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The 2018 General Assembly of the Opendata.ch association took place on 27 November 2018 in Bern at the Bern University of Applied Sciences.
We are happy to make the minutes available here:

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Invitation to the General Assembly

French version here

Date: 27 November 2018

Time: 17.15 – 19.15

Venue: Aula, Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH, Brückenstrasse 73, Bern

Dear member of Opendata.ch

We invite you to the ordinary General Assembly of the Opendata.ch association, which will take place on 27 November 2018 from 17.15 – 19.15 in the Aula of the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Brückenstrasse 73. You will find the detailed agenda for the General Assembly at the end of this message.

We look forward to seeing you again on 27 November.

Best regards
the board of Opendata.ch

Agenda:

  1. Report of the board
    (discussion; item without a vote)
    – Report on the activities of the association in 2017 and 2018 (André Golliez)
    – Report on the future direction of the Opendata.ch association (Andreas Kellerhals)
    (This document has been drawn up over the past months by the members who are standing for the board of the Opendata.ch association at the 2018 General Assembly. This work is not yet finished. The team of authors hopes for feedback at the General Assembly and, building on it, will finalise and publish the Opendata.ch strategy in the first quarter of 2019.)
  2. Report on the 2017 annual accounts (income statement, balance sheet)
    (item without a vote)
  3. Approval of the 2017 annual accounts
    Report and recommendation of the auditors Wobmann Treuhand AG
    Motion of the board: approval of the annual accounts
  4. Confirmation of the membership fee (association years 2018 and 2019)
    Motion of the board: leave the membership fees unchanged.
  5. Decision on the annual budget (association years 2018 and 2019)
    The budget will be presented at the General Assembly.
  6. Elections (general re-election of the board)
    The following people are not standing for re-election to the board: Alexandre Cotting, Barnaby Skinner, Catherine Pugin,Antoine Logean, Christian Laux, Friedemann Bürgel, Martin Grandjean.
    The board recommends the following candidates for election. You will find portraits of the candidates at the end of the agenda. Further can    didacies are possible up to the General Assembly on 27 November 2018.

    • Andreas Kellerhals (new, as future president of the association)
    • Hannes Gassert (incumbent, as future vice-president of the association)
    • Izet Ahmetovic (new)
    • Andreas Amsler (incumbent)
    • Beat Estermann (new)
    • André Golliez (incumbent)
    • Oleg Lavrovsky (incumbent)
    • Ladan Pooyan-Weihs (new)
    • Rahel Ryf (new)
    • Matthias Stürmer (incumbent)
    • Christian Trachsel (new)
  7. Any other business
    No motion at present.

Portraits of the board members

Andreas Kellerhals

is a historian who worked first at the University of Bern and then for 27 years at the Swiss Federal Archives, where, during his 13 years as director, he played a key role in driving forward the digital transformation. The Federal Archives also hosted the first Open Data Conference in Switzerland in 2011, and took the lead in building the portal opendata.admin.ch, today opendata.swiss. Most recently, as Open Government Data Officer, he drew up the Confederation’s new OGD strategy for 2019–2023. Follow Andreas on Twitter: @akellerhals

Hannes Gassert

is a web entrepreneur, author and community organiser at the intersection of technology, media and culture. He studied computer science and media studies and, as co-founder and board member of Liip (“Agile Web Development”) and of the online game start-up Skim, as a board member of /ch/open and LIFT, and through event series such as Webtuesday or Netzzunft, champions the view that “technology is culture”. On this basis he works on a series of interdisciplinary innovation projects. For Gassert, open government data, open source and open standards are accordingly first and foremost drivers of sustainable innovation in business and society. Follow Hannes on Twitter: @hannesgassert

André Golliez

studied computer science at ETH Zurich from 1981 to 1986. He then worked as an IT manager in the engineering industry and the financial sector. In 1999 he founded the company itopia ag with partners and specialised in strategic IT consulting for public administrations. Since July 2015 he has been working with his company Golliez Open Data Consulting. From 2004 to 2009 André Golliez was president of the Swiss Informatics Society and in this capacity led the Year of Informatics 2008 (informatica08). In 2010 he launched the Open Data Initiative Switzerland together with friends. Follow André on Twitter: @golliez

Oleg Lavrovsky

A Canadian with Russian roots, Oleg Lavrovsky came to Switzerland to study at the University of Lausanne and EPFL. Today he lives with his family in Bern and works as a freelance software developer. Through his involvement with many start-ups and companies as well as both Federal Institutes of Technology, he is an expert in internet platforms and data management. He is an enthusiastic organiser and coach of workshops and hackdays – including the public event series of make.opendata.ch. His concern is to strengthen local communities and to build sustainable bridges in an increasingly data-dependent world. He is responsible for the School of Data working group. Follow Oleg on Twitter: @loleg

Andreas Amsler

is an e-politics start-up co-founder and an open data promoter and user from the very beginning. He has experience in e-democracy, e-participation and community building. Professionally, since March 2018 he has headed the newly created OGD office of the Canton of Zurich with the OpenZH programme. Before that, as product owner, he and his colleagues at Liip built, among other things, the publication infrastructure for open data in Switzerland. As a founding member of the association, he shares responsibility for community and communication in German-speaking Switzerland and co-organises the make.opendata.ch hackdays. Politically savvy and widely networked, but not tied to any party himself, he is committed to increasing knowledge and know-how about open data in politics, business and the public. Follow Andreas on Twitter: @andreasamsler

Dr. Ladan Pooyan-Weihs

is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, does research in the field of digital transformation and leads the continuing education course CAS Digital Transformation. She studied computer science at TU Berlin and did her doctorate in the field of semantic process modelling in Berlin, Amsterdam and Edinburgh. She then worked for 20 years as a consultant and director in the IT industry in France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. She is fascinated by socio-political questions and is committed to them. From this perspective, she sees the role of “open data” in digitalisation as an important lever for further steps with great social impact.

Dr. Matthias Stürmer

is a senior research assistant at the University of Bern, heads the Research Centre for Digital Sustainability at the Institute of Information Systems and teaches open data, data management and visualisation. Stürmer is a board member of the /ch/open association, managing director of the Parliamentary Group for Digital Sustainability and a member of Bern City Council. Follow Matthias on Twitter: @maemst

Christian Trachsel

has worked in the data field for 20 years, first at an insurance company and now at SBB. There he is responsible for open data, supports innovation projects with data and looks after SBB’s data governance. In addition, he is committed to the Swiss Guide and Scout Movement. Follow Christian on Twitter @chtrachsel

Rahel Ryf

is responsible for the open data platform for Swiss public transport and is managing director and co-founder of the start-up tipo ticketing GmbH. She studied business information technology (BSc, specialising in e-government & e-business) and business administration (MSc, specialising in online business & marketing) at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Challenging and creative tasks that call for a lot of energy, initiative, drive and enjoyment are exactly her thing. Follow Rahel on Twitter: @rahelrebecca

Beat Estermann

heads the “Open & Linked Data” focus area at the E-Government Institute of the Bern University of Applied Sciences. He leads research projects and provides consulting services for public administrations and memory institutions. His research interests are topics related to the digital transformation of society. He is a founding member of the Digitale Allmend association and a committed Wikimedian. Since 2014 he has coordinated the OpenGLAM working group of the Opendata.ch association, which promotes open data in the field of memory institutions. From 2015 to 2018 he also led the eCH expert group “Open Government Data”, which deals with standardisation issues around open government data. Follow Beat on Twitter: @BeatEstermann

Izet Ahmetovic

is responsible for the Swisscom open data platform. He is committed to topics related to digital transformation and the future of smart cities. He is also responsible for the design, implementation and operation of new digital, API-based products and has worked in the data field at Swisscom for 15 years. Follow Izet on Twitter @ahmetovic_i

Mario Cacciatore

is founder and managing director of BillCare AG, which supports freelance nurses and healthcare organisations with administrative tasks, from sending invoices to tax returns. As a former nurse with a degree in business administration, he knows the high administrative demands and wants to digitalise them with BillCare AG. BillCare AG relies on innovative open source products and is committed to smooth data exchange between service providers and invoice recipients.