Agenda 2009Q1
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- Reference Material
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- 2008 agenda
- Reports - expected reports and their topics
- Admin Subcommittee preparations
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- 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
Please add bullet points under each item for issues you want us to discuss, and add your name
- Useful information
- Tuesday, January 27 from 8 PM Eastern Time
- schedule: http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=hp8y69ew25bkd7ex
- Welcome - Steven
- new members of this committee; departing members
- changes, using chat during the call, ...
- Minutes from last meeting
- (2008Q3 Minutes) - Drago
- for now we just have a list of to-do items; does anything need discussion right away?
- Office report
- (Report) - Priscilla
- sale of proceedings to free up office space and reduce rental (Steven)
- prospect of moving office to Priscilla's home and cost savings (Steven)
- John's travel to 2009 conference (Steven)
- Treasurer's report
- (Report) - Graeme
- discussion of issues raised in the "Future" section of the report
- SIGs
- (Report) - Steven
- SIGDAT proposed constitution (Steven)
- Journal
- (Report) - Robert
- any issues?
- 2009 Conference
- (Report) - Bonnie
- impact of sponsorship on conference budget (Steven)
- other issues flagged by Bonnie in her questions to general chair (Bonnie)
- AFNLP representative (Bonnie); brief verbal report from AFNLP? (Kam-Fai?)
- possibility of a call between organizers and some of the admin committee
- any issues?
- Discussion topics
- economic difficulties re sponsorship, travel to conferences -- how can we respond? e.g. streaming video of conference talks for people who can't attend; ideas for cost-containment? how are other professional societies responding?
- membership depends heavily on conference attendance -- any ideas for promoting membership? (NB ACL Portal project)
- others? please add here
- Other business
- request for suggestions for hosting ACL-2011 - Steven (from Ido)
- suggestion for quarterly meetings
Call 2: Europe/America daytime
All administrative topics already pre-processed by admin subcommittee; all public reporting already completed via admin wiki
- Minutes from last meeting
- (2008Q3 Minutes) - Drago
- Secretary's report
- (Report) - Drago
- Treasurer's update [tentative] - Graeme (2 mins)
- Future Events
- Chapter Reports
- SIGs
- (Report) - Ido
- SIGDAT proposed constitution (continued from last meeting)
- SIGMT approval
- SIGFSM discussion
- Publications Discussion - Ido
- Other possible topics
- how to encourage a higher standard of conference reviewing
- greenlighting about efficient ways to operate our conferences
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 10:00 11:30 US/Canada - Pacific D+0 13:00 14:30 US/Canada - Eastern (GMT-4) D+0 17:00 18:30 UK D+0 18:00 19:30 Western Continental Europe D+0 19:00 20:30 Israel D+1 01:00 03:30 Hong Kong/Taiwan D+1 04:00 06:30 Australia