O/D Meeting 1/15/2013

Attendees

• Officers and Directors present
  • President - Brad L.
  • VP Josh W.
  • Secretary - Aaron V.
  • Tresurer - Tim M.

• Members present

Minutes

• Discussed officer meetings
  • Move to quarterly instead of monthly?
  • Going to try them quarterly, third Tues of the quarterly month
    • April 16th next meeting
  • Third Tuesday of the month, quarterly

Old Buisiness

• Directors insurance, Mark lost the quote
  • That will be forwarded to Tim
  • School Factory has a contact for that
• 501c3
  • Still waiting to hear back from Deniese... - Chris C.
  • In limbo. Last communication November.
• MakerShips
  • 3 more active
    • Lindsey, Danielle, and Divinity
  • $588
• Conglomeration
  • April
  • Mind over Melon?
    • Raise money for Makerships?
    • Allow people to sponsor makerships and control the type of makership
      • Ex: Conglomeration sponosrs a makership that's centered around prop making or something like that
    • Rapid protoyping in cosplay panel? Joe P. and Aaron V.
• Blogging and Wiki
  • We need more blog posts!
    • Justin is volunteering to help. Possible writeups:
      • Muddy Tech
      • Game Dev
      • Needs more! Give your tips to Justin.
    • If you want to make a post contact Brad, we'll get you a login
  • Thanks to Jose for keeping up with projects on the wiki
  • Hack-A-Day likes LVL1 posts, send them in
• Business Cards
  • We have them!
  • They're running out :(
  • Reorder cards
    • Add weekly meeting date and time to the cards.
• Railing
  • New railing on the stairs. Thank you Ben!
  • We need railing on the other stairs, the banister across the top of the music loft is not high enough.
  • Some debate on what we're missing, need to check the code.
• Electricity upstairs
  • We need action soon.
  • Josh W. will get a quote by next weekend.
    • We have $250 for electricity to the air compressor.
  • The extension cords are a problem upstairs.
    • Please unplug extension cords when they're not being used.
  • We will do the work, the electrician is needed to sign off.
• Sucession Plan
  • We just succeeded!
  • Chris and Mark will help with our "boardmanship".
  • Done!
• CPA
  • Mark found one we can use for an hourly fee.
    • We want him to review our taxes.
    • Mark is concerned about what we need to keep track of when we're a 501c3.
• Workshops
  • Need more workshops
  • Coming up:
    • Prusa Build
    • Silicoln Molding
    • Build your own PCB - Brad
    • Rocketry by Nathan?
    • Watercolor painting or working with clay? - Ben
    • Crochet? - Sam
  • Pester Ben for more, Justin and Tyler less.
  • Anything is good! These always help the group.
• Member Shelving
  • John was close, Chris is finishing up.
  • We have $490 left for member shelving to close out the FAP.
  • There are some concern about the bins, may just get some bins.
    • Tim M. volunteered.
• Attack the Boneyard!
  • This happened, was successful.
  • Need to do it again. We hit the max trash for the first one.
• Door entry
  • Sync Marks DB with a Raspberry Pi. -Chris C.
    • Needs a test environment.
  • Where to show that the door is unlocked?
    • Should we show that the door is unlocked outside?
    • People wait outside waiting for the door can be opened.
      • Put up a sign?
      • Tyler voluteered for this.
    • General consesus is have outward facing.
• Mother opt in for space open
  • Get rid of it for now.
  • Mother is not being maintained.
  • Free to be taken down or taken over
  • Hacktivity is down since last power outage, Mother doesn't take reboots well
  • Gerrit may have a replacement, Robot Operating System
    • Need to label the servers
• Printer cartridges
  • $250 to refil them all
  • Tyler is getting new cartridges
    • Just get black?
  • Aaron will bring in a black and white printer, old printer will go away.
• Lihgs on the building are out
  • They are fixed!
  • Lights in the parking lot are now out.
  • Crhis is talking to the landlord.
• Monthly reporting on the Treasury
  • We need to keep Tim on task
• Parking lot cameras
  • ORI's lot, not a lot of action
  • James got his car back!

New Business

• Setting goals for directors
  • Update the wiki
• Need to get addresses for new directors
• LVL1 is doing well!
  • 50+ members
  • Fiscally stable
  • Only challenge we (Brad) forsee coming up is about the building.
    • Lease is up in July.
    • Chris may have a lead to a bulding a block or two away, waiting to meet with the person.
• Increase emergency funds?
  • We have 6 months of rent and utilities set aside, as set by the bylaws.
  • Possible member vote to put money aside for the possibility of moving.
  • Josh W. has an empty tractor trailer as a worst case scenerio.
• Josh W. sang "I'm a Little T-Pot"
  • Jose is not jelous

Quotes

• "If we're going out we're going to explode. Violently." - Brad L.
• "So if we steal people's cars they'll join..." - Gerrit