FORCES Project - Management Committee Minutes 04/02/99



The meeting was held at the BT Angel Centre, Islington, London with the participation of:

Action points arising from meetings are identified as AP/meeting/action/owner. This meeting was number 2.

  1. Appointment of Secretary

    M. Calder agreed to act as secretary for this meeting.

  2. Apologies for Absence

    C. Grealish (CG) was unable to attend due to a late and urgent business commitment. G. Blair (GB) sent his apologies for being unable to arrive in time for the meeting due to a prior commitment.

  3. Approval of Agenda

    The agenda was approved.

  4. Approval of Minutes and Matters Arising

    The minutes of Meeting 1, 08-09/09/98, were approved with no matters arising.

  5. Review of Outstanding Action Points

    AP/0/5/ALL This is a perpetual item that was noted but removed as an explicit action point.

    AP/0/6/KT&ALL This is a perpetual item that was noted but removed as an explicit action point.

    AP/0/7/EM E. Magill has prepared the `flier' text as requested.

    AP/1/2/DM D. Marples has organised publicity as requested.

    AP/2/0/DM D. Marples will organise the production of an A4/A3/A2 publicity poster (as appropriate). Ongoing

    AP/0/8/MT M. Calder has prepared a draft article. This action was replaced by:

    AP/2/1/MC M. Calder will incorporate suggestions received by 08/02/99 on the draft text and submit the article to Software Echo.

    AP/0/10/DM
    AP/0/11/MT
    AP/1/3/DM These actions were superseded by:

    AP/2/2/ALL Members agreed to contact various companies as follows:

    Ongoing

    AP/1/4/RK
    AP/1/5/EM R. Kett was thanked for arranging premises for the workshop, and E. Magill for organising the workshop content.

    AP/1/6/KT K. Turner had provisionally booked a room for up to 25 people at the IEE, Savoy Place, on Friday 10th September 1999. The cost is £360 for the room, plus £14 per head for catering. After some discussion, it was agreed that it would be preferable to shift the date to either the Thursday or Tuesday of that week, to register the event as an official IEE event, and to employ a larger for room for up to 50. K. Turner was asked to approach the IEE again with these new requirements. It was agreed that, if possible, the colloquium should include 2 guest speakers, with further technical talks and a poster session. Ongoing

    (Chairman's Afternote: Due to catering restrictions at IEE on the Thursday, the Faraday Lecture Theatre (capacity 94) has been booked for Tuesday 7th September 1999.)

    AP/2/2/KT,MC,JE A programme committee was formed for the colloquium consisting of K. Turner, M. Calder and J. Evans. The committee will hope to have a rough programme worked out by the end of February. Ongoing

    (Chairman's Afternote: J. Evans and G. Clark provided an excellent list of suggestions by email. K. Turner and M. Calder met on 26/02/99. From this a draft list of speakers has been prepared, and these individuals are being approached.)

    AP/1/7/ALL The costs of video conferencing were deemed to be excessive and the approach not really necessary. Although no management meeting is planned before the colloquium, it was agreed that K. Turner should call one if he considers it necessary. This might be a multi-way telephone conference call.

    AP/1/8/SC S. Corley had informed K. Turner about Text Chat.

    AP/1/9/DM&SC D. Marples and S. Corley formulated a mission statement that was circulated to members and approved. It is now part of the web page text.

  6. AOCB

    The workshop organisers were thanked as noted above.

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