The final issue of Organised Sound Volume 5 represents the first step in what one hopes will become a fruitful long-term collaboration with the International Computer Music Association (ICMA). Selected papers from workshops and panels that formed part of the 2000 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC2000, Berlin, 27 August – 1 September) form the theme for this issue. Of the ten workshops and four panels, papers are being published representing two from each category. Obviously not all of these categories could be represented in this issue. Furthermore, it was clear that many of these workshops and panels would be difficult to translate into the form of an article.