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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

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.
12. Actions and Resolutions
    1. Actions are listed below
    2. KL proposes that Monday, Dec. 9th, 7 AM PST be reserved for the IGSN
    3. Kerstin proposes that there is a Town Hall at AGU on samples again
    4. Kerstin brings up the AGU booth, if split with two other groups, will be $800
       1. Anthony K. supports having a booth at AGU
       2. There is no disagreement about the booth and all express willingness to be at the booth
13. KL: The AGU session on Unique Identifiers was accepted
14. Micellaneous
    1. JK - Attended a meeting recently and had interest from the Research Center Ulich (get correct spelling)
    2. KL: Should contact the Japanese
    3. KL: brief update on Marine Curators Meeting
       1. AK: the repositories could become Associate Members if interested (do not have to become allocating agents)
    4. UK involvement could be pursued to make the association more international
    5. KL: Last year we were in contact with IUGS, we should contact them again. The concern is to get new organizations in Europe and Asia. SC suggests that IUGS/OGC will not contribute to social traction in academia.
    6. All members should suggest ways of promoting IGSN on an international basis.
15. Jens ended the General Assembly at 11:11 EDT.

1. All participants must sign for their participation
2. Cover letter for the new statutes must signed on the hardcopy
3. Email to all members that the new statutes were approved
4. Notification of MARUM's acceptance
5. Email about the next General Assembly in December, also an official invitation 3 months in advance.

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