action required: sign meeting minutes, approve meeting report, plan conference call, action items

Rutger Vos

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Mar 1, 2012, 12:28:59 PM3/1/12

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Hi all,

there are several things that require your action as member of the PRF
board. Firstly, we need to approve and sign the meeting minutes
(that's a legal requirement), and we need to approve and submit our
report to NESCent (that's a moral obligation). Both are for the
meeting we had in December. I put the links to it on our
outward-facing website, though they are still password protected*:
http://www.phylofoundation.org/p/board-meetings.html

Also, we need to start planning our Spring teleconference. As the new
secretary, this is technically Rob's job.

We identified some action items, which are enumerated in the meeting
report. We should get moving on some of these, such as:

- approach wealthy donors for foundation-level funding
- write the position piece to syst biol
- plan the meeting on sustainability of phylogenetic data resources

There are other action items, but these are the big ones.

Rutger

*don't we have to make these public, at some point?

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Bioinformaticist
NCB Naturalis
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Robert Guralnick

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Mar 1, 2012, 1:24:04 PM3/1/12

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Happy to help begin arranging the Spring meeting. Karen and Mark,
maybe we can start pinning down some possible dates soon?
Otherwise, happy to "sign" if I know how to do this...
-r

Rutger Vos

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Mar 1, 2012, 1:33:07 PM3/1/12

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I hope I am not mistaken in thinking that the signing was simply a
matter of inserting a digital picture of your signature into the
document.

The thing we did with the conflict of interest declarations was a bit
different, I think, because that was for individual declarations
instead of the joint approval of minutes.

Rutger

David Maddison

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Mar 5, 2012, 12:41:57 PM3/5/12

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I'm ready to sign, but I am wary of posting online a digital picture of my signature. Can we simply take it that these emails are sufficient?

David

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Robert Guralnick

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Mar 5, 2012, 12:48:28 PM3/5/12

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Great point re: pics of sigs.
-r

William Piel

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Mar 5, 2012, 2:50:06 PM3/5/12

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What if you use a signature that is not the one you would use when signing checks (etc), so you're less concerned about "releasing" it. e.g. "DRM".

The action of adding the picture creates a log in the wiki which confirms that the edit came from you.

bp

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