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 meetings notes (point 3)
- Factures to members from Masoud?
- payment program etc...
- tax free status?
- grant writing?
- volunteers to take the lead 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.
- Rachel & Shalf plan to participate
- others?
UN event, citizen sci, 11 dec
- Rachel & Shalf plan to participate
- others?
Presences sociaux - Twitter etc
- volunteers to make more posts?
- Manon already offered to do the next newsletter - content needed!
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?
- more plans??
Point N
?
- Next board meeting