From p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com Tue Oct 11 04:09:58 2022 From: p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com (Peter Cock) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 09:09:58 +0100 Subject: [Open-bio-l] Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Public Board Meeting, 2022-10-21 Message-ID: Dear OBF members, The OBF Board invites you to attend our upcoming (online) Board meeting on 2022-10-21 at 15:00 UTC. This information is also available on our blog, including the Zoom password which will be added on the day: https://www.open-bio.org/2022/09/29/obf-public-board-meeting-2022-10-21/ Thank you, Peter Cock President, Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) ?-- Date and time: 2022-10-21, 15:00 UTC (8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm UK) Zoom link: https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/91901577644 Meeting ID: 919 0157 7644 Password: [See blog post] Agenda Board Officer Elections * Chris Fields wishes to step down as Secretary, and Nomi Harris is standing for election to this role * This will be an electronic ballot of the current board members Elections to the Board * Iddo Friedberg, running for Board member at-large, statement of interest https://www.open-bio.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/OBF-Statement-Iddo-Friedberg.pdf * This will be an electronic ballot of the current board members Bylaw Changes * We periodically review our bylaws * We plan minor changes to avoid gendered language, including subsuming the Secretary role (with historical gendered associations) into a Vice President role. * Proposed changes expressed as a Pull Request https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/102 * Bylaw changes must formally approved by the Board at a public board meeting Minutes * After the meeting, the meeting minutes will be made available in the obf-docs GitHub repository. https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/tree/master/minutes