20160713 Board meeting

Agenda of the Board Meeting

Date: Wednesday, July 9th, 20.00-20.30pm
Place: UniverCité

Composition

Chair

• Luc as president

Excused

Vanessa Lorenzo

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)

BeerDeCoded

Update from Gianpaolo (5min)

Living Instruments

Update from Luc (5min)

• 1. LivingInstruments is part of the crowdfunding campaign We Spoke is running on wemakeit. Please spread the word!

Octanis

• Update from Sam (5min)
  

Point 2: Funding Applications

Loterie Romande

Luc has written complete application for the Loterie Romande. The deadline is on July 15th. It will be submitted on the 14th.

H2020

The Science Shops call was a bit of a scam.. No chance we could get it even with a lot of work and a good network. Given up.

Joint Outreach with SIB

Gianpaolo, Sam, Raphael, Marion and Luc had a Skype conversation with Marie-Claude Blatter

News from the Slovenian train?

Luc had a Skype conversation with Maja Sande (from http://kersnikova.org)

Others?

Luc has a list here, and will start writing emails as soon as Friday 10th of June if the board give a green light for all items.

Point 3: Future partnerships

Mike Horn pole2pole?

Gianpaolo and Luc have been in touch with Mike Horn PR people.

More details to be added in the future.

Point 4: Finance

Open budget

ADD results here

Point 5: Upcoming OpenHackuarium nights

It is important that we announce events and stick to the plan. We already discussed the issue at the last board meeting and little has been done.

Molecular Biology day/evening

Luc (3 min)

• WHEN? Let's book one OpenHackuarium in September.
• WHO? Luc+Gianpaolo+young researchers from neighbouring institutions. Let's make a list and contact them.
• 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)

BeerDeCoded + Bience

Gianpaolo (3 min)

• WHEN? OpenHackuarium #?
• WHO? Gianpaolo+Romain
• WHAT? Update on both projects

Others

Outdoor OpenHackuarium: Lakeside refuge, Beers, BBQ, etc.

Point 4bis: Other Events

Design Days

Save the date! The Design Days will take place on 29th September - 2nd October.

Patricia Lunghi who organises the event reached out to Luc to insist that Hackuarium should really be there at the next Design Days event.

Do we have projects that would fit in there? Can we think of 2-3 small projects to prepare over the summer and present?

Living Instruments could be one.

LoRa Wireless Workshop

• WHEN? 20/21 August
• WHO? Sam, Luc, ...

A document is currently being written. Work in progress, get in touch if you have an opinion.

Balloon Launch Party

• WHEN? 24th September
• WHO? Sam, ...

details following