Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                      02 June 2005
Board Meeting                                           19:00 hours GMT
Minutes                                                          Rev. 1


Meeting held telephonically with the following quorum of board members 
present:
Officers present: (V) = Voting member of the Board
        Ernst van Waning, Pres.
Officers absent
        Carl Shapiro, V.P.,	Rusty Johnson(V), Treas.
        Peter Lindahl, Sec.	Prasad Yalamanchi, Mem.Sec.
Members present:
        Roger Corman(V),        Nick Levine(V),         
	Duane Rettig(V),	Heow Eide-Goodman(V)
Members absent:
        John Adams	        Kuroda Hisao(V) (04:00 local time)
	JonL White(V)

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 19:05 GMT
with four voting members present: R. Corman, N. Levine, D. Rettig,
Heow Eide-Goodman.


Opening
  - Next meeting will be at 2005-06-19 before dinner at Stanford.

  - Approval of unapproved minutes (2004-04, 2004-05, 2004-06, 2005-01)
    Duane moves the minutes be accepted, Nick seconds.  Motion
    unanimously accepted.

  - Minutes of previous meeting
    Duane moves the minutes be accepted; Nick seconds.  Motion
    unanimously accepted.

  - Action items
    The list of action items of 2005-04 was taken.  The items of the
    members present were all done; the items of the absent members are
    still open.

Current Business
  - Payment procedure
    There was agreement that the service Paypal delivers is not quite
    what we are looking for.  Other payment methods (Verisign, credit
    card) were briefly mentioned; at Stanford we will decide how to
    proceed.

New business (things we JWO to organize)
  - ALU-projects (alu/wiki/cliki/etc, ...)
  - PR
    These items were briefly discussed, It was decided to return to
    these points at Stanford, because members can make clear what they
    expect from ALU and we can discuss how to organize this.


Stanford
  - announcements
    Done
  - tutorials
    Done

  - PR, journalists and 
    The fact that Brian Hayes of American Scientist magazine (see
    http://www.americanscientist.org/other/BPH.html) has offered to
    come is welcomed.  The board agreed that we should help him make
    the best possible article out of his visit, so that Lisp and its
    community will have a positive press.

  -> membership meeting
    - agenda and question about bylaws (Order of Business)
      Ernst tried to explain why he made this point.  It was decided
      that he reiterate his question, because no definitive answer was
      given.

    - year report
      Ernst asks if it is customary to prepare such a report with
      board members together, as is customary in the Netherlands.  He
      will prepare a draft version and the board will comment later.

    - financial statement
      The board agreeed that a financial statement should circulate
      the board quickly.  One reason is that we must have insight,
      another reason is that if the conference loses money, we must
      show our records to Franz, because of arrangements made earlier.

    - e-boards and organizational issues
    - ...
  - remaining issues

Other subjects

- Duane Rettig mentions that Masako Omata, Franz' sales representative
  for Japan) suggested two things for the conference.  These are:

  1. Have all the papers presented at ILC posted on the web;

  2. Take video by a professional (e.g. http://www.lostartsmedia.com/
     or denniswhipple@yahoo.com) or a webcast
     (e.g. http://spamconference.org/webcast2005.html).

  As Conference chairman was not present, the meeting decided to just
  mention these points and postpone decisions until later.

Meeting ends at 19:49 GMT

Ernst van Waning
  ALU President