2021-08-03
Contents
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August 3rd, 2021
Agenda
Summary
- Member Reports
- Guest Introductions
- Minutes
- Member Attendance
- Recruitment / Retention / Fundraising
- Consent Agenda
- Old Business
- Pinned items
- Action Items
- New Business
- Officer Reports
- Upcoming Events
- Recruitment / Retention / Fundraising
- Trash/Recycling Volunteer
- Adjournment
Member Reports
Guest Introductions
Upcoming Events
note new calendar for 2021 External Outreach Events list
- Saturday Science is hosted at SplatSpace on Saturdays from 1 - 4pm. Peter Reintjes is hosting on July 10th.
- Scott is hosting TriBRAE - Beginning Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Electronics at SplatSpace monthly on the 3rd Saturday. Next meeting will be July 24th.
- Ryan is hosting a Triangle Helium Interest Group meetup at SplatSpace on Wednesdays from 5 - 7:30pm.
- Makers Connect Social Get-Together is held at SplatSpace monthly on the 3rd Tuesday, from 7 to 8:30pm. Next meeting will be July 20th.
- As usual, check https://www.meetup.com/splatspace for posted events.
Minutes
- Approved minutes from July 6th, 2021.
Recruitment / Retention / Fundraising
Member Attendance
59 Dues-paying (voting) members
7 members in attendance
Quorum = 15 members
Consent Agenda
Old Business
Pinned Items
Permanent items of the Old Business section carried from month to month.
- Cleanup parties are tentatively held on the last Sunday of each month. Our last one was in June.
- Ryan created New Member Onboarding reference documents:
- For new members (simple version): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I0LmmBmKhuix5Z1XEUerMhFeDTvUkV3D/view?usp=sharing
- With Dorbo & key fob instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UMvS_B-5J_6CvPtWGxJZLm2NceQVo3wu/view?usp=sharing
- Justin is working on a SplatSpace floor plan he created for members to use for planning purposes and reference.
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.)
- Justin is continuing to work on maintaining the laser. Laser seems to be working fine, needs some focusing and other work though. (No Update)
- Doorduino "Dorbo" system - remains delayed (?), requires "jiggle." (2021-08-03 Update: Dorbo doesn't seem to be delayed now. Ryan cleaned up its records a month or two ago, possibly related?)
- Identify and maintain (online) lists of SMEs (subject matter experts) for each equipment or space. (No Update)
- Lewis hit a formatting wall on the onesheet. It contains a lot of good information, is about 75% finished, but isn't organized well yet. Want to help? Please do! (No Update)
- Ryan volunteered to make a plaque/memorial about Fred Ebling for his donation to the space. Pete S. has volunteered to provide background information about Fred.
- Scott has made progress wiring up zoned amplifiers to wire up multiple speakers in each room for music and paging system. He described some of his A/V equipment, including mics and greenscreen.
- The Splatserver is flaky right now. The Raspberry Pi is having problems - probably started when the HVAC was being worked on. He has several gigs of woodworking magazines on thumbdrives that he wants to contribute to the server. </span>
New Business
- Website: on hold for a little while at the moment. Blake invites any interested people to join the project. The draft is currently up at https://master.d3vo4125o10qad.amplifyapp.com/index.html. Still needs some work. Wordpress and Stripe are not playing well.
- Members are beginning to plan meetups and congregate--Ryan is planning to create and install room capacity placards in the work rooms for informational and safety purposes (supporting continuing COVID and social distancing safety, but also general shop safety). SplatSpace lease provides the total space capacity.
Officer Reports
President
- Saw a grant opportunity, a state grant to help address the homeless situation. Possibly set up a free food pantry at SplatSpace?
Vice-President
- Joined two other Slack groups (info to be posted on ours).
- "Splatfaced Tech Talks" happy hour at Fullsteam Brewery or elsewhere? Our show and tell currently takes a lot of meeting time. Would be nice to have a happy hour night out just for show and tell meetup.
- Maker Faire event?
- Planning a dust collection system for the woodshop.
- Planning to install RetroPi on Ubuntu in the arcade cabinet.
- Provided some fresh glue and sanding belts.
Treasurer
Account balances as of 7/30/2021:
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This month's income (cash in):
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This month's expenses (cash out):
Income - Expenses = $3381.53
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Active Member count as of 8/3/2021:
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Monthly Expected Expenses
Current = $2510 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deficit/Surplus
Current = $3145 - $2510 = $635/mo |
Departing Members: none
New Members: Adam H, Adam N, Andy A, Ben S, Craig W
Arrears: 2 members
With our current membership and expenses, it will take 1 month to fully fund our reserve. It's nearly time to upgrade our makin' gloves!
- Note: projection is based on current member dues and recurring donations.
https://wiki.splatspace.org/images/8/85/Reserve_Projection_2021-08-03.pdf
Donations: Thank you to Andrew S, Blake, Graham, and Adam H, for your donations. Every little bit helps--especially the big bits!
Special thanks to an anonymous benefactor for donating $3000 through Fidelity Charitable, which puts us 10 months closer to funding our reserve and getting us to this exciting point of nearly having the funds to spend on improving the space for our membership! This is tremendously important and impactful support, thank you!
Pending: SplatSpace's Charitable Solicitation License Exemption filing was due May 15, 2021, with the NC Secretary of State. I haven't yet filed our renewal for 2021, though I plan to soon. Our past filings can be found by searching for "Durham Makerspace" at https://www.sosnc.gov/csl/search. We have filed late previously without incident (so far).
Secretary
- We miss you Lewis!
Public Relations
It's "SplatSpace", not CatSpace, PR team...
At-Large
- Tom will be returning to Saturday science.
Other
Justin gave everyone a fantastic picture + video tour of the games he helps maintain at the sex-positive Museum of Sex in New York City. Some great engineering applied to a unique sociological, cultural experience.
Recruitment / Retention / Fundraising
Notes from the Special Action Committee:
Trash/Recycling Volunteer