Meetings/2010-07

Date/Location

• July 12th, 2010
• 7:30pm
• Shop
• Eat before, or bring food with.
• All members

Agenda

Topic	Presenter
Review of Board Action Items	Chairman	Action Items
Treasurer's Report	Treasurer	Action Items
Netadmin Report	TBD	Action Items
Facilities Committee Report	Facilities Committee	Action Items
Project	Chairman	Action Items
Publicity & Events	Publicity Chair	Action Items
New Member Recognition	Secretary
Decide next meeting date	Chairman
Update "Action Items Closed Since Last Meeting" Redmine Filter 'Closed' date to be today's date	Chairman
Change Door Code	Secretary

Discussion

Treasurer's Report

• Term: June 2010
  • Income: $134
  • Donations: $786.48 (25)
  • Expenses: $1221.29
  • Net Profit: $-300.81
  • Average Donation per person: $31.4592
  • Average Expense per person: $48.8516
• Term: July 2010
  • Income: $96.15
  • Donations: $476.81 (15)
  • Expenses: $1070.46
  • Net Profit: $-497.5
  • Average Donation per person: $31.7873333333333
  • Average Expense per person: $71.364
• Membership
  • Currently 40
  • Newest: Erik (BrokenTrace)

Projects/Events

• New Space Project - N-Prize/Cubesat --Spacefelix 00:30, 7 July 2010 (CDT)
• New EWB Project - Solar Food Dryer --Spacefelix 00:30, 7 July 2010 (CDT)
• HSIS - We are competition ready! --Spacefelix 00:30, 7 July 2010 (CDT)
• Destructables --strages 22:34, 5 July 2010 (CDT)
• Hacker Space Festival US in November --strages 22:34, 5 July 2010 (CDT)
• RC Mower --Omegix 13:26, 6 July 2010 (CDT)
• Volunteering at TEDxHuntsville --strages 16:43, 8 July 2010 (CDT)
• Trevor Daniels - fundraising letters
• Fundraising Attempts
  • Open House
  • LAN Party
  • Show of hands, wiki page / meetings coming soon
• Your Project Here!

Meeting Minutes

• 7:31 Meeting called to order by chairman
• 7:31 Chairman reports that there are no action items
• 7:32 Treasury Report - shop losing money
  • 7:7:32 small donations from members could make the difference
• 7:33 Fundraising from retro gaming was not net positive
  • 7:34Generated a lot of personal interest
  • 7:34A lot of the purchases were towards food that's still good for later use
• 7:36 Facilities Report - new director, same mission
  • 7:37 Scott offers to bring us ceiling tiles in good condition in September
  • 7:38 Upcoming projects: new shelves, shower in garage
  • 7:39 Benalene reports we an recylcle glass now, bin coming in this week
• 7:41 Spacefelix reports on n-prize, launching an object into space for prize money
• 7:42 CubeSat project - putting an object into earth orbit by piggybacking on another object launching, transmitting signals
• 7:44 UAH students are building a solar food dryer, want to come to Makers Local to work on it.
• 7:44 Satyam reports on HSIS, last official launch window August 14-28.
• 7:46 Ray reports on destructables, new website about dismantling and taking hardware apart in wiki format, looking for member support
• 7:48 Hackerspace Festival - evolution of last year's meetup, meets in November,
  • 7:48 Will be promoted at HOPE
  • 7:49 Working on hotel arrangements, possibility of visitors camping outside shop
• 7:51 Ray asking for shop volunteers for TedX Huntsville, happening November 5th
  • 7:52 Ushers, assistants to run event, volunteers get admission and tshirts
  • 7:52 Talk to Ray after meeting to volunteer
• 7:52 Brian updates about Trevor's marketing progress
  • 7:52 Hopefully submissions will be sent out this time next month
• 7:55 Fundraising Events in the next few weeks
  • Open House, volunteer after meeting or check for wiki page soon
  • Lan party, volunteer after meeting or check for wiki page soon
• 7:56 Other promotion ideas
  • 7:56 Nathan proposes improvements to shop accessibility, some cleaning some set up so people can get to work easier for when visitors come in
  • 7:57 Call to blog more, promote projects and what's going on at the shop
  • 7:58 Making short movies about projects submitting to youtube
  • 7:59 Members please update your personal wiki page to talk about your personal skills and what you're doing
• 8:00 New member acknowledgement - Erik Arendall, BrokenTrace
• 8:03 Trip to HOPE starts tomorrow
• 8:05 Garden is growing pickles, other produce now
• 8:05 Next meeting will be August 16 at 7:30

Notes

• In Attendance
  • Dickie
  • Brian
  • Matt
  • Kinsey
  • Greg
  • Scott
  • Ethan
  • Benalene
  • Ray
  • Erik
  • Satyam
  • Tim
  • Bob
  • Justin
  • Nathan
  • Kinsey
  • Alice