Board meeting notes 2012-11-26

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Attendance

Financial Update

Group Information

Shop

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

Financial Update

Group Information

Shop

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.

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