[iaoa-general] Public Report IAOA-EC meeting n.108 - Thu 2014.08.21

[Frank Loebe]

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


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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

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