Member Meeting Minutes for October 18, 2016
Minutes by Agenda Topic
- Attendees
- Cathy
- Chad
- Alex
- Steve Morrison
- James Hyde
- Andrew
- Geno
- Scott2
- Jessie
- Merric
- Mike
- Harshad
- Steve Owens
- Gene (hangouts)
- Josh Smith (hangouts)
- Ryan (hangouts)
- Adam (hangouts)
- Jim Keener (hangouts)
Called to Order
- Called to order at: 7:44pm
New/Potential Members
- Harshad
- Works at consulting firm, studies electronics for bachelors, never got a chance to do it, wants to work on hands on projects
- Mike
- Lives 100 ft from HackPGH
- Does software dev for startuptown
Upcoming Events
- Please see Calendar
Learning Tracks / Classes
- Basic Electronics part 1
- Nov 5 10am-2pm
- Intro to Python
- Nov 12 1pm-3pm
Potential Talks/Classes
- Andrew- Intro to Lathe and Mill
- Near end of November
- John Lewis- PittMesh DNS/Server talk
- Intro to Databases, Intro to Git
- Soap Making class?
- Intro to Welding, similar to SynHak
- Lets drive to Synhak to learn welding
- Akron mini maker faire Nov 5
- Lets drive to Synhak to learn welding
Shop Projects / Updates
- Autonomous Power Wheels
- No updates
- Power Wheels
- HackPGH won 2/3 races during Maker Faire PGH
- 3-D Printers
- Chris Yohe is fixing the Makegear
- Ryan will train us on Mendlemax
- Next 3dPPGH meeting at HackPGH
- Boxzy is working good
- Lathe
- DROs need to be installed
- Fabrication Station
- Clean due to Maker Faire party, lets keep it that way!
- Automatic dues payment system
- Jim is close to getting it working, did some tests
- Vending Machine
- Still needs a raspberry Pi Connected and payments to work.
- Server
- Cloud with LED's which lights up when people access server
- Vaccum Forming Table
- Jeremy Tiogar
Old Business
- Need outlets near mill
- We have all materials, lets just do it
- Vinyl Cut Open Shop Hours on door.
- Cathy will do this
- New Space
- Lets put Open Shop recurring on Meetup. Excellent way to attract new members.
- Scheduled for Oct 22
- Maker Faire
- Wrap up
- Awesome party, lots of beer, food, and etc. Other Hackerspaces helped out. Great community effort
- Special Applause for Chad
- City of Pittsburgh Ornaments
- Josh Smith and Jessie are getting close on the PGH xmas tree ornaments, got all materials
- Things that need done around the shop
- Update Member Booklet
- Members vote to make a PDF, email it to new members
- Maintain Computers
- Update/Install Autodesk
- Section Leaders Needed
- Fabrication Station
- Update Member Booklet
New Business
- Shop lights are dead, replace ballast with LED's.
- Update: This issue needs to be solved ASAP, members are complaining, dangerous to use machine tools in dark!!!!
- $200 budget approved by HackPGH board
- Simon proposes that we no longer lives in darkness
- Alex seconds
- All members vote in favor
- Adam will have a talk on how PittMesh got started, and how a HackPGH born startup can become successful
- Tim from Grindhouse may also give a talk about his company
- Ideas to keep shop clean,
- More parties
- More public events
- Dale wants to talk about larger space with us. Made right here wants to partner with us.
- Share classroom space with us and made right here
- Board members and vast majority of members don't like this idea, we would lose our identity, other issues
- Bring up to vote: Should we talk with Made Right Here, listen to what they have to say
- All members vote in favor to allow Chad to listen, and discuss
- Dale also said that we may potentially get Harold's space for about $1500/month
- Raise dues to $50/month, teach more classes
Project RollCall
New Member Induction
Move to Adjourn
- Adjourned at: 8:40pm
Meeting notes by Geno