BAA Management Committee Meeting

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Prior to the EGM and AGM a short and informal meeting was held by the committee to discuss various issues arising from the announcements to be made later.

Specific points raised (in no particular order) were:

• Nicholas had investigated various bank options for the BAA and decided that the best was to open a Barclays Community Account. It was agreed he should proceed.

• Paul Grosvenor, Richard Nabavi and Stephen Taylor would negotiate the return of funds to BAA from BCS.

• The membership would be informed of the agreed changes by internet and an insert placed into Vector 23.3 which was due to go out any day now. Paul Grosvenor and Stephen Taylor would write the insert.

• Issue 23.4 of Vector is expected to be published in September (suitably modified to exclude BCS logo etc.). We would then issue subscription renewals to our members covering the membership year 1st May 2008 to 30th April 2009. This would give Nicholas plenty of time to arrange our bank account and put in place a mechanism to receive credit card payments.

• Our current fee structure would remain unchanged but may be reviewed later in the year.

• As Vector articles now appear promptly on the Web, before they appear in print, we would consider printing two, larger, issues per year rather then the current 4, so reducing costs.

• Richard Nabavi and Anthony Camacho agreed to propose new regulations.

• We discussed the possibility of printing an additional publication this year along the lines of an “APL Hints and Tips”. (It was suggested we prepare a collection of the At Play With J articles first.) Dynamic functions is a possible topic; we might invite a number of APLers to provide some short articles on “hints and tips”.