I trace my journey with Kairos back to my first meeting with the founding editors of the journal (which had not yet been established) at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Washington DC in 1995. They were present at the inaugural meeting of the Alliance for Computers and Writing (ACW) and they threw a party that was so good it nearly got them kicked out of the hotel. These were the kind of people that I wanted to spend time with -- they were smart, committed to making a difference in the discipline, passionate, and knew how to grow a social network of equally committed students and scholars.
The first editorial team included Editor and Publisher Mick Doherty, Assistant Editor Elizabeth Pass, Managing Editor Michael Salvo, Links Editor Greg Siering, News Editor Corey Wick, Production Manager (Designer) Jason Teague, Chief Copy Editor Amy Hanson and TTU System Administrator Joseph Unger. I spent a lot of time with these folks at the 1996 Computers and Writing Conference in Logan, Utah -- and that combination of social networking and right-time/right-place lead to an offer to join the staff as CoverWeb Editor (taking over from Mike Salvo, who would take on overall managerial duties). It was, indeed, a kairotic moment for me.
(See the footnote in Jim Kalmbach's "Reading the Archives: Ten Years on Nonlinear (Kairos) History" elsewhere in this issue for more on the editorial staff changes over the last ten years.)
For a different perspective on the journal's beginning and early history (1996-1998), see
Doherty, Mick. (2001). @Title This_Chapter As...[Was: On the Web, Nobody Knows You're an Editor]. New Worlds, New Words: Exploring Pathways for Writing about and in Electronic Environments Ed. John F. Barber and Dene Grigar. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 95-120.
In 2002, Mick Doherty and Michael Salvo wrote a multivocal webtext about the beginnings and future of Kairos: