Council Meeting Minutes for August 20, 2012

Attending

• Scott, Eli, Doug

Organization

• Shop Security
  • Security Camera status:
  • RFID status: Waiting for hardware to be mounted (gabe), will do in-place testing (not locking) once mounted. Need user agreement sheet w/ replacement costs.

• Announcements list
  • Next issue: 31 August, no later than 4 Sept. Need Friday night events.

• Dues and Membership Levels - Deferred
  • New dues paying options in place.
  • Finish membership levels discussion from email - Need to have a dedicated meeting

• Shop Projects
  • Phone system - Need details from Jeff
  • 3-D Printer -

• Website
  • Convene sub-group on website redesign - August (Defer)
  • Eli's friend eval - Eli will set up meeting w/Drue, council

• September Friday Nights
  • Figure out on Wednesday, 22 August

• Form letter to reply to folks who want to donate stuff? (Maybe a wiki page or ...) (deferred)
• Donations must be approved by the council. Need to remind membership of this.
• Garage sale in August

Shop Direction(s) for 2012

• Unblocked by electrical work
  • Electronics Station - still needs work
  • Craft area - getting attention
    • Leather sewing machine project
• Robot parts: Eli will look at that and at finishing the shop shop reorg.
• Shop cleanup:
  • Once a Quarter cleanup day (weekend, major)
• Propose to members that we shoot for one workshop/class per month
  • We're stumbling on getting classes arranged/organized.
• Friday night event planning
  • Not just talks
  • As with Shop Cleanup, maybe we relieve some schedule pressure with:
  • FiniSH IT Fridays (every 2nd or 3rd month)?
  • Game nights (Artemis or otherwise?)
  • Food event (every 2nd/3rd month, we've had Miracle Fruit, Truffles, Mead, and now Coffee)
  • Learn-to nights
    • Simple soldering? Yohe did a one solder joint Friday night event that was pretty successful
    • Learn to knit/crochet
    • Some kind of programming intro? (May be too long for a Friday night though)