Board Meeting 2018-01-17

This board face-to-video meeting is scheduled for 17 January 2018 at through video call and follow up voting on Loomio.

Current items

 * roll call
 * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * Role of Board, by-law review, orientation (1 hour)
 * Executive Positions (President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer) (45 mins)

Minutes
Mins recorded into a google document for group editing, will cut-and-paste here as time permits.

TLDR
Executive:


 * President: María Arias de Reyna
 * Vice-president: Angelos Tzotsos
 * Vice-president: Helena Mitasova
 * Vice-president: Jeff McKenna
 * Secretary: Astrid Emde
 * Treasurer: Michael Smith

Board:


 * Chair of the Board: Jody Garnett

Actions

 * Jody: To move outstanding agenda topics to next IRC [Board_Meeting_2018-02-01] (done)
 * Astrid: blogpost / news_item announcing new executive officers
 * All book travel/accommodation for f2f meeting and send details to treasurer for reimbursement.
 * Jody: Change time for the regular IRC meetings from 14 UTC to 15 UTC