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CAA2007 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Minutes The 2007 Annual General Meeting was held on Friday 6th April 2007 in Room HS 1A, Rostlaube/Silberlaube of the Free University in Berlin, Germany. The meeting started at 14.00 p.m. with Stephen Stead in the chair and about 50 members present. 1) Minutes of the 2006 Annual General Meeting Friday 21st April 2006 in the room Christal 1 of the Ramada Plaza Suites and Conference Center in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. The minutes were accepted. 2) Matters arising from the minutes. None. 3) Chairman's report. The chairman, Nick Ryan, was ill. Stephen Stead had the difficult task of replacing him. The committee had met on two occasions (Friday 21st April 2006 in Fargo, USA and Friday 19th January 2007 in Berlin, Germany) and had conducted most of its other business by E‑mail. 4) Treasurer's report. CAA has € 9800 in the Dutch account and £ 2500 in the UK. 5) Election of officers and auditor. Chair: Nick
Ryan was nominated, agreed to stand and was re-elected unopposed. The following are ex-officio members of the Steering Committee for 2007-2008: Sascha
Schmidt (student and low income) 6) New Chapters The membership ratified the establishing of two new chapters CAAD (CAA Germany) and CAANA (CAA North America (USA and Canada)). 7) Membership. There is a need for a corporate membership. The AGM agreed (one vote against) that the steering committee will look into the matter. 8) CAA2007. The acting chairman thanked the CAA2007 organisers and staff for a very successful conference, the biggest CAA conference ever! 9) CAA 2008. Elizabeth Jerem presented the conference in Budapest 2-6 April 2008. The title of the conference will be On The Road To Reconstructing The Past and the main theme will be large-scale rescue excavations. There will be a welcome reception in the Academy of Science, visits to museums, post conference excursions to Aquincum (Roman city of Budapest), Visegrád (Medieval Royal Centre), Eger (medieval Castle) and Veszprém (Archbishop’s Palace). 10) CAA 2009. One bid for CAA 2009 from University of Virginia (USA). The venue of the conference will be Williamsburg Lodge in Williamsburg. After a presentation by Bernard Frischer and Lisa Fischer the membership voted in favour of holding the 2009 conference in Virginia. Cyprus will most probably come with a bid for 2010. 11) Publication of proceedings. Franco Niccolucci is ill and therefore cannot report on any progress of the 2004 proceedings. He missed his latest May 2006 deadline. No news from the CAA2005 proceedings. They also missed their latest deadline (September 2006). Jeffrey Clark promised to publish the CAA2006 proceedings before the end of the year. The CAA2007 organisers will have a template for their publication ready on 31st May 2007. They will not print everything. 25 to 30% will be on paper (black and white), the rest of the accepted papers will be on the Internet and on CD (colour). Martijn van Leusen asked if the steering committee will take over the publication of the Prato and Tomar proceedings. Steve answered that for the time being the committee will just nag the local organisers. Bernard
Frischer proposed to publish the proceedings before the conference. You can be
more selective if you see the complete paper. Another
question was why do we still publish on paper? We need a
more formal approach with fixed guidelines and a fixed format. A new dissemination committee was established. The members are:
Geoff Avern 12) UISPP Commission IV The UISPP (François Djindjian and Luiz Oosterbeek) and CAA (Hans Kamermans, Nick Ryan and Juan Barceló) came to the following agreement:
The membership agreed with the covenant. 13) Any other business. None. The meeting closed at 15.15 p.m. Hans
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