BAA Annual General Meeting 2011

Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed.

Minutes of the British APL Association AGM 2010 held at The Albion, 3 New Bridge Street, London EC4 on Friday 21 May 2010

Minutes of AGM 2010¶

The minutes had been published on the web site and were taken as read without correction.

14:40 Welcome (Phil Last)

- Apologies: Stephen (still in Japan), Paul (still in Sussex)

-16 bods in attendance (incl. guests)

14:45 Presentation 1: Morten on new features in Dyalog13

-true 128 bit numbers

-regular expressions

-large arrays

-PROFILE (successor to quad-MONITOR)

-TCPIP toolkit

-SQAPL revamp

-parallelism

15:18 AGM

-In the absence of Paul Grosvenor, Peter Merritt railroaded the meeting:-

-previous minutes (not as such; agreed anyway)

-report from chair (no)

-report from treasurer (funds OK, no sign of BCS letting go of any BAA cash)

-report from treasurer on membership

corporate was 439 members, now 415;

individual was 255, now 247 (66 UK, 180 o/s)

-thanks to Nick for splendid job

-committee elections:

In a hard-fought election lasting several seconds, exactly the same people were co-erced into doing exactly what they did last year.

Two others (Kai Jaeger, John Jacob) were also 'elected', until someone pointed out that those posts did not actually exist, and that to create them would require a constitutional change. They were then immediately un-elected.

AOB

- The said Kai Jaeger and John Jacob were co-opted onto the committee to continue previous functions.

- Achievement award should have been awarded... but no committee discussion had taken place. Kai therefore nominated Stephen Taylor for splendid work with Vector, seconded by loads of people; Peter Merritt to inform Paul Grosvenor to arrange 'gong'.

- Jane Sullivan proposed a vote of thanks to committee 2010 which staggeringly was accepted

15:37 AGM CLOSED

15:48 Presentation 2: John Scholes - Function Trains i.e. no more syntax errors - they're features (I've been saying that for years)

16:30 Presentation3: Mike Hughes - Application Design with WPF and APL

Mike circulated an early draft of a Dyalog manual covering these aspects.