Subject: ALU Board Meeting 2007.05.10 Minutes Rev. 0
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Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                  10 May 2007
Board Meeting                                          22:00 hours UTC
Minutes                                                Rev. 0

Meeting was held via telephone with the following board members present:
(D) = Director
Officers present:
     Ernst van Waning, Pres.(D)     Carl Shapiro, V.P. (D)
     Rusty Johnson, Treas.	   Peter Lindahl, Sec.

Members present:
     Kuroda Hisao (D)    Jeremy Jones (D)	Duane Rettig (D)

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 22:05 UTC
with a quorum of voting members present.

The President read the minutes from the ALU General Meeting held in
Cambridge, UK on 3 April, 2007.  Approval of the minutes was deferred
to allow more time for review and submission of corrections.

The President read the minutes from the ALU Board Meeting held in
Cambridge, UK on 4 April, 2007.  Several modifications were submitted.
Carl Shapiro moved to accept the minutes as corrected.  Duane Rettig
seconded the motion.  The motion passed.

Financial Statement:
The treasurer Rusty Johnson stated that only the first page should be
submitted to the membership.  The remaining data contains the names of
individuals and banking information and should remain private.

Carl Shapiro moved to publish the first page of the statement as a PDF
to the membership and to provide a link to the Commonwealth of
Virginia website where the information submitted to the state can be
perused at will.  Duane Rettig seconded the motion.  The motion
passed.

Elections of Officers of the Corporation of the ALU

Vice President:
Duane Rettig nominated Carl Shapiro, who accepted.  No further
nominations were offered.  Carl was elected unanimously.

Secretary:
Duane Rettig nominated Peter Lindahl, who accepted.  No further
nominations were offered.  Peter was elected unanimously.

Treasurer:
Carl Shapiro nominated Rusty Johnson, who accepted.  No further
nominations were offered.  Rusty was elected unanimously.

Membership Secretary:
Carl Shapiro nominated Ernst van Waning, who accepted.  No further
nominations were offered.  Ernst was elected unanimously.

Discussion about the office of the President.  Since the previous
election was held in haste, Ernst van Waning agreed to call for a new
election of President of ALU to allow time for other individuals to
express interest in the position.

Webmaster:
Carl Shapiro will introduce Ernst van Waning to the code to handle
membership lists and other processes on the website.

Infrastructural changes concerning conference organizers:
Carl Shapiro spoke to SIGPLAN chair for guidance a few weeks prior to
the conference.  The chair stated that there is only one rule SIGPLAN
is concerned with, that the terms of the program review process are
stated clearly and published publicly and that they are executed as
stated.  Carl suggested we use ACM's review process in the future.

Duane Rettig moved that we accept the resignation of Nick Levine with
sorrow and express our great appreciation for his many efforts and his
support of the ALU over the years and most specifically for his
efforts with the International Lisp Confernce 2007 in Cambridge, UK.
Carl Shapiro seconded the motion.  The motion passed unanimously.

Peter Lindahl offered a suggestion to solicit the expertise of Carl
Shapiro and Nick Levine to construct a blueprint of tasks required for
a successful conference.  Once the task list is built, a subset of the
board should then organize those tasks so that clear lines of
authority and responsibility are established, with the ALU board as
adjudicators should conflicts arise.  The board as a whole would then
make final adjustments and approve the plan.

ILC'08 
John Mallery has volunteered to help with local coordination in
Cambridge, Mass and at MIT.  Duane Rettig responded that Howie Schrobe
had previously offered to help with local organization, and we should
contact Howie to see if he is still interested in helping with the
event.  Carl Shapiro suggested we hold the conference as late in the
year as possible and announce the call for papers as soon as possible
to allow more time for those submitting papers.

Carl Shapiro stated that he must submit a summary of the event to
SIGPLAN for the ILC'07 as part of our agreement for "in cooperation
with" status.

Carl Shapiro moved to adjourn 19:27.  The motion passed.

Peter Lindahl
   ALU Secretary