AA Conference questions (2015) contd

Committee No. 3

2.     Would the Fellowship discuss and make recommendations on how the national ‘Directory of Intergroup and Regional officers Great Britain, Continental Europe and the General Service Board Great Britain’ is updated, published and distributed?

Background:

The Directory is a printed booklet sent to Region and Intergroup officers once a year, which contains contact details for people doing service as officers at Region and Intergroup level in Great Britain. We suggest two changes should be considered:

• Should the Directory continue to be published in print form? One drawback of this is that the details in the Directory can quickly go out of date; an electronic record could be kept updated more easily. Would it be better for the Directory to be sent as an electronic document with password protection, with printed copies available on request?

• GSO maintains the Directory, and there is a policy that if an officer does not provide a postal address for their listing, then their name is left out of the Directory altogether. In these cases, it can look like the position is vacant and those wishing to make contact may assume there is no one to contact in that Region or Intergroup (although you can request that it’s listed as ‘Refer to Secretary’ or sent to a ‘care of’ address). As most initial contact between officers these days will take place by email rather than by post, we do not find this policy helpful. It should be acceptable for Regions or Intergroups to have officers’ details printed without postal addresses.

Comment: Now which century are we in!

Cheers

The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous) 

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