ALU Board Meeting
Hotel New Yorker
New York, NY
October 13, 2003
11:37 P.M. EST


Attending:
Nick Levine
Sunil Mishra
Roger Corman
Ernst Van Waning
Daniel Polani
Rusty Johnson - Treasurer
John Adams
Carl Shapiro
JonL White
Duane Rettig
Heow Eide-Goodman


Rusty Johnson calls the meeting to order


Discussion of old business.


Discussion regarding the status of the President and conference
chair's position as well as the election of officers.


Nick Levine moves to re-elect the current secretary (Peter Lindhal,
not in attendance) and treasurer (Rusty Johnson).


Motion seconded by Sunil Mishra.


Motion passes unanimously.


Discussion of Vice President and President position.


Rusty relinquishes the position of chairperson to Nick Levine.


Rusty suggest that John Adams be made conference chair, and Carl
Shapiro be made president.


Rusty moves to nominate John Adams as Vice President and Carl Shapiro
as President


Motion is seconded by Duane Rettig.


Motion passes unanimously.


Discussion regarding next year's conference location.  MIT/Boston area
and San Francisco and its suburbs are suggested.  Discussion of
conference frequency (12 months or 18 months?).


JonL White moves to concentrate on 2005 conference date and Howie Shrobe's
offer of space at MIT.


Motion seconded by Rusty.


Motion passes unanimously.


Discusion regarding the next ALU board meeting.  Nick asks about
having next board meeting in a more synchronous fashion (explicitly
not via e-mail).


Rusty mentions that his office has tele-conferencing through their
PBX.


More discussion on board communications.


Nick moves to meet by phone in early January.


Rusty offers a friendly amendment to make Nick in charge of the phone
meeting's organization and agenda.


Nick accepts Rusty's amendment.


Roger offers to act as a backup.


Duane seconds the motion.


Motion passes with one abstention.


Nick returns the position of chairperson to Rusty.


Daniel Polani move to adjourn.


Motion passes unanimously.