Hello SIGCIS members, Once or twice a year I like to update everyone on the progress of the Mahoney fund, in which SIGCIS is accumulating capital to support graduate student travel awards and other future projects. The fund was founded two years ago in honor of historian Michael S. Mahoney. Full details, including the procedure for donating, at http://www.sigcis.org/mahoney. So far this year we have received donations totaling $2,850 bringing the total to just over eight thousand dollars. These contributions included pledged annual giving from Jonathan Coopersmith, Ann Johnson, and Wendy Vogenitz. Angela Creager and Brent Jesiek made new donations. $1,500 of the total was the honorarium I received from Harvard University Press as editor of the forthcoming "Histories of Computing," a collection of Mahoney's work. (Available for preorder at Amazon, which is very trusting of HUP as I didn't send back the galleys yet. http://www.amazon.com/Histories-Computing-Michael-Sean-Mahoney/dp/0674055683 ). The fund is managed by SHOT along with its own endowment. We earned more than $800 of investment income from its performance in 2009. So far the proceeds are being reinvested in their entirety to speed capital accumulation. When the balance reaches $10,000 we plan to begin spending at least 5% of the total each year to support an additional graduate student travel award for the SIGCIS workshop. Contributions large and small are always welcome. Donations to the fund count as charitable contributions for US taxpayers, and so are tax deductible in the normal way for those who itemize. SHOT has asked that donations, where possible, be made by check rather than online. It would be great to reach the initial $10,000 target before the 2011 annual meeting next autumn. Happy holidays to you all, as the semester and the year draw to their conclusions. Tom Haigh