BAA Committee News
Vector 3:3, page 13
Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed. Read it in the PDF of the issue, page 13
There are two items of interest arising from recent Committee meetings, both aimed at improved communications and information exchange in the global APL community.
Sharp Mailbox code.¶
I P Sharp Associates are Sustaining Members of the BAA and their cooperation during the organising stages of APL86 was most helpful; in particular the access which they provided to their Mailbox system.
They have made the most welcome gesture of allowing the BAA to continue using the Mailbox, which means that two things can now happen:
We have created a Mailbox group called \<FBAA> (Friends of the British APL Association) which can act as an address for any communications of interest to members of the BAA. Join this group if you want to receive any of this news etc.
Also you can send messages direct to the BAA Committee. At present we have no group specifically for this purpose (one day the Secretary will doubtless get round to it) and you should address your message to either [three mailbox codes omitted].
International Journal Exchange.¶
There was a somewhat inconclusive meeting of many of the international APL ‘clubs’ at APL86 – one thing which we were able to achieve being that we wanted to revitalise the longstanding but lately moribund exchange of journals between the groups.
We have contacted all of the groups that we know of and now have journal exchange agreements with the Swiss, German, Bay Area and Australian Groups. You should begin to see some summarisation of the contents of the various journals in forthcoming VECTORs; what you won’t be seeing is lengthy extracts from their articles.
What we want to achieve is to let all of our membership know what’s happening in APL worldwide and we’d particularly encourage you to join the individual groups if you think their activity looks interesting.
If, by any chance, there are any other groups publishing APL journals who would like to participate in this scheme please contact a member of the BAA committee as soon as you can.