Members of the IUCr Journals Commission and IUCr staff gathered in Los Angeles, July 2001. Front row (left to right): J. Glusker, P. Strickland, J. Helliwell, A. Sharpe and G. Kostorz; back row (left to right): D. Brown, A. Linden,L. Jones, G. Ferguson, M. Olmstead, A. Spek, W. Clegg, H. Einspahr and A. Yanovsky.