Member Meeting Minutes for June 20, 2017
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- Attendees
- Chad
- James
- Dave
- Geno
- Becky
- John Lewis
- Josh Smith
- Simon Heath
- Adam Longwill
- Jesse
- Cressida (Hangouts)
- Jacques (Hangouts)
- Rob Martin (Hangouts)
- Gene Kern (Hangouts)
Called to Order
- Called to Order At: 7:35pm
New/Potential Members
- N/A
Previous Events/Classes
- Welding Class
- Motor Control
- June 17 @ 10am
- Sold out
- Everyone got their motors working, success!
- 8 Year Party
- Big success
- Thank you Becky!
- June 17 @ 10am
- Reddit Ask Me Anything, Becky was set up
- Board members hosted
- Few people from AMA took motor class and came to party, expressed interest in membership
- Board members hosted
Learning Tracks / Classes
- Soldering Class
- Design our own PCB and have something which is not an Arduino
- Geno, Bob, and Cathy will work on it
- Sometime in August?
Potential Events/Talks/Classes
- Biohacking: The moral Imperative to Build a Better You
- Fidget Spinner class for kids
- Dave Coakley and Rob Martin
- Boyscouts and Girlscouts
- July 22 10-1pm
- Edge lit acrylic
- Rob Martin interested in teaching it
- 21+ BYOB event
- Friday night July 21 @ 7pm
- Welding Class
- Dave
- July 1, 12pm-6pm
- Dave
- John Lewis
- SSH VNC class
- Sat July 15, 10am-12pm
- SSH VNC class
- Intro to Python
- July 15 at 2pm
- Intro to Biosignals
- EEG and EKG
- James Hyde
- Basic heart rate monitor
- Bring your own Arduino and laptop
- $100-150
- Intro to Czech and Mandarin
- Becky
Shop Projects / Updates
- Autonomous Power Wheels
- June 21 meeting
- Power Wheels
- Laser Cutter
- 3-D Printers
- Boxzy
- Mendlemax
- Makegear
- Adam Casto fixing it
- DaVinci
- Chad putting on loan so that we can print ABS.
- Eli brought shelf for it
- Metal Shop
- Mill needs 5 conductor switch
- Wood Shop
- Dust collector
- Electronics Workstation
- Fabrication Station
- Automatic dues payment system
- New Website
- 99% done
- Becky will help with wording for Visiting section of website
- Vending Machine
- Jacques and Chad will mount coin collector into vending machine
- Server
- Misc
- Safety Report
- Need to test alarms next Meeting!
- We are now requiring anyone who walks into HackPGH who is not a member, sign the release form!
- Anonymous complaints form online for members to report issues.
- Redbull Flugtag
Old Business
- New Mailing List / Slack/Google Groups
- Nobody is using freelists, completely switched to Google Groups
- Checklist for various tools to keep track of their condition
- Clipboards are here. Anyone want to help?
- New website will have inventory page
- Dave will check status of tools periodically
- Becky will donate old iPad for tool inventory
- Becky is working on making us a 501c3
- Updates likely Wednesday
- Custom non-profit receipt we can give to people so they can do writeoffs
- Volunteer hours being logged
- Log will eventually be on website
- Bonus on cleaning bathroom!
- Meta Mesh is giving HackPGH super fast speed internet (1000Mb of BW)
- More Inclusion
- Every member should be able to give tours
- We need to be very friendly and welcoming
- Prototype wants to partner with HackPGH (Potentially Same building).
- Grants
- Colab between members.
- Extra Help
- Workshop PGH wants to partner too.
- Update on State of Making in PGH
- New Member Induction policy
- We want to find a way to make it more friendly
- Eli will help come up with official policy wording before we vote on it
New Business
- Wed afternoon, looking at potential new space, church on Forbes
- Swap flammables cabinet with shelves near dry erase board
- There are 744 hours in a month, Please use 3 of them for volunteer hours
Project RollCall
New Member Induction
- Dan Thompson
- Approved
- Charles Simpson
- Approved
Move to Adjourn
- Simon motions
- John Lewis seconds
- Adjourned at: 8:42pm
Meeting notes by Geno