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IGSN e.V General Assembly 2012

03 December 2012, 7-8a Marriott Foothill F, San Francisco

Present: Jens Klump, Kerstin Lehnert, Anders Noren, Cathy Constable, Anthony Koppers, Lesley Wyborn, Barbara Ransom, Lulin Song, Michael Piasecki, Dirk Fleischer, Lee Allison, Leslie Hsu

Summary

  1. Opening and Welcome
  2. Appointment of the meeting chairperson
  3. Appointment of the minute taker
  4. Establishment of the quorum
  5. Approval of the agenda
  6. Report by the members of the executive board and discussion
    1. Events
    2. Progress of IGSN e.V. Registration
    3. National Data Repositories Discussion (L. Allison provided link to presentations: http://www.energistics.org/calendar/2012/10/21/ndr11 )
    4. New applications for IGSN
  7. Budget proposal for 2013 and discussion
  8. Appointment of the electoral officer
  9. Election of the members of the executive board
  10. Election of the annual accounts auditor
  11. Miscellaneous
    1. Discussion of Associate Members
    2. Definition of and Procedure for establishing Allocating Agents
  12. Resolutions
  13. Actions
  14. Informal Discussion

Notes

The official notes are attached here as a separate document.

Notes 2012/12/14 .docx

Action Items

  1. Work towards developing the standard for IGSN that technical developers can use, establish IGSN as a geoscience standard. (more discussion in next telecon)
  2. In the next telecon, include discussion on how to include Affilliate/Associate members.
  3. Document the duties and guidelines of the Allocating Agent, with literature references. (Establish a small working group and then present the results at a telecon. An in person meeting is possible in February in Washington D.C.).
  4. Jens Klump will ask DataCite how they deal with the journal publishers as members.

Resolutions

  1. All agreed that there should be a staggered rotation in the executive board.