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