Board meeting notes 2010-08-09

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Attendance

  • Walter
  • John
  • Daniel
  • Joe

Agenda

  • Financial Report
  • Board Members
    • Walter has decided to accept the role
    • Any remaining setup to get him access to the current systems?
  • Upcoming Events
    • August 13th HAM Radio Class Taught By John
      • Anything left to concern with it?
      • Meeting that night should be kept short and most of the focus put on the HAM class to prevent an overwhelmingly long meeting.
    • September 10th T-shirt printing class taught by Daniel & Mary
      • Cost looks to be $20/person
      • We will want to collect as much as possible before hand to reduce excess supplies
    • Etching Class
      • A lot of people have expressed interest in it
      • Let's formulate a possible date
      • Ideas for the circuit?
    • LAN Party Sept 11th
      • E-mail has been sent out and word given to the group about the date, no complaints yet
      • How much room do we have?
      • How do we want to handle not being over crowded?
  • Publicity
    • Redoing the website for the skating rink, updates?
    • Updates on publicity for the upcoming events
  • Record Keeping
    • Whomever has the sign in sheet
      • Please ensure that either Joe gets a list of the attendance or you update the attendance for the meeting on the wiki
      • At the end of each month please scan in the sheets for that month and put them on the Google docs page
  • Meeting Agendas
    • Any ideas for the next two meetings?
  • Meetings we should Cancel? / Do something alternate?
    • November 26th
      • Day after thanksgiving
      • People could be traveling, etc
    • December 24th
      • Christmas Eve
    • December 31st
      • New Years Eve

Notes

Comes to Order @ 08:47pm

  • Walter is our new VP
  • Financials
  • 1,806 due to adafruit order
    • Once paid back $2070
  • Events
  • August 13th Ham radio More on August 20th
  • We're taking prepayments for $20 t-shirt class on the events page
    • probably 2 week before event deadline to sign up
  • People are interested in an etching class
    • Waiting for the weather to cool off
    • Need to come up with a circuit and a date by a week from Friday the 20th.
    • Possible minimal hackduino that would run about $8
  • Forge Field trip to see Greg's Forge August 27th.
  • LAN Party Sept 11th
    • Group provides burgers / hot dogs / buns, attendees provide chips / drinks / etc
    • Possibly to go over and see the LAN party host to make sure we know how much room we have.
    • have a few people throw in money to buy food, donations for the food go to the group.
    • How would we handle capacity.
  • Publicity
  • Skating rink website is in progress
  • Events submitted to commercial appeal
    • Facebook events are setup keep reposting them
  • Record Keeping
  • Give Joe the sign in sheets for the meeting. Will give them to whoever to scan for Google Docs.
  • Meeting Agendas
  • Quick meetings then jump into discussions
  • Meetings we should Cancel? / Do something alternate?
    • November 26th
      • Day after thanksgiving
      • People could be traveling, etc
    • December 24th
      • Christmas Eve
    • December 31st
      • New Years Eve
  • Meet some other day at republic coffee very unofficial type meeting. Just to group up.
  • Possible Fund raising Idea
  • Bake sale
    • Around Halloween

Meeting Adjourned @ 10:00pm