Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)              2 March 2006
Board Meeting                                      22:00 hours UTC
Minutes                                            Rev. 1

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

Members present:
    Roger Corman (V) (22:14)    Heow Eide-Goodman (V)(22:29)    
    Nick Levine(V)              Duane Rettig(V)   
    Jon L. White(V)

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 22:07 UTC
with a quorum of voting members present.

Next meeting to be held 06 April, 2006 at 22:00 UTC.  Approved without
dissent.

N. Levine moved to accept the minutes of 2 Feb, 2006 as recorded.
Motion was seconded by D. Rettig and approved without dissent.

Discussions:

E. van Waning reads a message from P. Seibel noting his progress and
expectations with summarizing his points with the re-publication
issue.

Nick Levine reports the ALU now has a UK corporation providing the
infrastructure the ILC needs to enter into business arrangements
within the venue. It has been incorporated (as "International Lisp
Conference Limited") and the corporation has opened a "community"
account with the Co-operative Bank.  We are ready to begin trading.
Also, the ALU minutes are now on web.

The treasurer, R. Johnson, states he would like to transfer money to
the UK corporation in one lump sum to save exchange fees.  N. Levine
doesn't know yet how much will be needed to seed the conference.  His
current estimates are that we would need mid-$50K worst case, with no
attendees.  Much discussion ensued to the end that the treasurer and
conference chair will converse on Friday March 3, 2006 and negotiate
details which will be posted to the board thereafter.

D. Rettig proposes to authorize paying up to $10K for deposit to
reserve the dates we wish.  P. Lindahl seconds the motion.  The motion
was mutually withdrawn to allow the conference chair freedom to act
quickly without waiting for board approval on every outlay.

E. van Waning reports that it is not clear how the ALU can get
subsidies from EU sources.  He suggests efforts in this regard cease.
It was agreed by consensus.

Treasurer Johnson reports that the Summer of code money has been
received.  LispNYC representative (H. Eide-Goodman) has been informed.
Transfer of funds will take place this week.  Also reported: with the
exception of depositing the closing check, the ALU accounts have been
merged into one account with Citibank.  C. Shapiro reports having
fulfilled the signatory requirements on his end.

Re-publication: J.L. White summarizes the points the ALU should adopt
as part of an official re-publication policy.  C. Shapiro suggests
modeling the ALU policy on a similarly sized organization and will
forward pointers to J.L. White.  After reviewing same. J.L. White will
send email to the board with his results.

P. Lindahl reports that his research on the web turned up no better
solutions than the suggestion by D. Rettig to use a Wiki-based
solution for keeping track of ideas and tasks for the board.

H. Eide-Goodman has nothing to report with respect to the proposal by
Howard Stearns concerning how to organize local Lisp chapters.

J.L. White's efforts into researching the ARPA language study and
others resulted in an email with two attachments being sent to the
board earlier this day.

R. Johnson reports nothing concerning his task to combine the topic of
Lisp education and the proposal by Robert Strandh that the ALU fund
speakers to talk about Lisp at educational institutions.

Minutes of ALU meetings are now available on the ALU website, thanks
to the efforts of N. Levine and E. van Waning.

C. Shapiro states the task of investigating the CMU Lisp library /
code repository was left to P. Seibel and not himself, so no progress
was reported with P. Seibel being absent at this time.

No new memberships reported.  J.L. White's membership renewal was
received during the month of February.

Financial position of the ALU was discussed previously by the
treasurer.

Pascal Costanza proposed that the ALU sponsor N. Levine, an invited
speaker, to ECOOP'06.  To conserve the meager funds of the ALU for the
upcoming conference, N. Levine propose the ALU donate $500 to the
ECOOP conference to use as they see fit.  J.L. White seconds.  The
motion passed.

PR Strategy: E. van Waning suggests we accept the proposal to use the
PR professional to help write material for the ALU at a rate of 100
Euro per hour for about $1000.  It was decided by consensus that
E. van Waning should send to the board an informal business plan
laying out what we would be getting and how it would be used to
benefit the mission of the ALU.  He will also send around a draft
letter for invitation to membership in the ALU, whereby he expects
input from all the members of the board.

D. Rettig moved to adjourn, the motion was seconded and passed at
23:04 UTC.

Peter Lindahl
  ALU Secretary