Dear Geoff,

I hope that you son will recover soon from his 
high feaver! 
The teleconf went well. The main points which were
discussed are given below in my scattered notes. 
Al feel free to correct any mistakes and misunderstandings!

The previous minutes were accepted without changes. 

The Status Report: Bob Brown reported that there
are real drafts for plan construction and ALMA Agreement
whihc will be read for the ACC meeting in Venice in April.
Some points have to be cleared out but all looks OK. 
The project plan is sensible with tasks well divided
and the funding scehdule will be met. 

Dick Kurz mentioned upcoming meeting: a Correlator meeting
(26/27 march in Garching) with participation from EU (Baudry
and Boss), N.A. and Japan. There will be an ALMA week end of
April (inj Grenada) with various splinter sessions and PDRs. Such 
clustered meetings will be planned twice a year to avoid unnecessary
travels. The schedule of the Grenada meeting (Jaap Baars is in charge)
will be send around within a week. 


The second point on the agenda was a discussion on the
agenda of the upcoming face-to-face meeting. The agenda
was briefly discussed. I suggested to add `Science Operations
Center' after the more general software issues (cf ties with
the RSC). Otherwise the agenda was accepted as such. 
WE note that we do not have many volunteers for the panel
discussion during the Science Day. To my knowledge only
Ewine replied positively. Some ASAC members will not attend 
(C. Wilson, A. Benz). It would be good to have a list of 
those attending by the way! 
J. Richer asked a question if we should rediscuss the
`Incentives' issue which was raised by Bob Brown during
the Chili face-to-face meeting. The response was that we
already discussed this in some detail in Chile. There
was no particular need or urgency to bring this up in
Tokyo. We agreed to have documents/reports ready before
the face-to-face meeting on: Receivers (Wolfgang), AIPS++
test results (Stephane) and operations (Neal and the operations
working group). These will be semd by the middle of next 
week. Other relevant material and documents will be made
available by Al and documents relevant to progress in Japan 
will also be made available before the meeting. 

Al read the ASAC Charge whcih describes the relations between
the ACC and the ASAC. We noted that`Project Scientist' was
in singular. This reflects the fact that it was discussed
at the same time as the Management Plan (where the PS is head 
of the Science IPT). Currently, Stephane is the PS. .

Finally the next teleconference is planned for April 3. 

Best regards,

Pierre