Attendees

Agenda

Makerships
- Makerships are on an upswing now?
- Tyler will send out confirmation email to makership recipients.
- Makership mentors need to be more transparent and present.
  - Danielle needs to follow up with Chris.
Member Generation & Retention
- New member orientation
  - the First Tuesday of every month will be new member orientation, 1 hour before the meeting.
- Updated the membership form with more details about rules.
  - Wiki page reflects the new form, but does not yet reflect streamlined payment process.
- Attention needs to be given to ensuring member storage is only being used by member.
  - Nathan will contact members about their shelves
- If membership keeps increasing we may need more member shelves soon.
- Large member storage is also problematic, but it's a separate problem.

HVAC install starts next week
- Some member shelves need to be moved.
  - Tyler is taking care of this

Money
- LVL1 tax exempt form complete
  - maybe a new document for governing day-to-day operations
  - Danielle is doing this.
- Grants
  - SBA grant still has $24993 to be spent on HVAC, and other things.
HVAC
- get a cover-ass note from landlords about the HVAC.
  - tyler and dainelle will talk to the about this and get a note to the landlords.
Space Cleanliness
- lost and found has been happening, and seems to be working.
- paint on the ground where trash cans go
  - Danielle will do this.
- cave troll meme to guilt people into being excellent.
  - Danielle will do this also.
- scrap sorting, linguistic choice of omitting the word scrap may help pieces get organized properly
Charles' Gold Stars are a big hit
- - They need documentation, who was awarded it, when, why, etc.
  - Jared made a page, hasn't been updating it, (sorry.)
  - Charles ordered more and they're coming on the slow boat.

Facilities Maintenance
- By and large things are fixed when they are broken. (Thanks Nathan)
- Laser Cutter
  - Regular maintenance of outtake tube and fans etc. Nathan added this to the cleaning log.
  - Vent Pipe was installed.
- Broken Buttons
  - There are 7 of them up and running, ready to be installed in the space.
    - when?
we need to insulate the metal shop
- Jared will get with interested parties about making this happen.
Space security has been an issue, people leaving doors unlocked and leaving, etc.
- Tyler and Cave Troll are working on an indicator panel that will let all know of the open/closed status of all exterior doors in the space.
- Cameras are almost done, thanks Bill
- Danielle is contacting the landlords about the parking lot camera.
There are two new work benches for rpi and shapemoko
Programming:
- long-term projects are in the works:
  - power wheels - for detroit MF
- How-to Festival with LFPL - weekend after derby.
  - Jared is in contact with Hannah from the library.
- maker faire detroit - when?
- maker faire louisville - in the fall, early september.
- collaborations with neighboring hackerspaces
  - hive 13?
  - Prishina Hackerspace Cosovo?

Woodshop/Metalshop Upgrades
- Woodshop is happening faster than the Metalshop
  - Progress is happening in both fronts.
How do we take out recycling? do we teach members how to do it?
- recycling goes in the dumpster and trash goes in the cans, both live out back.

Meeting Start: 9:07 PM Meeting Stop: 10:14 PM Notes Taken by: Jared