2012-12-03 General Assembly

03 Dec 2012

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

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

Notes

The official notes are attached here as a separate document.

Action Items

• Work towards developing the standard for IGSN that technical developers can use, establish IGSN as a geoscience standard. (more discussion in next telecon)
• In the next telecon, include discussion on how to include Affilliate/Associate members.
• 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.).
• Jens Klump will ask DataCite how they deal with the journal publishers as members.

Resolutions

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