Member Meeting Minutes for July 26, 2009

Minutes by Agenda Topic

T-Shirts

• The license plate design is approved
• Pre-orders will be taken
• A link for pre-orders will be posted to the blog
• Revenue generated will be used to buy a few additional t-shirts for ad-hoc sale

Flickr

• The group would like a Flickr account
• It would be nice to have a pool so other group members photos can be included

Mailing List

• A mailing list would help keep updates flowing to the group
• It would also protect user's private email addresses

Events and Calendar

• We're having trouble communicating events to the group
• The calendar is not widely known
• We don't want to overwhelm things with Twitter, Facebook, Google Groups, the forum, the wiki, etcetera

Urban Treehouse

• An organizational meeting is being held Thursday
  • The meeting is not HackPittsburgh specific
• Nick provided an overview of the group
  • They provide wood to artists from fallen trees, etcetera
  • Artists make projects with the wood
• Nick discussed collaboration with them
  • Does anyone with an engineering background want to apply to the program?
  • Would anyone with an electronics background want to help artists with their projects?
• Would we consider an intro class teaching lighting, LEDs, etcetera?

Action Items

Matt:

• Set up t-shirt blog entry and order form

Marty:

• Set up Flickr account and pool, communicate to group

Steve:

• Set up the mailing list, communicate to group

Nick:

• Post a description of the project to the forum
• Solicit group members for involvement for the treehouse project