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 # ALESCo Meeting Minutes
 
+- [August 20, 2025](/alesco/meeting-minutes/2025-08-20)
 - [July 09, 2025](/alesco/meeting-minutes/2025-07-09)
 - [May 28, 2025](/alesco/meeting-minutes/2025-05-28)
 - [May 14, 2025](/alesco/meeting-minutes/2025-05-14)
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+# ALESCo Meeting Minutes (2025-08-20)
+
+Minutes recorded by Jonathan Wright.
+
+Edited by Jonathan Wright for publishing.
+
+## Members
+
+### ALESCo Member Attendees
+
+- Neal Gompa
+- Andrew Lukoshko
+- Ben Thomas
+- Jonathan Wright
+- Cody Robertson
+
+### Unable to attend
+
+### Board Attendees
+
+## Community Attendees
+
+- Brynn Macpherson
+
+## Decisions Adopted
+
+- New ALESCo Chair - Andrew Lukoshko
+  - Andrew self-nominated. There were no other nominations.
+  - Vote was unanimous among ALESCo members with all 5 members voting for Andrew as chair
+- New Meeting Time
+  - Every other Thursday at 12:00 noon EST (pinned to US/Eastern timezone)
+- Elkhan opted to step down from ALESCo on 2025-07-31
+
+## Minutes
+
+- ALESCo will begin thinking about creating and adopting procedures for replacing and/or adding members to be merged into the larger ALESCo guidelines in the wiki.