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20161024 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   October 24, 2016   Conference Call   Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Ian Yule, President Elect; Raj Khosla, Founding President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: John Stafford, 2012-14 President     The meeting started at 15:30 EDT.   Nicolas presented the meeting agenda orally, which consisted of the following three items:   How to strengthen and formalize our partnership with ACPA Decide on what to answer Armin Werner (email of October 12th, 2016) Update from Ian Yule on InterMET ...

20161215 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   December 15, 2016   Conference Call   Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Ian Yule, President Elect; Raj Khosla, Founding President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; John Stafford, 2012-14 President; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary     The meeting started at 14:30 EST.   Raj asked that “relationship with ECPA” be added to the agenda. The modified agenda was agreed on.   The minutes from August 3, 2016 meeting were reviewed and unanimously approved.   The minutes from the October 24, 2016 conference were reviewed. Raj inquired about a follow ...

20170309 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes March 9, 2017 Conference Call Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Ian Yule, President Elect; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary Could not attend: Raj Khosla, Founding President; John Stafford, 2012-14 President The meeting started at 14:30 EST. Nicolas started the meeting by listing the participants and absences and reviewed the agenda. Nicolas reviewed the minutes from December 15, 2016. Terry and Ken will look into financial items. The minutes were unanimously approved. Quentin described the details of the Sheraton Hotel proposal. The facility is of a ...

20170717 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes July 17, 2017 Holyrood Room (John McIntyre Conference Center, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Ian Yule, President Elect; Terry Griffin, Treasurer (joined late); Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; John Stafford, 2012‑14 President Guest: James Taylor, Chair of 11th ECPA Conference Could not participate: Raj Khosla, Founding President; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary The meeting started at 18:00 BST. Nicolas reviewed the agenda and invited James to describe his perception of the coordination of ECPA activities and ISPA and the potential to improve the process. While reviewing the minutes, ...

20170928 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   September 28, 2017   Conference Call   Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; John Stafford, 2012‑14 President; Raj Khosla, Founding President (joined late); Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: Ian Yule, President Elect   The meeting started at 10:00 EDT. Nicolas reviewed the agenda. The next meeting will focus on ICPA and should take place at the beginning of November. Solicitation of abstracts is our priority. Each Board member should volunteer to solicit contributions focusing on different topic areas. The ...

20171111 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   November 11, 2017   Conference Call   Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer (joined late); Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: Ian Yule, President Elect; John Stafford, 2012‑14 President; Raj Khosla, Founding President   The meeting started at 15:00 EST. Nicolas reviewed the agenda. Slava reviewed the minutes of the September 28 conference call. Quentin commented that the low-income country reduced membership fees policy has been implemented. The minutes were approved.   Nicolas started discussion on the 14th ICPA. He reviewed ...

20180131 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   January 31, 2018   Conference Call   Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Ian Yule, President Elect; John Stafford, 2012‑14 President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: Raj Khosla, Founding President   The meeting started at 14:30 EST. The distributed agenda was approved. Slava reviewed the November 11, 2017 minutes and they were approved.   Nicolas gave an update on the newsletter. Quentin will implement a practice of keeping future events on the list until they take place. ICPA keynote speakers will ...

20180302 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   March 2, 2018   Conference Call   Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President;  Ian Yule, President Elect; John Stafford, 2012‑14 President; Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: Raj Khosla, Founding President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer   The meeting started at 14:30 EST. The distributed agenda was approved. Slava reviewed the January 31, 2018 minutes and they were approved.    Nicolas read communication to and from SPAA pertaining to the bid to host the 2020 ICPA. Ian characterized the regional perspective on ICPA and ACPA conferences. ...

20180409 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   April 9, 2018   Conference Call   Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President;  Ian Yule, President Elect; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary    Could not participate: John Stafford, 2012‑14 President; Raj Khosla, Founding President; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   The meeting started at 15:40 EDT (via a phone conference instead of GoToMeeting). The distributed agenda was approved. Nicolas reviewed the March 2, 2018 minutes and they were approved.    Nicolas started with ICPA updates. We have four gold and multiple silver sponsorship slots covered. Nicolas ...

20180503 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   May 3, 2018   Conference Call   Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President;  Ian Yule, President Elect; John Stafford, 2012‑14 President; Raj Khosla, Founding President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   The meeting started at 15:00 EDT. The distributed agenda was approved. Slava asked for Board elections to be included in the agenda. Slava reviewed the minutes from April 9, 2018 meeting. June 8 will be the deadline for nominations. Raj asked if any steps had been taken to contact possible ...

20180612 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   June 12, 2018   Conference Call   Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; John Stafford, 2012‑14 President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: Ian Yule, President Elect; Raj Khosla, Founding President   The meeting started at 15:30 EDT. Nicolas reviewed the agenda, which was accepted as distributed. Nicolas reviewed the minutes from the May 21, 2018 call.   Per communication with Raj, Nicolas acknowledged that three nominees for the president’s position have been received: ...

20180624 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   June 24, 2018   La Sheraton Centre Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada   Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ian Yule, President Elect;  Ken Sudduth, Past-President; John Stafford, 2012‑14 President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: Raj Khosla, Founding President   The meeting started at 15:05 EDT. Nicolas reviewed the agenda, which was accepted as distributed. Slava reviewed the minutes from the June 12, 2018 conference call. The minutes were approved.   Quentin presented the early results from ...

20180626 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   June 26, 2018   Le Sheraton Centre Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada   Participants: Nicolas Tremblay, President; Ian Yule, President Elect; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Raj Khosla, Founding President; John Stafford, 2012‑14 President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Viacheslav Adamchuk, Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary; Jess Lowenmerg DeBoer, New President Elect   Guests: Nicole Dimos (Society of Precision Agriculture Australia, SPAA); Rodrigo Ortega (chair of Latin American Association of Precision Agriculture, ALAP); Manjeet Singh (chair of the next ACPA); Gabor Milics (chair of ...

20180913 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   September 13th 2018   Participants; Ian Yule, President; Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect Ken Sudduth, Past-President; John Stafford, 2012‑14 President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: Raj Khosla, Founding President Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President, Victor A.  Secretary   The meeting started at 13.06 UTC -6   Ian will contact regional conference reps with a review of this board meeting.   Minutes of Last Meetings (at ICPA) Ian reviewed the minutes from the last two board meetings ...

20181129 Minutes

Minutes of ISPA board meeting, November 29, 2018   Participants: Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; John Stafford, 2012 14 President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Victor Alchanatis,  Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: Ian Yule, President; Raj Khosla, Founding President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President;   The meeting started at 13.06 UTC-6   The agenda was appraised and approved.   The minutes of the previous board meeting were reviewed and approved.   ISPA Reporting: financials, membership, publications – not discussed   Administrative agreement: The administrative agreement is very similar to the previous. The board approved it unanimously.   Location for 15...

20190103 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   January 03, 2019   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; John Stafford Past President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Victor Alchanatis,  Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: Raj Khosla, Founding President;   The meeting started at 13:05 UTC-6   The agenda was appraised and approved. Previous Minutes were not circulated. Victor will produce minutes of the last two minutes and send out before next meeting.   Treasurer’s Report Terry went through the ISPA treasures summary ...

20190207 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   February 07, 2019   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Victor Alchanatis, Secretary; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; John Stafford Past President; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: Raj Khosla, Founding President;   Call to Order/Welcome Ian welcomed the forum. Jess in Germany talking about robotics.   Agenda appraisal No other items.   Review and approve previous minutes Nicolas noted an inaccuracy at the audit discussion, which was corrected. Remaining action items were noted for follow up ...

20190321 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   March 21, 2019   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Victor Alchanatis, Secretary; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; John Stafford, Past-President; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could Not Participate: Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; Raj Khosla, Founding President   The meeting started at 13:30 UTC-6   Welcome: We had a double-start to the meeting as North America jumped the gun on daylight savings and Quentin did not update the start time accordingly. So had a double-start to the meeting, but all were able ...

20191127 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   November 27, 2019   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Victor Alchanatis,  Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Could not participate: Raj Khosla, Founding President; John Stafford Past President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer;   Guest participant: Francesco Marinello – for the first part of the diacussion   The meeting started at 13:35 UTC-6   Consultation for a roadmap for precision agriculture.  Nicolas gave an intro and background. Francesco gave also an introduction. He wants ISPA to provide ...

20200302 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   March 2nd, 2020   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Victor Alchanatis,  Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary; Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; Raj Khosla, Founding President; John Stafford Past President;   Could not participate: ---    The meeting started at 13:30 UTC-5    2020 ICPA preparations   Abstracts status: 299 submitted so far this conference, 217 accepted for Oral presentation.   Exhibitors and Sponsors ⁃           Board requested to ...

20200312 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   March 12, 2020   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Victor Alchanatis,  Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary   Excluded from participation due to the personal involvement in topic discussed: Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; John Stafford Past President;   Could not participate: Raj Khosla, Founding President;    The meeting started at 13:30 UTC-5 (There was a time change in the US, that Victor was not aware of, he joined the conference 45 minutes late.)   2020 ICPA preparations ...

20200326 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   March 26, 2020   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Victor Alchanatis,  Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary, Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; John Stafford Past President; Raj Khosla, Founding President   Could not participate: --   The meeting started at 13:30 UTC-5   2020 ICPA preparations Following the current situation with COVID-19 around the world which does not seem to enable the conference in June 28 2020, the board explored different options.   All board members agree that June 28-July 3rd 2020 ...

20200404 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   April 4, 2020   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Victor Alchanatis,  Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary, Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; John Stafford Past President; Raj Khosla, Founding President   Could not participate: --   The meeting started at 13:30 UTC-5   2020 ICPA preparations Quentin went over detrails on the communication with Marriot during last week:   Marriot (Heather) has offered the possibility to allow the collected cancelation fee to be applied towards future booking and actualized ...

20200411 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   April 11, 2020   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; Victor Alchanatis,  Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary, Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; Raj Khosla, Founding President   Could not participate: John Stafford Past President;   The meeting started at 13:30 UTC-5   2020 ICPA preparations Quentin described the recent communication with Marriot, which was essentially similar to that of last week:   Marriot (Heather) has offered the possibility to allow the collected cancelation fee to be applied towards ...

20200418 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   April 18th, 2020   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Victor Alchanatis,  Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary, Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; John Stafford Past President;Raj Khosla, Founding President   Could not participate: -   The meeting started at 13:30 UTC-5   2020 ICPA preparations Request another month of extension.  Ask Marriot who will bare liability and how should they enforce   The possibility of a joint event with NCR180 was raised. Raj was not ...

20200429 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   April 29th, 2020   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Victor Alchanatis,  Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary, Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; ; John Stafford Past President;Raj Khosla, Founding President   Could not participate: Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer;   The meeting started at 13:30 UTC-5   2020 ICPA preparations The revised contract from Marriott was circulated. The impossibility clause is missing in the new contract. The hotel room rate is $10 more than the previous rate.    The reservation of the ...

20200506 Minutes

International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) Board Meeting Minutes   May 6th, 2020   Conference Call   Participants: Ian Yule, President; Nicolas Tremblay, Immediate Past President; Victor Alchanatis,  Secretary; Quentin Rund, Executive Secretary, Jess Lowenberg DeBoer, President Elect; Ken Sudduth, Past-President; Terry Griffin, Treasurer; John Stafford Past President;Raj Khosla, Founding President   Could not participate: -   The meeting started at 13:30 UTC-5   Agenda item 1. Review minutes from 2020 discussions Dec 19, 2019 Mar 2, 2020 Mar 12, 2020 PRAG discussion Mar 26, 2020 Apr 4, 2020 Apr 11, 2020 Apr 18 Apr 29   Board members will review the minutes and send their comments to Victor. Amended minutes will be sent ...

20200706 Minutes

Agenda of ISPA board meeting help on 8th July 2020 Participants: Lowenberg-DeBoer, Tremblay, Khosla, Kerry, Stafford, Fulton, Sudduth Absent: Cambouris   Welcome to new board members Minutes of previous meeting(s) Treasurer's report - 2020 agreement with PAQ Interactive? Lessons learned from the Virtual ICPA on June 30 Plans for ICPA webinars including: Feedback from community leaders - Nicolas Data from ICPA accepted authors Ideas for virtual poster sessions Posting papers on the ISPA website in lieu of proceedings Delegation of responsibility for contacting authors and organizing specific poster and oral paper sessions Robert Awards session - will that be a ...