2010-03-16 Meeting Notes

Special Agenda Items

• Alan's Box
  • Apparently someone appropriated Alan's project box for the recycling bin and he has requested we stop using it for that. We now need a recycling bin. Also, that wasn't awesome. (Alan volunteered it for a party, but forgot to reclaim it afterwards. Thus, he was un-awesome.)
• Maker's Faire Update
  • Try to organize a soldering workshop
  • We should market it
  • Maker's Faire Tool Race (probably not possible)
• Google Fiber update
  • Robert Wray and us need to follow through on the GRL project
  • It's going well and there's hope of us making a good case to google
• Parts store
  • Step One: Make space, donate and organize (IE get containers) what we have
  • Step Two: Figure out what we need (propose list) (I can help with this Abachman 03:20, 17 March 2010 (UTC))
  • Step Three: Hack
• Marque with SparkyJr
  • There is an exhibit down in Harbor East that is showcasing his awesome Telepresence robot
• Arcade Box
  • TV and mount (Mark has TV, we will build mount)
  • Buttons, joysticks and USB interface (Matt will submit an application for an Awesome Grant)
  • Computer setup (Still working on this one)
• Upcoming events
  • Megapolis is coming up and we will possibly hosting it May 14-16 http://megapolisfestival.org/blogalogadingdong/
  • April 19th Yuri Synth Space Jam
• Past Events update
  • Mark's Workshop: Went well, 15-16 people, interesting crowd. Good words, people accomplished and a good number of people learned how to solder.

Standard Agenda Items

• Financial
• Membership
  • We have a new member, Mike Kornbluh!

Decisions & Action Items

• Matt will research the cost of soldering/science merit badges
• Matt will propose a MAME Cabinet Awesome Grant
• We will research an awesome domain name for a power tool drag racing website
• Mark and Matt will get in contact with Robert Wray of the GRL/BmoreFiber project

Attending

• Jon Lesser
• Alan Baumbusch
• Mark Huson
• Matthew Forr
• Todd & Sepideh Miller
• Alan Grover