View source for 2009Q1 Reports: Todo items from 2008Q3

* Don't put in your reports any sensitive info. Redact reports/minutes if necessary before posting.
* Change guidelines to say that the newest member will join the cc for the next conference (e.g., person after Hwee Tou, that is Lori Levin should be on 2011cc)
* Decide whether to encourage bids from organizations not affiliated with universities (cf Puerto Rico's recent bid, EMNLP in Hawaii)
* For local bids - check if VAT has to be paid, don't confuse ACL office staff with local staff, don't hire a huge local staff, justify any rebudgetings, go to the treasurer if going over budget)
* Bonnie: add to conference handbook - before an area chair changes a reviewer - they should ask first
* Keep w/s attendance figures on wiki
* start publications cmtes - short journal papers, more diverse paper types, consider changing the proportion of posters, short paper track, etc. Consider the model used by Bioinformatics/IMDB.
* line up all conference chairs by end of previous summer
* authorize the sponsorship cmte to design a procedure to hire sponsorship chairs who would get commissions
* follow up on last two years' membership proposals - possible get more proposals
* request less detail of preliminary site bids
* Kam Fai: discuss conference liability
* Graeme: auditing ACL
* Ido: involve dancing
* Ask authors to update their reference lists at the time of publication.
* Chris B: global sponsorship is a bad idea
* Kathy: very few submissions in IR/speech
* avoid conflict of poster session and exec++ dinner
* determine cost for "facebook application.
* Drago: consider its relationship with AAN: http://belobog.si.umich.edu/clair/anthology/index.cgi
* post papers online as soon as they are ready (and not on the first day of the conference).