General Assembly 2016
- Community
14 June 2016, 13:08–13:47 @ Casino de Montbenon, Allée Ernest-Ansermet 3, 1003 Lausanne
The fourth ordinary General Assembly took place on 14 June 2016 from 13:08 to 13:47 at the Casino de Montbenon in Lausanne, during the lunch break of the Opendata.ch/2016 conference. President André Golliez chaired the meeting, Christian Laux took the minutes.
Friedemann Bürgel presented the figures: instead of the budgeted loss, 2015 closed with a surplus of CHF 4,765.30. The accounts, unchanged membership fees and the 2016 budget were approved unanimously. From the board's strategy work: the association should be able to offer services in future while remaining not-for-profit.
After Mehdi Atmani, Yann Heurtaux and Giorgio Pauletto stepped down, the board was confirmed and joined by Catherine Pugin, Friedemann Bürgel, Martin Grandjean and Alexandre Cotting.
Documentation and recordings
Programme
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1. Report of the board and the working groups
Review of the 2015/16 events (Open Cultural Data Hackathon, Open Research Data Hackdays, the conferences of 2015 in Bern and 2016 in Lausanne, Election Hackdays, Open Energy Data Hackdays), of politics (meeting with Federal Councillor Alain Berset in October 2015, first OGD round table) and of the working groups. From the strategy meeting: the association should be able to offer professional services in future while remaining not-for-profit. Item without a vote.
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2. Report on the 2015 annual accounts
Instead of the budgeted loss of CHF 3,200, 2015 closes with a surplus of CHF 4,765.30; the largest expense is the 2015 conference. The 2016 budget provides for expenses of CHF 74,400 and income of CHF 77,000. Item without a vote.
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3. Approval of the 2015 annual accounts
Approved unanimously.
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4. Membership fee for the association year 2016
Motion of the board: unchanged at CHF 20 (pupils/students), CHF 60 (individual members), CHF 450 (corporate members). Approved unanimously.
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5. Budget for the association year 2016
Approved unanimously.
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6. Elections
Mehdi Atmani, Yann Heurtaux and Giorgio Pauletto stepped down before the assembly, Sylke Gruhnwald already before the 2015 assembly. The existing board is elected unanimously together with Catherine Pugin, Friedemann Bürgel, Martin Grandjean and Alexandre Cotting. Guillaume Saouli, who was absent and whose election the Pirate Party had requested, is not offered a board seat (7 yes, 8 no, 4 abstentions).
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7. Any other business
Announcements of the Open Knowledge Leadership Program starting 16 July 2016 in Berlin, the second Open Cultural Data Hackdays on 1 and 2 July at Basel University Library and the SUPSI course “Adventures in Data Visualization”. The assembly closes at 13:47.
