O/D Meeting 11/17/2015

Attendees

• Officers and Directors present
  • Danielle, Ben, Daniel, Nathan, Patrick, Sean, & Jose
• Others present
  • Tammy, Terry, Lance, Kevin, Raj, Brad

Agenda

Old Business

• Makerships
• Member Generation & Retention
  • New member orientation
  • Action Items Suggested Last Meeting
    • Publishing on-going space projects
    • Updating the membership form with more details about rules
    • Spruce up Wiki page for membership rights and rules
• Budget
  • Emergency Fund
  • Recurring Cash Flow
  • Grants
• Workshops
  • Arduino 101
  • Need to actively schedule these, not rely on learn@lvl1 so much
• Boneyard Purge
• Space Cleanliness
• Space Habitability (HVAC & Insulation)

New Business

• Revio / Small Business Hosting
  • Not needed any more, but it'd be good to have a plan
• Facilities Maintenance
  • Laser Cutter repaired
  • 3D printers
    • TAZ repaired multiple times - has bad extruder design
    • New printers are 80% working
  • Shapeoko in progress
  • Maintenance Calendar Created
  • Broken Buttons
  • Need to rewrite bylaws for Treasurer to purchase fixes?
• Metrics
• Next Meeting / Election Night: January 19th, 2016

Minutes

Old Business

• Makerships
  • Female makership awarded, not announced, awaiting response
    • Danielle will make contact again to make sure winner knows
  • $2000 donation
• New Member Generation and Retention
  • Night of the Hat might be a good start to documenting space projects
  • Nathan will generate TL;DR handout for new members
  • Danielle will revise the membership form
    • Getting it done this Friday - Nathan will ensure it
    • Add option to suspend voting rights
  • Sean will update wiki page
  • New member orientation
    • 3 people showed up last time
    • Others responded but were out of town
  • Added 5-9 new members
  • 5-9 others left
  • Netting about 1 membership per month
  • Why are people cancelling/suspending membership?
    • People leave town (80%)
    • We don't engage new members enough (20%)
• Budget
  • Daniel did not make financial reports
  • Daniel will get finite number of our worst 3 months and propose saving that amount in the savings account
  • Grants
    • Shopbot being shipped first week of December
    • Quotes are out for the electrical work
      • Landlords want their electrician to do the work
    • Insulation was purchased and delivered at end of the month
      • Weekend after Thanksgiving is target date for installation
      • Windows need to be done first
      • Jose will finish the window insulation with Ben's help
    • Spend down is still happening on lighting
    • $15000 grant from Metro Louisville for Holy Smokes Hackathon
      • Tools, parts, etc still being purchased and are donated to the space after use
      • $5000 admin fee going into general fund
      • Paying someone to keep the space open a point of contention
        • Does this expose employment risks?
          • Community Foundation Grant answered this
        • Consensus: It's okay to pay members to keep space open this within the confines of the Hackathon
      • Since Daniel secured the funds, has freedom to spend money within bounds of LVL1's bylaws
      • Daniel will post open hours for people to fill and let membership know how much was spent on keeping the space open for the hackathon
    • No pending applications out
    • Need to submit a report to SBA for grant administration
      • Need metrics
        • Volunteer hours
        • Fundraising done by small businesses associated with the space
    • SBA Grant
      • Woodshop is a question mark regarding ShopBot installation
      • Terry will go buy a dust collector on Black Friday
      • Invitation open to buy more tools the space needs if taking advantage of Black Friday deals
  • Finances are overall good
  • Daniel will have financials done next Tuesday
• Workshops
  • Workshop bounties
    • SBA Grant did not have budget for this
    • i3Detroit does $25-$50 bounties
    • Incentives program ideas
      • Try having LVL1 offer bounties and ask our community to support
    • First Aid Workshop
      • Very much wanted to be taught
      • Raj will look into getting one hosted at a reduced rate
      • Basic first aid topics are also interesting
    • Raspberry Pi workshops upcoming
    • Are we making a good effort to make a call for people to host workshops?
      • Danielle will put out a call
• Boneyard Purge
  • Pile of wood needs to be tossed
  • Other building materials (wall parts) can likely go as well
  • Patrick will put out a call to remove the junk left in the boneyard
• Space Cleanliness
  • Danielle is making "Cave Troll Says" signs to remind folks to clean up areas of the space
  • Should we leave out cleaning supplies to let folks use similar to gyms?
    • Danielle will take on labeling trash cans and other supplies to help with cleanliness
    • Jose suggests clearing the LVL1 wall and putting cleaning supplies
  • Patrick
    • Follow through of pictures of clean areas
      • Nathan will handle Soldering station
      • Patrick will handle metal shop
      • Kitchen
      • Danielle will do a call to arms - Where does shit go?
    • Need help cleaning up the metal shop and removing scrap
  • Cameras for shaming people?
    • NO
    • Other spaces use cameras for liability claims and security
    • The cameras may be effective if put up but not monitored
    • Landlord's camera loop may not actually work - not sure
    • Nathan will start camera discussion months from now
    • Whoever has access to these cameras today or in the future - we'll need to be mindful of how we handle access
      • Do not want to encourage publishing embarrassing or other negative footage
• Space Habitability
  • Patrick will lead effort to insulate the space with the new insulation
  • Centralized Heat System
    • Danielle will talk to Kaela about the parameters of this prospective system
    • We currently have 220V/20A heaters around the space
    • Someone needs to investigate heat pump solution
  • Currently have $6000 left for heating the space
  • Need to be wary of people using the wrong extension cable with heaters

New Business

• New Officers
  • Need to be on the lookout for a new Treasurer - very crucial role
  • Need to announce elections will be coming up
• Small Business Hosting
  • Business needs to know that there are no expectations and that LVL1's needs come first
  • No problem with hosting folks who run businesses here
• Facilities Maintenance
  • Limit to percent purchase or hard cash amount for repairs
  • Will put to vote on election night
• Metrics
  • Goal is to add visibility and accountability of our impact on the community
    • Also useful for grant applications
  • Non-native events (e.g. Code Louisville)
  • Workshops
  • Regular Meetups
  • Finances
  • Membership Numbers
  • Equipment measuring
  • Volunteer hours
  • Need to value a number of these metrics outwardly
• Next Meeting & Elections
  • Date will be January 19th, 2016
  • Send an email out to remind folks
  • Find people to run for offices
  • Get bylaw changes on the ballot
  • Need a new secretary and treasurer
  • Can only run for 3 consecutive terms as an officer (Treasurer, VP, Secretary)
    • Director at large does not count