9/14/10

Agenda

1. Please Sign in on the meeting attendance roster.
2. Waivers of Liability - Please sign if you have not already
3. n00bs! Check out the LVL1 Quickstart info sheet next to the liability waivers. Feel free to ask questions.
4. Space Upgrades
   1. a bunch of servers and rails (thanks Rich!)
   2. 12 new soldering irons stations
5. September 18th (this Saturday) is Software Freedom Day
   1. http://softwarefreedomday.org/
   2. Out wiki page: http://wiki.lvl1.org/Software_Freedom_Day
   3. GWORBorg will join us. http://www.GWOB.org.
   4. Woodland Computers will be bringing up some of their Ubuntu workstations
6. Upcoming Workshops
   1. Contact Mic / Circuitbending workshop Sept. 25th
      1. Circuit-bending rock band CMKT 4 will be in town to host
      2. They manufacture contact mics. Kits will be $15 for the first and $10 additional.
   2. IEEE Student Section Soldering Workshop? (Brad/Alex Halbleib)
      1. IEEE Reserves 15 seats, LVL1 Reserves 5.
      2. Cost: $10-15
      3. Great opportunity to subvert young minds.
   3. Members feel free to organize workshops whenever they feel.
7. New Louisville Soundbuilder's night every other Monday
   1. Robert Schneider from Apples in Stereo will be demonstrating his Teletron (mind-interface synthesizer)
   2. Chris will be demonstrating some modular synthesis stuff
8. 'makership' fundraising effort
   1. All regular membership rules apply
   2. It will be an independent fund to sponsor a yearly membership and project proposal
9. 501c(3) update.
10. Budget Allocation Discussion
    1. Our standard financial hackerspace design pattern.
    2. Design considerations
11. Project Rollcall
    1. If you are working on a team project, please tell us what's going on with it.

General Discussion + Meet and Greet + Open Build