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We should not wait until December to vote on this, so send out an announcement that we will be voting on this at our next telecon. (Resend link to the application.)

Last year (2014) these were sent in December, however we would like to shift to billing at the beginning of the year, this will help with some people's fiscal years. We'll send 2015 this summer, and 2016 in January 2016.

Concern: Is this going to seem like they are paying 3 times for 2 years?

Maybe sending out invoices January, and have the due date later in the year, like June or December.

Statutes don't say anything about the payment schedule, but it would be good custom to pay before voting!

PayPal was still very technically difficult due to tax laws so most U.S. entities had to fill out a tax form, to ensure IGSN is a non-profit.

Cathy will look into the roster of who has paid and if any difficulties remain.

We should think of activities that will better integrate IGSN into existing organizations. (RDA, etc.) It is important to be in contact with these other initiatives.

Last week was the EarthCube All Hands Meeting and there was a session for the iSamples Research Coordination Network, the IGSN was featured prominently here. Gary Berg-Cross brought up some RDA working groups we should be in contact with - Metadata Registries (to discuss sample metadata profiles), Persistent Identifiers (but both of these WG are wrapping us - we should look at their outcomes and contact them to see where they are going from here, can we still insert IGSN into the conversation)

May be able to have a session at Paris RDA. Who will be attending RDA? (only Kerstin)

There was a recent meeting of C4P (Collaboration/Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeoscience). There were many bio- specimen related people there, they are interested in being interoperable with IGSN, and the details of the bio vs. geo specimen metadata profiles. They are interested in developing a proposal to further this. (Rob Guralnick, John Wieczorek (sp), Gil Nelson)

KL attended a workshop at AAAS about Reproducibility in the Field Sciences. There was a lot of focus on samples. IGSN was brought up. There was support for it. There will be a workshop report from Marcia McNutt.