May 17th, 2023

[LukasBuecherl]

Participants

• Prashant Vaidyanathan
• Tom Mitchell
• Gonzalo Vidal
• Lukas Buecherl
• Carolus Vitalis

Agenda

Open Discussion

IWBDA

• September 2023
• Proposal: Held at the same week in Boston every year
• Would allow recurring SBOL competition (hackathon organized by Nona with SBOL track, sponsored SBOL price)
• Tom Gorochowski doing SBOL Visual showcase
• Multiple SBOL sessions: Workflow, Data representation, Libraries for contact with Biologists
• Tutorials have been 2h sessions so far (1 hour talk, 1 hour tutorial) but maybe longer would be better

SBOL Election

• Georgie writing paragraph for election
• Gonzalo should reach out to Maria
• Editor election next week
• At least two candidates

Website (James S-B)

SEPs / Github issues (Gonzalo)

• Jake is waiting for aliases to be included
• Move to vote after SBOL election

Communications (Carolus)

• Sending out e-mail
• Setting up elections
• Finding new election form (complexity of new voting form)
• Sending our review as e-mail to avoid voting during review period
• Adding Slack channel as an option in the form to add new people (https://join.slack.com/t/sbol-standard/shared_invite/zt-1ukcka8b8-Z4QoyiE_LwwoRBw2DzheSg)
• Plan helping engage after reaching out
• Adding 2 minutes to discuss new members

Report on other SBOL meetings (Tom)