Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                  01 October 2009
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.	 	Peter Lindahl, Sec.
	Daniel Herring, Lib. (D)	
	Mason Bliss, Mem. Sec. (arr. 23:00)

Members present:
	Tim Daly (D)		Kuroda Hisao (D)	
	Jeremy Jones (D)	Duane Rettig (D)
	JonL White (D) (dep. 23:00)

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

The next meeting will be held at 22:00 UTC on November 5, 2009, by
mutual agreement.

The minutes of the September 10, 2009 board meeting were discussed.
T. Daly moves to accept the minutes.  J. Jones seconds.  The motion
passed without dissent.

Old Business and Committee Reports

Discussion concerning website mailing lists.
The list ALU-MEMBERS should be for members only, once that is defined.
The list ALU-ANNOUNCE is a one-way list that anyone may subscribe or
unsubscribe.  D. Herring moves to make a two-way discussion mailing
list called ALU-DISCUSS for people to subscribe to to comment about
ALU business.  J. Jones seconds the motion.  The motion passed
unanimously.

Next ILC -  Where and When?
Suggested so far: Tokyo, Kyoto, Montreal, Pittsburgh (CMU).  We need
to ask other people: extended board, ALU members (ILC visitors), Lisp
community.  K. Hisao is informally asking around to determine
feasibility of holding the next conference in Japan.  JonL White spoke
briefly concerning advantages and disadvantages of co-locating with
and ACM sponsored conference (OOPSLA) in Montreal.  T. Daly spoke
about holding the conference at CMU.  There was a general consensus
agreement to go public and ask opinions and specifically to use the
newly created mailing list to spark the first discussion there.
E. van Waning will begin the process.

Status:  Roundup of ILC09
E. van Waning has received no answer from D. Weinreb to recent
inquiries.  Ernst will repeat the questions.

Motion to adopt the DNS entries for cliki.net
The DNS entries have been picked up by someone else.  The previous
owner is satisfied with the current status.

Previous conference proceedings video compilation committee
JonL White is pending making a copy of the content.

ALU Continuance Of Operations Plan (COOP)
The topic has been tabled.

New business

ALU Website Structure
T. Daly walked the current website and noted that the content as
structured is shallow and stale.  The replacement website should
provide ample opportunity for updates.

T. Daly moved to adjourn.  D. Rettig seconded.  The motion passes.

The meeting adjourned at 23:03 UTC.


Peter Lindahl
    ALU Secretary