CAA2002 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Minutes

The 2002 Annual General Meeting was held on Friday 5^th April at Hotel Atlantis, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. The meeting started at 18.15 p.m. with Nick Ryan in the chair and about 90 members present.

1) Minutes of the 2001 Annual General Meeting held on Saturday 28th April at Borgen  in Visby, Sweden.

These were accepted after three minor corrections. "CAA2000 Annual General Meeting” was changed in "CAA2001 Annual General Meeting”, under 3) chairman’s report “12^th February 2000” into “12^th February 2001” and under  5) Election of officers and auditor “the Steering Committee for 2000-2001” into “the Steering Committee for 2001-2002”.

2) Matters arising from the minutes.

The steering committee promised to come in 2002 with a set of rules concerning Special Interest Groups (SIG’s) to be incorporated in the CAA constitution. However since only one SIG (virtual reality) is active, the adaptation of the constitution is not yet relevant.

There still is a problem with the proceedings from CAA99 (Dublin). The steering committee established contact with the main organiser Edward Bourke and hopes that the proceedings will be published in the very near future.

3) Chairman's report.

The chairman reported that the committee had met on two occasions (28th April 2001 in Visby and 28th January 2002 in Leiden) and had conducted most of its other business by E-mail.

The chairman reported the establishment of CAAPortugal and ongoing conversation with future organisers for CAA2005 and CAA2006.

4) Treasurer's report.

CAA offered 17 bursaries for a total of € 5000) for the conference of which 14 were accepted.

CAA has 7500 Euros on the Dutch account and 7700 pounds in the UK. The Dutch account owes € 3000 to Archaeopress for proceedings and The UK account owes 4500 pounds to a creditor.

CAA99 (Dublin) has finally 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 2002-2003:

Panos Constantopoulos and Martin Doerr (CAA2002 organisers)
Ortolf Harl and Wolfgang Börner (CAA2003 organiser)
To be decided (CAA2004 organiser)
Juan Barceló (CAAEs)
Franco Niccolucci (CAAIt)
Sascha Schmidt (students & low income)
Dora Constantinidis (students & low income).

No auditor was elected.

6) Membership.

No announcements regarding membership matters

8) CAA2003.

The conference will be in Vienna, Austria between 8 and12 April 2002. It will be a joint venture between the Workshop 8 Archaeologie und Computer and CAA. The organisation of CAA2003 is on schedule. There is good support from the city of Vienna. A leaflet was distributed. There will be a celebration of 30 years CAA!

More info on the website http://www.archaeologie-wien.at/caa2003/caa2003.htm
which, together with other recent conference pages may be reached from the links on the main CAA web site http://www.caaconference.org

9) CAA2004.

One bid from Tuscany (Italy) from Franco Niccolucci (CAAIt) for the 2004 conference. The title will be “Beyond the artefact. Digital interpretation of the past.” The conference will be held in Prato, a suburb of Florence, from 13 – 17 April 2004. Prato is easy to reach by plane, train and car, Florence, with its social life, is close by and there is a lot of local support for the conference. The Steering Committee recommended the bid and the meeting chose Prato almost unanimously.

10) Any other business.

Nick thanked the CAA2002 organisers Panos Constantopoulos, Chryssoula Bekiari, Martin Doerr and their staff for the excellent and successful conference.

The meeting closed at 18.45 p.m.