Scala meeting summary: Dec-Jan 2011-2012

I apologize for having neglected the weekly reports. Here's a summary of what's been happening since the last meeting report summary.
Since the report is a bit long, I published it rather than including it inline: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uHwCuP4kUZC5-h6lma_lVlXWBQ3CDwbjHeIonEnP3bI/edit
(I think you'll find most of this has been discussed on scala-internals already.)

if you'd like to continue the discussions in the report, please start a new thread per topic
cheersadriaan