A 1st post

No, I didn't go AWOL. Yes, I'll be handling the website for the peace caucus for the upcoming year (as I said I would back in November)! I unilaterally decided that, for this year at least, the APHA peace caucus' website would actually be a blog (it's the easiest way to go).

So I've been spending this morning getting things in line for this, the peace caucus' (hopefully soon-to-be, pending your OK) official blog. Actually, I have'nt really done too much yet. All I had to do was register our domain name (www.peacecaucus.org) and then set up a google account for the peace caucus blog manager (currently me, I guess) in order to get our blogger account.

So why did we want to get a website? Well, truthfully, we wanted was to download costs to you, our members. Seriously! You see it costs us about 700$ a year to print out our newsletter. Hopefully, we'll be able to print out a few less of those newsletters by providing a link (this is the newsletter from last year's conference) so that you can print it out yourselves. Hopefully this way we won't go into the red and can free up some money for better things!

We want to keep you abreast about what peace caucus-y things will be going on at the upcoming APHA conference. We're still in the process of figuring things out for next year, but I'll try to keep you posted as things come up. Oh, and by the way, the postings on this blog will not just be coming from me! You'll hopefully be seeing postings from other active peace caucus members that have important or interesting info to share.

Here's a little list of things I'll be working on in the upcoming weeks and months ... please share your ideas by adding comments : a nifty logo for the blog, a little bit of historical info on the peace caucus, and most importantly, figuring out how other active members of the peace caucus (you - if you have something you want to share) can add postings.

Kevin Brown
Statistician
Direction de santé-publique de Montréal
peace [dot] apha [at] gmail [dot] com