[Open-bio-l] Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) Public Board Meeting, 2022-10-21

[Peter Cock]

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)

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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