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

Europe/US:

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

US/Asia:

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