Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                  07 September 2006
Board Meeting                                          22:00 hours UTC
Minutes                                                Rev. 0

Meeting held via telephone with the following board members present:
Officers present: (V) = Voting member of the Board (NV) = Non-Voting
    Ernst van Waning, Pres.(NV)    Carl Shapiro, VP (NV)(@ 22:24)
    Rusty Johnson, Treas. (NV)     Peter Lindahl, Sec. (V)

Members present:
    Roger Corman (V)        Kuroda Hisao (V)    Nick Levine (V)
    Duane Rettig (V)        Jon L. White (V)

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 22:06 UTC
with a quorum of voting members present.

Next meeting to be held 05 October 2006 at 22:00 UTC, and approved
without dissent.

Minutes of previous meeting:
D. Rettig moves the minutes of the previous meeting (03 August 2006) be
approved.  P. Lindahl seconds.  The motion passes without dissent.

Due Ins:
o  N. Levine will try to contact Edi Weitz for help or information,
   since he used PayPal for payments for the European conference.
o  C. Shapiro not available for a report.
o  E. van Waning has posted the letter as written by Gerry Paster and
   his own reduced version via email to the board for comments.
   Subsequently, he emailed them again during this meeting for members
   to read.
o  N. Levine was unable to contact Dr. Briscoe this week, will try
   again next week.
o  R. Johnson has mailed payment to the ECOOP winner, and is awaiting
   confirmation of receipt.
o  Heow, while not present to report in person, sent an email reply to
   Caroline Webster, whose decision to not use Lisp was received by the
   board.
o  N. Levine reports that the ALU-members mailing list is not yet done.
   He has been experiencing difficulties getting info from PayPal as he
   was unawares the password had been changed during his sabbatical from
   the board.

Agenda items:

ILC'07 Status report - Local chair N. Levine reports that Rainer
Joswig has been added to the mailing list for the conference
organizers.  The ILC'07 conference web site is now being hosted on the
ALU machine 'bibop', under source control using our Perforce license.
Several room bookings that were previously under question, have been
confirmed at the Trinity and Claire Colleges as well as some other
confirmations.  Nick is presently contacting several providers in the
area, including taxi services and so forth, to negotiate preferential
rates for conference attendees.  C. Shapiro is to designate a
publicity chair to coordinate announcements, calls for papers, etc.

ILC'08 preliminaries - E. van Waning has been in contact with
Dr. Rodney Brooks, Director of the AI lab at MIT, who seems positive
about the idea.  This should increase our chances of holding a
successful conference at MIT in Cambridge in 2008.

ALU Invitation Letter - E. van Waning posted the original letter by
the consultant and his own revised and somewhat abbreviated version.
General preferences were for the shorter, more concise version. After
some lengthy discussion on trivial items such as margins, rather than
on content, it was decided that Ernst and JonL will hammer out the
details of formatting.  Content issues eventually discussed were:
abbreviating the mission statement to match the theme of the rest of
the more concise letter.  As for eventual distribution of the letter,
D. Rettig will bring the matter to contacts within Franz to see about
getting the letter to Franz' customers and other Lisp contacts.
R. Corman will see what Corman Lisp can do and E. van Waning will do
the same with Lispworks.  The rest of the board will email contact
suggestions to E. van Waning for consolidation.

Resignation of Peter Seibel - After some discussion and surprise due
to the short notice of the resignation which was sent only to the
president, N. Levine moved and J.L. White seconded, a motion to accept
the resignation with sadness, and pass the voting right to C. Shapiro.
The motion passed unanimously.

R. Corman moves to adjourn at 23:01 UTC.  P. Lindahl seconds.  The
motion carries unanimously.

Peter Lindahl
  ALU Secretary