NGSLT Board Meeting, 18th May, 2006

			 NGSLT Board Meeting
			    18th May, 2006
		      13.00-15.00 (Swedish time)

		     http://meetme.it.gu.se:8000
		  
Present: Robin Cooper, Kimmo Koskenniemi, Mare Koit, Eiríkur
Rögnvaldsson, Ola Björklund, Inguna Skadina, Hanna Westerlund, Pavel
Skrelin, Vera Evdokimova, Ruta Marcinkeviciene.

formalia
     
     Robin opened the meeting.  It was decided that he and Ola would
     be secretary.

information
     
     Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi has taken over administrative duties in
     Göteborg from Ylva Hård av Segerstad.

minutes of last meeting
     
     Action (Göteborg): Inguna Skadina should be added to the list of
     those present at the meeting.
     
     Action (Göteborg): We should check again whether Kristoffer
     Johannisson has been added to the alumni list and mailing list.


student issues 
     
     No issues were raised

budget issues 
     
     Ola gave a report on the current state of the budget.  We are
     spending more than last year but given that we had money carried over
     from last year there is no need to economize.

     Robin gave a report on the current state of our discussion with
     NordForsk concerning the use of our money to pay for teaching by
     teachers from the NGSLT countries.  We are hoping for a positive response.

courses 
     
     We discussed ways of making sure that courses are distributed
     over the various countries involved in the school and
     organization of the wiki page
     http://ngslt.org/wiki/view/Main/CoursePlanning .
     
     Action (all): collect descriptions (or links to) existing courses
     at participating universities on wiki page - explaining how the
     credit system works
       
     We discussed the possibility of having several courses
     (e.g. summer school) over a period of two-three weeks and decided
     that this could be a good idea.
       
     Action (Robin):  put a preliminary schedule for course
     responsibility on the wiki up to the end of the current funding
     and invite reactions from the rest of the board.
    
reports from working groups
     
     LT curriculum (Kimmo)
     Electronic LT Literature (Robin)

     Robin and Kimmo presented what has been added to the working
     group wiki pages but there has been very little activity.  All
     are encouraged to participate.


information on LT in participating countries

     NWRussia's account is revised.  
     
     Action (Göteborg): Check with Denmark and Norway and link the
    accounts from the main pages.


new working group on LT terminology 

     Kimmo presented this new group with home page:
     http://forums.csc.fi/kitwiki/pilot/view/KitWiki/Resources/CategoryTerm
     
     Action (all): check available resources (term lists) and sources
     of national funding to support this work

progress report on Northern European Association for LT
	     (including journal) 

     Kimmo reported on progress towards founding the association.  Its
     constitution is to be found at
     http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~koskenni/nodali/association/constitution.shtml
     The association may be established during the summer.


role of an advisory board, involvement of industry 
      
      While the board appreciates the value of this, it was felt that
      it is not a high priority at the moment given our other
      activities.

date of next meeting 
      
      30th Oct in Göteborg. There is a planned Swedish national LT
      conference 27th-28th Oct in Göteborg.  The possibility of
      launching NEALT at this conference was discussed.  It might
      require a half to 1 hour slot in the programme.

      Action (Robin): contact Martin Volk.

      It was also noted that 25th-26th May 2007 is the date for the
      next Nodalida conference in Tartu and it was decided that we
      should plan board meeting in association with this.

any other business

      No other business.