It is a pleasure to announce that a special volume of the Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures is intended to be published to honour the 80th birthday, December 6, 2012, of Hvedri Inassaridze, the founder of the Journal. The Editors are: Ronald Brown, Chief Guest Editor, ronnie.profbrown@btinternet.com Jim Stasheff, Guest Editor, jds@math.upenn.edu Editors: Tornike Kadeishvili, tornike.kadeishvili@gmail.com Emzar Khmaladze, e.khmal@gmail.com Niko Inassaridze, niko.inas@gmail.com We hereby invite articles for this volume, to be sent to one of the above editors with the appropriate expertise. We would like submission of articles as soon as possible, but give the end of 2012 as the deadline for intention to submit, and 31 March 2013 as the deadline for submissions. Ronnie Brown Apologies for receipt of multiple postings [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]