Dear All:
We continue to work on the OpenTox Founding preparation work.

Currently we are discussing how the organising structure including 
committee and working groups (WGs) will best work and we call on people 
interested in volunteering and serving.

What should the inital set of WGs be? Are you willing to lead a WG? Are 
you willing to serve on the organising committee? etc. Please suggest!

The next founding preparation meeting will be this Friday 16.30 CET 
(10.30am East Coast) Friday 20 Feb (see dialin information below and 
attached agenda) where we will concentrate on discussion of the 
founding, formation of the organisational governance, committee election 
and initial GA.

We will also communicate again this week so that the community is aware 
of this association list, as potential participants may have missed 
initial email etc. We can then work on founding meeting scheduling as a 
next step.

Barry

OpenTox Founding Preparation Meeting Information
16.30-17.30 CET, Friday 20 February 2015

Discussion of:
1. Election of the President & Committee
2. Working Groups
3. Organisation of GA
4. Membership Fees
and
5. Actions

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Notes from 13 February preparation meeting

Association Invitations
- We should circulate further invitations ensuring maximum awareness of 
OpenTox Association founding and potential for involvement - will be 
done this week

Location
- Consider alternative locations for association, and advantages and 
disadvantages.

- We anticipate that the Association may have in part a geographical 
structure e.g., local chapters such as OpenTox Euro, OpenTox USA, 
OpenTox India etc.

- Consider structures that facilitate funding in different locations 
e.g., legal structures, foundation development. (This may be more of an 
operational task cf. a founding task.)


Membership fees:
- Consider having multiple currencies available e.g., CHF, Euros, USD, 
Rupees etc (Operational task)

- Identify benefits offered to members

- Current fees appear reasonable but we should consider variations e.g., 
different geographies have different costs of living, do we offer 
special reductions and for whom e.g., students


Committee
- We will circulate invitations to ascertain interest in participation 
including original OT project and additional members willing to serve

- We should discuss how to structure Working Group (WG) participation in 
decision making


Workgroups
- We should identify an initial group of WGs including those willing to 
lead and those willing to participate
e.g., API WG, AOP/Ontology, ...

- We anticipate that WG participation can include invitations to non-members