Subject: ALU Board Meeting 2008.04.10 Minutes Rev. 0

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Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                  10 April 2008
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)	     Rusty Johnson, Treas. (D)
     Peter Lindahl, Sec.

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

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 22:13 UTC
with a quorum of six directors present.

The next meeting will be held at 22:00 UTC on May 02, 2008, by mutual
agreement.

D. Rettig moved to approve the minutes of March 13, 2008 and J. Jones
seconded the motion.  The motion passed without dissent.

Reports:

   Web Site: H. Eide-Goodman - not present.

   Financial: R. Johnson provided the draft of the ALU financial
   report for 2007 to the board for review.  The numbers were well
   received by the board in general.  D. Rettig moves that the ALU
   accept the 2007 financial report as submitted with suggested
   spelling and formatting corrections with gratitude to R. Johnson.
   K. Hisao seconded the motion.  The motion passed without dissent.

   ILC 2009: E. van Waning has no word yet on when spring break will
   be at MIT in 2009, as it seems that has not been published yet.

Old Business:

   ILC Planning: Reported during ILC 2009 Report.

   ILC 2007 closure: 

     ACM Report: D. Rettig has been unable to contact C. Shapiro.
     JonL White suggests contacting Pascal Costanza, who was the
     initial point of contact with the ACM on behalf of the
     conference.  D. Rettig will contact Pascal and find out what are
     the final requirements for the ALU to close out the conference
     with respect to the ACM.

     Proceedings for ACM Digital Library: E. van Waning does not know
     what is required for this task.  JonL White contributed much
     background on past practices, and offered suggestions on paths
     that can be taken from this point.  Also discussed were issues
     with the ILC 2005 proceedings and reprints in general.

     Remove the "Chinese Paper" and facing page references for the
     second printing of the conference proceedings.  Questions were
     voiced concerning the technical issues involved with
     accomplishing this task.  No immediate solutions were found.

New Business:

   An impropmtu web search found the MIT 2009 spring break dates as
   March 23-27, 2009.  Howie Shrobe will need to confirm that these
   dates are acceptable.

   Discussions ensued concerning maintenance of the ALU website and
   the PayPal interface.

   E. van Waning asked Kuroda for the names of other Lisp/Scheme
   teachers in Japan in addition to Yuasa for contact by Ernst
   concerning student paper submissions for the undergrad track at ILC
   2009.

R. Johnson moved to adjourn.  The motion was seconded by D. Rettig.
The motion passed unanimously.  The meeting adjourned at 23:02.

Peter Lindahl
   ALU Secretary