Board and General Assembly minutes from FraMCoS-5, Vail, CO, USA.
Minutes for the IA-FramCoS Board of Director Meeting at Vail, Colorado During the conference at Vail, two separate board meetings were held. The first meeting was attended by the Board of Directors and the FraMCoS-5 organizers, while the second meeting was attended by the Board of Directors and the Advisory Board members. The minutes for the 2 meetings are given separately below: First Meeting Date: April 11, 2004 Attendees: Victor C. Li (VL), President Alberto Carpinteri (AC), President Elect Christopher Leung (CL), Secretary Hemlin Jennings (HJ), on behalf of Zdenek Bazant, Treasurer Kasper Willam (KW) and Sarah Billington (SB), on behalf of the FraMCoS-5 organizing committee Apology: Rene de Borst, Past President Remarks on the Organization of FramCoS-5 KW reported that the total revenues received from registration were around $60,000 after paying administrative fees to the University of Colorado. In addition, a total support of $23,000 had been committed by various organizations. This included a sum of $15,000 from NSF, which was dedicated to the Interface Workshop on April 16. The estimated expenditures for the conference were around $59,000, so the budget was rather tight. KW mentioned that the $380 registration fee had been determined 2 years ago when the US dollar was very strong. In hindsight, this seemed a bit low. For the next FraMCoS conference, it might be possible to increase the registration fee a little bit to put us in a better financial condition. 250 copies of the 2-Volume Proceedings had been published. After the conference, remaining copies would be sold for $80 per copies, including shipping. Several months later, unsold copies would be donated to libraries. According to VL, the publisher (American Concrete Institute) had misquoted quoted a the very favorable price when signing the agreement with us to publish the Proceedingswith ACI contributing to some cost of having the proceedings published. To have Proceedings of similar quality for FraMCoS6, we should expect the cost to be higher.