20170607 Board Meeting

Agenda of the Board Meeting

Date: Wednesday, June 7th, 19.30-21.30pm
Place: UniverCité, 3rd floor meeting room

Composition

Chairpeople

• Vanessa & Rachel

Present

• Vanessa
• Rachel
• Gianpaolo

Excused

• Luc
• Yann Heurtaux
• Yann Pierson
• Daniel
• Sam

Items

@Hello Board

(Vanessa, 1 min)

Point 0: Public minutes

(Rachel, 1 min)

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

Objections?

Point 1: Urgent matter - Moving into the New space

Practical Questions

Is the date confirmed? 24-25 June?
RA asked Christophe for confirmation - 2nd floor still very bare yesterday...

Move: Action plan

• Moving team

How did it work for the move down to the 1st floor?

Who will be 'lead' member, to contact everyone and make sure we have enough people?

From EGA sign up list: Gianpaolo, Anne-Laure, Océane, Olivier Emery, Rachel and Vanessa, said they could help during the moving weekend (24-25th June? - RA asked Christophe for confirmation)

• Brief Design of the Space: plan to date, group adjustments

• New stuff: Racks? Sofa?

Luc: I suggest we do not get any new stuff (furniture) before we move (and test the space for at least 2 months).

Inauguration

• Day-long UC event 27 June. Who is signed up?
  
• Tidy up, participative hacks and show off. (visitors!)
  

• Hackuarium special event seems like a good idea??

Point 2: Crowdfunding campaign

(Vanessa, 15 min)

UC Interactions

• Upcoming Meeting between Benoit and Luc
  • items for discussion
  • outcome(s) desired

Treasurer's report

Ana (5 min)

Working groups

Decide on precise timeline and responsibilities NOW!

Then give tasks to working groups.
from EGA sign up list: Ana, Adrian, Olivier, and Rachel were only ones who signed on for campaign specifically.
Gianpaolo, Vanessa, Rachel and Adrian said they would help with communication.
Ana, Sam, Olivier, Vanessa and Rachel said they would help with perks.
Who else is willing to do what ???
What else should happen when Luc meets Benoit?

• Storytellers (STELL)
  • you?
• Communication (COMMS)
  • you?
• Reward designers (RWD)
  • you?
• Cash-Flow Team (CASH)
  • you?
• Logistics (LOG)
  • you?
• More...?

Notes on Workshopology

• Each "Workshop Leader" is responsible of the team planning, budget (costs and pricing), materials, participants.
• So far, response from the future "workshopology board":
  
  • Oceane Patiny, Luc Patiny, Olivier Emery, Gustavo Santamaria, Rachel Aronoff, Roger Erismann, Vanessa Lorenzo, Sam Sulaimanov.
    
  • Needs to be broken down by topic.
  • Best would be to have 2 workshops a month for the 6 months of the winter (October-March) -> 12 dates (each workshop can happen twice -> 6 workshops.

Other Business

Biofabbing Convergence: Update

(Vanessa, 2 min)

• Big thank you and... future "business"???:
  
  • Khardana School, Nepal. Contact and funding.
    
  • MIT event, Boston. Contact and funding.
    
  • | DIY Fair-Play important notes here, EU, funding and more
    
  • Hackuarium lab microfuge
    

Steiner School visit

(Rachel, 1 min)

• Big thank yous to Vanessa, Gustavo, Dan, and Marc W for the successful visit 22 May!
• Wiki with info: http://wiki.hackuarium.ch/w/Foldscope#Steiner_School_Student_visit

Mozilla Mini-Science Grant

(Rachel 1 min)

• Application in for project: Personally Tracking Levels of DNA Damage for Citizen Science
  

Budget especially for making and testing the fluorescence Foldscopes and getting ready for Cheek Cell Data
Workshops for November 2017, and February 2018, with big week-long workshop for March 2018, in plan.
Announcement expected end of the month (unlikely to be awarded, but positive feedback already about project)...

Lab Visitor Tally List

(Rachel 1 min)

• Spreadsheet for keeping track of lab visitors, esp large touring groups who want 'open lab' spiel...

This idea can also help document our 'added value' for UC.
Please 'bookmark' this spreadsheet in your devices (get link from Board slack), and fill it in when people come to lab!

Montreux Clean Beach Project 3

(Rachel 1 min)

• water sampling for microbial analyses beginning!

Monday 'data collection,' sampling, and plating, Tuesday/Weds scoring 12June-3 August
Help is welcome!

Future activities

• events, funding, fun?
• you?