Agenda 2009Q1

Reference Material

• 2008 agenda
• Reports - expected reports and their topics

Admin Subcommittee preparations

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

Call 1: Asia/America daytime

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

Useful information

• Tuesday, January 27 from 8 PM Eastern Time
• schedule: http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=hp8y69ew25bkd7ex

Admin topics requiring exec input

• minutes of last meeting, matters arising (2008Q3 Minutes) - Drago
• Treasurer's report (2009Q1 Reports: Treasurer) - Graeme
• Secretary's report (2009Q1 Reports: Secretary) - Drago
• Office report (2009Q1 Reports: Office) - Priscilla
• SIGs (Report) - Steven

Publications

• Journal discussion (Report) - Robert
• discussion: strategic planning for conference and journal publication models ??
• support for more work on anthology - Steven

2009 Conference

• Report - Key-Yih? Bonnie?
• careful scrutiny of all aspects of the conference, cf [1]
• Discussion topics, e.g. responding to member initiatives

AFNLP report?

Member portal? - Robert

Other business

• request for suggestions for hosting ACL-2011 - Steven (from Ido)

Call 2: Europe/America daytime

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)

Other possible topics

how to encourage a higher standard of conference reviewing

Schedule

Call 1

DATE            START END
D-1 GMT-8       17:00 18:30
D-1 GMT-5       20:00 21:30
D+0 GMT         01:00 02:30 - optional
D+0 GMT+1       02:00 03:30 - optional
D+0 GMT+2       03:00 04:30 - optional
D+0 GMT+8       09:00 10:30
D+0 GMT+11      12:00 13:30

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