20171004 Board Meeting

Agenda of the Board Meeting

Date: Wednesday, October 4, 19:00-20:00
Place: UniverCité, 2rd floor meeting room

Composition

Chair

• Vanessa
• Rachel

Excused

• Vanessa Lorenzo

Agenda Items

@Hello Board

(Rachel, 1 min)

Public minutes

(Rachel, 1 min)

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

Objections?

Next Meetings

Board meetings will take place at 19:00 on the following dates: 1 Nov and 6 Dec.
We need dates for 4 board meetings next year.
We need a date for the next General Assembly in the first months of next year.

Financial Status

(Ana, 5 minutes)

Update and latest strategies to keep track of members and payments.
As she is too busy, this is also the official transfer of this role to Luc H, as decided during the last meeting.

Membership Status of people with entry cards

(Rachel, 5 minutes)

People from the Nebuleuse and the WaterDropDNA project (BangBang) want access, but are not paying membership fees.
Luc: I thought La Nébuleuse was paying 2 memberships to have access. WaterDropDNA needs access for what exactly? We never see them on Wednesday night, do we? Are there any other people that are in this situation?
Should we get them to pay?
This could be another test for Ana's billing method.

Roles of Committee Members

(Rachel, 5 minutes)

• Rachel is confirmed Biosecurity Officer, and the P1 is almost set.
• Luc is again treasurer, on top of being secretary, as a temporary measure until next General Assembly.

Crowdfunding Campaign

(Vanessa, 15 minutes)

Complete update on the status:

• Content
• Dates
• Tasks left to do and who is responsible
• Other?

3rd Anniversary of the Association

(Vanessa, 10 minutes) Luc: What's new about the Oct 28 anniversary event?

- Validation from UniverCité for space? Where will it be?
- Concept for content?
- How many people can we invite?
- Budget?
- Schedule?

Laboratory

(Gustavo, 5min)

General Update

P1 lab

(Rachel, 5 minutes)

We need to have a good understanding and agree on exact experimental aims, the needed equipment and the GMOs that are planned, for the official notification of authorities on P1 experimentation.
Rachel will be biosecurity officer and will also sign up for a refresher course, as recommended by Stéphane Karlen, the person responsible for biosecurity at the EPFL, who knew her back when she set up a P2 in Life Sciences...

Other Business

Workshops etc.

Octanis wants to do a raspberry pi and electronics workshops in spring 2018.
Do we have dates already?

Update on Bio Summit

(Dan, 5 minutes)

Happened on Friday September 21 to Sunday September 25, 21 to 25 for out-of-towners.
For more information about this event, see their website.

Update on HTGAA

(Dan, 5 minutes)

Conference Series at Octanis@EPFL

(Luc, 2 minutes)

Confirmed so far:

• 2017.10.03 (Tuesday): BeerDeCoded by Jonathan Sobel
• 2017.12.05 (Tuesday: LivingInstruments by Luc Henry (+Vanessa?)

More Activities

A group of engineers will be visiting the Hackuarium, on 26 October, and would like to see our space.

Here is the schedule:

• 18 :30 – 18 :45 Inartis - présentation (3ieme)

La Fondation Inartis est une fondation sans but lucratif dont la vocation est de promouvoir l’innovation, notamment dans les domaines technologiques et des sciences de la vie, et de favoriser les interactions entre innovateurs, entreprises et institutions de recherche.

• 18 :50 – 19 :15 Darix – présentation / démo (3ieme)

Darix fournit des solutions de réalité augmentée destinées aux professionnels. Nous permettons aux pompiers de mieux comprendre leur environnement, aux techniciens de faire face sur site à des situations compliquées, et utilisons la réalité augmentée pour simplifier et améliorer le travail de tous les professionnels.

• 19 : 20 – 19-45 Maker Space Renens – visite atelier

Made @ UC est un makerspace équipé de machines professionnelles dans un atelier de 460 m2 accessible à tous, sous l’oeil bienveillant mais néanmoins avisé de ninjas.

• 19 : 20 – 19-45 Hackuarium - visite Hackuarium

Les membres d’Hackuarium veulent amener la biologie dans la vie quotidienne et le monde réel dans la biologie. Notre laboratoire est une opporunité pour se rencontrer et discuter, partager et developer des idées dans unenvironnement neutre, ouvert non compétitif et non marchand.

• 19:45 Brasserie La Nebuleuse : Apéro

Microbrasserie au coeur de la Romandie, La Nébuleuse met en bouteille un rêve issu d'un brassin d'amitié, de passion et d'expérimentation.

Who can commit to coming?

Luc will take the lead if ok with everyone. Anyone else interested?

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