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Date:Mon Sep 3 10:42:50 1993 
Subject:PLUG AGM '93 Minutes 
From:Andy Williams 
Volume-ID:930903.03 



              Minutes of the Pop and Poplog Languages User Group
                            Annual General Meeting
                    held at the School of Computer Science
                         The University of Birmingham
                            on the 28th of May 1993


Present: James Anderson, Steve Knight, Alan Montgomery, Aaron Sloman,
            Robert Smith, Andy Williams, Anthony Worrall.

Apologies: James Goodlet, Ian Rogers.


The meeting opened at 18:50


1. Minutes of previous meeting.

1.1 The minutes of this meeting was accepted.

2. Treasurer's report (Ian Rogers)

2.1 The accounts were presented in absentia for the period 14th April
    1992 to 18th April 1993.

2.2 A BCS Gold account has been opened.

3. Membership

3.1 Ian Rogers has constructed a membership list from PLUG'92 
    attendance and standing orders

3.2 Membership is to be handed over to BCS

3.2.1 A "named" members list will be given to BCS

3.3 Automatic commercial enrollment into PLUG is to be halted

3.4 Alan Montgomery will chase up missing monies from ISL

3.5 Steve Knight to investigate ways of distributing members list & 
    other PLUG only information

4. PLUG '93 conference

4.1 PLUG '93 will be held jointly with the Expert Systems conference

4.2 There is no financial risk involved for the conference

4.3 There would be a considerable reduction in workload for PLUG 
    organisers

4.4 It is likely to be expensive for delegates ~100 pounds

4.5 Papers will be presented at the conference

4.5.1 Refereeing of papers will need to be organised

4.6 Not much income will be generated from the conference

4.7 The likelihood of some tutorials is being investigated

4.7.1 The PLUG `92 X Window System tutorial could be run again

4.8 Loss of membership, as no advantages to members with respect to
    conference fees

4.9 The proceedings from the conference will become the PLUG Journal

5. PLUG Journal

5.1 see 4.7

6. Pop standardisation

6.1 It will be the last ever BSI computer standard

6.2 A draft for comment will be produced by James Anderson

6.2.1 James Anderson & Steve Knight will work on this over the summer

6.3 The critical stage will be ready by the end of the year

6.4 ISL agree to work towards the standard

7. Election of new committee

7.1 Robert Smith resigned as chairman

7.2 The results of the election were:-

    Chairman                James Goodlet
    Secretary               Andy Williams
    Treasurer               Anthony Worrall
    Membership              James Anderson & Ian Rogers.(BCS eventually)
    Conference Organiser    James Anderson
    Newsletter              Ian Rogers
    Standards               Steve Knight

7.3 Alan Montgomery will be the new ISL representative

8. AOB

8.1 The comp.lang.pop/popforum News<->Mail gateway is now fully 
    operational

8.2 TLTP

8.2.1 Aaron Sloman reported on a new research proposal "TLTP", actively
      being pushed through the University Faculty Councils, which uses
      POPLOG to generate teaching materials.
       [More information is available via ftp from:
       ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk:/pub/usenet/comp.lang.pop/volume93/May/930521.01.Z]

The meeting closed at 20:50