Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)             2 February 2006
Board Meeting                                     22:00 hours UTC
Minutes                                           Rev. 1.1

Meeting held telephonically with the following quorum of board members
present:
Officers present: (V) = Voting member of the Board (NV) = Non-Voting
    Ernst van Waning, Pres.(NV)        Carl Shapiro, VP (NV)(22:35)
    Rusty Johnson, Treas.(V)(22:11)    Peter Lindahl, Sec. (V)

Members present:
    Roger Corman (V)   Kuroda Hisao(V)(22:12)    Nick Levine(V)
    Duane Rettig(V)    Peter Seibel(V)           Jon L. White(V)


President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 22:06 UTC
with a quorum of voting members present.

Next meeting to be held 02 March, 2006 at 22:00 UTC.  Approved without
dissent.

N. Levine moved to accept the minutes of 5 Jan, 2006 as recorded. 
Motion was seconded by R. Corman and approved without dissent.

Discussions:

ILC07:  N. Levine reports submitting paperwork for corporate bank
account in UK.  Will take up to 3 weeks to be approved.

Funding:  EU funding of ILC07.  E. van Waning will find out if there
are possibilities to get subsidies from Brussels to support ILC07.  
Public Relations for ALU:  E. van Waning will start informal talks
with
a PR professional he knows personally to discuss PR for ALU and Lisp.

Membership Drive:  Received email from J. Adams, who could not
be present showing email going out as subscribers reach one year
anniversary.  J. Adams and N. Levine have re-subscribed.  Pres: We
need a good coordination of effort to ensure people stay involved.  
Furthermore, we should do our best for a growing membership,
especially this year since ALU will not have the income of an ILC.

Treasurer: Pursuant to the Google Summer of Code funds for LispNYCs,
the Treasurer has sent IRS form W-9 to Google. The Google contact has
received it.  We should receive funds sometime next (this?) month.  
ALU's other bank account has been closed.  Coordinating signatory
update with C. Shapiro to be completed by him in California at a time
and location convenient to him.

Publications Policy:

P. Seibel and J.L. White have not made substantive progress resolving
their differences since last month's meeting.  It was expressed that
the issue should be joined by the rest of the board, who seem to be
watching from the wings to see who is left standing.  J.L. White has
asked P. Seibel to defend his position on "free and immediate
dissemination." It was by quiet consensus, without opposition and not
much vocal support, that P. Seibel should summarize his points and
send them to the board for open debate by the board.  A point that was
directed in all fairness at J.L. White by the secretary, but was lost
in the louder phone chatter.  (After this meeting, J.L. White posits
his email of [15 Dec 2005, 13:54:28 -0800] as already having done
this.)

ALU Mission, Goals, Strategies etc.

How to keep track of ideas.  P. Lindahl suggests using some sort of
white board or similar technology.  D. Retting replies that Franz uses
a subscriber based wiki.  We might be able to do the same using Kiwi.  
P. Lindahl will take lead to investigate and report.

Concerning Howard Stearn's (not the radio jock) point on organizing
local chapters:  This item lead has been claimed by H. Eide-Goodman,
who is not present at this time.

Concerning John Mallery's proposal to conduct many and varied studies
on languages in general and Lisp in particular: J.L. White will find
links to the ARPA study he cited and email it to the extended board,
along with any additional information he may find along the way.

Concerning Robert Strandh's proposal to fund speakers to speak at
various educational and other venues:  It was voiced severally, that
while we cannot afford to be in the business of funding very many
speakers, it might be possible in appropriate circumstances.  R.
Johnson will make efforts to combine this this with the more general
topic of Lisp in Education and push suggestions to the extended board
for more input.

Erik Enge's email points (reordered by the chair):
Point 2: Post minutes on website:  Publish via ALU-Announce?  How
do deal with redacted issues.  P. Lindahl will put zipped minutes on
bibop in his homedir and notify Carl and Nick who will post them
appropriately.

Point 3: Ownership of common-lisp.net?  Points expressed include:
 that supervising something like Common-Lisp.net is well within our
mission, and something we have long hoped to do to serve the
community; that the main problems now are whether we can find
someone reliable to handle the flow of material and to keep such a
repository current; whether we can convince Erik that we are capable
of being a worthy custodian of it.  Conclusions without motion: First,
get our minutes on the web.  P. Seibel will have discussions with Erik
Enge on his intended direction for c-l.net and how we might be a part
of it.

Point 4: ALU Management of a CL Library/CodeRepository: lengthy
discussions including whether or not such is within the mission of the
ALU, and potential conflicts with the repository at CMU requiring
resolution were not resolved at this time due to lack of information
available.  C. Shapiro will investigate the state of the CMU
repository and its current maintainer and report back to the board.

Point 1: Addition of a common mailing list so interested parties can
follow and participate: A long and spirited discussion ensued on the
merits and faults of how best to proceed.  Among the issues discussed,
inviting Erik Enge to the extended board, a suggestion which was met
with mixed feelings given Erik's apparent issues with the ALU and the
board.  Also discussed was accelerating the publishing of the minutes
of the board meetings while maintaining the privacy of executive
issues.  Discussion time ran out.  The discussion was terminated by
motion to be pursued later.

There was no movement to adjourn and callers departed at 23:11 UTC.


Peter Lindahl
  ALU Secretary