Agenda 2009Q3

2009Q3 Reports

MORNING (9-12:30)

9am Business items

• welcome (Steven, chair)
• membership update; conference registrations (Priscilla)
• questions arising from management reports: secretary, treasurer, office, EACL, NAACL, Nominating Committee, SIG Convener
• questions arising from publications reports: journal, book reviews, squibs, anthology, website, archivist, wiki

9.30am Discussion items

• diversification, short papers (Sandee, Steven, Nicoletta, Owen, 1 hour) + Jan/Joakim
• journal venue for conference publications (Ido, 1.5 hours)

12.00pm

• ACL-IJCNLP 2009 (Keh-Yih, General Chair; Haizhou, Local Chair, 30 mins)

12.30pm

Lunch + Jan/Joakim + Keh-Yih/Haizhou

AFTERNOON (1:30-5)

1.30pm Business items

• Any issues arising from recent conferences (EACL 2009, NAACL HLT 2009)
• Any issues concerning future conferences (ACL 2010, 2011, 2012)

2.30pm Discussion items

• sponsorship committee, joint fundraising (Steven, Owen, Giorgio, 30 mins)
• conference sudoku (Drago, 30 mins)
• new initiatives (http://www.crowdvine.com, http://videolectures.net, AAN, softconf, etc.) (Drago), member portal (Robert)

4.00pm Remaining items

• anything carried over from earlier sessions

5pm close