20160609 Board meeting

Agenda of the Board Meeting

Date: Thursday, June 9th, 20.00-21.30pm
Place: UniverCité

Composition

Chair

• Luc as president

Items

Welcome address

(Luc, 2 min)

Point 0: public minutes

(Luc, 1 min)

Get ok from all board members to upload minutes on wiki (or else discuss alternative below)

Objections?

Point 1: Projects updates

It is important that every board member stays up to date with all main projects. Add link when relevant.

P1 implementation

Update from Yann P. (5min)

• Cost estimations for running the lab
• Setup
• Operation Wipe Out

BeerDeCoded

Update from Gianpaolo (5min)

MC plans?

Living Instruments

Update from Luc (5min)

Living instrument will be featured as part of a contemporary music summer school, the 48th International Summer Course for New Music will take place in Darmstadt from 29 July to 14 August 2016.

Serge also submitted a funding application to carry on the work in London, in collaboration with UCL researchers and local artists.

More to come hopefully.

Octanis

Update from Sam (5min)

Point 2: Funding Applications

H2020

The European Commission has opened a call for projects involving Science Shops. More information in this document. The original call can be found here.

Hackuarium could be a potential candidate if we can build strong partnership with UNIL and EPFL. Luc is working on it, but if anyone is interested in helping, please come forward. It will be a lot of work.

Genewiz

Application to this "Nominate your startup lab to win a $5,000 credit of GENEWIZ Services" competition?

Disclosure here.

Joint Outreach with SIB

Gianpaolo to meet the SIB outreach team the day before.

News from the Slovenian train?

No news since April 1st. Luc just sent an email to Maja Sande (from http://kersnikova.org) to see if there is any update available. Initial contact was from Kristijan Tkalec (http://biotehna.org).

Others?

Luc has a list here, and will start writing emails as soon as Friday 10th of June if the board give a green light for all items.

Point 5: Upcoming OpenHackuarium nights

It is important that we announce events and stick to the plan. We already discussed the issue at the last board meeting and little has been done.

Already planned

Yann P, can you give us an overview of what is cooking?

• No idea... Anne-Laure any plans ? You're the event "coordinator" / organizer

Molecular Biology day/evening

Luc (3 min)

• WHEN? OpenHackuarium ?
• WHO? Luc+Gianpaolo+young researchers from neighbouring institutions?
• WHAT? Discussion around the state of the art as well as basic mol biol technologies.

Topics to be included in the discussion:

• DNA (5 min introduction)
• Genes (5 min introduction)
• GM (how it is applied in bacteria, years, cells, animal, plants)
• CRISPR (5 min introduction to the technique, and why it's hype)
• Biotech (5 min on why all this is relevant)

BeerDeCoded + Bience

Gianpaolo (3 min)

• WHEN? OpenHackuarium #?
• WHO? Gianpaolo+Romain
• WHAT? Update on both projects

Point 4bis: Other Events

Design Days

Save the date! [www.designdays.ch Design Days] will take place on 29th September - 2nd October.

Patricia Lunghi who organises the event reached out to Luc to insist that Hackuarium should really be there at the next Design Days event.

Do we have projects that would fit in there? Can we think of 2-3 small projects to prepare over the summer and present?

Living Instruments could be one.

Science Hackathon

Luc H. (3min)

• WHEN? Beginning of 18-20th November
• WHO? Luc, together with a team of people from outside Hackuarium
• WHAT? With this Science Hackathon event, we want to bring together scientists (as well as non-scientists) from western Switzerland (and beyond) over the course of three days, to foster collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas and generate solutions to research problems, both in experimental design and tools.

More information here

LoRa Wireless Workshop

• WHEN? 20/21 August
• WHO? Sam, ...

details following

Balloon Launch Party

• WHEN? September
• WHO? Sam, ...

details following

Diverse

Lockers

OK to give away keys until there are none left.

Business Cards

Anne-Laure (3 min)

What is the progress here?