Board meeting notes 2012-11-26

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Attendance

  • Joe F.
  • Dan H.
  • Dru
  • Kara F.
  • Ben E.
  • Danny C.
  • Claudio D.

Agenda

Financial Update

  • Current Paying Members: 33 + 5 Pending

Group Information

  • Velcro strips + curtain for the front door glass

Shop

  • Claudio and Dan working on wiki list of tools

Event Discussion

  • TV Raffle
    • Brett Donating used Westinghouse 42" TV
    • Raffle tickets are $10 $50 raised so far
  • MMCodeMonkeys Group
    • Next Meeting: January 17th
  • Arduino Programming Basics
    • Dan is unable to fill out further details of the outline
  • Erik & Brandon's Pentesting class
    • Need a new date set
  • Info by end of November - Revised Vinyl and Laser Cutting class - Dan
  • Brett offered to do a class on Blender
    • Need to find out a date to have material ready by / date for class

Group Information

  • Board Elections are upcoming Board Election for 2013
    • Voting will be by email. you should have a test email to the email we have on file for you.
    • Voting will be open December 1st through 7th. If you are unable to cast your vote by email during this period please contact Joe before December 7th.
  • Thoughts on changing our public meetings at Republic Coffee to once a month?
    • Would make it easier to explain to people when the meetings are.
    • Would be easier to remember WHERE meetings are.
    • proposed change would take effect in January?
    • If you have any input on this, please come to the board meeting on 11/26
  • Mailing list
    • Board will discuss putting our public mailing list on moderation and opening a private, members only list.
    • We need ensure there is little to no fragmentation. We want to make sure stuff going to the members only list is really "members only"
    • Project ideas, suggestions, calls for help should still go out to the public list.
    • If you have any input on this, please come to the board meeting on 11/26
  • Member Interaction / How to tell who is a member
    • Secret Handshake?
    • Member's Only section of the website w/ pictures?
    • RFID Tag all the members?

Membership

  • 5 Pending Members
    • J.D., Binh, John R., Jeff G., Ryan H.
    • Emailed JD, Binh, John R. only seen Binh at a meeting.

Next Board Meeting

  • 12/17

Notes

Comes to Order @ 6:35pm

Financial Update

  • Current Paying Members: 33 + 5 Pending

Group Information

  • Mark adding curtain to front window

Shop

  • Claudio and Dan working on wiki list of tools

Event Discussion

  • TV Raffle
    • Brett Donating used Westinghouse 42" TV
    • Raffle tickets are $10 $60 raised so far
    • Post to twitter
  • MMCodeMonkeys Group
    • Next Meeting: January 17th
  • Arduino Programming Basics
    • July 14th
  • Erik & Brandon's Pentesting class
    • Feb 9th, 6th, or 23rd
  • Info by end of November - Revised Vinyl and Laser Cutting class - Dan
  • Kara & her friend doing a Artist Trading Card class
    • jan 20th 1pm
    • 6 Person class $10 each
  • Brett offered to do a class on Blender
    • March Possible dates
  • Stained glass class
    • Dec 8th 1pm-5pm
    • Dec 16th 1pm-5pm - Dru
    • 4 people each class
    • Joe send this out

Group Information

  • Board Elections are upcoming Board Election for 2013
    • Voting will be by email. you should have a test email to the email we have on file for you.
    • Voting will be open December 1st through 7th. If you are unable to cast your vote by email during this period please contact Joe before December 7th.
  • Thoughts on changing our public meetings at Republic Coffee to once a month?
    • Would make it easier to explain to people when the meetings are.
    • Would be easier to remember WHERE meetings are.
    • If you have any input on this, please come to the board meeting on 11/26
    • Possible option is Jason's Deli
    • What we need are other option
  • Frequency of meeting
    • Starting January first - First Friday of the month is at republic
  • Group project to catch public attention
    • converting the lawn mowers to sumo bots
    • Some kind of project that brings a lot of attention to the group
    • Bring this up at the next republic meeting
  • Terrible movie night
    • Second Friday of month
  • Mailing list
    • Go to the membership to police ourselves
    • Set a mandate to not tolerate crap, if someone has an issue contact the person directly
  • Member Interaction / How to tell who is a member
    • Secret Handshake?
    • Member's Only section of the website w/ pictures?
    • RFID Tag all the members?

Membership

  • 5 Pending Members
    • J.D., Binh, John R., Jeff G., Ryan H.
    • Emailed JD, Binh, John R. only seen Binh at a meeting.

Next Board Meeting

  • 12/17

Meeting Adjourned @ 8:00pm