Subject: ALU Board Meeting 2009.02.05 Minutes Rev. 0 ======================================================================= Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU) 05 February 2009 Board Meeting 22:00 hours UTC Minutes Rev. 0 Meeting was held via telephone with the following board members present, where (D) denotes Director. Officers present: Ernst van Waning, Pres.(D) Peter Lindahl, Sec. (D)(Proxy from Rusty Johnson) Members present: Heow Eide-Goodman (D) Kuroda Hisao (D) Jeremy Jones (D) Duane Rettig (D) JonL White (D) President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 22:09 UTC with a quorum of seven directors present. Rusty Johnson assigned his proxy to Peter Lindahl for the duration of this meeting, before departing. The next meeting will be held at 22:00 UTC on March 5, 2009, by mutual agreement. D. Rettig moved to accept the minutes of December 04, 2008 and JonL White seconded the motion. The motion passed without dissent. Unapproved Board Minutes - JonL White moved to have the minutes requiring approval as email this day, be read by the board members in their own time and send emails to the ALU Board-only address with comments, corrections, approvals or rejections. D. Rettig seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. Old Bibop - The hard disk drives are to be sent to Pete or Rusty. The carcass to be resigned to eWaste. P. Lindahl will send a shipping address to the sys-admins email address at Franz. Financial Statement - R. Johnson and P. Lindahl will generate a report in the next couple of weeks. ILC'09 - Dan Weinreb sent a written report around. The registration fees are being discussed. E. van Waning will send an email to Dan to ask questions concerning additional tutorials, specifically, the Lisp-in-a-day tutorial and a tutorial by D. Rettig. ALU website report - Nick has been doing great work. The website was up and running quickly and he has been very responsive to requests. Between bringing back the website and ILC'09 set up, he has used 63 of the 100 hours approved by the board. Clornucopia - The new name under consideration is LAIR. They have a demo working at this time. They will be trying to do a lightning demo at the conference. J. Jones will resend the description by email. ALU Conference Presentation - E. van waning will work on it off line. ILC'07 Closure - The final details are in Pascal Costanza's hands to close up with ACM. The submissions are being reviewed by ACM. The final step will be Pascal's signature on the agreement. P. Lindahl moves to adjourn. D. Rettig seconds. Motion passes. The meeting adjourned at 23:23 UTC. Peter Lindahl ALU Secretary