Microsoft Teams:
It was agreed that the following two Voting Members should be removed:
This was because of the second reason listed in the Constitution:
Failure to respond to communication: if there is no response to communication by a Voting
Member over a prolonged period (at least 3 months), then Voting Member status is suspended. An
application can be made for reinstating Voting Membership by the suspended Voting Member to the
relevant Core Group with an explanation for reason why there was a lack of communication.
There are no known disclosure issues at the moment.
As a follow-on action from agreeing the Risk Response procedure, there now needs to be a lead for the risk response team appointed. The Actions [and their responsible owners] as listed at the end of the document are:
This needs to be done and should build on Tom's work. However, it also needs input from package developers.
Would be good to include Becca's tags (proposed at the conference) in guidance - both how to develop packages and quality assurance.
By this, it's mean that there's not a great way for people to communicate into DataSHIELD, i.e. email endpoints that can be receptioned by groups within the community (rather than a single individual) e.g. for notification of unmitigated disclosure risks.
Andrei has been doing some research but unsure how much time to invest (e.g. if people think it's not a good idea). Everyone agreed it was time well spent: some kind of legal entity is required to manage assets and coordinate from a non-institutional perspective.
Stuart talked about a Makers community he is involved in in Newcastle; this is organised as aot for profit limited company, which means Directors have unlimited liability. He will do some investigations as to what possibilities there are in the UK, not so as to create it in the UK but so as to be aware of the pitfalls.
Florian was impressed with the map Becca and Olly showed nodes/studies. Gave him the idea to have information about authors/developers etc. Will take the idea to the Communications Theme.
SC discussion tomorrow: Appoint Lead of Disclosure Response Team [Steering Committee]
Stuart will investigate how to set up datashield email endpoints (needs someone to host with capabilities to forward to multiple domains)
Andrei will create a page for discussion about a legal entity
Next meeting Tuesday 14th January 13:00 CET / 12:00 UK Time