[Open-bio-l] Public Board Meeting and Board Elections

[Hilmar Lapp]

The next public Board of Directors Meeting of the OBF will take place on
May 12th, 2015, at 17:00 UTC (1pm EDT, 10am PDT, 19:00 CEST). World clock:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OBF+Board+Meeting&iso=20150512T17

The developing agenda for the meeting is posted here, as are the dial-in
details:
http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Minutes:2015_May_ConfCall

We will have Board elections at this meeting. The terms of Directors
Jason Stajich and Chris Dagdigian expire, and they will both step down
from the Board. As most of you will know, both have provided truly
extraordinary service to the OBF, from the earliest beginnings of the
organization and in fact the very community around it. They provided
leadership when few others did, and were there during the most
challenging times of OBF.  If you won't be able to attend the meeting,
please still find the time to express your appreciation for their
service, and the work they continue to volunteer.

We also have a candidate, Karan Cranston, running for a seat on the
Board. Many of you may know Karen, and for those who don't, here is a
brief bio and a link to her Github profile:

Karen Cranston (Github: https://github.com/kcranston) is the Training
Coordinator and Informatics Project Manager at the National Evolutionary
Synthesis Center (NESCent <http://nescent.org>). She is an evolutionary
biologist interested in phylogenetic methods and is the lead PI of Open
Tree of Life <http://opentreeoflife.org>, an NSF-funded project to
synthesize published evolutionary trees. She's helped organize many
events for open source and data interoperability in biology, including
Phyloinformatics Summer of Code, iEvoBio, hackathons, and Data /
Software Carpentry workshops.

I look forward to the Board meeting, and to seeing many of you at the
2015 BOSC in Dublin in July.

  -hilmar

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Hilmar Lapp -:- lappland.io
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