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Revision as of 21:08, 21 August 2009
Contents
Agenda
Standard Agenda Items
- Find a volunteer to play secretary.
- Financial update.
- Membership update.
- Short notes on personal projects. Six words about what's at the top of your list.
- Events - supremely brief mention of upcoming events and pointers to info.
Special Items
- Brief discussion of potential ignite after party to bring everyone up to speed on what is being considered. Further planning to happen offline.
- Discussion of the next priorities for getting the space ready for working
- When to hold officer elections?
- Officially adopt logo (See upper left of this wiki)
- Discuss possibility of getting keypad lock for front door.
Decisions
- Officer Elections will be held in two week at our regular meeting on Tuesday September 1st. Please review the election procedure in the bylaws.
- We will have a final vote on logos at our regular meeting on Tuesday, September 1st. If you want to enter a logo for consideration, send it out to the discussion list.
Attending
Members in attendance
- Alan Grover
- Patrick
- Kelly
- Jon Lesser
- Mark
- Matthew Forr
- Sepideh
- Steve
Non-members in attendance
- Trevor
- Jimmy
- Paul
- Todd
Minutes
- Matt volunteered to be secretary for the meetings
- Financial Updates
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- $1,3xx.00 in the bank
- Membership Update
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- 17
- Two more potential members in September
- Talk on personal projects
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- Kelly talks about the Low Res Film Festival on the roof
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- Grant has been submitted by Sherwin
- Went around the room with what’s going on and there was all sorts of stuff
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- You had to be there
- Events
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- MP3Car event
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- They were looking for help and if you would like further details go to the wiki where it will direc
- Pedal Mod workshop
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- Matt and Erich are organizing
- Looking for a speaker
- You bring the kit/pedal we bring the shop
- Arduino Followup workshop
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- Who
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- Alan might be leading
- What
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- Possibly something with sensors
- Where
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- The space
- When
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- Future
- Party Planning Committee
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- Something after ignite
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- Observations can we get people after ignite?
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- 200-300 people
- Ignite is on a thursday
- Mark has volunteered as party guy
- The Loft is 300+
- Annual meeting
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- This will be two weeks from the 18th.
- Matt has been nominated for Secretary by Mark
- This meeting needs to be announced and promoted
- Patrick thinks we should separate officers and board members
- Patrick also wants to be a board member
- Mark says he will not be smearing anybody in the campaign
- Logo
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- Aaron has a logo in the works
- Vote to move it to the annual meeting
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- Yeas have it
- We should send out a call to arms about the variations of logos and a call for more logos
- Key & Lock
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- Keycode is an option for $200
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- We agreed that we would consider this option when a key was lost and it would be necessary to change the lock
- Sepideh and Alan express their concern about the lost key fee
- Make sure you get a green key not a red key
- Getting the Space Organized
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- Tables are setup
- We now have power
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- We will need to get AC and Heat installed
- Can we purchase an extension cord or something to run power down to the center of tables
- Rubber mat to cover power cords run to the center of the table
- Chairs
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- We need chairs, acquire
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- CDM Electronics
- Restor – check
- Loading Dock
- Craigslist
- Ideal situation would be a pile of alike chairs that stack
- Tools
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- What can we move into here?
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- Alan has
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- Radial arm saw
- Drill press
- Various hand tools
- How can we manage all the donations and loans
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- Inventory systems have been proposed
- Donations becoming a liability over an asset
- Let’s define what we want
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- Large tools
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- Drill press
- Furniture
- Small tools
- Let’s vote on the large items and furniture
- The loft
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- There is concern about beams
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- Wood beams
- Steel beams
- Down beams
- Ray beams
- Cost
- Bottom of the listed
- The Lights
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- We want cooler cheaper lights
- We currently use 250watts per set of 6 lights there are 8 sets
- Drop lights with a chandelier
- Lets do some research and take it to the discussion list
- Agreed priorities
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- Lights
- Chairs
- Organizational furniture
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- Server rack
- Large tools
- Meeting adjourned