Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)	1 April 2004
Board Meeting	17:00 hours UT
Minutes	Rev. 1

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
JonL White

Vice President John Adams called the meeting to order.
The minutes of the 11 March 2004 meeting were approved as distributed by unanimous 
vote.

Old business:

1. After discussion, a motion made by N. Levine to hold meetings
   telephonically on the first Thursday of each month at 17:00 hours
   UT, 18:00 hours during Daylight Savings Adjustment, with exceptions
   made on an as needed basis and coordinated with the members prior
   to the meeting was seconded by R. Johnson and passed unanimously.
   Next meeting will be held 6 May 2004 at 18:00 UT (Noon in NYC,
   09:00 West Coast US).

2. ECOOP status report.  R. de Lacaze reported the successful
   enlistment of Christian Queinnec as keynote speaker for the Lisp
   Workshop and that Pascal Costanza seemed pleased with the support
   he is receiving from the ALU thus far.  R. de Lacaze will be
   attending ECOOP, paying his own way.  N. Levine will attempt to
   attend at least part of the conference, depending on costs and his
   schedule.  ECOOP will be held in Oslo, NO. Lisp Workshop will be
   held June 13, 2004, with ECOOP following the workshop, June 14-18,
   2004.  Given ALU's limited finances, general consensus was against
   funding another person to attend.  Item was tabled until next
   meeting.

3. Web Committee status report.  C. Shapiro reported results of his
   efforts researching adding credit card support to the ALU website.
   Options include establishing an account with a financial
   institution and using third party support such as Verisign.  Since
   establishing our own merchant account is in the words of our
   Treasurer, "Evil", recommendations were made for C. Shapiro and R.
   Johnson (Treasurer) to investigate on behalf of the board using a
   third party for credit card services.  Follow-on talk discussed
   establishing members-only sections of the web site, but the matter
   was tabled until the credit card issue is resolved.

4. Membership Committee status report.  E. van Waning and
   H. Eide-Goodman reported to the board.  Current fee schedule is
   US$100 regular and US$25 student memberships.  Difficulties
   encountered in finding people.  Suggestions included contacting
   Lisp (and Scheme) professors and students, ILC attendees, invited
   speakers, and extended board members.  Substantial effort into
   organizing membership efforts delayed until credit card support is
   available.  Discussion ensued concerning the differences between
   the ALU board, extended board, and proposed advisory council.
   R. de Lacaze recommended purging inactive members of the extended
   board, including Robert Strandh, who has not participated in some
   time, and requested suggestions for invitations to the extended
   board and Advisory Council.  R. de Lacaze will provide a brief
   summary for the website prior to the next meeting.  It was
   mentioned that Richard Gabriel has been approached and was
   receptive of the idea of being a member of the Advisory Council,
   should one be formed.  Other names were mentioned, but have not
   been approached.  R. de Lacaze suggested Pascal Costanza, Marc
   Battyani, and Mark Giuliani be considered for invitation to the ALU
   extended board.  Additional discussion included refunds of partial
   conference fees, and whether student fees should be refunded or
   conference fees reduced for future conferences.  With no
   resolutions, item was tabled until next meeting.

5. Credit Card services on ALU website.  Discussed under item 3, Web
   Committee status report..

6. ILC 2005 status report.  Plans discussed to attempt to hold the ILC
   2005 in Paris, France, possibly at the University of Paris during
   the March/April 2005 time frame, hopefully with involvement of RIA
   (insert_name_here), described as the MIT of France.  It was
   suggested that C. Shapiro, as "Conference Overseer" identify the
   major and critical groups of tasks required to conduct the
   conference, with input from R. de Lacaze, and present the list for
   consideration by the board at the next meeting.

7. ALU Charter & By-Laws discussion.  After some discussion, all
   members of the board were tasked with reading the current documents
   and conducting informal research of other organizations documents
   for suggestions for modernization of the existing documents.

8. ILC 2003 discussion of finances.  Discussion was held concerning
   the finances and final disposition of the ILC 2003.  Treasurer
   reported approximately US$9000 in ALU accounts after the
   conference.  ILC 2003 cost between US$35,000 and US$38,000 in
   expenses, with approximately US$1.5-2k in outstanding expenses and
   receivables.  Account balance prior to the conference was about
   US$9000, so the conference approximately "broke-even".

Announcements: Secretary still needs address info from some board
members for the Commonwealth of Virginia 2004 Annual Corporation
Report.  Email has been sent to the board enumerating information
still needed.

Meeting was adjourned at approximately 18:25 hours UT.

Peter Lindahl
ALU Secretary