MINUTES OF FIRST MEETING on March 5th 2009
Election of officers:
Chairman (Executive Officer): Raymond Puzio;
Vice-Chairman (Operation Officer: Schedule and coordinate operations): Aaron Krowne;
Ben Loftin Secretary (Knowledge officer: Manage knowledge resources of operation, including public relations);
Joseph Corneli Treasurer (Financial officer: Manage the corporate account);
Chris Painter Membership: Board/Members.
Advisors, research associates. By invitation for non-voting associate members and visiting members. Wouldn't pay dues but would have a half-page biography. Board will vote. If we find that someone misrepresents themselves in the application or abuses their membership, they can be removed/disqualified following a certain procedure. They would have to be invited by the board. Secretary will keep rolls of the organization. Members: access to supercomputers and research facilities, including webpage. (Might have to limit the general public.) Possibly we will also have a meeting place. We may have regular in-person meetings -- we can pay money to have in-person meetings. Initial research projects: * How do we decide what to do research on? -- Basically whatever the NRI members want to do. How informal or formal will the process be? * Books; (scholium system, linguistics stuff, some stuff related to mathematical logic); applied quantum systems; algebra and quantum algebra; Noosphere maintenance and development; Supercomputer software management; digital library project General purpose *community* discussions; synchronous and asynchronous media. Each group will have to decide how they will organize their affairs. Seminars will run across groups. Hiring can be done group by group. Scholium system: web links are replaced with semantic links, including links to links -- more flexible than contemporary hypertext systems. Not limited to any old model of hypertext. It would be nice to have a seminar on this!MINUTES OF MEETING ON 25th APRIL 2009
ATTENDANCE: J. A. Corneli, J. C. Painter, R. S. Puzio Since a two-thirds majority is required to amend the bylaws but two out of the five directors were not present, those present decided that a vote would be held on changing the name of the organization from "The Noosphere Research Institute, Inc." to "The Novel Research Institute, Inc." by correspondence. No further business was transacted since it was decided to adjourn the meeting and reconvene at a date when all could attend. ADDENDUM: Two days later, on 27 April, all the ballots were recieved. The board voted unanimously to change the name of the corporation.Minutes also available for:
3 May 2009,
6 June 2009, and
18 October 2009.