Agenda 2009Q1

Reference Material

• 2008 agenda
• Reports - expected reports and their topics

Admin Subcommittee preparations

• past minutes, matters arising (Drago)
• SIG compliance (Ido)
• Treasurer's report (Graeme)
• Secretary report (Drago)
• Office report (Priscilla)
• Chapter report
• LTA approval
• Nominations committee

Call 1

Asia/America daytime (less European participation)

All administrative topics already pre-processed by admin subcommittee; all public reporting already completed via admin wiki

Admin topics requiring exec input

Publications

• Journal discussion (Robert)
• strategic planning for conference and journal publication models

2009 Conference

• all officers are in Asia and USA
• careful scrutiny of all aspects of the conference, cf [1]
• Discussion topics, e.g. responding to member initiatives

AFNLP

Call 2

Europe/America daytime (less Asian participation)

All administrative topics already pre-processed by admin subcommittee; all public reporting already completed via admin wiki

Admin topics requiring exec input

Future Events (Europe and USA)

• ACL 2010 Uppsala (Steven, Joakim, Jan)
• ACL 2011 Americas (Ido)
• greenlighting about efficient ways to operate our conferences

EACL (Giorgio)

NAACL (Owen)

Possible Schedule

Call 1

DATE            START END
D-1 GMT-8       16:00 17:30
D-1 GMT-5       19:00 20:30
D+0 GMT         00:00 01:30 - optional
D+0 GMT+1       01:00 02:30 - optional
D+0 GMT+2       02:00 03:30 - optional
D+0 GMT+8       08:00 09:30
D+0 GMT+11      11:00 12:30

Call 2

DATE            START END
D+0 GMT-8       10:00 11:30
D+0 GMT-5       13:00 14:30
D+0 GMT         18:00 19:30
D+0 GMT+1       19:00 20:30
D+0 GMT+2       20:00 21:30
D+1 GMT+8       02:00 03:30 - optional
D+1 GMT+11      05:00 06:30 - optional

Availability

Please log your UN-availability for a call at the above times. Use initials, and specify which calls you cannot do (1, 2, 12). Mark call 1 unavailability using the second of the two dates except if you're in North America. Mark call 2 unavailability using the first of the two dates except if you're in the Far East.

Jan 24-25

sb12

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