20160713 Board meeting
Agenda of the Board Meeting
Date: Wednesday, July 13th, 20.00-20.30pm
Place: UniverCité
Composition
Chair
- Luc as president
Present
- Anne-Laure
- Yann Pierson
- Sam
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.
Hackarium as a part of UniverCité
Problems of communication and security being raised, needs to be solved
- Question from Yann: What about Swiss decode usage of Hackuarium labspace? Can you comment on that ?
The relationship with MC startup needs to be clarify. Luc will document how they interact with Hackuarium and use the space.
P1 implementation
Update from Yann P. (5min)
- Wall request to JP (price & time) No answer yet
- Material acquired, will still need some instruments and freezers but the main part is there
- Budget estimation was made for a first lab fitting
- Sashiko and I are registered for the BSO course on September
- More ?
BeerDeCoded
Update from Gianpaolo (5min)
QC if finished - 30 good samples out of 96.
Possible cause: dirty DNA - the facility found bad 230/260 ratios. It would be easier to have a nanodrop in house.
Next steps: Nicolas is preparing the documentation and would like to repeat the PCR once more. If not successful we will ask our backers what to do: i.e. sequence the 30 beers OR keep trying for x months.
SwissDeCode develops DNA kits on-demand, main focus is food industry.
Possible future implications for the Hackuarium labspace & community:
- Production of open-source kits for the Bento Lab (currently in discussion with Bento.bio)
- Prototyping of other kit concepts during the MC competition
- Exposure and visibility to SwissDeCode's partners & customers visiting MC
Living Instruments
Update from Luc (5min)
- Living Instruments is part of the crowdfunding campaign We Spoke is running on wemakeit. Please spread the word!
Octanis
- Update from Sam (5min)
Other projects
- Owl outing Friday
- Owl work Thursday, see tasks: http://wiki.hackuarium.ch/w/Octanis
Point 2: Funding Applications
Loterie Romande
Luc has submitted the application for the Loterie Romande.
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.
Next meeting tomorrow afternoon.
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.
Already planned
- 2016.08.03 Wednesday 19:30-22:00: Openhackuarium vol. 109 Presentation of Atelier6 (Renens) and PatchWork (Lausanne) creative communities. --> Gianpaolo
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? Tentatively OpenHackuarium #109
- WHO? Gianpaolo (confirmed)+Romain(tbc)
- WHAT? Update on both projects, brainstorming with Patchwork community
Others
- Outdoor OpenHackuarium: Lakeside refuge, Beers, BBQ, etc.
- Machine learning for image recognition. A friend of mine (Yann) wants to present and bring a concrete case where we can show how with a RasPi we can differentiate things. A useful tech if for ex we want to look at wastes sorting.
Point 4bis: Other Events
CERN Webfest
- WHEN? 29th-31st of July, more details about it at : https://cern.ch/webfest
- WHO? Mohanty is looking at the possibility of having a workshop around BioHacking at the CERN Webfest this year. If you want to go, contact him by email spmohanty91(at)gmail.com
LoRa Wireless Workshop
- WHEN? 20/21 August
- WHO? Sam
A document is currently being written. Work in progress, get in touch if you have an opinion.
Design Days
- WHEN? 29th September - 2nd October. Save the date!
Patricia Lunghi who organises the Design Days 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.
- Could we implement what Vane did for her masters on this level ?
- Can make agar plates this time with real motives ? We got the hood now it could be easier?
- Urs G. once showed me how you could make move micro organisms with current why not trying to reproduce this as an "interactive" project...
- Cell-fie ?
Balloon Launch Party
- WHEN? 24th September
- WHO? Sam, ...
details following
Diverse
Building level communication: Strategy ?