Minutes of the General Business Meeting of the System
Dynamics Society
July 22, 2008 Athens, Greece
(Unapproved—Please
send corrections to the Society office.)
- Call to Order and Announcements
- President Jim Lyneis called the meeting to order at 8:20 am.
He reported that the Policy Council meeting had taken place on Sunday.
On behalf of the Society, he thanked David Packer and Deb Campbell for
their service as officers and retiring council members.
- The minutes of the previous meeting were approved.
- Officer Reports
- Standing in for the VP of Finance, Bob Eberlein reported
that to comply with Massachusetts law, we have changed to the accrual
method of accounting. We have moved employees to the U of Albany
payroll. The budget shows a slight surplus for 2009.
- Electronic Presence: (Bob Eberlein). We have added a
wiki.
- Members: (Agata Sawicka) Agata reported the change in
dues structure has had minimal effect on the number of members and the
revenues.
- Publications (Brian Dangerfield). The accepted backlog
to SDR is healthy. The will be a special issue on Information System
Dynamics. Manuscript central is a strong help. We now have Andreas Groessler
as a Notes and Insights Editor. We expect in many cases that models should
be uploaded with papers and now have a platform to accommodate this.
2008 could see that largest number of submissions to date.
- Meetings (Andreas Groessler). Andreas acknowledged great
work of the regional conferences. Next year’s conference will be in New Mexico. The 2010 conference will be in Korea. The 2011 conference will be in North America, and submissions will still be accepted. We have three interested parties
for 2012.
- Chapter Activities (Tim Haslett). Tim has been attempting
to make contact with chapters and to identify activities.
- At-Large/Strategy (Joel Rahn, injured).
- Executive Director (Roberta Spencer). Roberta reported
on activities in the five cost centers of conference, core, web, sales
and publications. Volunteer work is making it possible to put up all
conference proceedings on line. Jen Rowe is leaving for law school and
is training her replacement.
- Nominating Committee (Jim Lyneis). Starting in 2010, the
Nominating Committee will be looking for nominees for President, VP
Meetings, VP At-Large, and 4 Policy Council members.
i.
At the Winter meeting, we established an umbrella Awards Committee to
oversee other awards committees. We established a new awards subcommittee for
Community Service awards.
ii.
Organization and Bylaws – Plans to edit by-laws to bring them up to date
with changes that have been made through motions to date.
- Open Discussion
- Adjournment: at 9:56 pm.