
* Organising a conference
* Congratulations to …
o Richard Welke
o Richard Baskerville
* Social theory and Y2K

Secrets of IFIP WG8.2