Minutes of the Open General Meeting of the BCTCS

• Alan Gibbons (Warwick) presented the Chairman's report.

• It was reported that as a result of the profit made from BCTCS 11 at Swansea, there was now a balance of approximately 3000 pounds in the BCTCS account. A brief discussion took place concerning how this might be best used. One possibility that emerged was to use some of this to defray part of the expenses of non-EPSRC-funded research students, who are not eligible to receive such support via EPSRC.

• Election of Treasurer: Chris Tofts (Leeds) (proposed: Paul Dunne; seconded: Julian Bradfield) was the only candidate put forward and was elected to the position of Treasurer (nem. con.).

• The meeting passed a formal vote of thanks to Iain Stewart in recognition of his work in consolidating the accounts for BCTCS.

• Subscriptions to EATCS: Simon Thompson (UKC) reported on the difficulties that the recent increase in EATCS subscription rates had created, one consequence of which was that the full registration fee for the meeting had risen above 200 pounds. It was agreed that the practice of continuing to use part of the registration fee to cover EATCS subscription should be continued. The possibility of negotiating with EATCS to see if a reduced rate could be agreed for a guaranteed block of subscriptions each year was raised and will be investigated.

• Chris Tofts reported on the position regarding BCTCS World Wide Web pages.

Minutes of the Organising Committee Meeting of the BCTCS

Present: Alan Gibbons (Chair, Liverpool); Paul Dunne (Secretary, Liverpool); Chris Tofts (Treasurer, Leeds); John Stell (Keele); Julian Bradfield (Edinburgh); Simon Thompson (Local organiser: UKC)

• It was agreed that a draft formal constitution for the BCTCS be prepared for discussion at BCTCS 13 at Sheffield in 1997. It was noted that it will be necessary to have something of this nature if, for example, any serious attempts are to be made to have the colloquium accorded charitable status. Alan Gibbons and Paul Dunne agreed to undertake the initial drafting of this and will liaise with the other members of the committee prior to putting this to the General Meeting in 1997.

• Choice of Host site for BCTCS 14 in 1998: Simon Thompson reported that, subject to final confirmation (locally), the University of St. Andrews have agreed to act as the host site for BCTCS 14 in 1998.

• There was a brief discussion of possible invited speakers to approach for BCTCS 13. In the course of this, it was recognised that it would be useful to have a definitive list of previous invited speakers produced. Paul Dunne agreed to investigate constructing such a list and to forward information concerning suggested speakers to Mike Holcombe (Local organiser, Sheffield).