O/D Meeting 7/16/2013

Attendees

• Officers and Directors present

• Members present

Minutes

Old Buisiness

• Directors insurance
  • Mark lost the quote
  • School Factory has a contact for that

• MakerShips
  • How much money?

• Blogging and Wiki
  • We need more blog posts!
  • Thanks to Justin for helping
  • Hack-A-Day likes LVL1 posts, send them in

• Electricity upstairs

• CPA

• Workshops
  • Need more workshops
  • Coming up:

• Member Shelving
  • Need Bins

• Attack the Boneyard!
  • Boneyard Moved

• LVL1 is doing well!

• Should we get a cleaning lady?
• Space organization plan? Update?

• Directors Insurance
  • Tim following up on quote
  • Will post FAP once we have a quote

• Blog posts
  • Need more blog posts!

• Rules list
  • Use guidelines instead of rules

• Cleaning lady
  • FAP for annual payment or vote for recurring things

• Space Organization
  • The space is a physical editable wiki
  • Change things, but still be excelent to others
  • Don't be offended if they change them back

• A Building for LVL1

New Business

• Directors Insurance
  • Old insurance dropped us
    • Still the same broker
  • Raj getting a new quote
  • Still have general liability insurance
  • Not having employees or taking responsability for children makes things simpler for directors insurance
• MakerShips
  • $1,500 in budget right now
  • Retooling makership?
    • Based off input create rolling makership
    • Announce next week
      • 3 month Makerships granted once a month
      • Rely on mentorships more
• Blog Posts
  • Some new posts, but people post two then stop
    • Still need more!
    • Mention it in the meeting
  • New LVL1 Hangout, ask to be added
• Electricity Upstairs
  • Still trying to get people here
  • Can call landlord, use his electrician
• CPA
  • Don't really need one
  • Reminder: We cannot recieve 501.c3 donations for Muddy Tech
• Tool Repair
  • Managing broken tools is a lot
  • Everything is falling on Treasurer right now
  • Need to make tool repair a more cultural thing
    • If you find something broken, report it
      • Email directors or members list
      • Start some seed emails with BROKEN
    • Signs
  • Audits?
• Member Mailing list moving to Google Groups
  • We have free hosting at Iglou
  • Member mailing list is the last thing to move
• Workshops
  • Had a nice run of workshops
  • Need more
• Member shelving restored!
• Attack the Boneyard!
  • 80% moved
  • Some shelves still need to be moved
• Cleaning Lady
  • People said no, but nobody has looked into prices
  • Aaron will look into prices
• LVL1 doing well
  • Membership growth has slown
  • Lost some members
    • The better the weather, the less members we have
    • Cindys origional makerships ran out
  • Need visibility!
    • Blog posts, etc
    • LVL1 meetings are on meetup, people need to RSVP
    • Ben and Josh will start Facebook meetings
• Rules
  • Signs
  • LVL1 manual needs work
• Building
  • Renewed our lease for this building for another year
  • Zinks have not changed their plans
  • New leads are still welcome, but not as pressing
• Next Directors Meeting Oct 15th