Board meeting notes 2011-10-03

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Attendance

This meeting is missing the attendance list.

Agenda

Group Leadership

• John and Kevin have unfortunately had to step down due to personal issues
• Motion to combine the duties of the Sergeant at Arms duties with the President duties
• Sonny has been placed into the role as intermediary president until the next elections. Has there been any issue with this?

Financial Update

• Current Money
  • We are still bleeding roughly $200 a month
  • We are on track to fold around end of December at the moment
• Current Paying Members
  • We are down

Event Discussion

• Artist Involvement
  • We want to stir up activity of the artistic individuals in the group. It would be nice to provide them with a little more benefit from the group as well.
    • The Double Decker Festival in Oxford, MS
    • Possible splitting profits
• Skydog Con
  • November 4th - 6th in Nashville
  • We will have a booth
  • We would like to be able to do printer demonstrations
  • Sonny will be giving a presentation
  • What do we need to prep for it?
• RepRap Build Off
  • Possible build off of several repraps by means of a bulk order
  • Hope to do so in Nashville, sometime after Skydog Con
• Midsouth Con
  • We will have a table
  • We have a 2 hour slot to present

Upcoming Events

• 9/24 - Noon @ the space - Cisco Lab $10 for members - $20 for non Members
• 10/8 - Soldering pt II - Building an Arduino Clone $35
• 10/22 - Pumpkin Carving Class led by Danny BYOP

Membership

• Recruitment Committee - define leadership / add more members or dissolve the committee

Next Board Meeting 10/24/2011