Member Meeting Minutes for January 15th, 2023

Attendees

• Alex Reasinger
• Alisa Grishman
• Andrew Tennenbaum
• Brian “Beebo” Esch
• Chris McCann
• Joe Fraker
• Kirk Hendricks
• Lu Lyu
• Peter Kaup
• Rich Simpson
• Rob Bedel
• Sean Guzek
• Stephen Dau
• Steve Owens

Call to Order

Meeting was called to order at 19:40 by Beebo

Welcome New Members!

Lu Lyu

• Has a project that she’s working on building kinetic sculptures
• Previously studied art and technology
  • Using motors to make things move
• Mostly uses the CNC and the wood shop
• Good at 3D modeling
  • Might be able to teach Fusion 360

Pete Kaup

• Just joined!
• Makes furniture
  • Has a number of tools at home, but not all of the things that Hack has
• Enjoys working with exotic woods
• Also welds
  • Interested in learning other metalworking

Stephen Dau

• Joined ages ago but is finally making his first meeting
• Does mostly woodworking and furniture
  • Very interested in trying live-edge woodworking
• Excited for the upcoming welding classes

Announcements

Moved the fire extinguisher

• Fire extinguisher on center column on the clean side got moved to the opposite side of the column so it isn’t being blocked by the table

Shop clean

• January 29 from noon until we’re done
• Pizza will be provided
• Given that December’s was early and we only had 4 people here, we really need all hands on deck

February trash night sign-ups

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jlnb70sxQ-lTafuWRjsEnG-GBnINoVmGTaTQZj7FTJo/
• Trying to get the next month’s sign-ups done at the end of the second meeting of each month so we don’t have to keep bringing it up over and over

Warm Clothing Drive

• Brought our second load of donations (children’s coats, hats, and gloves) over to Womanspace East tonight
• Going to actively continue the drive through the end of March

Treasurer’s Report

• Bank: $5862.78
• PayPal: $475.87
• Still not doing great, and we’ve still got a bunch of expenses coming up

Old Business

Classes

• As always, we’re looking for more people to teach more classes
  • Doesn’t have to be “big things” – can be small classes doing origami, printmaking, language lessons, etc
• Holiday themes
  • There are a number of upcoming holidays where classes can be scheduled to go with them
  • Alisa proposed scheduling a Valentines-themed laser cutter class ASAP
  • Karan’s soil moisture sensor would be great for Mothers Day
• Ideas from tonight
  • Lu can teach Fusion 360
  • Rob’s keyboard class will probably be ready to be scheduled in March

Clubs

• Also looking to get more clubs up and running
  • Current clubs continue to just be the game night and the “Yarn and Darn”
• In the past Hack had many clubs, including lockpicking, hot wheels, ham radio, foam and fiber, etc
• Great way to get the public involved, bring in new members, and get people talking about the space

New Business

Small projects

• A few of us have made a Google Doc to keep track of smaller-scale projects we need to work on around the shop
• The people behind the doc are also the people who are responsible for the major high priority projects going on in the shop
  • As such, the “small stuff” keeps getting pushed further back on the priority list
• We need people who are willing to help with the smaller things
  • Contact Alisa for access to the Google Doc
• Examples
  • Steve Owens and Geno working on making it so people can pay for vending machine items with fobs
  • Tool organization, updating website, creating panic button to call 911 for dirty side, etc

Member Questions

• Andrew is leaving us to finish his PhD. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
• Rob is going to be getting us new computers this month to replace Alpha and Beta
  • Donated by Ansys
• Data on Alpha and Beta
  • Hack does not keep backups of member data on either computer
  • Always save your files on a thumb drive
  • Beta’s files have hopefully all been ported over onto Alpha, but no guarantees

Motion to Adjourn

Meeting was adjourned at 20:28

Minutes by A.Grishman (talk) 22:25, 15 January 2023 (PST)