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Attendees:
  
'''Attendees'''
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* Emily Law, President
*Emily Law, President
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* Christine White, Vice President
*Christine White, Vice President
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* Bill Teng, Chair, Finance
*Bill Teng, Chair, Finance  
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* Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B
*Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership
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* Bob Arko, Type I Rep
*Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B
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* Ted Habermann, Type III Rep
*Sky Bristol, Type II Rep
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* Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I
*Ted Habermann, Type III Rep
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* Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations
*Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship
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* Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services
*Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I
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* Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies
*Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services
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Others: Erin Robinson, Bruce Caron
  
'''Minutes'''
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Absent: Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership; Sky Bristol, Type II Rep; Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship; LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education
# Approval of [[Approved_Excom_Minutes/Excom_2016/October_2016|October Minutes]] Christine Moved. Bill Seconded. No objections. Minutes approved.
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# President's Report
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Quorum called at 12:01 PST
#*Highlights
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#**Data Driven Decision Making (3DM) 2016 Workshop: ESIP hosted and organized (along with the All Hazards Consortium) the workshop that was held at the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) on October 27. ESIP had a strong presence including Erin, who gave a presentation and introduction of ESIP, plus other EISP members (Dave Jones, Brian Wee, Sang-Ho Yun, Bob Chen and Emily). The workshop engaged the industry and government planning and operations professionals, federal agencies, and science/research organizations to gain a common understanding and agree upon a joint short-term and long-term approach to identifying and putting to use critical datasets that can be applied in specific operational use cases that address restoration of critical infrastructure during and post-disasters in order to improve operational situational awareness and to enhance decision making. The workshop’s objectives, agenda and list of participants can be found on [https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B_2czh6FTo34Ql8ydHViTEx3N0E here].
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#Approval of November Minutes
#**GEO XIII Plenary: Erin, Kathy (ESIP rep for GEO Program Board), and Emily are attending the meeting being held in St.Petersburg, Russia during the week of November 7.  Contributions made by ESIP community were highlighted and submitted to the GEO Executive Committee. Thanks to Erin for preparing that. [http://commons.esipfed.org/node/9554 Statement]
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Christine moved, Ken seconded. Minutes approved
# Staff Report  
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=== President's Report ===
#* Erin also participated and spoke at the 3DM Workshop that was collaboratively hosted by ESIP and the All Hazards Consortium ([http://www.ahcusa.org/data-driven-decision-making-3dm.html Slides]). Working on NASA proposal renewal, preparing for FY16 scheduled audit, series of three town halls at AGU that are part of Data Fair and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i3H169sXh4ibDUtjCSbAPUCyV-NNOoDEmjQejgoKWK4/edit GEO Plenary (ESIP's Statement, Emily/Erin participating this week)].
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Highlights
#* Annie B. has been working to wrap up AIST evaluations. All 5 teams have submitted final reports, which will go to PIs by the end of the week. Draft meeting schedule will also be posted by the end of the week.
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Emily would like to remind everyone that the strategic plan is nearly a year old, and so it's a good time to review this and consider new actions that can help us to meet the strategic goals, and to record accomplishments to date.
#* Bruce back tomorrow from Japan. Ignite@AGU call for speakers is out. We will also start preparing for booth activities at ESIP booth in Expo.  
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Strategic Plan Summary
# Committee Reports  
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Review Strategic Actions
#* C&B  
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Erin noted that these actions need to be reviewed and marked as in progress or completed as indicated.
#** The 30-day comment period concluded on November 6 for the resolution to merge.  
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Activities
#** The vote opened on Nov. 7.
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Assembly Meeting agenda (includes State of Fed)
#* Finance
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The assembly meeting will be an important transition for ESIP. The Partnership committee: Danie and Christine have Partner of the Year award in process. Also Soren Scott's great effort on the Software Guidelines (see below).   In the November meeting we asked all committees to review their missions in line with the new organization we are creating. Also thanks to those who have submitted their highlights and their slide for the meeting.
#** Review of FY17 budget proposals - 2 completed; 2 in progress.
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Staff Report
#** Revision of document on budget proposal policy - ~completed, pending clarification on language re: Ficom and Board roles. 
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Annie B has given birth.  Woody and parents are doing well.
#* Partnership  
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Winter Meeting Update: Plenary speakers are nearly all confirmed. Session & Poster deadlines -
#** The committee reviewed and recommended four new applications for membership.
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The meeting is coming together. Plenary sessions are nearly filled. Some important dates are coming up!
#** Danie is working with Christine on an ESIP member success story program, it's structure and process. On our November ExCom call, group agreed to extend Partner Award deadline. Staff will help promote. Deadline for nominations for awards extended to November 30.
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AGU Activities:
#* Data Stewardship
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ESIP will be working on the data fair at lunch in the expo room. Each panel will auction off a drone to boost participation. Ignite@AGU is Wednesday. The booth is 247. Drop by! 
#** The Data Management Training modules were released, with a walk-through during our Oct. meeting. Congrats to Nancy H. and Sophie on their efforts.  
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Data Fair Panels - please spread word, raffling a drone off at each panel. To enter submit a question and be present in the audience.
#** We also had a speaker on Data Visualization during our October meeting.
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Ignite@AGU - Wednesday, 6pm Infusion Lounge
#** Notes from our Oct. meeting:  
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ESIP-relevant AGU sessions
#** http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/LifeCycle/Preservation_Forum/TeleconNotes/2016-10-17meetingnotes
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Stop by our booth - # 247
#* Education
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Committee Reports
#**The Education Committee has posted the [[ESIP_Drone_Activities| alpha version of its e-book of drone activities]]. Shelley Olds has developed a pair of surveys we will use to gather feedback on the activities. Based on feedback we receive, we'll identify a consistent activity format and choose which activities to include in the next version. After a second review cycle, we'll submit our content to a graphic designer.
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C&B: Ken
#**Margaret Mooney presented the e-book content in a session at the Midwest Regional meeting of the National Science Teachers Association in Minneapolis on October 28. Twenty-nine enthusiastic participants showed up (some even took test flights!) for her late Friday afternoon session. The activities were well received and several participants indicated they would try them with students.
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Merger resolution passed. Staff will be working to migrate membership to new organization.
#* IT&I
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We are looking forward to the winter business meeting.
#** Tech Dive [[Interoperability_and_Technology/Tech_Dive_Webinar_Series | Webinar Series]]
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Prepared for 2017 Leadership vote
#*** November 10, 2016: [[Interoperability_and_Technology/Tech_Dive_Webinar_Series#10_November_2016:_.22Introducing_3D_Tiles.22:_Matt_Amato.2C_Todd_Smith.2C_AGI | "Introducing 3D Tiles": Matt Amato, Todd Smith AGI]]
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Finance: Bill
#* Nominations - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o394LekS6RHr0OJcsjs7fWzUhoQcCUdhSIRiZe52GBI/edit Job Description Doc]
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[For Dec. 6 telecon] Completed review of all FY17 budget proposals.
#** Nominations for most elected positions are posted on the [[Nomination_Committee/2017_Nominations_and_Ballot |wiki]]; we're finalizing the at-large board nominations and hope to have that complete in the next two weeks. Candidate statements can be posted through the wiki.
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#* Products & Services  
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Partnership: Danie (not here) Christine reporting
#** No October telecon. October RFP proposals are in review and planning for the spring projects to report out during the November call. Five proposals were submitted
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Working with Christine on New ESIP Partner of the Year Award. Three (confirm with Christine/Erin?) nominations received. Will review with Christine and Partnership Comm on next steps. Award recipient determined by 12/19 at latest.
#* Semantic Technology
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We have good entries this year. The partnership committee will be reviewing these. The form to nominate included a question about a challenge that ESIP helped the partner solve: so this also adds to the ESIP stories.
#** Planning for semantics symposium the day before the winter ESIP meeting
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Four new members recommended for membership
#* Visioneers
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Four recent applications for Spring Class (in active review period)
#** No meeting this past week. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JuyT2s2TJ3Swg9nuMTWCaXeQKhF5tBCeeqciPOn7-Os/edit Telecon]
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Data Stewardship  
# Type Rep Reports
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Denise reported that Justin has a new job.  So the ExCom will follow-up with him and Rama. The slides are already uploaded.
#* Type I: No Report.
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#* Type II: No Report. Erin noted Type Reps will no longer exist after reorganization.
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Education:  
#* Type III: No Report.
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Shelley Olds presented our draft eBook of drone activities http://bit.ly/esiped-drones in sessions at two regional National Science Teacher conferences.
# Other Business
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This is an important output. Please take a look and add your comments.
#* December ExCom will be Tuesday, December 6. 1-2pm Pacific based on [http://doodle.com/poll/bny3d96d5ydz7c49 December ExCom Poll].
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We launched an effort to test and refine activities in the draft eBook. Survey is available at http://bit.ly/esiped-feedback.
#* The Software Guidelines ([https://esipfed.github.io/Software-Assessment-Guidelines/guidelines.html Draft]) are a revision of the Technology Evaluation Framework composed during the 2015 AIST evaluations. ExCom will have 30-days to comment on the Guidelines and will be voted on during the next ExCom.
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Accepted budget revisions suggested by FiComm and secured an approved budget.
#* Committee chairs should clarify their group's purpose by the next ExCom call.
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Planning for a regular Webinar series of tool demos that will be archived for educators.
#** Committee Purpose (Reference: [https://github.com/ESIPFed/Governance/blob/master/Bylaws.md Bylaws])
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IT&I:  Ethan
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Tech Dive Webinar Series
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December 8, 2016: "Vector Tile Maps": Sam Matthews, Mapbox
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Ethan will work with Richard on the transition to his leadership.
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Nominations: Denise
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Nominations had great success this year. Many thanks to the chairs, those who are continuing, and those who recommended others. A great number of really well-qualified candidates. We have so many people running for the at-large Directorships.  The actual ballot is officially announced.  
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Full list & Candidate statements are here - 30 day notice starts today.
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Products & Services: Soren
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Wrapped up final 2016 RFP with 3 funded incubator projects.
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We had a good set of proposals from new clusters and members. Now we are waiting for some changes in the new year.  Each winner will be making a page for the ESIP Testbed wiki.
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Semantic Technology: Tom
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Planning for semantics symposium the day before the winter ESIP meeting
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The symposium: 30 committed attendees. The committee is really looking forward to building out a roadmap.
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Type Rep Reports
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Type I: Bob
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Telecon with Shelly at AGU and Mike at Purdue. Some discussion on classifying repositories, etc. The CDF assembly meeting is happening at the Winter Meeting.
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Type II: none
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Type III: Ted
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The Documentation cluster is porting over from NOAA the ISO Explorer, and updating this for the new ISO standards. esipfed.org/index.php/mi_metadata
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The cluster is doing a breakout on documentation resources on the ESIP wiki. There is also a Python script that can be integrated into processing code to automatically update a wiki.
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Other Business
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Vote on Software Guidelines (Draft)
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Discussion:  What are we approving them for?  A: We are voting so that these can go to the Assembly to formally endorse.  Q: How will this be used if the assembly approves? A: these would be a framework for other organizations to adopt internally as needed. Q: Will ESIP do more to help this?
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Ethan moved, Christine seconded.  No objection.  This will be a part of the electronic vote after 30+ days of inspection.
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This is a best practices bonus. Thanks to Soren for this!
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Adjournment at 13:38 PST

Revision as of 16:38, December 6, 2016

Attendees:

  • Emily Law, President
  • Christine White, Vice President
  • Bill Teng, Chair, Finance
  • Ken Keiser, Chair, C&B
  • Bob Arko, Type I Rep
  • Ted Habermann, Type III Rep
  • Ethan Davis, Chair, IT & I
  • Denise Hills, Chair, Nominations
  • Soren Scott, Chair, Products and Services
  • Tom Narock, Chair, Semantic Technologies

Others: Erin Robinson, Bruce Caron

Absent: Danie Kinkade, Chair, Partnership; Sky Bristol, Type II Rep; Justin Goldstein, Chair, Data Stewardship; LuAnn Dahlman, Chair, Education

Quorum called at 12:01 PST

  1. Approval of November Minutes

Christine moved, Ken seconded. Minutes approved

President's Report

Highlights Emily would like to remind everyone that the strategic plan is nearly a year old, and so it's a good time to review this and consider new actions that can help us to meet the strategic goals, and to record accomplishments to date. Strategic Plan Summary Review Strategic Actions Erin noted that these actions need to be reviewed and marked as in progress or completed as indicated. Activities Assembly Meeting agenda (includes State of Fed) The assembly meeting will be an important transition for ESIP. The Partnership committee: Danie and Christine have Partner of the Year award in process. Also Soren Scott's great effort on the Software Guidelines (see below). In the November meeting we asked all committees to review their missions in line with the new organization we are creating. Also thanks to those who have submitted their highlights and their slide for the meeting. Staff Report Annie B has given birth. Woody and parents are doing well. Winter Meeting Update: Plenary speakers are nearly all confirmed. Session & Poster deadlines - The meeting is coming together. Plenary sessions are nearly filled. Some important dates are coming up! AGU Activities: ESIP will be working on the data fair at lunch in the expo room. Each panel will auction off a drone to boost participation. Ignite@AGU is Wednesday. The booth is 247. Drop by! Data Fair Panels - please spread word, raffling a drone off at each panel. To enter submit a question and be present in the audience. Ignite@AGU - Wednesday, 6pm Infusion Lounge ESIP-relevant AGU sessions Stop by our booth - # 247 Committee Reports C&B: Ken Merger resolution passed. Staff will be working to migrate membership to new organization. We are looking forward to the winter business meeting. Prepared for 2017 Leadership vote Finance: Bill [For Dec. 6 telecon] Completed review of all FY17 budget proposals.

Partnership: Danie (not here) Christine reporting Working with Christine on New ESIP Partner of the Year Award. Three (confirm with Christine/Erin?) nominations received. Will review with Christine and Partnership Comm on next steps. Award recipient determined by 12/19 at latest. We have good entries this year. The partnership committee will be reviewing these. The form to nominate included a question about a challenge that ESIP helped the partner solve: so this also adds to the ESIP stories. Four new members recommended for membership Four recent applications for Spring Class (in active review period) Data Stewardship Denise reported that Justin has a new job. So the ExCom will follow-up with him and Rama. The slides are already uploaded.

Education: Shelley Olds presented our draft eBook of drone activities http://bit.ly/esiped-drones in sessions at two regional National Science Teacher conferences. This is an important output. Please take a look and add your comments. We launched an effort to test and refine activities in the draft eBook. Survey is available at http://bit.ly/esiped-feedback. Accepted budget revisions suggested by FiComm and secured an approved budget. Planning for a regular Webinar series of tool demos that will be archived for educators. IT&I: Ethan Tech Dive Webinar Series December 8, 2016: "Vector Tile Maps": Sam Matthews, Mapbox Ethan will work with Richard on the transition to his leadership. Nominations: Denise Nominations had great success this year. Many thanks to the chairs, those who are continuing, and those who recommended others. A great number of really well-qualified candidates. We have so many people running for the at-large Directorships. The actual ballot is officially announced. Full list & Candidate statements are here - 30 day notice starts today.

Products & Services: Soren Wrapped up final 2016 RFP with 3 funded incubator projects. We had a good set of proposals from new clusters and members. Now we are waiting for some changes in the new year. Each winner will be making a page for the ESIP Testbed wiki. Semantic Technology: Tom Planning for semantics symposium the day before the winter ESIP meeting The symposium: 30 committed attendees. The committee is really looking forward to building out a roadmap. Type Rep Reports Type I: Bob Telecon with Shelly at AGU and Mike at Purdue. Some discussion on classifying repositories, etc. The CDF assembly meeting is happening at the Winter Meeting. Type II: none Type III: Ted The Documentation cluster is porting over from NOAA the ISO Explorer, and updating this for the new ISO standards. esipfed.org/index.php/mi_metadata The cluster is doing a breakout on documentation resources on the ESIP wiki. There is also a Python script that can be integrated into processing code to automatically update a wiki. Other Business Vote on Software Guidelines (Draft) Discussion: What are we approving them for? A: We are voting so that these can go to the Assembly to formally endorse. Q: How will this be used if the assembly approves? A: these would be a framework for other organizations to adopt internally as needed. Q: Will ESIP do more to help this? Ethan moved, Christine seconded. No objection. This will be a part of the electronic vote after 30+ days of inspection.

This is a best practices bonus. Thanks to Soren for this!

Adjournment at 13:38 PST