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)

Old Schedule

     Schedule A (3 hours):

            start    end
  GMT-5     07:00   10:00
  GMT       12:00   15:00
  GMT+1     13:00   16:00
  GMT+8     20:00   23:00
  GMT+11    23:00   02:00

  Schedule B (2 hours):

            start    end
  GMT+8     07:00   09:00
  GMT+11    10:00   12:00
  GMT-5     18:00   20:00
  GMT       23:00   01:00
  GMT+1     00:00   02:00