Meeting-Minutes

The meeting was held conference call. Agenda Old business 2010 Financial Report 2011 BoD meeting minutes New business Treasurer’s 2011 report: File:2011-OBF-Treasurers-Report v1.pdf (Chris Dagdigian) Elections: Hilmar Lapp, running for office of President Nomi Harris, running for office of Parliamentarian Peter Cock, running for BoD member-at-large Alternative procedure(s) for elections (Jason Stajich) Minutes Venue: held by conference call, scheduled for Dec 13, 11am EST (16:00 UTC) (originally scheduled for 12pm EST, by mistake started 1 hour earlier) [Read More]

Agenda Old business 2010 BoD meeting minutes 2010 Financial Report Action items from the 2010 meeting New business BOSC BOSC 2011 (Nomi) - held with ISMB2011 in Vienna, Austria Money spent/made, attendee number, any other feedback BOSC 2012 - with ISMB 2012 in Long Beach, CA 2012 Organizing Committee chair Plans for the conference Google Summer of Code Org admin’s summary report (Rob Buels) Treasurer’s 2011 report: File:2011-OBF-Treasurers-Report v1.pdf (Chris Dagdigian) BoD membership and succession. [Read More]

Agenda Old business 2009 BoD meeting minutes New business BOSC BOSC 2010 (Kam) - held with ISMB2010 in Boston, MA, USA Money spent/made attendee number, any other feedback BOSC 2011 - with ISMB 2011 Vienna, Austria 2011 Organizing Committee chairs Plans for the conference Treasurer’s 2010 report (ChrisD) 2010 Financial report BoD membership and succession. Kam Dahlquist is resigning from the BoD. Jason Stajich wants to resign in the near future, too. [Read More]

Agenda Old business 2008 BoD meeting minutes New business BOSC BOSC 2009 (Kam) Money spent/made attendee number, any other feedback BOSC 2010 - held with ISMB2010 in Boston, MA, USA Treasurer’s 2009 report (ChrisD) 2009 Financial report BoD membership and succession. Nomination of Nomi Harris for election to the BoD Need plan to elect new BoD members and rotate officers. OBF Hardware & Sysadmin report (JasonS and ChrisD) Domain names currently registered, upcoming expirations, newly purchased names Proposal to purchase new hardware - 2009 hardware purchase proposal Proposal to purchase box for upstream SPAM filtering System Administration status & coverage report (who, what, issues, future) Consider possibility of moving code mirroring to public (code. [Read More]

Note: this is preliminary and needs some editing. OBF Business Meeting at BOSC 2009 Location: Rica Talk Hotel, Restaurant 2nd floor Present: current BoD members: Hilmar Lapp, Kam Dahlquist Guests: Called meeting to order at 7.05pm. Explained business meeting purpose and distinction to conference call that will make decisions Introductions: Hilmar, Kam, everyone else around the table (see guests) Discussion: OBF does a very good job in servicing its member project could look at open source projects more globally; specifically could come up with an open source policy statement that is global Kam: in agreement, we are overdue with coming up with a broader vision statement should maybe open this up and do it in an open and transparent manner Location of incorporation issue Has not been pursued further since the last conference call. [Read More]

Scheduled for Nov 19, 12:30 - 2PM PST via Conference call. Please email board@open-bio.org to receive call-in information so we will know how many callers there will be. Agenda Old Business Approve minutes from BOSC 2008 Meeting New Business To vote on a new member to the board, Kam Dahlquist Discuss leadership changes and plan how Board membership will be expanded in the next year BOSC 2009: planning is underway by BOSC committee, will discuss any input needed by BoD Treasurer’s financial report from summer 2008, with accounts updated to be current for Any purchase or server hosting decisions I put some thoughts regarding the OSC hosting offer on my talk page: User:Dag – Dag 20:34, 19 November 2008 (UTC) Minutes Venue: held by conference call, starting 12. [Read More]

Agenda Old Business Approval of minutes from 2007 New Business Current Board Confirm past term expirations of those who did not run again for the Board. What to do about the Secretary seat? Some of the items on the agenda here need a legitimate vote by the Board (with prior notification and quorum satisfied). Should plan for a (presumably virtual) voting Board meeting soon afterwards. How can we better ensure quorum? [Read More]

Venue: Cafe Prückl, Vienna Date: 7/21/2007, 5.30pm Attending: Jason Stajich (OBF President), Hilmar Lapp (OBF Parliamentarian), Darin London, Kam Dahlquist BOSC Had 94 attendees registered specifically for BOSC as of July 9th Do we have an audience? Is there a niche that BOSC continues to fill? The numbers seem to speak a clear voice. Show-and-tell was received positively, but didn’t play as big a role anymore Want to continue running the conference Venue: Seems much favorable to associate with an existing major event One model could be to associate with different events on an alternating basis, such as IMSB every other year and a different conference every other year Need a new Organizing Committee, several people volunteered to help organizing Committee should decide on sessions, timetable, outreach venues Session chairs who are also charged to identify the most desirable speakers Should have budget to reimburse travel for key speakers who otherwise wouldn’t be able to come Need to look into venue and procedure for publishing the talks Include a hackathon? [Read More]

Venue: Renaissance Center in Detroit, on the first floor next to the Starbucks. Date: June 23, 2005, 16:15. Call to order: Board members present: Chris, Hilmar, Ewan, Andrew Others: Jason Stajich Chris / Treasurer’s Report Review of the accounts / passing the statements around Summary of response to the fraud attempt Request to activate the debit card. Granted. The account got a $9,000 deposit but we don’t know who it comes from. [Read More]

August 2, 2002 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Call to order Board members present: Hilmar, Chris, Ewan, Steven, Andrew Recognition of observers (about 21) This meeting was open to the the public. I don’t know all of the people who commented, hence the question marks. Review of schedule by Ewan Steven - asked about money owed us from Hidelberg meeting Chris - says it’s about 20-30 commercial people Decided to follow up on that money - assigned to Chris (AI) [Read More]