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**Present**: Peter, Iddo, Caleb, Heather, Bastian, Hilmar, Nomi, Chris

**Also attending**: Mikhail Dozmorov (Bioconductor)

**Agenda**: Please see the [Blog Post](https://www.open-bio.org/2023/12/04/obf-public-board-meeting-2023-12-19/)

# Minutes
- Meeting was held by Zoom on 2023-12-19 at 16:00 UTC
- Meeting called to order by Peter Cock at 16:05 UTC

## Old business
Approve minutes from previous Public Board Meeting
- October 2022: [https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/106](https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/106)
- Approved by unanimous consent (including prior approval of the PR by Hilya, the one Board member who was not able to attend this meeting). Merged.

## Review and approve minor changes to bylaws
- Pull Request: [https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/102](https://github.com/OBF/obf-docs/pull/102)
- Remove one instance of gendered language, replacing “her” with “their”
- Change title of “Secretary” of Board to “Vice President” (with duties unchanged)
- Approved by unanimous consent of the 8 Board members present. Merged.

## Board elections
- Hilmar says serving as a member of the OBF Board has been an honour, and hopes to continue, although not in a leadership position
- Peter says it’s also been an honour to take up the President role, happy to continue with the board’s support,
and hoping he will have more time to contribute in the near future.
He would be happy to facilitate a transfer to a new post holder for an orderly transfer at the end of his next term if someone else is elected.
Peter noted that all the current board members are eligible to run for President next time elections are held.
- Heather: echoing what has been said, honoured to have served as board member at large and now as treasurer.
- Voting
- The eight attending members of the current Board voted via (Helios)[https://vote.heliosvoting.org/] electronic ballot
- For some reason, Helios took a while to tally the results, but it eventually did so (after the meeting had ended).
- Tally: [https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elections/333f8376-271f-4582-a0cd-38e7e2fd5d6b/view](https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elections/333f8376-271f-4582-a0cd-38e7e2fd5d6b/view)
- Tally to re-elect Peter Cock as president of the OBF Board of Directors: 7 votes for, 0 against, 1 abstain
- Tally to re-elect Hilmar Lapp as Director at-large: 7 votes for, 0 against, 1 abstain
- Tally to re-elect Heather Wiencko as Treasurer: 7 votes for, 0 against, 1 abstain

## Adjournment
Peter: motion to close the public board meeting; Heather seconded. No objections, motion carried with unanimous consent. Meeting adjourned at 16:40 UTC.

**Note that this PR should be approved and merged at the next public Board meeting.**