CAA2001 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Minutes

The 2001 Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday 28th April at Borgen  in Visby, Sweden. The meeting started at 16.03 p.m. with Nick Ryan in the chair and about 65 members present.

1) Minutes of the 2000 Annual General Meeting held on Friday 21st April 2000 at Kosovel hall in Llubljana, Slovenia. 

These were accepted

2) Matters arising from the minutes.

None

3) Chairman's report.

The chairman reported that the committee had met on two occasions (21st April 2000 in Llubljana and 12th February 2001 in Leiden) and had conducted most of its other business by E‑mail.

Nick Ryan presented the CAA webpages, which are accessible via:

http://www.caaconference.org

Apart from that CAA registered the following domain names:

caauk.org
caanl.org
caaes.org
caait.org

Nick can now also be reached by chair@caaconference.org. Other email addresses are:
secretary@caaconference.org
treasurer@caaconference.org
membership@caaconference.org
student@caaconference.org

These are mail aliases that redirect to personal mailboxes.

On the CAA WebPages there is a page concerning SIG’s, special interest groups. The membership is invited to think about this initiative. There is already one experimental SIG about virtual reality. Other possibilities are landscape archaeology, predictive modelling, 3D standing technologies. If the SIG’s work the steering committee will come back next year with a set of rules to be incorporated in the constitution.

4) Treasurer's report.

CAA was officially registered in the Netherlands as an association in order to open a Euro account and get credit card facilities.

CAA has 4500 EURO’s on the Dutch account and 4500 pounds in the UK. The UK account owes 4000 pounds to a creditor.

CAA99 (Dublin) still has not paid the membership fees to CAA.

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 2001-2002:

Göran Burenhult (CAA2001 organiser)
Panos Constantopoulos and Martin Doerr (CAA2002 organisers)
To be decided (CAA2003 organiser)
Juan Barceló (CAAEs)
Franco Niccolucci (CAAIt)
Sascha Schmidt (students & low income)
Dora Constantinidis (students & low income).

No auditor was elected. We will appoint one during the year.

6) CAA Special Interest Groups.

See point 2

7) Membership.

After CAA2000 we had 178 members, CAA2001 gave us 213 members.

8) CAA2002.

The organisation of CAA2002 is on schedule. A leaflet was distributed. The conference will be in Heraklion, Crete, Greece between 2-6th April 2002. The central topic will be the digital heritage of archaeology.

The website can be reached by way of the official CAA homepages or directly:
http://www.caa2002.gr/index.html

9) CAA2003.

One bid from Vienna (Austria). Ortolf Harl (Stadtarchäologie Wien) gave a video presentation. The title of the conference in Vienna would be "Enter the Past” and the proposed date will be 8-11^th April 2003.

Franco Niccolucci (CAAIt) withdraw his bid for 2003 in support of Vienna but announced a bid for 2004.

The Steering Committee recommended the bid from the town archaeologist of Vienna and the meeting chose Vienna almost unanimously.

10. Any other business.

There is a problem with the proceedings from CAA99 (Dublin). The steering committee will do anything within its power to see that the proceedings will be published a.s.a.p.

The SC will improve the CAA WebPages.

Nick thanked the CAA2001 organisers for the excellent and successful conference.

The meeting closed at 16.45 p.m.

Hans Kamermans
Steering Committee Secretary