• review of last year's action items (it's an advantage to get this settled before the meeting; it's a huge time sink and most of it is not useful; if there are items arising from this review to add to the meeting agenda, this would be the point to identify those)
• circulate reports: financial, membership, MLA, Humanist, DHQ, LLC
• EC members review minutes from last year and new EC members review the bylaws if they haven't already

1. Procedural (30 minutes)

• approval of the minutes from previous meeting
• approval of the agenda

2. Committee appointments (45 minutes)

• bursaries (Treasurer ex officio plus 2 others)
• nominations (4 people)
• jobs (flexible; confirm the chair and recruit volunteers)
• Busa/other award committees (2 people)
• ADHO steering committee rep (1 person)
• ADHO multilingualism committee rep (1 person)
• program committee for the next conference +1 (3 people)

4. Strategic planning

Membership (1 hour)

Publications (DHQ, Humanist, ACH web, LLC) (1 hour)

Lunch (45 minutes)

Jobs/mentoring (1 hour)

New projects (30 minutes)

5. Business (1.5 hours)

• Financial report and review of specific budget allocations from last year (e.g. towards bursaries, committees, etc.). Ascertain how/whether they were actually spent; reconfirm for the current year
• discuss bids for the next conference +1
• other specific things arise from year to year: for instance, approval of specific ADHO questions

6. Visits/informational (1 hour; these are scheduled in as convenient)

• presentation from next year's conference organizer
• presentation from this year's conference organizer

-- Main.JuliaFlanders - 09 Jun 2008