20190508 Board Meeting

Agenda of the Board Meeting

Date: Wednesday, May 8th, 18.30-19.30pm
Place: Hackuarium, Route de Crochy 20, CH-1024 Écublens, VD

Attendance

Chair

• Rachel

Present

• Joël
• Esther
• Christelle B (awaiting biolum!)
• Masoud

Excused

• Yann

Welcome (Rachel as President, 1 min)

• Public minutes

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

Objections?

Point 1: Lab Logistics, Planning

(Rachel, 5 min)

• Visit of Lab by Bern representative, morning of 6 June
  

Who can help for this? Cleaning, Inventory etc. 15may first round of inventory!

• Key Cards (have some for distribution - 50chf per card, 25 for reimb upon return, 15 for coop, 10 for us)

• Controlled Access to BioLab (sorted! key accessible with code from locked file cabinet for trained users)

• Projects and Space
  • • (Rack!?, Biolum, more??)

• • • Mural Project

who is interested to contribute to this? Needs:

artistic inspiration for official 'enseigne' commune approval paint/brushes/ladder/tape (grid for enlarging original design you!?

Proposal for decision and/or volunteers to help

Vote result and/or next steps agreed upon

Point 2: Treasurer's Report

(Masoud, 10 min)

• status of member abonnements and old debts (i.e Nebuleuse, SwissMotionTech, LemanMake)
• old debts and requirement for invoices for cotisations in general.
  • status for facturation system??

Proposal for decision and/or help needed

Vote result and/or next steps agreed upon

Point 3: Events ahead

Rapport de Joël sur communication avec USL (Anne-Claude Stüder), bibliotech (Isabelle Hirschi) - potentiellement super! Is trying also for the guy (M Nicod) about the Semaine de la Santé (end of october)
Need to point lab warming info towards newsletter, not website!

• Pendaison de crémaillère: Me 12 juin 2019 DÈS 18h, envoyer annonce avant le 3 mai pour parution journal Ecublens le 3 juin.

     Planning for the evening: 

         project demos:  living instruments, foldscopes?  

        easy gallium modelling?  Maurice chemistry demos (tornado and?) . 

         how to organise, to have sign ups or wandering people (10min each demo and moving around)?? (official notice!?) 

• Micronuclei workshop: samedi 18mai 2019 14h-17h
• Information Urban Gardens Round 2: #Open Hackuarium, 22mai
• Octobre : Grosse fête des 5 ans (info 30 août à journal locale pour parution 1 oct). date: 5 octobre

Point 4: Fund Raising

• grant apps
• T-shirts/Totebags
• other?

Who is ready to commit to help and write? (for instance, for funding for the 5 year party, 5oct19, so we have a budget to invite biohackers to run ateliers!)

Point 5: Unfinished business

Things that will be taken care of before/after the meeting... Aka the things we just need updates on, i.e. if it has been (self-)assigned to someone, documented here, and a deadline set up and shared if needed.

The PV for the General Assembly with new Board Members...
The question of whether our Association can be considered to have 'utility public'
The Urban Garden project with Pea Plant Symbiosis - wiki pages need updates
The Bioluminescence project - wiki page in progress

Other Business

• Wiki account spamming problem!

Masoud has seen hundreds of new accounts! Rachel asked Yann to look into it. Any controls possible??

• OpenHackuarium Events - with 5 years approaching, and the big break with the move, should we drop the numbers officially?

Vote

• Wiki Hackathon!! when??

Vote

• Récurrence prochains Board Meetings - d'ordinaire le 2e mercredi de chaque mois - excepte pour la réunion prochaine, le 5 juin, 18h30-19h30, pour préparer pour la pendaison de crémaillère le 12 juin.