CAA2000 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Minutes

The 2000 Annual General Meeting of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods Conference was held on Friday 21st April at Kosovel hall in Llubljana, Slovenia. The meeting started at 16.07 p.m. with Nick Ryan in the chair and about 80 members present.

1) Minutes of the 2000 Annual General Meeting held on Saturday 17th April at Dublin Castle in Dublin, Ireland.

These were accepted

2) Matters arising from the minutes.

Martijn van Leusen asked if the principle of pre-paid publications is now reinstated. The answer is yes. Delegates will get the publications automatically.

3) Chairman's report.

The chairman reported that the committee had met on two occasions (17th April 1999 in Dublin and 4th February 2000 in Leiden) and had conducted most of its other business by E-mail.

The CAA96 proceedings from Iasi (Romania) are (at last) published in BAR.

4) Treasurer's report.

CAA has now two accounts, one in the UK with 6500 pounds and one in the Netherlands with 723 EUR. CAA has to pay for the CAAUK99 proceedings, the Virtual Reality book of Barceló and the CAA96 volumes. After this the balance will be close to zero.

CAA2000 gave 32 bursaries. 21 with EU money and 11 from CAA grants (950 pounds).

The books should be ready to be audited next summer.

5) Election of officers and auditor.

Chair: Nick Ryan was nominated, agreed to stand and was re-elected unopposed.

Treasurer: Stephen Stead was nominated, agreed to stand and was re-elected unopposed.

Secretary: Hans Kamermans was nominated, agreed to stand and was re-elected unopposed.

Membership Secretary: Kelly Fennema was nominated, agreed to stand and was re-elected unopposed.

The following are ex-officio members of the Steering Committee for 2000-2001:

Zoran Stancic (CAA2000 organiser)
Göran Burenhult (CAA2001 organiser)
To be decided (CAA2002 organiser)
Juan Barceló (CAAES)
Sascha Schmidt (students & low income)
Dora Constantinidis (students & low income).

No auditor was elected.

6) Publications.

Three CAA or CAA related volumes were published recently: the proceedings of CAA96, the proceedings of CAAUK99 and the book on Virtual Reality of CAA98. The proceedings of CAA99 will go to the printers next Christmas.

Members of CAA can order proceedings at reduced prices from Hans Kamermans in Leiden (The Netherlands). Details soon on the new CAA web pages or mail Hans.

7) Membership.

No announcements.

8) CAA2001.

The organisation of CAA2001 is on schedule. A leaflet and a poster were distributed. Visby lies on Gotland, a small island with lots of archaeology. The conference will be thematic: there will be a number of interdisciplinary sessions, like osteoarchaeology etc. Part of the conference will be a video conference.

Gotland can de reached by plane, but it is cheaper to fly to Stockholm and take the boat to Visby.

There will be a medieval banquet on Saturday evening and a trip on Sunday.

For more details: http://caa.hgo.se

9) CAA2002.

One bid from Heraklion on Crete (Greece). Martin Doerr gave a presentation with a video of the Institute of Computer Science.

Crete is the most southern part of Europe and the largest island of Greece. It is thought to be the cradle of European civilisation. It has important academic and research institutions. It has many tourist attractions and reasonable priced hotels.

The conference will be organised by the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology in collaboration with the Department of History and Archaeology, the Department of Computer Sciences and the Institute of Medieval Sciences.

The Steering Committee recommended the bid from the Institute of Computer Science and the meeting chose Heraklion unanimously.

10. Any other business.

Representatives from Austria and Italy announced that they will come with a bid for CAA2003.

There are problems with the CD’s of the CAA97 and CAA98 proceedings. BAR will replace defective CD’s. Please contact Nick or Hans.

Zoran promised to put the email addresses of the delegates on the web in the near future.

Nick thanked the CAA2000 organisers for the excellent and very successful conference: Zoran Stancic, Alenka Korevi, Alenka Kregar, Tatjana Velianovsky and the drivers Tomas, Marko and Saso.

The meeting closed (like last year) at exactly 17.13 p.m.