O/D Meeting 09/04/2012
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Attendees
- Officers and Directors present
- President - Chris C.
- VP - John C
- Secretary - Tim M.
- Brad L.
- Josh W.
- Officers and Directors not present
- Dan B
- Mark E
- Members present
- Jose C.
- John C.
- Tyler M
Minutes taken by Brad
- Old Business
- Director's Insurance
- 501(c)3
- Waiting on IRS
- Makerships
- Ready for 3 more
- Waiting for UofL makerships to finish up so no confusion
- Got posts out of UofL students, but they aren't showing up on the blog
- Blogging
- Things have improved, but no prompting
- Business Cards
- Jon will attempt to tackle it again
- Railing
- No traction
- Electricity up stairs
- Joe is supposed to get estimates from his Dad in on some Thursday
- If no traction by next director's meeting, we will figure out an alternative
- City Hackathon
- Morphed into IdeaFestival + Makerbot donation thing
- Succession Plan
- Some talk, Hive13 went through drama, need to learn from them
- Mark has started rolling stuff out into Google Docs
- CPA
- School Factory might supply a CPA
- Jon will check it out, he seems doubtful
- Lots of work before school factory CPA happens
- If no word from School Factory by next meeting, develop plan to acquire our own CPA
- Workshops
- We've done a workshop
- Jeffschool coming down the pipeline, going to do a whole fall semester
- Python, Cake PHP, Basic Electronics, 3d Modeling, DIY CNC, Game Salad(?), KiCad
- Funneling other classes through Jeffschool
- Nick Sturtzel's mom interested in teaching sewing class
- A/C for Upstairs
- Window units, no one's hanging out upstairs, so no momentum
- Suggestions to the list
- Winter is coming
- Cleaning Service
- Waiting on Mark for 1099
- Pushed back, Mark was going to talk to School Factory
- Look at commercial cleaning services
- John will do a 2 week test run of cleaning
- Prioritize Bathrooms
- Chris is a toilet gargoyle
- New Business
- 5 Makerbots came in! Awesome!
- Jon working on Member Shelving
- Suggest attacking Boneyard after hackathon
- Big push for more organization after storage FAP
- Mark areas that aren't for member storage
- Timeframe: As soon as this weekend, will give a couple days of notice
- Need to make people aware that stuff left next to the laser cutter will be cut.
- Mark it!
- Door Entry
- Going to sync with Mark's database with RasPi
- 20% of membership is behind on dues
- Chris proposes turning off cards 30 days after expiration
- Tim thinks this is too extreme
- Chris explains that this means you get 2 warnings, then your card gets cut off
- When Mother runs again, Mother could warn members
- Mother Opt-in for "Space Open" sort of thing
- Tie in to Card Access
- Locking issue
- People are leaving the door unlocked
- not everyone carries a hardware key any more, so this is an issue!
- Printer Cartridges
- Can anyone refill laser cartridges?
- Jon will make it happen
- Jose brings up: Donating something broken, if you can fix it, you can use it. Not too appropriate for the Hackerspace.
- If it's marked "Fix, do not hack!", then recontact.
- Signs that say, "Anything donated is the whole property of LVL1."
- Donation area is a royal mess, Jose's trying to figure out how to figure it out.
- Need more folding chairs, tables
- Rolling cart with chairs
- Josh is going to FAP for chairs
- Trial run of Radioshack Arduino workshops/open builds
- Two months of trial run workshops
- Lights on our building are out
- Chris will email the Zinks
- Guns in the Space
- Possibly spooking new visitors
- We trust the folks in the space with weapons, but new visitors might
- Asking those folks to be more discreet, opinions?
- No dissenting opinions on asking guys to be more discreet
- How can we improve LVL1 + UofL Makership
- They need to experience more of the community
- Tim argues that Tuesdays are a bad day
- Monthly reporting on the Treasury
- Keep Mark on task
