Member Meeting Minutes for June 28, 2009

Minutes by Agenda Topic

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

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