2010-02-16 Meeting Notes

Special Agenda Items

Some starter agenda items:

• Hackerspaces in Space
  • We are signed up and committed to wining
  • Work on proposal
• Node Awesome Grant
  • Timing - Monthly, as needed or other model
  • Purpose - Node projects
  • How much to disburse at a time
    • Upper limit
  • How many people should be involved?
  • Are there any strings attached?
    • Write a blog post
    • Give a presentation
• Support Google Fiber in Baltimore
  • Baltimore Node supports
• Techno Swap Debrief
  • Made $125 from selling things that Alan didn't REALLY need
• Upcoming events:

  -Arduino workshop on the 27th (needs to be added to the calendar)
  -Minnie Maker Faire @ Robotfest on April 24th  (needs to be added to the calendar)
  -Collab Wednesday and Open Hack Thursdays
  -Processing workshop/meetup

Standard Agenda Items

• Financial
  • Approx 2k in the bank
• Membership
  • No new members or unmembers

Decisions & Action Items of last Month

• Matt gets projector (Done)
• Mark will talk to kickball friend about a quote (???)
• Please come up with your t-shirt ideas (???)
• Reach out to meetup groups about using our space (Jon)
• Matt is going to start working on a marketing plan/outline, contact him if you want to help

Decisions & Action Items

• Adam will work on RFP wiki page
• Mark will commission a flyer for the Arduino workshop

Attending

• Jon Lesser
• Kelly Egan
• David Cummings
• Alan Baumbusch
• Mark Huson
• Matthew Forr
• Wes
• Adam B
• Justin Sabe