Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                  07 May 2009
Board Meeting                                          22:00 hours UTC
Minutes                                                Rev. 2

Meeting was held via telephone with the following board members
present, where (D) denotes Director.

Officers present:
	 Ernst van Waning, Pres.	 Rich Hickey, V.P. (D)
	 Rusty Johnson, Treas.		 Peter Lindahl, Sec.
	 Mason Bliss, Membership Sec.	 Daniel Herring, Libr. (D)

Members present:
	David Cooper (D)	Tim Daly (D)	Jeremy Jones (D)
	Duane Rettig (D)	JonL White (D)

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

The next meeting will be held at 22:00 UTC on June 6, 2009, by
mutual agreement.

The meeting was followed on an IRC channel by some board members.

The minutes of the April 2, 2009 board meeting were discussed for
approval.  D. Rettig moved to accept the minutes as distributed.
D. Cooper seconded.  The motion passed without dissent.  JonL White
abstained.

ALU Sponsorship at 6th ELW -
The ALU received a request by Didier Verna for the ALU to sponsor an
invited speaker at the 6th European Lisp Workshop to be held with
ECOOP in July, 2009.  During the discussion it was pointed out that
the ALU sponsored an invited speaker last year, and has previously
sponsored other events with prizes for best paper and the like.  The
previous sponsorships were described as "money well spent" in terms
of helping the Lisp community and general good will for the ALU.  The
amount in question this year was estimated to be around 800 Euros.
D. Rettig moved that the ALU will sponsor the invited speaker for the
6th European Lisp Workshop to be held with ECOOP in July, 2009 for up
to 800 Euros, with the request that the ALU's sponsorship be mentioned
at the Workshop, and that a report be given to the ALU board after the
event describing how the money was used, and about the event.
J. Jones seconded the motion.  The motion passed unanimously.

Change of ALU banks -
The Treasurer requests a board resolution to permit moving the ALU
bank account from Citibank to another bank.  The target bank would be
BB&T, a mid-Atlantic regional bank.  JonL White moves to change the
ALU bank account to BB&T.  D. Rettig seconded.  After discussion, it
was decided that not enough information about the new bank was known
by board members.  The motion was tabled to allow time for research
and dissemination.

Restoration of ALU Wiki -
There was discussion concerning the current state of the ALU Wiki as
restored at the cliki.tech.coop site, and the benefits of having it
available for updates by the community.  It was therefore moved by
D. Herring to accept the ALU Wiki content from its current custodian
"as is".  JonL White seconded the motion.  R. Hickey abstained.  The
motion passed.

Adoption of CLiki.net DNS entries -
There is a need to keep the CLiki.net DNS entries active perpetually.
It is understood that DNS registration fees are currently around
US$20.  It was therefore moved by D. Herring that the ALU take up the
DNS registration, paying for it annually, and directing it to the
location designated by the site administrator.  It was seconded by
JonL White.  The motion passed unanimously.

ALU website redesign proposal -
Luanne Burns, a friend of T. Daly, has graciously offered to redesign
the ALU web site free of charge.  The offer was generally well
received by the board.  T. Daly will take the lead and coordinate
efforts to work out the technical details between Ms. Burns, the ALU
board, and the administrator of the current ALU website.  The item was
then tabled to allow communications to begin.

Membership and Target Audience -

The discussions were varied and well traveled.  Highlights include:
         --- Distinctions between Members and Sponsors ---
- The ALU bylaws define a Member as someone who pays dues.  It does
not dictate the form of the dues.
- Being a Member incorporates both a sense of belonging and an ongoing
annual commitment in the form of dues, be they monetary or in the form
of time and effort.
- Sponsors provide financial and moral support to the organization,
without the same sense of belonging or the annual replenishment
requirement Membership entails.
- Members vote at General and Special Meetings and elect the board of
Directors, thus having influence on the direction of the ALU, where
Sponsors do not.
         --- Revenue stream ---
- Model a public radio station, where funding is received, but no
voting rights are conveyed.
- Some Member or Sponsor donors may be entitled to tax deductions.
         --- Mission ---
- The job of the ALU is to serve the public, not its members -
members support it in that effort.

JonL White moves adjourn the meeting.  T. Daly seconds the motion. The
motion passes unanimously.

The meeting adjourned at 23:42 UTC.

Peter Lindahl
   ALU Secretary