Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                  09 November 2006
Board Meeting                                          22:00 hours UTC
Minutes                                                Rev. 1

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. (V)

Members present:
    Nick Levine (V)    Duane Rettig (V)    JonL White (V)


N. Levine asks for help in testing out PayPal usage that has been set
up for ILC'2007 registrations.  JonL White has "virgin" credit cards
for use.  C. Shapiro offers to tryout making "screen shots" of a fresh
run also.

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 22:11 UTC
with a quorum of voting members present.

Next meeting to be held 14 December 2006 at 22:00 UTC, and approved
without dissent.  N. Levine will be unavailable 2nd Thursday of Jan.

Minutes of 07 September 2006 meeting were approved with one abstention.
Minutes of 05 October 2006 meeting were approved with one abstention.

C. Shapiro requests moving the ILC, Ltd. material off of the
"Committees" page.  N. Levine asks where it should be moved.  JonL
White recommends they be moved to an "About" page, explaining ILC,
Ltd., and its relation to ALU.

Agenda items:

-- N. Levine reports that we have a reliable interface from Paypal
   finally.
-- C. Shapiro reports the conference DVD's from ILC 2003 are
   presently at JonL White's house.
-- Website face lift:  Nothing to report yet offers C. Shapiro.
-- ILC Conference Chair:  Suggestions included Pascal Costanza.
-- Distribution by email lists:  JonL White suggests give to Pascal.
-- Rainer Joswig's ideas to help:
   JonL White says, "He's on PC, I asked him for more ideas
   for submissions; but he's said nothing yet."
-- N. Levine reports progress on ILC: Website development,
   Committees, Advertising; all are proceeding ahead well, earning a
   "Huzzah" from JonL White.  E. van Waning mentions something about
   approaching smaller companies; Nick suggests that Ernst himself work
   on it.
-- Franz sponsorship:  C. Shapiro reports no progress as yet.
-- Suggestion for one more invited speaker: Offer already made to Luca
   Cardelli; E. van Waning suggests someone he met at a Conference
   recently: Nachum Dershowitz.  JonL White adds that Luca is at
   Microsoft Lab is just down the street in Cambridge (no travel costs)
   and Cardelli has 20 years experience on SIGPLAN program committees in
   areas overlapping Lisp usage.  E. van Waning knows about Dershowitz as
   a Theorem proving Person.
-- E. van Waning informs that we did not get any new members due to
   the Franz distribuiton of our Call-for-papers.  JonL White offers one
   possible explanation: Franz has already been fostering ILC/ALU for a
   long time, so this posting isn't news to most of them.  D. Rettig
   replies saying that people are accustomed to paying membership by
   paying Conference registration as opposed to paying separately before
   hand.
-- E. van Waning has been invited to the Lisp conference in Japan, and
   asks what should he say on behalf of the ALU.  N. Levine suggests
   boosting the call for papers for ILC'07.

D. Rettig moves to adjourn.  The motion is seconded by JonL White.
The motion carries unanimously.  Adjourn at 22:54 UTC.

These minutes were produced from meeting notes graciously donated by
JonL White.

Peter Lindahl
  ALU Secretary