Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                  02 July 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.	 Rich Hickey, V.P. (D)		
	 Peter Lindahl, Sec.		

Members present:
	Kuroda Hisao (D)   Duane Rettig (D)    JonL White (D)		
	Tim Daly (D) was present for a short time

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 22:12 UTC
with a quorum of five directors present.

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

The minutes of the March 24, 2009 General Meeting are tabled.

The minutes of the May 7, 2009 board meeting were discussed.
D. Rettig moves to accept the minutes.  JonL White seconds.  The
motion passed without dissent.

The minutes of the June 4, 2009 board meeting were discussed.
JonL White moves to accept the minutes.  D. Rettig seconds.  The
motion passed without dissent.

Motion to restore the ALU wiki "as is".
Currently the Wiki is at http://cliki.tech.coop:8888/. ALU must
coordinate with the tech.coop to accept the conversion. ALU must
establish which server it will run on. ALU must establish a backup
procedure. ALU must establish who will handle administration / account
/ spam issues. ALU must open the wiki to be writable. ALU must change
the DNS entries for wiki.alu.org. ALU should then make public
announcement.

Motion to adopt the DNS entries for cliki.net
The expected cost will be under $20/year.  Info is available on
http://www.cliki.net/cliki.net_domain_name.  ALU must contact Daniel
Barlow and Erik Enge to arrange for transfer and add this domain to
the registry for alu.org.  ALU should make a public announcement of
the change.

Website proposition with Luanne Burns
The WebMaestra (http://thewebmaestra.com) is a professional website
developer and a longtime friend of Tim Daly.  She has volunteered to
rewrite the ALU website.  She has also set up a wiki site.  The
proposed ALU rewrite is at: http://lisp.ipower.com.  The proposed wiki
site is at: http://lisp.ipower.com/wiki.  The wiki is linked off the
main site under Resources.  Luanne has volunteered to maintain the
site.  Please provide feedback.  Is ALU open to reworking their site?
Is ALU open to reworking the wiki?  Is the proposed site reasonable?
This item will be tabled until next month.

New business

The passing of Erik Naggum was discussed with sadness, including his
numerous contributions to the ALU, including as a board member.  The
tribute offered by Kent Pitman was mentioned.  The ALU will seek
permission from the author to include it or link to it.

ALU Website as Wiki
R. Hickey wants to move the ALU website to a Wiki.  There ensued
lengthy discussions concerning options for implementing the proposed
move.  The primary concerns are for having a location up and running
quickly that allows immediate access to modify content at will by the
board's designees to freshen the content and bring it up to date
quickly.  Desires for staying with Lisp-based technologies were
expressed.  Counter arguments included that web services are commodity
items now and what underlying technology is employed is irrelevant.
The discussion will be moved to the redesign mailing list to include
the remaining members.

JonL White moved to adjourn.  D. Rettig seconded.  The motion passes.

The meeting adjourned at 23:18 UTC.

Peter Lindahl
    ALU Secretary