Board meeting notes 2011-10-24

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Attendance

• Sonny
• Dan
• Joe
• Nick
• Ashley
• Chris
• Kit
• Ben E.
• Claudio

Count: 8

Agenda

Yearly Elections

• Nominations Nov 1st-7th
• Voting Dec 1st-7th
• Details outlined: http://wiki.midsouthmakers.org/a/Membership_rules#Yearly_Elections
• Anyone on the board *not* wanting reelection?

Financial Update

• Current Money
• Current Paying Members

Shop

• Major improvement, we need to keep it this way

Event Discussion

• Skydog Con - November 4th - 6th in Nashville
  • Sonny will be giving a presentation
  • What do we need to prep for it?
• RepRap Build Off
• Midsouth Con
  • Dan, Sonny, Claudio, Ben, Mark?
• Events Poll
  • http://www.midsouthmakers.org/potential-events-poll/
    • HAM Radio class 8 32%
    • Bath Salts and Balms gift class 6 24%
    • Soldering: Boarduino (again) 8 32
    • Intro to the Linux Shell - Screen and Irssi 8 32%
    • Simple Website creation / Design / Marketing 7 28%
    • Printed Circuit Board Fabrication / Etching 18 72%
    • OpenVZ Virtual Machines - Linux Usage 7 28%
    • Cisco II Class 9 36%
    • Welding Class 15 60%
    • Analog Photography class 8 32%
• We November and December events

Upcoming Events

• 10/29 - LAN Party IV - Danny bringing Chili, what other food?
  • What prep for the minecraft tourney do we need?
  • Do we have prizes?

Membership

• 2 new pending members, Chella & Keith

Next Board Meeting 11/28/2011 / 11/29/2011?

Notes

Comes to Order @ 6:13pm

Liability Issues

• Ensure we're sticking to our rules with not having unacompanied minors in the space.

Yearly Elections

• Nominations Nov 1st-7th
• Voting Dec 1st-7th
• Details outlined: http://wiki.midsouthmakers.org/a/Membership_rules#Yearly_Elections
• Anyone on the board *not* wanting reelection?

Financial Update

• Current Money: better
• Current Paying Members: 2 new members

Shop

• Major improvement, we need to keep it this way

Event Discussion

• Skydog Con - November 4th - 6th in Nashville
  • Sonny will be giving a presentation
  • What do we need to prep for it?
• RepRap Build Off
• Midsouth Con
  • We need to do guest apps asap for those participating in the presentation
  • We will have a table
  • We have a 2 hour slot to present
• Events Poll
  • http://www.midsouthmakers.org/potential-events-poll/
    • HAM Radio class 8 32%
    • Bath Salts and Balms gift class 6 24%
    • Soldering: Boarduino (again) 8 32
    • Intro to the Linux Shell - Screen and Irssi 8 32%
    • Simple Website creation / Design / Marketing 7 28%
    • Printed Circuit Board Fabrication / Etching 18 72%
    • OpenVZ Virtual Machines - Linux Usage 7 28%
    • Cisco II Class 9 36%
    • Welding Class 15 60%
    • Analog Photography class 8 32%

• • • 5-10 minutes on a lazer cutter

Upcoming Events

• 10/29 - LAN Party IV - Danny bringing Chili, what other food?
  • What prep for the minecraft tourney do we need?
  • Do we have prizes?
• December Etching
  • light following bot
• November Laser cutter day
  • Split into 2 classes, 1 day to design, 1 to cut
• Day 1: November 19th - Noon
• Day 2: December 10th - Noon Deadline to submit Dec 5th. Exotic materials may requre more lead time
• December 3rd - talk with brandon about Cisco II classroom configure router
• november 12th game night

Membership

• 2 new pending members, Chella & Keith

Next Board Meeting 11/28/2011