General Assembly 2019-02-27

Agenda of the General Assembly

Date: Mercredi 27 fév 2019, 19h30-21h30
Date: Wednesday, February 27 2019, 19.30-21.30

Lieu/Place: Route de Crochy 20, 1024 Ecublens

Pour rappel, les status de l'association Hackuarium sont disponibles ici.
As a reminder, the status of the Hackuarium association can be found here (in French only).

Note: Cette assemblée générale sera tenue principalement en français si la majorité des membres présents n'y voit pas d'inconvénient. Tout membre est libre de parler dans sa langue de prédilection, sachant que la majorité parle français et anglais. La documentation ci-dessous est en anglais pour permettre aux participants qui ne parleraient pas le français de prendre connaissance des sujet. Si vous ne parlez pas l'anglais, n'hésitez-pas à demander une traduction de cet agenda au comité de l'association. Nous nous efforceront de répondre aux requêtes, dans la mesure de nos moyens.

Notice: This General Assembly will be mostly held in French, as long as the majority of members feels comfortable with it. If you do not speak any French, the following document contains all points at the agenda. If you have any question, please contact the committee.

Composition

Chair

• Rachel as president

Items

Welcome address

(Rachel, 2 min)

Summary of the past year's activities

(Rachel, 20 min)

Approval of Financial Statement and Board Discharge

Financial statement

(Masoud, 10 min)

Board Discharge

The composition of the board since the last general assembly (February 2018) was as follows:

• Président (also Biosecurity officer): Rachel Aronoff
• Secretary and Treasurer: Luc Henry (through July 2018)
• Lab Manager: Gustavo Santa Maria
• Responsable communication (also Deputy Biosecurity officer and 'shadow secretary'): Olivier Emery
• System Administrator: Sam Sulaimanov
• Responsable Art et Design: Vanessa Lorenzo
• 'Shadow Treasurer': Masoud Alipour (to take over when Luc leaves board)
• Evangéliste - Daniel Hernandez
• Talent scout and evangelist for Academy: Anne-Laure Pittet
• Talent scout and evangelist for Entrepreneurs: Gianpaolo Rando

• Anne-Laure and Eric were chosen as accounts verifiers.

shadow positions took over officially in August 2018. Also, Sam and Gustavo resigned from the board in Fall 2018.

General updates

Status of Hackuarium in the 'Espace Créateur' of the new cooperative

(Rachel 5min)

Election: Board

(Rachel, 15 min)

Renewals

All board member positions are up for election.
Please contact any of the current board members, if you would like to be a candidate.

The roles of committee members are described in board meeting.

New members and onboarding

• How to join?

- write to hello@hackuarium.ch 

- read this page about joining 

- fill in form from website 

- pay monthly fee (20 CHF per month) 

- ask for a card

• New members?

Anyone willing to join now? Go talk to Vanessa Lorenzo and Rachel Aronoff

Update Projects

Any project that wish to present an update should do so at this point. (opportunity for team formation?)