Hello, Let me first congratulate Wolf for the well organized Euralo GA and all of you for your participation. I can assure you also that Fadi Chehade was very appreciative of the work done and the level of the discussion during the GA. It is important not to loose this momentum. Now we have, to completely finalize the agenda of the GA, to agree on the way to select/elect the Euralo Officers. It is the object of the message now. Since the end of the EURALO GA in Lisbon, a lot of discussions and meetings took place regarding the elections of the officers. I talk with some of you and specifically with Wolf, Yuliya and Oksana. Both of them agree with me verbally on the following proposal and therefore I would like to suggest a way to move forward. If we want to apply the bylaws regarding the election of Euralo Officers we need to refer to the following article 9.6.1 The Chair of the Board, and a Vice-Chair, shall be elected by the Board subsequent to the election of the Board, subject to 9.6.4, from amongst those Board members willing to serve. And regarding the secretariat we have 12.1 A Secretariat, composed of professional individual(s), may be appointed or engaged on a paid or unpaid basis by the Board in order to handle the administrative requirements of the Association. Therefore a meeting of the Euralo Board must be organized ASAP to discuss the issue and finalize an agreement, regarding the election of the officers, as it is the full responsibility of the Board. The Board take as a informal inputs the vote of the GA regarding the secretariat position. The Board vote on the following motion (draft proposition): "Taking into account article 9.6.1 and 12.1 (and other articles) of the Euralo bylaws, the Board decide to appoint As Chair: Wolf Ludwig As Vice-Chair : Yuliya Morenets As (unpaid) Secretariat of the Board : Oksana Prykhodko. The term of office shall last for 2 years." It may need some more legalistic review in the writing ;) I hope it is acceptable by all of you and that the Euralo can move forward. I hope also that the full Board of Euralo will help the 3 (future) officers and get involved in the policy development to have the voice of the European End-Users included as much as possible. If you have any question, I will try to answer them. Thanks for your involvement. All the best Sébastien Bachollet +33 6 07 66 89 33 Blog: http://sebastien.bachollet.fr/ Mail: Sébastien Bachollet <sebastien@bachollet.com>