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CAA2008 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Minutes The 2008 Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday 5th of April from 16.00 – 17.00 in the main building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. With Nick Ryan in the chair and about 55 members present. 1) Minutes of the 2007 Annual General Meeting Friday 6th April 2007 at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. The minutes were accepted. 2) Matters arising from the minutes. None. 3) Chairman's report. The chairman reported that the committee had met on three occasions (Friday 6th April 2007 in Berlin, Friday 1st and 2nd of March 2008 in Budapest and on 18th of March in Amsterdam) had conducted most of its other business by E‑mail. 4) Treasurer's report. CAA has € 11.000 in the Dutch account and £ 2700 in the UK. There were 36 bursary applications of which 35 were eligible for funding. 7 applicants did not turn up. About € 11000 from central CAA funds was offered and about €9000 was used. 5) Election of officers.
Chair: Nick Ryan was nominated, agreed to stand and was re-elected unopposed.
Mercedes Farjas was nominated, agreed to stand and (in her absence) was elected unopposed as the new Membership Secretary. The following are ex-officio members of the Steering Committee for 2008-2009:
Geoff Avern (students & low income) 6) New Chapters The membership ratified the establishment of the Norwegian Chapter CAA 7) Membership. Membership is about 250.
AGM agreed (one vote abstained). The chairman thanked the CAA2008 organisers and staff for a very successful conference, the first in the central European region. 8) CAA 2009 Lisa Fisher presented the conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, 22-26 March 2009. The title of the conference will be Making History Interactive. There will be a welcome reception and a 18th century music concert. Visits to the historic towns of Williamsburg, Freetown and Yorktown will be offered. 9) CAA 2010 Just prior to the present meeting a bid from Marinos Ioannides from the Higher Technical Institute (HTI) in cooperation with the University of Cyprus (UCY) was delivered to the board of the CAA. The late arrival precluded any thorough evaluation of the bid, but on first inspection it seems not to fit in with the outspoken policy of CAA to keep the conference at as low a cost as possible. The Chair therefore proposes the membership to grant the board the freedom to
negotiate with the Cypriots for a more suitable venue or The membership accorded the proposal with 25 votes in favour, 0 against and 1 abstention. No bids have been presented for 2011 and beyond yet, although Norway is a strong candidate. 10) Publication of proceedings.
Report of the Publication Committee (Geoff Avern reported)
Geoff Avern Report of the Publications Subcommittee to the CAA Steering Committee, delivered at the AGM, CAA-Budapest, 5 April 2008. The Publications Subcommittee report to the Steering Committee that we conducted email discussions through the past year and the 4 members present at this year's conference in Budapest also met at the beginning of the week. It is the opinion of those 4 members that the issues and problems surrounding publication of the conference proceedings were, and are, too numerous and complex for a suite of solutions to be found within the 12 months life of a group such as ours. We feel that progress will be made by identifying, prioritising and picking off problems one by one, by someone with greater ownership of the tasks and whose role has continuity beyond that of the next conference/proceedings. Accordingly, 6 members of the Publications Subcommittee (one abstention, others who did not respond before the conference) were of the view that the single, simple recommendation which follows would be more likely to meet the approval of the members than any more detailed and complex proposals, while still constituting a significant and concrete step towards addressing the issues surrounding CAA publications. The recommendation we put before the Steering Committee is that a new permanent position be created on the Steering Committee (the title of the position might be Publications Officer or, in anticipation of wider responsibilities, Communications Officer) whose responsibilities should include; 1) Coordinating investigations into changes in the way CAA Conference Proceedings are published (and with the power to co-opt the assistance of other members), and 2) Being the primary point of contact between the Steering Committee and the Conference Organiser on matters pertaining to publication of the conference. 11) Any other business. None. The meeting closed at 17.15 p.m.
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