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2nd lesson: HOW TO BE UP TO DATE TO WHAT IS GOING ON WITH AEGEE- THE MAILING LISTS AND THE WEBSITE

The mailing lists are important tools in order to exchange informations and to be up to date to new events, projects ecc

Let's start with the RAINBOW-LIST which is our regional mailing list (for Malta, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and to which you are probably subscribed to if you receive this email.

Apart from the Rainbow-L (our region is called "Rainbow") there are the mailing lists of the other 9 "AEGEE-Regions": DACH, Balkania, Carpathian, Central, Spirit, North, North-West, South-West and Wiesen.

The regional MLs serve the purpose of cooperation and discussion for neighbouring antennae in neighbouring countries of a particular region.

The most important MLs are the AEGEE-L - which is the main discussion list, with any topic regarding AEGEE - and the AGORA-L where statutory-meeting matters are discussed.

If you are interested to know everything about events, you should subscribe to EVENT-L - here the new events are announced, with a link to apply to the event.

There are a lot of other mailing lists, for example every project and working group has its own one. A lot of people are subscribed to AEGEE-SU-L, which is the one of the Summer Univeristies- very useful because free places in SUs are announced there. Of course this list is used during SU period.

Another important ML is BOARDINFORM-L on which practical informations for the board-members of an antenna are communicated - for example, right now before the Agora the treasurer of AEGEE-Europe explained how to pay the membership fees for the locals, how much the fee is ecc.

To subscribe to the mailing lists, just go to http://lists.aegee.org, where you can find the archives of all MLs.

Now let's come to the website. As you might know, it's www.aegee.org and there is really a lot of information about everything that concerns AEGEE - you should explore it on your own, it's really worth it!

But I'll give you some hints. First of all, you should create an aegee account- it's very simple, just register with your name and the number on your membership card and you will get a password. You can explore the website without being logged in but you will have access to less information (for example you can see the evaluations of Summer Universities or the names and emails of the board-members of each local only if you are logged in).

Very useful is the page of the events where all events are listed, you can have a look at the past ones and add a new event if your local is organizing one. That's also the page from where you can apply to the events.

If you want to know in which cities AEGEE is present, go to the link "network".

Going to "office", you can look at the Address Book which contains the names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of the board-members of every AEGEE-body. And you can find an incredible amount of any kind of material, ready to be downloaded (PR material, internal education material ecc) from the AEGEE-database.