Certificate of Incorporation and Chris Funkhouser, Our New Advisory Board Member

Good news on several fronts. First is that we have now recieved our Certificate of Incorporation, dated February 12, 2009, and may proceed with several pressing details.I will meet with Francis next week to set up our bank account, and discuss avenues for structure and funding around the archives. I'll blog the results so that we can begin a discussion forum, particularly as this concerns initial projects and opertional funding. Wreford is working on a limited access (directors and advisory board only) version of the blogs so that we may begin work on grant applications and so forth in confidence. I would like to encourage everyone to contribute any ideas and suggestions. From what we pool together, we'll decide as to how to move forward and a timeline for society initiatives. 
Second pie of good news is that Chris Funkhouser, author of Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archeology of Forms 1959-1995 (2007), and Program Director of Communications and Media, in the Humanities Department of New Jersey's Institute of Technology, has agreed to join our advisory board. Chris' work maps out much of the field in which we are setting up camp. His work as a digital poet is equally exemplary, mesmerzing and inspiring. For a quick tour of Chris' work and publications, take a look at his website: 
http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous/
It's a real honour to have Chris join Carl Leggo, Lionel Kearns and Jim Andrews on our advisory board. So far, their collective expertise cannot be overstated: these folks have enormous vision and have made lasting contributions to contemporary media poetry and poetics.
We have about half of the advisory board now in place, and I'm on to inviting advisors from central Canada, perhaps Frank Davey and Fortner Anderson. Please feel free to weigh in on these choices, but both are key players and Fortner's participation would help us develop contacts with the francophone digital poetry community as well.
Onwards and outwords...