Meetings/2011-08
From Makers Local 256
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Date/Location
- August 15, 2011
- 7:30pm
- Shop
- All members
Agenda
| Topic | Presenter | |
|---|---|---|
| Review of Board Action Items | Chairman | Action Items |
| Treasurer's Report | Treasurer | Action Items |
| Netadmin Report | TBD | Action Items |
| Facilities Committee Report | Facilities Committee | Action Items |
| Project | Chairman | Action Items |
| Publicity & Events | Publicity Chair | Action Items |
| New Member Recognition | Secretary | |
| Decide next meeting date | Chairman | |
| Update "Action Items Closed Since Last Meeting" Redmine Filter 'Closed' date to be today's date | Chairman | |
| Change Door Code | Secretary |
Action Items
Treasurer's Report
- Term: June 2011
- Donations: $216.56
- Members: $1271.52 (37)
- Expenses: $1130.93
- Net Profit: $357.15
- Average donation per person: $34.37
- Average expense per person: $28.46
- Term: July 2011
- Donations: $1024.86
- Members: $1157.73 (32)
- Expenses: $1362.88
- Net Profit: $819.71
- Average donation per person: $36.18
- Average expense per person: $36.34
- Term: August 2011
- Donations: $478.85
- Members: $497.82 (16)
- Expenses: $1068
- Net Profit: $-91.33
- Average donation per person: $31.11
- Average estimated expense per person: $79.25
- June was good, July's pretty good too
- Utilities donation in July
- July off by 16¢/member
- 43% donated for August so far
Facilities Committee
Recent Improvements
| Section of new loft floor | CrashCart, Enabrintain, and Makers | |
| Materials rack next to garage door | Korc | |
| Soda Machine repaired | JimShoe and Korc | |
| Electrical wiring in FabLab and for Soda Machine | CrashCart | |
| More waste/recycling bins out | Spacefelix | |
| Shower curtain and accessories | Curtain from Alii, the rest is a mystery | "Shampoos, Gel Soaps, and complimentary shower cleaning from Omegix. Towel rack and item organizer was probably spaceflix if not Alii." --Omegix 09:40, 16 August 2011 (CDT) |
Planned Improvements
| Shelving In storage area of loft | CrashCart, Enabrintain, volunteers |
| Insulate and wall up FabLab | CrashCart and/or Enabrintain and/or volunteers (whoever gets there first) |
| continue new flooring in loft | (long term) |
| clean and sort tools and main floor | volunteers (dates tbd) |
| paint stairs | (probably) |
New Members
- Devin Boyer
NOTE: All new members, meet with the Facilities Committee for your shop walk through.
Discussion
- HSIS 2: Paper Airplanes - Spacefelix & Bendersgame flying gliders and paper airplanes from near-space altitudes off of weather balloons!
- Classes in Appropriate Technologies Design & Permaculture
- Appropriate technologies class with Engineers Without Borders in Lineville, AL, planned for a late August weekend. Date will be confirmed post-8/20.
- Permaculture class will be 3 series of classes in fall. Starts September 10th in Huntsville. It is $45/class.
- Please inform spacefelix if you are interested.
- Should we spend $50/month on a Dumpster?
- Should we investigate adding more titles for the Shop in order to facilitate shop activities such as events and classes?
- Atlanta Mini Maker Faire -Crash Cart
Attending
- Heather O'Gorman
- Devin Boyer
- Nathan Warner
- Tim Heath
- Tycho Clendenny
- Ray Nordin
- Matt O'Gorman
- Matt Robinson
- Ethan Chew
- Jennifer Paulsen
- Satyam Nayak
- Matt Hendrix
- Phil Showers
- Alice Scanland
- Wayne
- Kinsey Moore
- Karl Sackett (prospective member)
- Greg Brown
- Jeff Cotten
- Bob Klepfer
Meeting Minutes
Facilities improvements by Tim:
- Hard at work improving the building.
- Section of new flooring in the loft.
- Bob put up the materials rack.
- Soda machine got repaired thanks to Nathan and Bob and a new-to-us compressor.
- There is a new set of outlets for the soda machine, kiosk, and electronics room.
- We now have more recycle bins.
- The shower is operational and has been used.
- There are more planned improvements.
- Garbage pickup:
- We should really get it since dumping elsewhere is illegal.
- Discussion ensued.
- The current offer is $50/mo for 2 years for a 2 cubic yard dumpster and pickup twice a week.
Hackerspace balloon project with Ethan:
- Long range paper airplanes launched from a balloon with SD cards in them.
- These have an extremely long range if they make it into the jet stream.
Engineers Without Borders:
- EWB is going to run a class in wilderness engineering in Limeville, AL.
- They'll show you how to build things like waterwheels and wells out of scrap.
- Let Ethan know if you're interested. Currently planned for late August.
Permaculture Classes:
- $45 per class
- They teach ways to create gardens and other things
- Ethan is heading this up
Huntsville Hamfest:
- It is this weekend
- Get various HAM licenses there and purchase things cheaply
- We have a table at which you can sell things if you wish.
Atlanta mini maker faire:
- It is in Atlanta on the second weekend in September
- Nathan has used his knowledge to get us a free banner to use at the maker faire
- Tim will be taking a van and trailer.
Miscellaneous:
- Titles:
- Heather has suggested that there be more titles for people in the shop to divide responsibilities
- Tim supports the idea of funny titles
- Another suggestion is that people give themselves titles as they take on a responsibility
- Bobby the neighbor:
- She brought a bike to the shop as a loan/please buy or sell it
- She was also looking for a large monitor for a sight-impaired relative
- She has a microscopic soldering station that we're free to use at (almost) any time
- As far as communicating to other people/organizations, we don't limit people from representing the shop, but the board would like to be notified when possible.
- Request for comments:
- Bob requested to use the space against the fence to work on his airstream.
- It would not block the door and would not extend past the fence.
- If the shell is off, it is not movable on short notice.
- We don't seem to use this area so much anyway.
The next meeting will be on September 14.
