Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                  03 August 2006
Board Meeting                                          22:00 hours UTC
Minutes                                                Rev. 0

Meeting held via telephone 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. (NV)     Peter Lindahl, Sec. (V)

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

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 22:13 UTC
with a quorum of voting members present.

Next meeting to be held 07 September 2006 at 22:00 UTC, and approved
without dissent.

Minutes of previous meeting:
D. Rettig moves the minutes of the previous meeting (01 June 2006) be
approved.  R. Corman seconds.  The motion passes without dissent.

Agenda items:

Investigation into payment system options:
PayPal vs. Verisign.  N. Levine reports that PayPal, which we are
currently using, has a SOAP interface.  C. Shapiro and N. Levine will
investigate improving our payment interface.

Finaincial report to Dave Fox (Lispworks):
The treasusrer reports having sent the report to Dave Fox, who said he
was satisfied.

Conference DVD's:
The DVD's are enroute to C. Shapiro.  Email of our appreciation has
been sent to Yuasa Taichii, who graciously transferred the content to
DVD.  The DVD's will be reviewed and the process will continue.

Proposals by Rainer Joswig:
C. Shapiro stated he will take up discussion of suggestions with
Rainer, and coordinate with the ALU board.

ILC 2007 Organization:
We will be sticking with the current setup: C. Shapiro as General
Chair, JonL White as Program Chair, with N. Levine as "Local Chair"
coordinating the venue.

PR Strategy:
E. van Waning reports that the ALU has paid 476 EUD thus far with the
draft invitation letter following the consultant's guidelines to be
posted to the ALU board shortly.

Website Facelift:
C. Shapiro to summarize what he believes the minimum requirements for
changes to the ALU website should be.  P. Seibel has previously agreed
to help find a suitable consultant to recommend to redesign the site.

ILC 2007 Status:
C. Shapiro and J.L. White in talks.  JonL has been constructing a list
of potential invited speakers.  N. Levine will contact Dr. Ted Briscoe
at Cambridge and report back.  Some room assignments have had to be
juggled.  Any further reassignments could prove problematic.
N. Levine is on top of the situation.

Payment for ECOOP Paper winner:
The treasurer will check the checkbook registry and report back Friday
(4th).

ALU Mailing List:
C. Shapiro will send info to C. Shapiro on list of members.  Creation
of the mailing list will be coordinated with N. Levine.

Discussion:

Discussion of the departure of John Adams:
While everyone expressed regrets at losing J. Adams, it was noted that
since the board convinced John to stay the last time he submitted his
resignation, we shouldn't stand in his way if he wishes to move on.
Concerning a replacement, it was decided without vote, that we do not
need to second Vice President at this time.

Message from info mailing list:
J.L. White forwarded a message from Caroline Webster concerning the
choice of a Web Developer for her new company.  H. Eide-Goodman will
respond to her and report back to the board.

There was discussion concerning the LispJobs resume bank at Franz and
how both it and the ALU might be served.  Discussion ended without motion.

There was discussion about how the P.R. strategy meets the ALU mission
statement.  There seemed to be general consensus that having a
strategy to bring new members into the fold is consistent with the
mission statement.  No motions were made.

There was some follow up discussion to the topic of how much financial
leeway should be given to the ALU board and its officers.  It was
pointed out that in larger corporations (those with regular budgets,
incomes and expenses) that the officers are budgeted money to spend at
their own discretion, ie. their budgets.  Since our organization only
has regular expenses (tax and corporation filings), all other expenses
should be approved by the governing body.  Further discussion was
truncated due to time.

J.L. White moves to adjourn at 23:10 UTC.  R. Corman seconds.  The
motion carries unanimously.

Peter Lindahl
  ALU Secretary