Minutes of the AGM of the British APL Association held at the Royal Statistical Society on 21 May 2004
Vector 20:4, page 10
Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed. Read it in the PDF of the issue, page 10
Minutes of the AGM of the British APL Association held at the Royal Statistical Society on 21 May 2004¶
The minutes of the AGM 2003 (printed in Vector) were agreed as a true record.
Adrian Smith, chairman, reported on the year. The main benefit to members is Vector; the lateness of January and April issues is regretted - Adrian ran out of steam. There is plenty of material for the April Vector and it will be going to press soon. Stephen Taylor has redesigned the web site and it now needs administrative tidying and access to the archive. Stephen asked for volunteers to help and was told Gill Smith is willing.
The meeting at the Royal Society with Arthur Whitney (combined with the twenty year celebration and the relaunch) was a success. So was the APL moot organised by Ray Cannon; so much so that Ray is thinking or running another in the autumn and some visitors from the USA are thinking about running a similar meeting on the east coast. There is also the possibility that Jim Brown may be willing to speak to us as he is visiting the UK this summer.
Lastly Adrian floated the idea of changing the name of the association to something like "The Vector Languages Group" and said this would be suggested in Vector soon; In the meanwhile www.vectorlanguages.org would be reserved.
The treasurer reported on the accounts and on behalf of the membership secretary. The treasurers report was accepted.
The chairman said the committee for next year would be:
| Chairman | Adrian Smith |
| Secretary | Anthony Camacho |
| Treasurer | Nicholas Small |
| Editor | Stefano Lanzavecchia |
| Education | Alan Mayer |
| Projects | Stephen Taylor |
| Activities | Ray Cannon |
| Webmaster | Bob Hoekstra |
| Librarian | Morten Kromberg |
Rowena Small will be membership secretary.
Summary of Annual Accounts 2003/04 (unaudited)¶
Summary of income and expenditure/receipts and payments:
2003/04 2002/03 2001/02
(R&P) (I&E) (I&E) (I&E)
£ £ £ £
Income/Receipts
Subscriptions 12460 12914 12487 9884
BCS services 0 0 0 0
Bank interest 1225 1225 1455 1703
Vector advertising (incl. VAT) 2528 1572 3432 4056
Conferences & seminars 0 0 0 0
Other 372 355 221 629
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Total receipts 16585 16066 17595 16272
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Expenditure/Payments
Meetings 2451 2451 190 240
Administration 1010 860 1213 1348
BCS services 0 0 76 0
Vector production and despatch 11279 14634 16640 15352
Projects 541 541 743 2369
Conferences and seminars 0 0 0 0
Other 510 561 384 308
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Total payments 15791 19047 19246 19617
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Assets summary:
Bank and other balances 36331 35537 37349
Debtors 636 1367 1121
Creditors (8647) (5602) (5516)
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Net assets 28321 31302 32954
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Notes.¶
Pence figures have been omitted, so columns may not add exactly.
The value of stocks of Vector have not been assessed, nor has the value of the Association’s computing hardware and software.
For 2003/04, figures are shown both as income and expenditure, i.e. revenues strictly relating to the activities of that year, and as receipts and payments, i.e. what goes in and out of our bank account. The comparative figures for earlier years relate to income and expenditure.
BAPLA membership at 30.4.04 (previous year’s figures in parentheses)¶
UK FOREIGN TOTAL
Number Vectors Number Vectors Number Vectors
Sustaining 6 (6) 28 (28) 4 (2) 28 (16) 10 (8) 56 (44)
Corporate* 4 (4) 16 (16) 1 (2) 10 (12) 5 (6) 26 (28)
Corp. Ind* 9 (9) 9 (9) 15 (15) 16 (15) 24 (24) 25 (24)
Individual 106 (112) 106 (112) 209 (222) 209 (222) 315 (334) 315 (334)
Non-voting 18 (19) 18 (19) 0 (0) 0 (0) 18 (19) 18 (19)
Life 1 (1) 1 (1) 1 (1) 1 (1) 2 (2) 2 (2)
Library 1 (1) 1 (1) 6 (6) 6 (6) 7 (7) 7 (7)
Russians 11 (11) 11 (11) 11 (11) 11 (11)
APL Groups 13 (13) 39 (39) 13 (13) 39 (39)
499 (508)
*Add the Vector numbers in these rows to get the total subscribed for by corporate members