Re: The BAA and new BCS membership requirements

gladeyed <crossley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:a37e4f6c-8edd-4773-829e-
13e5c1ca7ebf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [... deleted ...]  Indeed I think I am correct in saying that the 
financial
> benefit has been in favour of the BCS resulting from the BAA's very
> successful Manchester conference.[... deleted ...]

I'd just like to clarify for the record.

It is extremely unlikely that the 1986 conference would have happened in 
the form that it did if the BAA had not been a BCS Specialist Group.  We 
should give credit to Philip Goacher and Mel Chapman for making it happen 
and being the financial success that it was.

The fund balance generated has - so far as I am aware - remained for the 
British APL Association to spend in furtherance of its goals.

Of course, that's all twenty years in the past, and the arguments that
held 
sway at that time may not be valid today.