Member Meeting Minutes for July 3, 2019

Call to order

• Simon called the meeting to order at 7:45 PM.

Attendees

• Simon Heath, President
• Sean Guzek, Vice-President
• Bethany Klick, Treasurer
• Becky Zajdel, Secretary
• Adam Longwill, Board Member
• Chad Elish, awesome former President
• Zuri Woods
• Alex Reasinger
• Phil Garrow
• Kris Kanihiro
• Tom Fetheron
• Nur Hildirim
• Joe Newcomer (via Google Hangouts)

Quote of the Day

• "Organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." -- Conway's Law (Conway wrote an assembler for the Burroughs model 220 computer called SAVE. The name SAVE was not an acronym, but a feature: programmers lost fewer punched card decks because they all had "SAVE" written on them.)

Old business

• The vote for the fridge has passed, we just need to pick it up from Lowe's. Board is still working on this.

• Robert brought a big bucket o' laptops to HackPGH. We will work on these to ensure that a lot of our classes can be taught without students having to bring in their own laptops.

• Status on CNC Proposal(s)
  • We are awaiting quotes. Please see last meeting minutes for more detailed information.

• Fresh Fest (August 10th)
  • Fresh Fest is the only Black-run beer fest in the country
  • We will make a few proofs with the Fresh Fest logo and make coasters and be sponsors

• We want to make thank-you coasters for our 10-year anniversary party
  • Shop N' Save, Wilkins Township
  • Dad's Pub and Grub, "Kelvo"
  • Tyler Mountain Water, Doug Hupe

• Explaining the research of Nur Yildirim
  • Please attend one of the four remaining research workshops! Dates are available through the Hack calendar.

• Wild Apricot is about to rollout the 20% servicing charge for our monthly Payment Servicing Fee, raising our monthly charge to $108.
  • We will try to move to Maker Net. We will keep the membership apprised of any developments.

• Adobe Creative Cloud status
  • We will look into purchasing from Tech Soup
    • Two licenses will be purchased!

New business

• We want to clear the weeds from the hill (potentially with SWORDS), but keep enough foliage to ensure that Gene gets his privacy.

• We considered having a garage sale, but the membership decided that it would be more prudent to sell items piecemeal on craigslist and/or Facebook marketplace.

• Needed for the shop:
  • Soap refills
  • Containers for the soap-making class
  • Pressure nozzle refills
  • Resin refills
  • Medium-sized gloves
  • Rubbing/isopropyl alcohol
  • Earplugs (mountable container)

• Another Swap Meet Day will be scheduled for August.
  • It was a successful event and those who participate will get volunteer hours.

• Brenton Galbraith will be starting "woodworking office hours." He will be able to train people on everything except the wood lathe - that tool is on loan from Chris and cannot be used without his permission!
  • We will contact Chris about possibly setting up a monthly and/or recurring wood lathe training.

• Phil is working on "donating" the holographic projector.
  • There are two museums in Garfield that may take it. Phil will contact them.

• We want to update and centralize our tool manuals
  • Update them on the wiki
  • Print them and make them available via hard copy in the shop.

• Safety problem
  • We have had a hard failure on one of the 3D printers!
  • DO NOT leave the 3D printers unattended. EVER.

• A dust collection system was purchased! It is arriving this Tuesday.

Voting items

• No voting items today.

Project updates

• Alex did an awesome brass metal casting of our logo!

Events

• https://hackpgh.org/calendar/

Move to adjourns

• Meeting was adjourned at 8:50 PM
• Minutes written by Becky "The Icebox" Zajdel