Changes:
-- Corrected the next meeting date from July 11 to July 10, 2008.
-- Added the following statement, provided by JonL and tweaked by me, 
   under the CLornucopia topic.
"Also, the board discussed that the ALU might offer incentives to a group actively doing such projects, but hosting on the ALU website or actively participating in or overseeing it's development would seem out of character for the ALU mission.  Rather, the ALU website would link to such projects, much in the same manner that we have in the past linked to projects such as the CMU library, the Edi Weitz collection, and many others."

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Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                  05 June 2008
Board Meeting                                          22:00 hours UTC
Minutes                                                Rev. 1

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 22:11 UTC with a quorum of six directors present.

The next meeting will be held at 22:00 UTC on July 10, 2008, by mutual agreement.

R. Johnson moved to approve the minutes of April 10, 2008 and D. Rettig seconded the motion.  The motion passed without dissent.

Preface from the President

Now the organization of ILC09 is not eating all our attention, I would like to discuss a policy including

- Make ALU more accessible to Lispers and working together with more
   people.  E. van Waning sent a few attachments with ideas and
   suggestions from Erik Sandewall, Dan Weinreb and Marco Barringer.
- Let money flow back to the Lisp community;
   - Budget up to ILC09;
   - Optimize communication about ILC09;
   - Optimize communication about Lisp;
   - Better website
- Plan about easily accessible libraries for Lisp (CLornucopia)

- Reports
   - List of directors on website incomplete:
P. Lindahl will send updated list of board members to K. Hisao so that he can update the web page.  Done.

   - Thoughts & developments about ALU website & PayPal interface K. Hisao reported issues abound with difficulties getting the interface with PayPal to work smoothly.  Some problems with PayPal's SOAP and WSDL are interfering with our ability to interface properly and consistently.  JonL recounted previous efforts to make it work.

   - Preparations for ILC09
E. van Waning reported that D. Weinreb is progressing with conference organization.  D. Weinreb was supposed to be joining the conference call, but apparently there was some confusion about the date and/or time, or more pressing matters intervened.  No further report is available at this time.

   - Financial report sent around?
R. Johnson will make the PDF and send it around tonight.

- New business
    - Access to ALU machine
A lengthy discussion ensued concerning the ALU board's current limited access to bibop.  Care is to be taken to ensure the present lead administrator, who is currently unavailable, is not offended by the board's efforts to regain required access to the server.  It was suggested that we ensure that an additional "trustee" has the required passwords, so that the ALU can continue its business.

    - CLornucopia
E. van Waning previously sent email to the board containing written descriptions of the project and its goals.  J. Jones gave a brief overview of the project.  E. van Waning asked how the ALU might help with the project.  Discussion included ranking algorithms and the meta data used, as well as talk about the niche this project will fill.  Also, the board discussed that the ALU might offer incentives to a group actively doing such projects, but hosting on the ALU website or actively participating in or overseeing it's development would seem out of character for the ALU mission.  Rather, the ALU website would link to such projects, much in the same manner that we have in the past linked to projects such as the CMU library, the Edi Weitz collection, and many others.


- ILC07 closure
   - Write the final report to ACM (time sensitive) D. Rettig read several notes from Pascal Costanza stating that as far as he knows, we do not "owe" anything to the ACM.  He is willing to contact the ACM on our behalf, should it be required.

The meeting adjourned at 23:05.

Peter Lindahl
    ALU Secretary