Member Meeting Agenda for Mar 19, 2019

HackPGH member’s meeting agenda for March 19, 2019

PSA’s

• Reminder: YOUR DUES pay for hack's electricity, less money spent on electricity means more money spent on tools. Enterprising members figuring out how to save electricity are welcome! Prime candidates are the refrigerators (and servers?).
• Also Dale is planning to install HVAC of some kind sooner or later, at which point we will also pay our own heating... so get used to it.
• Weird smells? People have been complaining of such.

Past events

• Welding workshop, Bethany + Kiefer -- great success
• Amateur radio meetup?
• LAN party?
• Soldering class -- great success

Events for March

• 20th: Microcontroller meetup
• 23rd: SMAW welding class, new teacher
• 26th: Arduino class
• 29th: Circuit design class
• 30th: Computer building class
• 31st: SHOP CLEAN!
• April 2nd: Amateur radio meetup
• April 3rd: Member's meeting!

Old business

• We need to figure out exact wording of the proposal of work-for-membership and get a vote up on that.
• The vote for camera stuff passed

New business

• We need a FAQ!
• We need a Visiting Hacker policy -- one shot and short visits both. We also need a better awy to put interested parties in touch with members who may want to build things for them.
• Mailing list!
• We need dust collection systems! Phil has a good design, anyone else?
• Let's keep the Class Train rolling. Let's start talking to local non-profits, libraries, etc, teach classes elsewhere. Sam has given us ideas for a Path To Diversity.
• T-shirts, stickers and other swag are going to be available, if anyone has suggestions for print-on-demand services we can try. Also variations/enhancements on the logo are welcome, we should make a public google drive or something.
• Hack's TENTH ANNIVERSARY is this month! Let's plan a party! Early summer, once the weather is nice?

Shop updates

• The tailstock on the lathe is not centered with the chuck. Can we do anything about that?
• If you leave the lathe switched on I will attach you to it and wait for someone to accidentally bump the direction lever. That said, please make sure it's switched off before trying to use it.
• We need to clean the flammables safe -- next shop clean maybe
• Who the heck does that big sink belong to? Can we get rid of it?
• A shelf over the lathe would be *hot* -- thanks Phil for putting the one in over the kiln area, what parts do we have for more?

Voting items

• Let's settle on a design for the dust collector

Project updates

• Big CNC: Simon would love to work on it but is busy trying to Solutionize things
• Small CNC: Sean would love to work on it but is busy trying to Solutionize things