Hi Jeanette and all, It is indeed time for the board to move forward in selecting its officers. It is unfortunate this has not happened earlier. This is one of the reasons I think it would be a bad idea to wait longer. I am with Nick that there needs to be a teleconference at the earliest convenience of the board members. Postponing that to a face to face meeting, where possibly only some of the board members and/or ALSes will be able to attend, is not a good idea, IMHO. My personal opinion on the role of the board is that it can only be coordinative at this stage. An initializing role would require more investment in time and energy from the board members. My feeling is that people have other priorities right now and cannot afford to spend much time on the Euralo, if the past two months are any indication. As to the work plan, I guess this is mostly driven by the ALAC agenda. I suggest our representatives to the ALAC draft a detailed plan of which issues are at hand, deadlines for position statements, etc. In order to avoid having only the opinion of the 6 or 7 people participating in this list, I also suggest to use an online polling system to identify the opinon of ALSes. Best Patrick