20190821 Board Meeting

Board Meeting Agenda
August 21, 2019
Place: Hackuarium, Route de Crochy 20, CH-1024 Écublens, VD

Attendance

Chair

• Rachel

Present

Excused

• Anne-Laure (has a cold)
• ?Vanessa (in South Africa again still?)

Welcome (Rachel, 1 min)

• Public minutes

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

Point 1: Website updates

Yann (10min) Update on last meetings decisions/results:

in Slack, saw Jana will be helping with webtools! yay!

• ?Yann a envoié quelques tâches issues de Website à Olivier
• ? progrès - ils mettent tous les 2 en ligne la page temporaire à jour avant le 31 août

Point 2: Finance

see last meeting's notes (points 1 and 3)

• Factures to members from Masoud?
• payment program etc...
• tax free status?
• grant writing?

- volunteers to take the lead and/or help??

Point 3: Events

Special Event around Manon's exhibition for Lausanne Jardins, samedi 14h

Futur âge de pierre - perspectives de la biofabrication Eglise Saint-François Rencontre

Numerik Games, Neuchâtel, 30 août - 1er sept.

• stand for weekend, confirmed by Rachel to Marc and others, no ateliers
• volunteers to help?? (maybe only Saturday presence, if no-one else can make it, but it looks like a lot of fun!)

SciComm2019, Bienne 19-20sep

Rachel to talk about participative 'citizen sci' research, as a 'Speed Talk' 20 septembre (entre 11.00 et 12.30 heures) organised by the Stiftung Science et Cité theme 'I trust science, but...'

OpenFoodRepo DNA - workshop postponed, but Olivier is working on the data! yay!

• possible dates for next workshop for around Oct/November... maybe 2 November
• who is interested to participate?
• to help?
• an #OH presentation is proposed also, before the actual workshop event, but maybe a Monday or Tuesday, not Weds (? Olivier)

5 year party, 5 oct

see last meeting's notes

• volunteer for 'chef/fe de projet' ?
• budget (shalf?)
• T-shirt making (also see point 5 from last meeting)
• coffee cups?
• invites - event already announced in fb

Fête de la science, Ferney Voltaire, 12 oct.

Fête de la science 2019

• Rachel & Shalf plan to participate
• others?

UN event, citizen sci, 11 dec

[Citizen Science]

• Rachel & Shalf plan to participate
• others?

Point 4: Presences sociaux - Twitter etc

• volunteers to make more posts?
• Manon already offered to do the next newsletter - content needed!

Point 5: Lab projects

Rachel (5min)
updates on latest, from swarming bacteria to slime molds, and possibly via dentifrice efficacy (visitor expected today)!

• anyone else keen to help with the OpenFlexure scope and comets (cellules buccaux)?
• dreaming of a stagiaire? (we can advertise for your project!)
• more plans??
• minigrants?

Point N

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• Next board meeting