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Contents |
March 1st, 2011
Agenda
- Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
- Consent Agenda
- Officer Reports
- Member Reports
- New Business
- Adjournment
Minutes
Attendance:
- Lenore Ramm
- Marck Corzine
- Jeff Crews
- Peter Reintjes
- JC Sackett
- Alan Dipert
- Justis Peters
- Mike Broome
- Lisa Lorenzin
- Ashley Dipert
- Darren Boss
Initialization
Consent Agenda
- Nothing
Officer Reports
President
- Last month we consented to creation of a policy document, but no work has happened on it.
- Over the next month, I'd like to put it together.
- It could be a nice packet that gives new and current members everything they need to get the most out of membership
- Lightning Talks: Huge success! Big thanks to everyone.
- Need reminders to NOT TALK DURING TALKS.
- Food signup
- Three sets of Pita chips, little else.
- Lots of new faces; it's incredible how well known we're getting in the area. We need to keep up the good work!
- Inviting people in, hosting talks, and providing and event-space for like-minded groups
- Intro to electronics class, coming up this Saturday: http://www.meetup.com/splatspace/events/16724170/
- The Winston-Salem Hackerspace is a go
- Had a phone call with Neil Underwood, Winston-salem hackerspacist
- They found a space for $180/mo!
- They're interested in allying with us, and operating under the same name.
- We need to investigate the pros and cons of an NC hackerspace umbrella org.
- Pros: Sharing insurance, sharing 501c3 stuff
- Cons: Lot of work, is it worth it?
- We can always just point other hackerspaces to our resources.
- Would this be less than it's worth? any pitfalls? ways it would be great?
- This moved to wiki pages.
- We need to investigate the pros and cons of an NC hackerspace umbrella org.
- Had a phone call with Neil Underwood, Winston-salem hackerspacist
Vice-President
- Down with the idea of resource sharing between NC hackerspaces.
- Thinks this is the year that Raleigh is likely to start its space.
- Hackerspaces global call in this Saturday at 4pm.
- Chance to build the global community.
Treasurer
- Extremely slow progress made on all online transactions
- BB&T requires more costs than expected
- $150 signup and $10 a month
- BB&T requires more costs than expected
- Paypal: $1834.96, balance forward of ~$940
- BB&T: $592.61, balance forward of ~$400
Secretary
- Reiteration of spam issues on wiki.
- Best to sign up now, in case the wiki does need to be locked down.
Public Relations
- No press release for the Lightening talks, more people
- Is press release worth it?
Old Business
- No old business
New Business
Move payment process etc to BB&T
- It will cost $150 up front, and $10 recurring monthly
- $150 up front includes Authorize.net, which works with our donated Spreedly
- PASSED
- The treasurer will send out notes on how to transfer everything all over once it is set up.
Member Reports
Jeff Crews
- Made a 3rd screen for screen printing
- White is a very difficult color to screen print
- At the restore, Jeff Crews found Thermafax overhead projectors
- If they are still there, he will pick them up tomorrow.
- Fablab is still on
- 20 emails on the subject
- Truck arrives March 14th or 15th
- 3 hour slots, some of which are open to the public.
- Times will be posted here
- They're are partner windows, if Splatspace is interested in being partners
- Talk to Jeff about figuring out volunteering
- If nothing else happens on this, it will be here for at least 2 weeks
Justis Peters
- Mindstorm was cool.
- Not as much turnout as expected.
- Did well at the event.
- Kids really loved the event, thought it was great.
- Great chance of connections and cross pollinations.
- Mentoring. Robot camp. Other fun.
- Sparkcon happens every September in Raleigh (15th-18th)
- Opensource celebration of Arts and Creativity
- Fayettville gets shut down.
- Justis is involved in organizing it again.
- Would love to see other members there.
- Cyberspark again (looking at Makerspark, Netspark or something)
- Looking for people who do video mapping, projection, &c, to work with sculptors.
- Maker showcase
- Best of Cyberspark oriented bits of Makerfaire
Adjournment
- Adjourned at 7:46 pm