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+title: "Scala Center Advisory Board and SIP Meeting Results"
+by: Seth Tisue
+---
+
+Brief summaries of both meetings follow, with links to
+more details.
+
+## Scala Center Advisory Board
+
+On November 30, the Scala Center Advisory Board had their
+quarterly meeting.
+
+The board has two new members: Morgan Stanley, and an additional
+community representative, Lars Hupel.
+
+Scala Center activities for the past quarter included progress on the
+MOOCs, Scalafix, scalajs-bundler, SIPs, the new Scala Platform
+Process, Spores, Scala Native, Scastie, Scaladex, hackathons, and a
+new code of conduct.
+
+The following proposals were voted on and adopted:
+
+* SCP-007: Collaborative redesign and implementation of Scala 2.13's collections library
+* SCP-008: Maintain scala-lang, docs.scala-lang, scala.epfl.ch websites
+* SCP-009: Improve user experience for builds that use only direct dependencies
+
+For more details, see the
+[archive of minutes](https://scala.epfl.ch/records.html) on the Scala
+Center website.
+
+## Scala Improvement Process (SIP) Committee
+
+On October 25, the SIP committee had its monthly meeting.
+
+There were procedural issues with the previous vote on SIP-27
+(Trailing commas), proposed by Dale Wijnand.  That vote was canceled
+and the committee agreed on clarified voting rules.  A new vote on
+SIP-27 was held under the new rules, and the proposal was accepted,
+pending a final round of changes by Dale.
+
+Also discussed was SIP-20 (Improved lazy val initialization),
+proposed by Dmitry Petrashko and others.  The proposal was
+marked as dormant, since it has only been implemented in Dotty.
+A volunteer is needed to implement it in the main Scala compiler.
+
+For more details, see the
+[archive of minutes](http://docs.scala-lang.org/sips/minutes-list.html)
+on the SIP page.