From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Tue Aug 26 18:57:53 2014 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:57:53 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] Public Report IAOA-EC meeting n.108 - Thu 2014.08.21 In-Reply-To: <00de01cfc14e$7ec9d4c0$7c5d7e40$@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> References: <00de01cfc14e$7ec9d4c0$7c5d7e40$@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Message-ID: <00e401cfc14e$e35bae40$aa130ac0$@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Dear IAOA members and followers, please find below the Public Report of the IAOA Executive Council meeting n.108, which took place five days ago, on Thursday, Aug 21, 2014. The past Public Reports are collected at http://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/reports/reports.html Feel free to contact the Association if you have any question by emailing to: info at iaoa.org Best regards, Frank Loebe on behalf of IAOA EC --- One hundred eighth meeting of the IAOA Executive Council (EC) Virtual Meeting of 21 August 2014 Attendees: John Bateman Stefano Borgo Michael Gruninger (chair) Marion Haemmerli Oliver Kutz Frank Loebe Fabian Neuhaus Leo Obrst On FOIS 2014, Oliver Kutz mentioned that the detailed program has meanwhile become available [1]. John Bateman reported on the status of the 2014 EC Election that is currently ongoing, having its ballot phase between August 27 and September 03, 2014. The technical ballot setup will be checked, also to ensure that only members at the time of establishing the quorum are eligible to vote. The ballot is the initial segment of the next Ordinary Assembly of the IAOA membership. The Assembly culminates in a physical meeting at FOIS 2014, on September 24. Besides agenda items for this part from the side of the EC, there will be a request for discussion items to the membership before an agenda for the physical meeting is distributed. The Secretary, with support from other EC members, is currently clearing the backlog in providing missing Public Reports of earlier EC meetings. They will be published via the membership mailing list and the website within the weeks until FOIS 2014. Four members of the IAOA Advisory Board (AB) whose term ends with 2014 have not expressed the interest to continue. The EC decided to invite one IAOA member to join the AB for a regular four-year term, starting in 2015. The name will be announced after a response. The relocation of IAOA from Italy to Switzerland was a major point of debate. The EC discussed mainly about (1) the strategy in modifying the Association Statute and Bylaws for Switzerland, (2) a draft roadmap for the overall relocation project and potential target dates for its completion, and (3) relations between newly establishing IAOA in Switzerland and dissolving IAOA in Italy. The EC agrees that the Bylaws Committee shall continue to prepare first modified versions of Statute and Bylaws in order to initiate a preliminary tax exemption request. These versions remain subject to potential additional changes prior to being submitted to membership review and approval. The scheduling of the activities will be further discussed. Reference: [1] http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/program_14.html (End of Report)