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Revision as of 00:57, 6 July 2022

Contents

June 7th, 2022

Link to join online meeting: https://meet.google.com/roo-ozzn-jne

Agenda

Summary
  1. Guest Introductions
  2. Member Reports
  3. Upcoming Events
  4. Committee Reports
    1. Recurring Events
    2. Non-Recurring Events
    3. External Outreach Events
  5. Previous Minutes
  6. Member Attendance
  7. Recruitment / Retention / Fundraising
  8. Old Business
    1. Pinned items
    2. Action Items
  9. New Business
  10. Officer Reports
    1. President
    2. Vice-President
    3. Treasurer
    4. Secretary
    5. At-Large
  11. Other
  12. Trash/Recycling Volunteer
  13. Adjournment


Initialization

Guest Introductions


Member Reports


Upcoming 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:
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. As usual, check https://www.meetup.com/splatspace/events/calendar for posted events.


Committee Reports

Special Action Committee

{needs leader}

Knowledge Share Committee

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

Documentation Committee

Ryan Patridge, Blake McNeill, Scott Hall & Brittney Merryweather

New Equipment Purchasing Committee

Blake McNeill

Donations Committee

Justin Kirk & Blake McNeill

  • Management of future donations
  • Ebay sales
  • Recycling



Previous Minutes

  • Approval of minutes June 7th, 2022


Recruitment / Retention / Fundraising

Member Attendance
  • MM Dues-paying (voting) members
  • NN on-line & NN members in attendance
  • X to reach quorum



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


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:

+ Truist + Cash Total - Outstanding - Escrow - 3 mo reserve Non-committed
  $10762.03     $174     $10936.03     $0     $896     $7500     $2540.03  
  $10762.03     $174     $10936.03     $0     $896     $0     $10040.03  


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


Trash/Recycling Volunteer

  • Ask for a volunteer


Adjournment