Member Meeting Minutes for May 21, 2019

HackPGH member’s meeting agenda for May 21, 2019

Call to order

8:16pm

Welcome New members

None.

Quote

"If the Garage door is open, keep an eye on it."

PSA’s

• If the garage door is open please keep an eye on it.

Past events

• Welding classes
  • People welded. They were weld-attended.
• Clothing swap
  • Cloth was swapped
  • Next time we could use more bags, backpacks, and toiletries, detergent, feminine products, and less furniture.
• Making laundry soap
  • Need to advertise better
• Seed starting class -- cancelled
• More welding -- 101a, 101b, 102
  • Kiefer is DTF. Down to forget about doing anything else and weld.
• Breathe Uptown meeting
  • GASP! They loved the space.

Events for May and into June

• Tesla club
  • Wednesday 5/22
• SHOP CLEAN SATURDAY BEFORE
• More welding
• 10th BIRTHDAY PARTY
• Bethany wants to do another clothing swap, who's up for that and when?

Old business

• Sink -- can we get rid of it
  • Chad wants the Slop Sink. The Board says he can take it. He has been informed via Slack.
• Old tables -- Can we get rid of it
  • Yes, Adam and Phil were going to go through that and sort them. They have not had time to get together and fix them.
• Scrap lumber sitting around -- can we get rid of it
  • Yes
• Dust collector updates -- let's just buy it already
  • The board has bought stuff related to this.
• RFID tool lockout --
  • It broke but you can just un plug it and plug it in again.
• Bathroom floor -- Marissa needs strong lads and lasses to help empty the bathroom, let's do that ASAP.
  • We may be able to do this at the shop clean.
• HackPGH's 10th birthday party -- June 1st. Everyone bring cool stuff to show off. Everyone tell your friends, social media, etc.

New business

• Phil fixed the fork lift. You can now lift forks more easily.
• If Kiefer is here, we need to verify which welding class he's doing next -- schedule for June 8
• We have a FAQ on the wiki now -- Thanks Steve Owens for helping
  • Thanks Steve and Simon
• We have a member's guide as well -- awesomesauce.
• Back door maglock kinda sucks. Can we either a) ditch it or b) fix it proper? b) is hard.
  • Phil thinks he knows where the strike plate is.
• Get a goat or get MACHETE.
• We need area leads!
  • Time to volunteer. Keeps materials stocked, organized
  • We should also order more shirts to thank area leads. Add designs to Red Bubble.

Shop updates

• Front door now works again! Thanks Steve Owens!
• Ask Dale about getting more gravel for the parking lot.
• Cameras -- They now work. I think. We need to add more as well and a monitor outside.
• Dust collector -- fabrication underway, we need to just man up and buy the machinery
• RFID stuff -- have parts, need to make prototype
• We're gonna be signing off on donations now, and please clean up projects. Get ur crap out of here.

Voting items

• Can we extend the $30/month membership to people on disability?
• Can we formalize "spouse/financially dependent board members cannot sign each other's expenses"?
• Can we formalize "Votes must be run by people not involved in them"?