Minutes Board Meeting Opendata.ch: November 3, 2015
Participants: André, Oleg, Andreas, Antoine, Christian, Muriel, Friede

Excused: Hannes, Matthias

Absent: Giorgio, Yann, Barnaby

Minutes are taken collaboratively by the board & Muriel

Approval of Minutes of the Board Meeting on October 6, 2015

        Minutes approved

Exchange of information

• André

• Meeting with Lukas Bruhin, GS EDI, & Kellerhals re further procedure after October 15 (former meeting). In the focus: data releases!
  Call to action for everyone: Enter your data wishes until 2morrow morning 11am!
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KJ6y9t_hIOGMe-VCRDRLOBkS0pv4E5zaLvVkHyIw0ec/edit#gid=0 
• Upcoming meeting with GS UVEK

• Andreas

• Update on the productive portal of Swiss open government data ("opendata.swiss")

• Action items for all potential data publishers: http://ogdch.github.io 
• Action item for all open data supporters: spread the word about http://ogdch.github.io
  

• Oleg

• Hello Switzerland on the Open Knowledge forums: feel free to join in!
• School of Data Swiss chapter MoU is here, work in progress on Slack
• Jugend Hackt! in Germany, Young Rewired State in UK, Jeunesse Open in CH?
• Swisscom IoT Hackathon + NZZ Virtual Reality Hackdays this weekend: please RT!
• European Data Forum on November 16-18, André representing, follow #edf2015
• You’re invited to an evening of inspired code & electronic art on December 12 :-)

• Christian

• I know a female lawyer in Lausanne whom I have asked if she could fancy to join. Might be interesting for her. Would it be for us?
• Besides, Nothing special

• Friede

• Finance handover with Barnaby scheduled for Nov 9, with Hannes and André
• Will hold the Open Data presentation at Uni Zurich for Data Journalists on Nov 12.

• Antoine

• Was in touch with Giorgio with regards to an event. Giorgio might be involved in Opendata.ch/2016
• Is working on Open Data in his professional environment, among others he is collaborating with “Trendspotting” etc.
• Simon Chignard? (-> thanks Antoine for adding your information here)

• Muriel

• Setting dates for upcoming year: Do we stick first Tuesdays of the month, starting on February 2nd 2016. Muriel will send out invites and plan accordingly.
• Board Retreat to be planned for January/February, afternoon, Bern, probably Friday
• FYI: Muriel will be on holidays from November 14 until December 6. Thanks André for setting up the agenda for the next meeting

Planning of Opendata.ch/2016 (Muriel et al.)

• Give input for conference program to Muriel (in order to collect ideas and afterwards invite keynote speakers early enough)
• Meeting to be planned for next week with orga committee (Hannes, Antoine, André, probably Yann, Muriel)
• Learnings from last year’s conference

• Program

• Diverstiy in general (regarding gender and language)
• Workshops taking place simultaneously (obviously our program was too good. Zitat: “Zu viel Interessantes auf einmal!“ , "Zu viele interessante Workshops parallel "-> suggestion: create program where people can attend two different workshops in the afternoon
• More time for questions
• Suggestion: Narrow the focus of the conference on 2-3 concrete subjects

• General

• Make list of participants available to the public (e.g. participants need to agree to this in advance in the registration process)
• Hand out a brochure with extended information about the program/workshops/speakers
• Have more information on nametags of participants (e.g. Institution) & bigger nametags in general

• Thanks to Mirjam Läderach & the Forschungsstelle Digitale Nachhaltigkeit  for the evaluation of the surveys!

GLAM Working Group’s Open Cultural Data Hackathon

• FYI: OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey