Meetings/2011-08
Date/Location
- August 15, 2011
- 7:30pm
- Shop
- 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 |
Action Items
Treasurer's Report
- Term: June 2011
- Donations: $216.56
- Members: $1271.52 (37)
- Expenses: $1130.93
- Net Profit: $357.15
- Average donation per person: $34.37
- Average expense per person: $28.46
- Term: July 2011
- Donations: $1024.86
- Members: $1157.73 (32)
- Expenses: $1362.88
- Net Profit: $819.71
- Average donation per person: $36.18
- Average expense per person: $36.34
- Term: August 2011
- Donations: $478.85
- Members: $497.82 (16)
- Expenses: $1068
- Net Profit: $-91.33
- Average donation per person: $31.11
- Average estimated expense per person: $79.25
- June was good, July's pretty good too
- Utilities donation in July
- July off by 16¢/member
- 43% donated for August so far
Facilities Committee
Recent Improvements
| Section of new loft floor | CrashCart, Enabrintain, and Makers |
| Materials rack next to garage door | Korc |
| Soda Machine repaired | JimShoe and Korc |
| Electrical wiring in FabLab and for Soda Machine | CrashCart |
| More waste/recycling bins out | Spacefelix |
| Shower curtain and accessories | Curtain from Alii, the rest is a mystery |
Planned Improvements
| Shelving In storage area of loft | CrashCart, Enabrintain, volunteers |
| Insulate and wall up FabLab | CrashCart and/or Enabrintain and/or volunteers (whoever gets there first) |
| continue new flooring in loft | (long term) |
| clean and sort tools and main floor | volunteers (dates tbd) |
| paint stairs | (probably) |
New Members
- Devin Boyer
NOTE: All new members, meet with the Facilities Committee for your shop walk through.
Discussion
- HSIS 2: Paper Airplanes - Spacefelix & Bendersgame flying gliders and paper airplanes from near-space altitudes off of weather balloons!
- Classes in Appropriate Technologies Design & Permaculture
- Appropriate technologies class with Engineers Without Borders in Lineville, AL, planned for a late August weekend. Date will be confirmed post-8/20.
- Permaculture class will be 3 series of classes in fall. Starts September 10th in Huntsville. It is $45/class.
- Please inform spacefelix if you are interested.
- Should we spend $50/month on a Dumpster?
- Should we investigate adding more titles for the Shop in order to facilitate shop activities such as events and classes?
- Atlanta Mini Maker Faire -Crash Cart
Attending
- Heather O'Gorman
- Devin Boyer
- Nathan Warner
- Tim Heath
- Tycho Clendenny
- Ray Nordin
- Matt O'Gorman
- Matt Robinson
- Ethan Chew
- Jennifer Paulsen
- Satyam Nayak
- Matt Hendrix
- Phil Showers
- Alice Scanland
- Wayne
- Kinsey Moore
- Carl (prospective member)
- Greg Brown
- Jeff Cotten
- Bob Klepfer
Meeting Minutes
Facilities improvements by Tim:
- Hard at work improving the building.
- Section of new flooring in the loft.
- Bob put up the materials rack.
- Soda machine got repaired thanks to Nathan and Bob and a new-to-us compressor.
- There is a new set of outlets for the soda machine, kiosk, and electronics room.
- We now have more recycle bins.
- The shower is operational and has been used.
- There are more planned improvements.
- Garbage pickup:
- We should really get it since dumping elsewhere is illegal.
- Discussion ensued.
- The current offer is $50/mo for 2 years for a 2 cubic yard dumpster and pickup twice a week.
HSIS 2 (ish) with Ethan:
- Long range paper airplanes launched from a balloon with SD cards in them.
Engineers Without Borders is going to run a class in wilderness engineering in limeville, AL. They'll show you how to build things like waterwheels and wells out of scrap. Let Ethan know if you're interested. Currently planned for late August.
There are permaculture classes for $45/class about ways to create gardens and other things. Talk to Ethan.
Heather has suggested that there be more titles for people in the shop to divide responsibilities. Tim supports the idea of funny titles.
Huntsville Hamfest is this weekend. You can get various HAM licenses there and purchase things cheaply. We have a table at which you can sell things if you wish.
Atlanta mini maker faire is in Atlanta on the second weekend in September. Nathan has used his knowledge to get us a free banner to use at the maker faire. Tim will be taking a van and trailer.
One of our neighbors brought a bike to the shop as a loan/please buy or sell it. This is the same person that was looking for a large monitor for a sight-impaired relative and has a microscopic soldering station.
As far as communicating to other people/organizations, we don't limit people from representing the shop, but the board would like to be notified when possible.
Bob requested to use the space against the fence to work on his airstream. It would not block the door and would not extend past the fence. If the shell is off, it is not movable on short notice. We don't seem to use this area so much anyway.
The next meeting will be on September 14.
