Board meeting notes 2012-09-24

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Financial Update

Group Information

Bylaws / Member Rules Discussion
- Addition to specify our stance of Intellectual Property as it pertains to the group and our members
- Official stance:
  - Members Intellectual Property remains their own. MidsouthMakers has no claim to member Intellectual Property
  - MidsouthMakers maintains claim over it's own Intellectual Property of it's logos, icons, and other official depictions
Joe has contacted GEEK Memphis organizers to try to get involved with them
- GEEK Memphis is aligning something with TechCamp Memphis for a tech week in November?
- Maybe we can do a big meeting with lots of projects and have GEEK group help promote it.
- Still waiting to hear more from GEEK Memphis

Shop

Need to fund / install a 220 power panel $350~$450 to install it (Currently $145 towards it)

Event Discussion

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Financial Update

Current Money: 2269.04 Laser Cutter 1400 - Target 2100ish
Current Paying Members: 33+ JD
- Member unable to pay, board approved to skip a month
- Special Case Established for members unable to pay student dues.

Group Information

Issue on the mailing list
- Issue resolved between members, no board interaction needed.
Joe has contacted GEEK Memphis organizers to try to get involved with them
- GEEK Memphis is aligning something with TechCamp Memphis for a tech week in November?
- Maybe we can do a big meeting with lots of projects and have GEEK group help promote it.
Moderation of the mailing list
- if someone posts something inflammatory, moderate that 1 person and give them a warning
- Give a warning saying "if you post inflammatory stuff, we'll moderate your posts"
Board vote to change board member number from 6 to 5.
- Vote passed unanimously of 4 present board members (Claudio, Ben, Dan, Joe)
Review Member Rules for possible changes
Craft Storage / Craft Supply Swap
- Put out to the group to buy a rolling shelf unit to store craft stuff on
- Group buy for a storage shelf to store craft supply storage
Darkroom / Storage Room / WTF Room
- Not trying to discredit / Disallow a darkroom
- Try to accommodate another use for the room
- Group already invested $80+ to build out the room
- unused space is only costing group

Shop

Shelves need to be organized a bit better
Need to fund / install a 220 power panel $350~$450 to install it (Currently $145 towards it)
Both tables in the shop are powered + Ethernet

Event Discussion

August 25th LAN Party
- Reminder to bring surge protectors
- Feel feel to bring your own chair
- Cliff and Danny doing Food
- Danny buying: buns, chips, dip, soda, cole slaw
  - Will provide receipt for group to reimburse
- Requesting a $10 donation for food for the evening
- Tournament reward 5$, 10$, 20$ spark fun card TeamFortress 2
- Raffle Drawing for Rasberry 2$ ticket
  - Ben: $20 - 10 tickets
Photography Class - TBD
CodeMonkeys 1st & 3rd Thursdays of the Month
- Great turnout last CM
- Next meeting 9/6 - Github
Arduino Programming - Hardware I/O - 9/22 - Still planning
Processing Programming - General Microcontroller? 10/20 - Possibly
Stained Glass (Rachel) - Looking for small patterns

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