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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. Applications for IGSN e.V. membership
   2. New draft statutes
      1. New Translation
      2. Paragraph 4.2 under Membership
7. Resolutions and Actions
8. Miscellaneous

End of General Assembly

1. Informal Discussion

Notes

1. Participants: Kerstin L.; Jens K.; Anthony K.; Lesley W.; Leslie H.; Simon C.
2. 10:05a Kerstin opened the meeting with five members on the line
3. Kerstin appointed Jens K. as the chairperson
4. Kerstin appointed Leslie H. as the minute taker
5. Jens announces the quorum, after reviewing the statutes for the calling of Extraordinary General Assembly and confirming with the members that are present.
6. Kerstin: Proposes an addition to Item 6: Paragraph 4.2 under Membership, “Members should be working actively with data centers for the purpose of registering IGSNs.”
7. Jens: we received an application for membership from MARUM
   1. Confirmed that MARUM will set up its own registration service. Their main client is the core repository, ODP/IODP/DSDP cores from the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Arctic oceans.
   2. Kerstin: this relationship may revive the IODP and IGSN link. The code sprint in July will address some of these issues.
   3. The confirmation of MARUM was confirmed with an oral vote online.
8. Simon and Lesley updated for their institutions - now seeing the precedent of the MARUM application, they are ready to apply
9. (Simon will be away for 2.5 weeks, but can trigger procedure now.)
10. Kerstin brought up that “active participation” in the statues - if a member fails to attend three General Assemblies in a row, they shall be removed from the list of members. This should be checked up upon. The December meetings are the most important.
11. New draft statutes (sent by email)
    1. Jens reviewed the recent changes
    2. Other changes: 2.2.1 removed the duplicate “providing”
    3. 2.3 The redundant English is a result of translation from German, Jens marked it as “to be edited”
    4. 4.1 Makes it clear to whom membership is open.
    5. 4.2 edit “data center” to “repositories and collectors” as proposed by KL today. Simon proposes deletion. Anthony K. officially proposes to remove 4.2.
    6. 19.4 a modification for tax law purposes
    7. Jens summarized that all present members agreed on all changes
    8. Signatures are required for the changes
       1. List of attendees - electronic signatures (end separately and then combine)
       2. Cover letter requires real signatures (send the actual letter around)
    9. The notification of MARUM's application should come from the managing agent.

Actions

1. All participants must sign
2. Cover letter signed
3. Email to all members that the new statutes were approved
4. Notification of MARUM's acceptance

minutes overview

igsn overview