ALU Board Meeting 2008.12.04 Minutes Rev. 0

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Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                  04 December 2008
Board Meeting                                          22:00 hours UTC
Minutes                                                Rev. 0

Meeting was held via telephone with the following board members
present, where (D) denotes Director.

Officers present:
	 Ernst van Waning, Pres.(D)	    Rusty Johnson, Treas. (D)
	 Peter Lindahl, Sec.

Members present:
	Kuroda Hisao (D)	Jeremy Jones (D)
	Duane Rettig (D)(22:37)

Also present:  Dan Weinreb, ILC'09 General Chairman

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 22:14 UTC
with a quorum of four directors present.

The next meeting will be held at 22:00 UTC on January 8, 2009, by
mutual agreement.

R. Johnson moved to approve the minutes of September 04, 2008 and J. Jones
seconded the motion.  The motion passed without dissent.

WIKI.ALU.ORG 
P. Lindahl will contact Nick Levine and ask him to change the DNS for
wiki.alu.org to point away from the server not belonging to the ALU.

ILC'09
The deadline for paper submissions is near.  A nice conference logo
has been made.  The discussion panels have been set up.  A web site
will be set up for topic conversations prior to the conference.  Dan
is waiting to hear from Howie Shrobe on the contract with MIT
services.  Dan expects to hear about the conference room assignments
(not lodging) this Friday.  There are problems with the SIGPLAN/ACM
contact concerning the in-cooperation-with status.  This should be
resolved shortly.  Dan is currently working on getting quotes from a
printer.  D. Rettig asked about the deadline for papers.  It will not
be moved, but extensions can be and have been given.

Payments to Ravenbrook for the services of Nick Levine:
The treasurer has sent a payment to cover several months worth of work
to Ravenbrook to avoid multiple transfer hassles and charges.

CLornucopia:
Perhaps we should wait until after the conference.  Marco or Jeremy
may do a paper for the conference.  There may be name change
forthcoming, possibly LAIR - Lisp All-Inclusive Repository.

Membership Drive:
What do we have to offer?  This needs more thoughts, like the ALU
should be a central home for ideas about Lisp.

Presentation of ALU at ILC'09:
We need to convey to Lispers that we are useful and relevant to the
Lisp community.  We are re-inventing ourselves.  We need to get people
involved and excited about doing things.  There should be more
discussion in email.

J. Jones departed the meeting at 23:03 UTC, during the previous
discussion.

R. Johnson moves to adjourn.  D. Rettig seconds.  Motion passes.
The meeting adjourned at 23:12 UTC.

Peter Lindahl
     ALU Secretary