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* TriDIYBio/Splat finished moving out of #24 Shoppers St (Scrap Exchange property). Pete S is storing the electronics donation from Fred Ebeling at his home until plans can be made to distribute the remaining materials (Jan/Feb of 2021). Tom is holding TriDIYBio Saturday Science meetings in the lab area he set up in the basement at Splat.
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The items listed below are from the Oct 6 meeting - items can either me deleted or updated to report at Nov meeting.
  
 
* No water damage to 3d printers, and the server is more or less back to normal. The electronics section also appears unharmed (Andrew, Scott)
 
* No water damage to 3d printers, and the server is more or less back to normal. The electronics section also appears unharmed (Andrew, Scott)
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* A Note about Online meetings - Mark notices that online events/meetings have a different feeling/energy than organic in-room meetings.  
 
* A Note about Online meetings - Mark notices that online events/meetings have a different feeling/energy than organic in-room meetings.  
 
Dawn described how Tri-Embed group holds the meetings and maintain an interesting dynamic, engaged audience
 
Dawn described how Tri-Embed group holds the meetings and maintain an interesting dynamic, engaged audience
 
* Scrap Exchange contacted us (TriDIYBio/Splat) about moving out of #24 Shoppers St by Sept. Tom has set up a calendar for people to get their materials out of 24. Scott will be assembling shelves and will make available a series of shelves in the basement, moving materials from the boneyard to the basement in order to get space for materials coming from 24.
 
Pete S's electronic stuff is the bulk of material that need to be moved into Splatspace
 
Tom will keep membership up to date on
 
Mark suggests we will have to reoganize our assumptions about hypothetical future tenancy at TSE.
 
  
 
* Memembers discussed ways to incentive or encourage members to hold SplatSpace workshops or events. Ryan is planning a few workshops over the next few months. Scott/Dawn suggests tag team presentation. Lewis wondered about a workshop template to help would-be instructors form curriculem
 
* Memembers discussed ways to incentive or encourage members to hold SplatSpace workshops or events. Ryan is planning a few workshops over the next few months. Scott/Dawn suggests tag team presentation. Lewis wondered about a workshop template to help would-be instructors form curriculem

Revision as of 20:16, 8 November 2020

Contents

November 10th, 2020

Agenda

Summary
  1. Minutes
  2. Member Attendance
  3. Consent Agenda
  4. Old Business
  5. Action Items
  6. New Business
  7. Annual Election
  8. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
    5. Public Relations
    6. At-Large
  9. Guest Introductions
  10. Member Reports
  11. Upcoming Events
  12. Trash/Recycling Volunteer
  13. Adjournment


 

Guest Introductions

Minutes

Approved/rejected?

Initialization

Meeting started at [TIME]

Member Attendance

43 Dues-paying (voting) members
Quorum = 11 members
z Members were in attendance

Consent Agenda

1) Approve meeting minutes from October 6th.

Old Business

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.)

* In Sept/for Oct, implement a process (proposal?) for holding votes with membership electronically, to allow us to accomplish votes without establishing quorum at/during meetings. (Blake) Google Forms suggested as a straightforward solution.

* Door system - remains delayed, requires "jiggle."

* Training & Accountability (need volunteers)

[create doc with list of tools, include people & doc links as we start making equipment training guides]

Post-COVID TODOs

* Laser cutter soundproofing. * Look into the option of renting the space no longer used by the gym or the contracting company (the garage). Possibly a good substitute for the basement storage we currently pay ~$500/mo. (Andrew & Blake)



New Business

  • TriDIYBio/Splat finished moving out of #24 Shoppers St (Scrap Exchange property). Pete S is storing the electronics donation from Fred Ebeling at his home until plans can be made to distribute the remaining materials (Jan/Feb of 2021). Tom is holding TriDIYBio Saturday Science meetings in the lab area he set up in the basement at Splat.

The items listed below are from the Oct 6 meeting - items can either me deleted or updated to report at Nov meeting.

  • No water damage to 3d printers, and the server is more or less back to normal. The electronics section also appears unharmed (Andrew, Scott)
  • Meetups: Mark has performed a number of micro-edits to the Software Project Night Online event. RSVPs will get URL links to the meeting. Note: the free Meet meetings will be cut down to 1 hr in October. (Mark) Redundancy in contact methods (eg email, meetup, slack, etc) is encourage. (All)
  • A Note about Online meetings - Mark notices that online events/meetings have a different feeling/energy than organic in-room meetings.

Dawn described how Tri-Embed group holds the meetings and maintain an interesting dynamic, engaged audience

  • Memembers discussed ways to incentive or encourage members to hold SplatSpace workshops or events. Ryan is planning a few workshops over the next few months. Scott/Dawn suggests tag team presentation. Lewis wondered about a workshop template to help would-be instructors form curriculem
  • Website plans: Blake suggests picking a night and knocking it out in a "hacking - marathon" (not a portmanteau though)

Domain registration issue - Shaw's personal account needs to be transferred to Splatspace

  • Members discussed the upcoming October Annual Meeting and officer elections. Lewis will email membership to inform them of that

Oct 6, all positions are eligible, some will be vacant due to succession

  • Tom wants to be trained on keyfob/new member onboarding

Annual Election

The roles of the SplatSpace board are defined in the Bylaws

  • Is there quorum?
  • Officer position nominations.
  • Results of vote.
President -
Vice President -
Secretary -
Treasurer -
At-Large -
At-Large -
At-Large -


Officer Reports

President

President Ryan described recently signing up a promising new member.


Vice-President

VP Andrew got 2 3d printers back up and running and is finishing a 3rd.


Treasurer
  • Account balances as of 9/01:
+ BB&T + Cash Total - Outstanding - Escrow - 3 mo reserve Non-committed
  $3071.29     $174     $3245.29     $0     $1232     $7500     $-5486.71  
  $3071.29     $174     $3245.29     $0     $1232     $0     $2013.29  


  • This month's income:
Member Dues Donations Other Total
  $1611.70     $219.54     $0     $1831.24  
  • This month's expenses:
UDI Rent Linode.com Spectrum Misc Total
  $1900*     $20.13     $94.99     $1.40     $2016.52  
  • Income - Expenses =   -$185.28
  • Potentially recoverable back dues = ~$750


  • Active Member count as of 9/01: (Active = paid dues within past 60 days)
Membership Type # Members Expected Dues Target # Members Target Dues
Full 19 $1140 27 $1620
Full (Legacy) 12 $600
Associate 3 $75
Associate (Legacy) 5 $100
Student 4 $140
Total 43 $2055 51 $2535
Monthly Expected Expenses

Current = $2010

[Jan 2021 = $2510]

Deficit/Surplus

Current = $2055 - $2010 = +45/mo

[Jan 2021 = $2055 - $2510 = -$455/mo]

Departing Members: none :)

New Members: 1 new member (who?)

Paused: 4 members


With our current Membership & Expenses, we can pay bills through mid-July 2021

  • Note: projection based on member dues (does not include donations)

https://wiki.splatspace.org/images/3/37/ReserveProjection09.pdf


Current steps to increase revenue / decrease expenses:

  • Donations: Thank you to Andrew, Blake, & Graham
  • Reduced rent ($1900 vs $2400) through end of 2020


Secretary

No report this month.


Public Relations

Blake

  • Request for social media content from members. Please send to Blake or ask to post it.

Lewis

  • Look into doing a writeup for Durham Chicken Homesteading


At-Large

Scott

  • Will be building new shelving Labor Day weekend to add more storage and accommodate items needing to be stored from #24 location. Note will be moving personal project items from Boneyard to new shelves in their exact relative positions. Please contact Scott if you are concerned.


Member Reports

  • Tom - on the 12th Tom will be doing a talk at the 2020 Citizen Science and Higher Education Emposium and will mention Splatspace
  • Chris S - Forge has moved to Apex but is not up and running yet

Upcoming Events

Tom

  • Saturday Science from 1 - 4pm at #24 (ongoing since June). Edward R. moved his entymology startup to #24, so there's more functional bio equipment there now.

note new calendar for 2020 External Outreach Events list

Trash/Recycling Volunteer

Adjournment