Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU)                      22 June 2005
General Meeting                                         19:36 hours PDT
Minutes                                                          Rev. 0


Meeting held in Building 320 classroom, Stanford University with the 
following board members present:
Officers present: (V) = Voting member of the Board
        Ernst van Waning, Pres.	John Adams, V.P.
        Carl Shapiro, V.P.	Rusty Johnson (V), Treas.
        Peter Lindahl, Sec.	
Board members present:
        Roger Corman(V),        Kuroda Hisao(V),
	Duane Rettig(V),        JonL White(V)
	Heow Eide-Goodman(V)

Please accept the apologies of the Secretary for any spelling errors
or omissions of names.

President Ernst van Waning called the meeting to order at 19:36 PDT
with 48 ALU members in attendance, constituting a quorum of the
membership.

- In the interest of time, the reading of the minutes were waived,
  with no objections.  Members were informed that the minutes are
  available for their review on request.

- ALU accomplishments since ILC 2003 in NYC:
  o  Board now meets telephonically once a month.
  o  ILC 2005 (Thanks to Carl Shapiro, shown by applause.)
  o  Web face of the ALU at ALU.ORG
  o  Ability to accept membership dues and donations via web, thanks to
     Nick Levine and Carl Shapiro.

- Financial statement.  Treasurer Johnson reports the ALU started with
  around $6-7K, with ILC 2005 costs not finalized yet, but expected to
  be around $35K with current income between $40-50K, with exact
  numbers not yet known due to late registrations.  Question posed:
  What type of corporation is the ALU?  It is a 501(3c) incorporated
  in the Commonwealth of Virginia, this makes it a not-for-profit
  organization with the IRS.

- The ALU is looking for people interested in assisting with the
  following areas of Lisp development: Lisp in Education, Scientific
  Computing, Public Relations, Web development, and any other areas of
  interest.  Mentioned was the alu-announce @ alu.org mailing list,
  which is opt-in only and moderated.  John Amuedo offered assistance
  with scientific computing.
Suggestions:
  o  Mailing lists should obscure recipients, if they don't already.
  o  Offer the prestigious @alu.org mailing address for members.
  o  combine web and mail activities for security.

- Show of hands: Interest in ILC '06 in Europe? -- Majority of hands.
                 Number of European based members at this meeting - 5.
                 Non-Europeans consider attending Europe? -- Majority shown.
  Question: What about co-locating with other orgs?  JonL White
  summarized the efforts of the ALU to co-locate with the ACM this
  year.  (See previous minutes for the gory details.)

- Open Forum:
  o Achieving a standardized Lisp across multiple platforms including
    WIN/MAC/*IX.
  o Support for a common (not necessarily CL) Lisp Tools/Kits
    repository.
  o Currently Goals/Mission/etc. of ALU are confusing.  De-obfuscate them.
    - How does one contribute to the ALU?  
    - How to do something (in Lisp/Scheme)?
  o Carl Shapiro asked for help to debug and design better ALU.ORG interface.
    Peter Seibel volunteered to assist.  Also Rob Warnock.
  o Video tapings edited and made available?  Patrick Collinson volunteered
    to assist with tape editing and suggested creating "snippets" or 
    highlights.  Heow mentioned that hardware was available for editing.
  o Sharing of email addresses.  Can it be done securely?
  o Pictures and descriptions (bios) of board members on alu.org.

- Election of board members:
  John Adams (by proxy to R. Johnson) nominates Peter Seibel.  Accepted.
  Dave Cooper moves to nominate the standing board members.  Seconded.
  Motion passed.
  Motion made by member to close nominations.  Seconded.  Motion passed.
  Motion to elect the eight standing nominations to board:  
    Roger Corman	 (incumbent)
    Heow Eide-Goodman	 (inc.)
    Kuroda Hisao         (inc.)
    Rusty Johnson	 (inc.)
    Nick Levine		 (inc.)
    Duane Rettig	 (inc.)
    Peter Seibel	 (new)
    JonL White		 (inc.)
  Motion seconded.  Motion passed.  

- Move for adjournment.  Seconded.  Passed unanimously.

Meeting ends at 20:42 PDT

ALU Board meeting to follow immediately.

Peter Lindahl
  ALu Secretary