Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU) 				09 March 2005
Board Meeting 							06:00 hours GMT 
Minutes 							Rev. 0

Meeting held telephonically with the following quorum of board members present: 
Officers present: 
	Ernst van Waning, Pres.		Carl Shapiro, V.P.
Members present: 
	Nick Levine	Daniel Polani	Duane Rettig	JonL White
	Prasad Yalamanchi (06:35 GMT)	Roger Corman (07:06 GMT)
	Heow Eide-Goodman (07:12 GMT)
Absent:
	John Adams	Kuroda Hisao	Rusty Johnson
	Peter Lindahl	

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 06:10 GMT
with four voting members present: N. Levine, D. Polani, D. Rettig and
J.L. White.

Next meeting to be held April 07, 2005 at 06:00 GMT.

Old Business:

D. Rettig moves to accept the minutes of the February 2005 meeting as
distributed.  Motion passed by acclamation.

Action items:

1. ILC 2003 Closure: C. Shapiro reports that only a few papers are
   missing.  He will have an index loaded soon with all of the papers
   in electronic form to be checked for sanity.  After verification,
   an outside company will be utilized to press 200 CD's.

2.  Phishing warning:  Tabled indefinitely.

3.  ILC 2005:
      - C. Shapiro reports that we have received "in cooperation"
        status with SIGPLAN.
      - Papers: J.L. White has received about 7 abstracts thus far.  A
        few more have been promised.  Special invited talks are extra;
        C. Shapiro and J.L.  White to determine the number needed.
      - Tutorials: N. Levine says he won't know until the end of April
        how many there will be.
      - CCRMA will co-locate their computer music workshop to follow
        ILC 2005.  Possibly, the group will put on a "concert" of
        computer music as an evening event for our conference.
      - Other issues: On-line payments.  N. Levine will work with
        C. Shapiro to set up ILC payments through the ALU PayPal
        account.

4.  President van Waning suggests we need to announce ourselves more
    widely.

5.  Dues: E. van Waning asks about duration of memberships,
    specifically, expirations.  Discussion followed, recognizing that
    by law, the ALU is not permitted to make substantial profit from
    year to year.  C. Shapiro mentions that the current ILC fees and
    discounts were adjusted to meet ACM requirements for "in
    cooperation" status.

6.  Mailing lists: C. Shapiro requests two lists be added.  N. Levine
    offers help.  There are many mailing lists for CLRFI, the ALU and
    CLRFI lists need to be kept separate.

7.  Uploading of minutes:  Delegated to P. Lindahl.

8.  ALU boards draft: N. Levine recommends it be put at head of agenda
    for next meeting or sent as separate mail.

9.  Next ILC: E. van Waning reports Arthur Lemmens organized Lisp
    meeting in Amsterdam for about 75 people.  N. Levine suggests east
    coast of US in 2008 for the 50-year centennial.  J.L. White
    suggests next meeting in 18 months, say October 2006.  N. Levine
    suggests it would be better "off-peak" as this summer's flight is
    costing about US$1000.  D. Rettig reminds that Franz put together
    a successful conference in 1999 in Amsterdam, beginning a string
    of successful European conferences.  E. van Waning suggests asking
    Arthur Lemmens about it personally at the upcoming conference in
    April.

13. Adjournment: Moved by D. Rettig, and seconded by someone else.
    Passed at 07:14 GMT.

Peter Lindahl
ALU Secretary, 
   with thanks to JonL White for his notes from the meeting.

Action Items Summary:
E.v.W.	- Send Agenda for April meeting.
	- ALU boards draft discussion at head of agenda.
Carl	- Setup Lisp Jobs List.
	- Report on 2003 Proceedings status.
	- Status updates on ILC 2005 Program and Venue.
	- Work with Nick to setup payments for ILC.
Nick	- Work with Carl to setup payments for ILC.
	- Assist with setup of mailing lists.
Rusty	- Help Nick and Carl setup payments for ILC.
Pete	- Wave magic wand and put minutes on web site.
JonL	- Status report on program for ILC 2005.