20170201 Board meeting

Agenda of the Board Meeting

Date: Wednesday, February 1st, 19.30-20.30pm
Place: UniverCité, 3rd floor meeting room

Composition

Chair

• Luc as president

Items

Welcome address

(Luc, 1 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: Moving

(Luc, 1 min)

Thank you all for your help! I think we were very efficient and achieved a great deal!

Any question regarding the storage or the temporary space? Any comment/suggestion?

Point 2: Future

(Luc, 3 min)

Vanesa, Yann, Gianpaolo and Luc discussed with Benoît Dubuis. The notes of the meeting can be found here.

Not much new but the space will probably look like this:

possible plan

Point 3: Events

(Luc, 3 min)

• Water Drop kit building workshop on Saturday January 5th, 12:00-18:00
• GA will be happening on February 8th at 19:30. Luc will send a reminder email to all members after the board meeting
• Small CRISPR workshop on February 8th and 9th (after General Assembly and the next evening).
• Wiki Sprint? While the renovation Feb - May. Encourager bioreactor team, microfluidic computing, the rest of active projects, etc...
• Any other event planned? At Hackuarium or in collaboration with the community?

Point 4: Misc

(Luc, 5 min)

• The meeting of DIYbio European communities will be coupled with the Biofabbing conference on May 10-13. Waiting for green light from Uni of Geneva. Will most likely happen at CERN, not in Renens. Marc Dusselier is taking the lead, asking what the Hackuarium community wants to contribute.

• DIY Barcelona and Ricardo Muturberria (former Genspace Newyork) —> a meeting in sunny Bcn? DONE the first email to DIY Bcn.

• Mid May 12 - 13th May.

Event speculative design? Luc already working with speculative designer: DNA storage, bacteria info encoding and project, launch it on the atmosphere. Event to introduce speculative design, people contribute with their ideas on the topic and write a book. Nicolas Nova Ethno Fiction Workshop in May, interesting to make a contribution?

Point 5: Projects

(Luc, 1 min)

• Any particular comments regarding projects?
• Any interest in pushing the projects from this doc?
• LivingInstruments: 4 performances scheduled in London (4th April), Neuchâtel, London again and Appenzell.

Point 6: Preparation for the General Assembly

(Luc, 30 min)

The agenda for the General Assembly can be found here

The issues of Philosophy, Role and Governance will be discussed at the General Assembly (see here), but there are a few points we should be agreeing with.

Achievements of Hackuarium over the past 3 years

Please contribute to the list, so that we know what we believe was achieved by Hackuarium as a community.

• Create a community where members share skills and contribute to projects that would not have been possible otherwise.
• Create a space that can provide projects with infrastructures they would not have accessed otherwise.
• Organise events that broaden the

Philosophy

Maybe build a document similar to the Code of Conduct Octanis has written here? Yann: Just saying : http://wiki.hackuarium.ch/w/Life_Main

Role

Based on the achievements, should we keep what we have done best as a community, and focus on this?

What is the role of Hackuarium, in relation to other associations (Octanis, HammerDirt, etc.) and other branded projects (BeerDeCoded, Water Drop, etc.)?

What should we expect from these projects, and what should they expect from us?

Basically, should we clarify/specify financial and communication contributions?

Governance

Do we want to change the governance system?
Yann: Absolutely : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15ARwPUZ4cHjsW-Ln0zprL5_79EtrDg_xYbWbdIWZVUs/edit#gid=0

Do we want to distribute responsibility for communication, social media, etc.?
Yann: Absolutely and for more than just this. ALL (literally all) the members have to be involved