Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)	11 March 2004
Board Meeting	17:00 hours EST
Minutes

Meeting held telephonically with the following quorum of board members present:
Officers:
Ray de Lacaze, Pres.		John Adams, V.P.		Carl Shapiro, V.P.
Rusty Johnson, Treas.		Peter Lindahl, Sec.
Members:
Roger Corman			Heow Eide-Goodman 		Nick Levine
Daniel Polani			Duane Rettig			Ernst van Waning

President Ray de Lacaze called the meeting to order.
The president asked Vice President John Adams to preside over the remainder of the 
meeting.
Reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was waived by unanimous vote.
Old business:
1.	Regular meeting schedule.  After discussion, a motion made by R. Johnson to 
hold the next meeting telephonically on 1 April 2004 at 18:00 hours GMT was 
seconded by R. Corman and passed unanimously.
2.	ECOOP Lisp Workshop.  
a.	After discussion, a motion made by E. van Waning to support the Lisp 
Workshop effort by providing help finding a keynote speaker was 
seconded by D. Rettig and passed unanimously after amendment to also 
support the efforts of Pascal Costanza.
b.	ECOOP Sponsorship.  After discussion, no motion was made and the 
matter was tabled until the next meeting.
3.	ILC 2003 conference closure.
a.	Proceedings.  After discussion, a motion made by R. Johnson to provide 
digital versions of the proceedings from the conference as soon as possible 
was seconded by R. Corman and passed unanimously.  R. de Lacaze will 
complete burning CD versions with assistance from H. Eide-Goodman.  
Investigation into providing hardcopy proceeding through MIT Press will 
be investigated by C. Shapiro and reported back to the board.
b.	Final report on costs and income from the conference was tabled until the 
next meeting.
4.	ILC 2003 Plus Two.  After discussion, a motion made by E. van Waning to begin 
efforts planning ILC 2005 to be held in Paris, France at the University of Paris 
during March or April of 2005 was seconded by R. Corman and passed 
unanimously.
5.	CLRFI status report.  N. Levine presented Common Lisp Request For 
Improvements status report to the board.
6.	Membership committee.  After discussion, a motion made by R. Johnson to form 
a Membership committee initially peopled by E. van Waning and H. Eide-
Goodman was seconded by N. Levine and passed unanimously.
7.	ALU Website report.  After discussion about topics including moderated news 
groups, ILC proceedings, discussion forums and an ALU store in a members-only 
section, a motion made by R. Johnson to have the existing Website Committee 
come back to the board with plans for accepting membership dues and conference 
registrations via Credit Card with recommendations for content for a members-
only section of the Website was seconded by R. Corman and passed unanimously.
8.	Outside funding.  Discussion made concerning searching for funding from outside 
sources such as NSF, ACM, IEEE, AAAI and others to help fund the ALU.
9.	Advisory council.  After discussion, a motion made by E. van Waning to research 
forming an advisory council for the ALU from noted members of the computing 
community to advise the board and assist efforts of the ALU was seconded by R. 
Corman and passed unanimously.

Meeting was adjourned at approximately 1830 hours EST.



Peter Lindahl
ALU Secretary