Member Meeting Minutes for June 5, 2017
Minutes by Agenda Topic
- Attendees
- Chad
- Bob Berger
- Rob Martin
- Adam Longwill
- Becky
- Eli
- Geno
- James Hyde
- Dave Coakley
- Jacques
- Steve Owens
- Adam Casto
- Corey
- Jesse
- Cathy
- Steve Morrison
- Jason Khanlar
- Dan Vito
Called to Order
- Called to Order At: 7:31pm
New/Potential Members
- Dan Vito
- Owns Pottery shop Fireborn Studios and Gallery
- Wants to use CNC and laser cutter
- Want us to build kiln
- Jason Khanlar
- currently interested in learning and working with laser printing for current art-related projects
- Has some preliminary participation with MetaMesh ( https://github.com/jasonkhanlar/pittmesh-autoconf and https://github.com/pittmesh/ip-calculator
- Kudos both to Adam Longwill and Drew from Zhrodague (Celley) for their inspirational leaderships
Previous Events/Classes
- Open Streets
- 5/28/2017 8am-1pm
- Drawbot, Tardis, Gokart
Learning Tracks / Classes
- Motor Control
- June 17 @ 10am
- National Week of Making June 16-22
- June - Not going to happen... Do we host an event?
- Maybe 8 year party?
- Becky interested in planning party
- June 17 @ 7pm-12am
- Maybe 8 year party?
- June - Not going to happen... Do we host an event?
Potential Events/Talks/Classes
- Shop makes a lot of revenue from classes.
- Biohacking: The moral Imperative to Build a Better You
- Fidget Spinner class for kids
- Dave Coakley and Rob Martin
- Late June
- Edge lit acrylic
- Rob Martin interested in teaching it
- 21+ BYOB event
- Friday night in July
- Welding Class
- Dave
- John Lewis
- SSH VNC class
Shop Projects / Updates
- Autonomous Power Wheels
- Making progress
- Setting up new onboard computer
- Creating chassis
- Power Wheels
- Need to redo brake lines and motor sensor
- Laser Cutter
- 3-D Printers
- Boxzy
- Mendlemax
- Makegear
- Adam Casto fixing it
- DaVinci
- Chad putting on loan so that we can print ABS.
- Eli will bring shelf for it
- Metal Shop
- Mill needs 5 conductor switch
- Wood Shop
- James and Dave working on dust collector
- We need bigger dust collector
- Please clean up woodshop area tools after use!
- James and Dave working on dust collector
- Electronics Workstation
- Pieces of wall plaster are falling off, need to fix
- Fabrication Station
- Has dedicated power, thanks Jesse
- Some concerns about overloading. Eli will take a look at it.
- Figured that we will never plug in any heavy loads to it.
- Some concerns about overloading. Eli will take a look at it.
- Has dedicated power, thanks Jesse
- Automatic dues payment system
- New Website
- 99% done
- Becky will help with wording for Visiting section of website
- Vending Machine
- Jacques and Dave will mount coin collector into vending machine
- Server
- Misc
- Safety Report
- Need to test alarms!
- 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
- Jesse needs help with project
- Need people to work on it
- Were doing the movie UP Theme
- We actually have a plan!
Old Business
- New Mailing List / Slack/Google Groups - Make it easy for everyone (inclusion)
- 43 members have signed up
- We discussed closing the old forum... still working on it.
- Geno will send an email
- 43 members have signed up
- 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
- Update personal info.
- We are now requiring a Name, Email and a optional phone number to bin.
- Emergency Contact info
- Bins without contact info will be removed today.
- Becky is working on making us a 501c3
- See New Business
- Volunteer hours being logged
- Log will eventually will be on website
- Bonus on cleaning bathroom!
- Meta Mesh is giving HackPGH super fast speed internet (500Mb of BW)
- Adam says new super fast internet will be up tomorrow!
New Business
- We went to see lawyer today regarding making HackPGH 501c3
- Elliot and Davis lawyers helping us
- No longer membership organization from legal standpoint
- Need to change dues to "participation fees"
- Becky rewrote our organization description, mission statement,bylaws, etc.
- Maker residency program
- 4 weeks after we sign, we become 501c3
- HUGE Thanks to Becky!!!
- Reddit Ask Me Anything, Becky will set up
- Board members will host
- 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
- Update on State of Making in PGH
- TechShop May not be closing.
- Will know by July 1st
- We have a facebook (NextShop)
- We have a website (www.pittsburghmakers.org).
- 3 major conversations
- Keep TechShop Open
- Opening New Space
- Helping current spaces expand
- TechShop May not be closing.
- 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
Project RollCall
New Member Induction
- Alan Bachmann
- All board members and at least 3 members approve
- Membership approved
- All board members and at least 3 members approve
- Daniel Vito
- All board members and at least 3 members approve
- Membership approved
- All board members and at least 3 members approve
Move to Adjourn
- Bob Berger motions
- Eli Richter seconds
- Adjourned at: 9:31pm
Meeting notes by Geno