Member Meeting Minutes for June 28, 2009
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Open council seat
- Andy has decided to withdraw his nomination due to concerns that he can't put in the time
- Marty accepts the vacant council position
Shop hours
- Saturdays are temporarily removed from the open hours
- Afternoon/evening interest is lower than expected
- Will consider opening the shop on a case-by-case basis
- July signups are available for "office hours"
- $30 is due for members who did not put in volunteer hours
- It will be possible to meet the volunteer requirement in ways other than office hours
- We'll organize workdays on Saturdays
DevHouse
- Recap of event
- Successful event
- About 25 people
- A few folks are interested in membership
- Discussion of rain ingress
- Dale is looking into the leaks
- Nick to follow up with Dale on leaks
- HackPittsburgh will begin hosting DevHouse on a monthly basis
- Karl is stepping down
- His partner has moved back to SF
- They're trying to figure out how to administer it and keep it running
- Marty and Matt proposed an arrangement
- DevHouse every other month on Tuesday
- Held at HackPittsburgh
- Less admin necessary to find spaces, etcetera
- Details still in flux
- Karl is stepping down
Shop status
- Nick to follow up with Dale on
- Electricity
- The broken door
- Painting should continue
- Door access / RFID system
- Design phase
- Need fixed door
- Need electricity
- Need to get a few people together to work on the tech
Friday nights
- Very successful in terms of events
- Will continue
- Send ideas to Matt
- This coming Friday
- Do we have an event this Friday due to the holiday?
- Folks do seem to be interested
- Need someone to organize it
- Is it possible to have events on other nights?
- Proposal: organize it around office hours
- Office hour owner propose/set a "theme" for that night
Classes
- Electricity in the shop is tight
- Hold Freeduino and Physical Pixel again to build interest for servos
- Steve is planning a Ruby/Arduino class
- Nick is planning a MakerBot class
Logo
- Forest has some logo samples
- He'll post them to the forums
Action Items
Nick:
- Follow up with Dale on:
- Leaks
- Electricity
- Broken door
Forest:
- Post logo samples to the forum