Board meeting notes 2011-07-11

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Attendance

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Agenda

Financial Update

• Current Money:
• Current Paying Members:

Event Discussion

• Weekends 12-4 Open Hack Day at the space
• LAN party 4: A New Hope
  • August 20th, 27th?
  • We cannot hold it at Jeff's place, we need ideas for other locations and for people to step forward to take on the task of reaching out to those other options.
• Other Events for August / September

Membership

• Report from Recruitment Committee

Next Meeting

• We need to have a couple of board meetings a little closer together to provide opportunity for some various event discussions
• I would like to hold at least one a little sooner so as to invite a couple of the members in to discuss some ideas and thoughts they've had on some of these events.
• Does not have to be on Monday if Monday doesn't work

Notes

Comes to Order @ 7:00 pm

Financial Update

• Current Money: $2,396
• Current Paying Members: 34 paying members

Event Discussion

• Weekends 12-4 Open Hack Day at the space
• LAN party 4: A New Hope
  • October
  • Dan go to Jeff about when LAN Party.
• August
  • Rachel's Art Sculturing 13th / 27th August
  • $15 To attend, Materials Provided by group
• Cookout
  • July 17th Latino Pot Luck
  • July 31st - Burgers
• Cooper Young Sept 17th.
  • Hand out flyers
  • Chris will contact organizers
• Other Events for August / September
• Twitter Flyer Promotion Contest
  • hitting various place, putting up flyers, take a pic and tag @MidsouthMakers use #MMContest hashtag
  • Weekend of the 30th of July Dates to post flyers
  • Rules about permission to post flyers, winner based on # of pictures tweeted.
  • Create Google Doc for guidelines
  • 2 sentence guide
  • Need to send out email no later than 7-18
  • John Making Stein, Pint, rocks glass for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place

Membership

• Report from Recruitment Committee 6/29 Republic Meeting
• First impressions the group presents
• Schools starting this fall
  • Golum, HobbyTown, Harbor Freight, Cloverleaf Hobby Shop, Radio Shack?
  • Rhodes, Southwest, Libraries, Germantown Hardware, Ace hardware,
• Flyer Campaign with the QR Code linked to about us page.
• 90 Second Commercial for Promo Video
• Dharma INitiative style intro videos
• Radio Commercial

Next Board Meeting

• 7/25

Space

• Organize parts in the closet
• Large Parts in the left side of the paint room
• Shevles in Paint room to hold member storage.
• Need Charcoal, Hand Soap, Paper Towls
• If your using group materials, please post a writeup to the group
• Kevin wants to get a few 5-10 seconds shots of people "i am a maker"