Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU) 				14 May 2005
Board Meeting 							19:00 hours GMT 
Minutes 							Rev. 0

Meeting held telephonically with the following quorum of board members present: 
Officers present: (V) = Voting member of the Board
	Ernst van Waning, Pres.		Carl Shapiro, V.P.
	
Members present: 
	Roger Corman(V)		Duane Rettig(V)		JonL White(V)
	
Absent:
	John Adams, V.P.	Rusty Johnson(V), Treas.	Peter Lindahl, Sec.
	Prasad Yalamanchi, Mem. Sec.	
	Heow Eide-Goodman(V) 	Kuroda Hisao(V)			Nick Levine(V)

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 19:15 GMT
without a quorum.

Next meeting to be held 02 June, 2005 at 19:00 GMT.

East Coast members failed to show up; extremely disappointing to the
present officers, because this time change was especially done for
their benefit.

Skip approval of minutes of past meetings.

President will send letter re membership meeting in June at Stanford.
The ALU president will make a talk at the membership meeting,
explaining how ALU works, and the relation between membership and
Conference attendance.  Also, Treasurer should make a financial
report, we have organized and financed this conference ourselves.
Boost ourselves a bit.  The Board is meeting telephonically once a
month to handle ALU business.  Advertise next ILC in Amsterdam ask for
membership opinions.

Proceedings for ILC2003:
van Waning: What to do about Franz' request to sell some of the proceedings
Shapiro:    Wonders why attendees have not received their CDROMS yet.
White:      Assure that we are the exclusive publisher of the Proceedings, and
            ask for at least a nominal fee or royalty.  We must assert copyright.
            [General agreement from others.]
Rettig:     Agree that should not start distributing for sale until attendees 
            receive their copy.
Shapiro:    P. Lindahl is in charge of distribution at this point.  We have a .csv file
            of attendees; so all that need be done is contact the recipient, and
            assure that mail can be received at that address.  Will send these
            materials to Ernst also.

Payment procedure:
van Waning: Signed up, paid by credit card via PayPal.  But later got email from
	    PayPal asking him to "register."
Shapiro:    No problems in USA; seems overseas registrations have various
	    complications.  Have prepared a series of screenshots.

Perforce proposal:
Consensus; Postpone discussion until after Stanford meeting.


Stanford:
Ernst:   Announcement, tutorials, all seem OK
Shapiro: J. White and I are making technical program shape up; abstracts & biographies
	 are appearing.  Lisp to make .pdf: FractalConcepts.com
White:	 We should have a face-to-face Board mtg before the membership mtg.
Shapiro: Talked about a number of day-to-day issues in planning for the conference.

Next ILC:
van Waning: General expectations are for Europe in 2006 and 
            2008 in Cambridge, MA for Lisp's 50's anniversary.

Adjournment.