Agenda of the Board Meeting

Date: Tuesday, March 19th, 19.30-21.30pm
Place: UniverCité

Composition

Chair

Luc as president

Present

Excused

Items

Welcome address

(Luc, 2 min)

Point 0: public minutes

(Luc, 1 min)

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

Point 1: Projects updates

It is important that every board member stays up to date with all main projects. Add link when relevant.

P1 implementation

Update from Yann P. (5min)

More on the page dedicated to the Work in progress. Can we update the timeline? More realistic to imagine the lab could be ready in late May, and experiments start in June.

List of minimal requirements <- Yann we still need this! Is this table (814.912 Ordinance of 9 May 2012 on Handling Organisms in Contained Systems (Containment Ordinance, ContainO), Annex 4.2.1) what we are looking for? In which case there is almost no requirement..

Training?

Space setup ideas

Where we place it
Size of it
Cost
Full lab rearrangement

Space requirements

Material disposition
What goes in: Final decision for a first iteration

Plan for gathering equipment

When do we set this in motion, whom do we ask

Plan for first procedure standardization

Define the first activities we want to allow, make a procedure for it

The message

Consistency of what we all say
Who is going to access the lab
Don't promise anything we don't have yet

Timeline, validation, task dispatch

Contact the OFSP and OFEV for questions regarding autorisations and BSO (or any other organism)(Luc ?)
RFID setup (Sam )
Monitoring (Computer and log) (Sam )
Storage room remodeling (Yann +)
Contacting the benefactors (Yann +)
Software, procedures (Randow ?)

BeerDeCoded

Update from Gianpaolo (5min)

Living Instruments

Update from Luc and Vanessa (5min)

Octanis

Update from Sam (5min)

Point 2: Results of the poll

The results of the poll for 24 Hackuarium members are available here.

How can we build on the comments below?

The following improvement were suggested for UniverCité:

Better communication for the upcoming events
Better wifi
Better video projector/sound system
Bicycle rack outside/inside

The following improvement were suggested for Hackuarium:

Better communication for the upcoming events
Physical board for pictures of all members
Check-in system to easily know if someone is in the lab
P1 lab
Coat rack
Real freezer (whatever that means)
Lab cleaning days (at least the fridge) (lab or kitchen)
Some working space other than benches/more tables to work on, with plugs.
Big white board (we now have 2 sitting somewhere.. need to be hang on the walls.. anyone?)

We need a reminder of the goals of the association and that of DIY biology and biohacking. Luc can do an introduction again at some point (schedule in upcoming events).

Point 3: Finance

Some details about finance

Accountants: we need two people to check the account. Ana said she can help. We need someone external.
Invoice mechanism: centralised is better. -> { Note from Sam: please check smallinvoice.ch (we used this for companies and associations...) }
Fundraising: Luc is happy to take this responsibility but needs green light from board/community to look for funding.

Web addresses

Do we want to keep the .com and .org extensions?

Received by email:

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Point 4: Upcoming OpenHackuarium nights

OpenHackuarium dates:
May 4, 11, 18, 25
June 1 (#100!), 8 ,15, 22, 29
July 6, 13, 20, 27

Already planned

Yann P, can you give us an overview of what is cooking?

Hackuarium, an introduction to DIY biology and biohacking

Luc (3 min)

WHEN?

- OpenHackuarium #92 or #96

WHO?

- Luc

WHAT?

- Discussion around the goals and philosophy of Hackuarium with the community.

Molecular Biology day/evening

Luc (3 min)

WHEN?

- OpenHackuarium #97

WHO?

- Luc+Gianpaolo+young researchers from neighbouring institutions?

WHAT?

- Discussion around the state of the art as well as basic mol biol technologies.

Topics to be included in the discussion:

DNA (5 min introduction)
Genes (5 min introduction)
GM (how it is applied in bacteria, years, cells, animal, plants)
CRISPR (5 min introduction to the technique, and why it's hype)
Biotech (5 min on why all this is relevant)

Point 4bis: Other Events

Arduino Day

Anne-Laure (3 min)

WHEN?

- Saturday April 2nd 2016

WHO?

- Sasha Iatsenia <s.iatsenia@gmail.com> from Fixme - Anyone at Hackuarium?

WHAT?

- see pad

Octanis day?

Sam (3 min)

When is the balloon launch? Would that be a possibility?

Proposing this workshop: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-oCmXrBP-YPob2u6isEAt-A241HukIh3uVDQEFETNo/edit?usp=sharing

Darty Monkeys day?

Vanesa (3 min)

Invitation to the NCCR Chemical Biology

Yann P. (3min)

Invite the NCCR at Hackuarium to participate to talks and debates.

WHEN?

- End of 2016

WHO?

- Was proposed from Pheadra Simistek (direct organiser of NCCR events)

WHAT?

- Invite the best biohackers to give presentations and further explain our purpose to academics.

-> Yann starts a Google doc and ask for everyone's contribution (add link here).

ANY NEWS FROM THIS?

DIYbio annual meeting

Luc H. (3min)

Good for the community. Great people around who we should meet (again). October? November? Lorentz Workshop?

Science Hackathon