[EuroPython-Announce] Invitation to the EuroPython Society General Assembly 2017

[M.-A. Lemburg]

We would like to officially invite all EuroPython Society (EPS)
members to attend this year’s EPS General Assembly (GA), which we will
run as in-person meeting at the upcoming EuroPython 2017 Conference
2017, held in Rimini, Italy from July 9 - 16.

Full blog post:
http://www.europython-society.org/post/162359081335/invitation-to-the-europython-society-general


Place of the General Assembly meeting
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We will meet on Thursday 13 July, at 14:35 CEST in room PythonAnywhere
of the EuroPython 2017 conference venue Palacongressi di Rimini (Via
della Fiera 23, Rimini).

There will be a talk to invite volunteers to participate in organizing
EuroPython 2018 in preparation for next year’s event at 14:00 CEST in
the same room, right before the General Assembly. You may want to
attend that talk as well. In this talk, we will present the EuroPython
Workgroup Concept, we have been using successfully for three years
now.

General Assembly Agenda
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The agenda contents for the assembly is defined by the EPS bylaws. We
are planning to use the following structure:

 * Opening of the meeting
 * Selection of meeting chair, secretary and 2 checkers of the minutes
 * Motion establishing the timeliness of the call to the meeting
 * Presentation of the annual report and annual accounts by the board
 * Presentation of the report of the auditor
 * Discharge from liability for the board
 * Presentation of a budget by the outgoing board.
 * Acceptance of budget and decision on membership fees for the
   upcoming year
 * Election of members of the board
 * Election of chair of the board
 * Election of one auditor and one replacement. The auditor does not
   have to be certified in any way and is normally selected among the
   members of the society.
 * The optional election of a nomination committee for the next annual
   meeting of the General Assembly
 * Propositions from the board, if any
 * Motions from the members, if any
 * Closing of the meeting

Election of the members of the board
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The EPS bylaws limit the number of board members to one chair and 2 -
8 directors, at most 9 directors in total. Experience has shown that
the board members are the most active organizers of the EuroPython
conference, so we try to get as many board members as possible to
spread the work load.

All members of the EPS are free to nominate or self nominate board
members. Please write to board at europython-society.org no later than
Friday, July 7 2017, if you want to run for board. We will then
include you in the list we’ll have in the final nomination
announcement before the GA, which is scheduled for July 7.

The following people from the current board have shown interest in
running for board in the next term as well (in alphabetical order):

 * Christian Barra
 * Darya Chyzhyk
 * Alexander Hendorf
 * Marc-André Lemburg

We will post more detailed information about the above candidates and
any new nominations we receive in a separate blog post.

Propositions from the board
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None at the moment.

The bylaws allow for additional propositions to be announced up until
5 days before the GA, so the above list is not necessarily the final
list.

Motions from the members
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None at the moment.

EPS members are entitled to suggest motions to be voted on at the
GA. The bylaws require any such motions to be announced at least 5
days before the GA. If you would like to propose a motion, please send
it to board at europython-society.org no later than Friday, July 7 2017.


Enjoy,
–
EuroPython Society
http://www.europython-society.org/