Code-of-Conduct

Date, Time, and How to Join

Date and time: 2021-09-21, 17:00 UTC (10am PT / 1pm ET / 18:00 UK) Participation link: https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/97312757115 Password: OBF2021 Meeting ID: 973 1275 7115

Agenda

Approve minutes from the previous Public Board Meeting: https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/87

Term expirations and Elections to the Board (electronic ballot)

• Hilyatuz Zahroh and Caleb Kibet, running for Board member at-large
• Board member Bastian Greshake Tzovaras’ term expires this year and he would like to stand for another term as member-at-large.

Voting by OBF membership

• OBF Community Support Sponsorship: a proposed new grant programme, based on the OBF Event Fellowships but aimed at supporting grassroots projects running events in their own communities. Subject to approval by the OBF membership in a formal vote.
  • /2021/05/11/obf-community-support-sponsorship/
  • https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/issues/86
• Code of Conduct: BOSC has a code of conduct, as part of the parent conference, but OBF does not yet have its own code of conduct. This pull request lays out a Code of Conduct for the OBF that, if approved by a membership vote, will replace the content on /code-of-conduct/.
  • https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/78

Minutes

After the meeting, the meeting minutes will be made available in the obf-docs GitHub repository.

Among the core values shared across the OBF community are inclusiveness and welcoming newcomers to contribute, without discrimination. Every year at BOSC, when we ask who is at BOSC for the first time, about half of the audience’s hands go up. To signify the importance of this, both to existing and prospective community members, BOSC successfully advocated several years ago for ISMB to adopt a Code of Conduct by ISMB (which applies to BOSC when it is held as part of ISMB).