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** Will also need help moving stuff away from old tables, disassembling old tables, re-assembling new tables, and moving stuff back | ** Will also need help moving stuff away from old tables, disassembling old tables, re-assembling new tables, and moving stuff back | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:14, 9 July 2022
Contents |
June 7th, 2022
Link to join online meeting: https://meet.google.com/roo-ozzn-jne
Agenda
Summary
- Initialization
- Announcements
- Club Business
- Committee Reports
- Consent Agenda
- Old Business
- New Business
- Officer Reports
- Other
- Conclusion
Announcements
Upcoming Events
- As usual, check https://www.meetup.com/splatspace/events/calendar for posted events.
Non-Recurring Events
Workshops at SplatSpace returns with the SplatSpace Knowledge Share series
External Outreach Events
New calendar for 2022 External Outreach Events list
Some outreach highlights: | |||
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Cary ARC Midsummer Swapfest Cary N4NC Amateur Radio Club |
Sat, Jul 16, 2022 7:30am - 1:00pm |
Harold Ritter Park, Cary, NC | looking for SplatSpace participants to help man the Splat's table |
Application for CenterFest 2022 Nonprofit Booth needs to be submitted before this Friday (July 8): https://durhamartscouncil.submittable.com/submit/223508/centerfest-2022-nonprofit-booth-application. CenterFest is Sept. 17-18, 2022, 10am-6pm Sat, 11am-5pm Sun.
Recurring Events
Regular events carried from month to month.
- Open Door Project Time is hosted at SplatSpace on Saturdays from 1 - 4pm.
- TriBRAE Beginning Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Electronics is hosted at SplatSpace monthly on the 3rd Saturday.
- The TriBRAE meetup this month is moved to July 23 because of early month holiday
- Triangle Helium Interest Group is hosted at SplatSpace on Wednesdays from 5 - 6:30pm.
- Makers Connect Social Get-Together is held at SplatSpace monthly on the 3rd Tuesday, from 7 to 8:30pm.
- Cleanup parties are tentatively held on the last Sunday of each month
Initialization
Member Attendance
- 9 Dues-paying (voting) members
- 5 on-line & 4 members in attendance
- X to reach quorum
Guest Introductions
Guest Attendance
- 1 Guests
Member Reports
Talk to your fellow makers!
- Show & Tell
- Projects you want to do
- Interesting Resources discovered
- Tell us what's on your mind!
Club Business
Previous Minutes
- Approval of minutes June 7th, 2022
Recruitment / Retention / Fundraising
Committee Reports
Special Action Committee
{needs leader}
Brittney Merryweather
- 3D Printing with Resin - hosted by Andrew Stowell
- Wood Lathe - 2 sessions, hosted by Blake McNeill & Jeff Crews
- Glowforge Laser Cutter
- others workshops
- Always looking for leaders and folks that want to host a workshop
New Website Committee
Blake McNeill & Justin Kirk
- Blake & Ryan have loaded the website onto Splatspace's github
- any interested people are invited to join the project
- draft is currently up at https://master.d3vo4125o10qad.amplifyapp.com/index.html
Documentation Committee
Ryan Patridge, Blake McNeill, Scott Hall & Brittney Merryweather
- New Member Onboarding reference documents created: {Ryan}
- For new members (simple version): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WS6hGOBg1eXdSLeJK2YxhIqZXPscr0Qg/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108561949558363481608&rtpof=true&sd=true
- With Dorbo & key fob instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OPpWS1ZrWfCOaDLCxn67kgUAnkBFq3pc/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108561949558363481608&rtpof=true&sd=true
- New member brochure https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yP0ywR5RQL9-IDHVIXq8xx6QcPUzRZ4fSuuAmVkYko0/edit?usp=sharing {Blake}
- 2020 Safety Code document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f7ea6mLwwgSszdfBnTaeJ-CY0YVxUPvaNR-oQjVczDs/edit?pli=1 {Blake}
- Tool & Equipment Inventory Update
- Add any manuals and in-house docs as available {Scott}
- Identify lists of SMEs (subject matter experts) for each equipment or space {Scott}
- Creating maintenance sheets for Glowforge and possibly other equipment -- will replace training forms {Brittney}
New Equipment Purchasing Committee
Blake McNeill
- List of prospective purchases: https://splatspace.slack.com/archives/C024R8A776Z/p1635106954002400 (needs updating)
- Results have been aggregated https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yP0ywR5RQL9-IDHVIXq8xx6QcPUzRZ4fSuuAmVkYko0/edit?usp=sharing
- Will discuss next purchases after lease renewal
Donations Committee
Justin Kirk & Blake McNeill
- Management of future donations
- Ebay sales
- Recycling
- we need a policy to handle donations to minimize "Mt Doom" piles taking up space and time
Public Relations Committee
{needs leader}
Consent Agenda
{no consent item this month}
Old Business
Pinned Items
Permanent items of the Old Business section carried from month to month.
ToDo Action Items
(Items carried forward from previous meetings, but not up for discussion this month. Recorded here so we don't forget about them.)
- Glowforges
- Move one or both to the metal shop to keep the classroom more usable for events?
- Brittney was able to perform maintenance on Jeff's forge
- Talked to Glowforge about tracking
- Hire a grant writer to apply for grants? Other fundraising applications.
- Door issues
- Shares circuit with the woodshop, gets tripped sometimes from the woodshop.
- Discussed options for battery backup. Wifi would also be useful to have on a battery backup.
- Lock broke again
- -- Adam N. has fixed it by "rebooting" laptop power supply
- -- Adam and Ryan looking at possibly installing one for the rear basement door as a backup
- Blake worked with a locksmith company but they were beyond our budget
New Business
- Lease renewal
- Blake is talking with Griffin Associates.
- They have sent over an 18 month extension to UDI. Waiting to hear back
- Ryan is looking for help with moving donated tables to Splat Space
- Will also need help moving stuff away from old tables, disassembling old tables, re-assembling new tables, and moving stuff back
- Tentative date - July 9th
- Ryan brought up the idea of starting a saving to cover future moving expenses
Officer Reports
President
Blake McNeill
- Working on setting a PayPal account for payments
- Looking at new places to rent based on some discussion about our rent going up and maintenance issues
- Working on the electronic-sign TV
- Working on getting table in front of meeting room cleaned up
- Got some of the office supplies sorted
Vice-President
Justin Kirk {not present}
- EBay sales working, stuff is still listed
- Justin is the appointed single point of contact for UDI and Mr. Russell: please don't call Mr. Russell directly -- bring any issues to Justin, or contact board@splatspace.org
- Scott is covering as single point of reference while Justin is busy
- Bathrooms require us to bring is toilet paper from the space, and bring back when done, toilets are still dirty
- No word yet about the thermostat.
- I'll follow up with Mr. Russell later this week
Treasurer
Ryan Patridge
Account balances as of 6/30/2022:
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The rest of the Treasurer report for this month is pending (Ryan getting time to finish it).
Donations: Thank you to everyone who donates your time and effort to keeping SplatSpace going. Board members, Sunday cleanup crew, event leaders, and our fellow Raptorcorns!
Pending: SplatSpace's Charitable Solicitation License Exemption filing was due May 15, 2022, with the NC Secretary of State. I plan to give time to completing and submitting it early in July.
Secretary
Lewi Scaife {not present}
At-Large
Scott Hall
- Progress made on Electronics bench cleanup/upgrade; thank you to members participating and helping
- Progress made on the SplatServer, adding capacity, reorganizing file structure, and making it available on the network. Input from members welcome - contact Scott.
- Progress made on sorting & testing cables, mice & keyboards from donations & boneyard that are in the main room
- Will be helping to clean the presentation table to make room for effort working on the A/V/media corner.
Eli Hornstein
Andrew Morton {not present}
Other
{none}
Conclusion
Trash/Recycling Volunteer
- Ask for a volunteer