Howdy, hakkers!
I've noticed that there was a meeting on 2013-01-01 and that the minutes are
posted. They are visible on the web at
http://synhak.org/wiki/Meetings/1-1-2013. I've also included them in this mail
for reading at your leisure:
{{Infobox_meeting
|time=7PM
|date=2013-01-01
|venue=21 West North
|next=Meetings/8-1-2013
|previous=Meetings/25-12-2012
}}
= Agenda =
* '''Note Taker:''' Trever Fischer
* '''Moderator:''' Devin Wolfe
== Introduction and Names ==
* Penny - eats Chinese
* Trever - Engineers people
* Chris - Sysadmin
* Andrew - Toasts chips on spaceheaters
* Ryan - 3d prints dongs
** Heard about the space through Trever
* Devin - Eats beers and drinks euro euros.
* Andy - Digital electronic tech
* Ailun - Oiler operator
** Heard about it through Andy
== Announcements ==
* Opening Day - Jan 5th
* Tomorrow - Cleanup during open night!
* We might be extending our classes to twice a month
* New stuff:
** Trashcans
** Bench grinder
** Wire brushes
** Brushy brushy
** Copious quantities of solid PVC pipes
** Boxes of crap and such
** Toaster oven, to become a vaccum former
** TIG welder showed up last week on temporary loan for another month or two
** The rrix showed up, for better or worse.
== Membership ==
* No new applications
== Financial Report ==
* Funds in bank: $1667.31
** Two members late got an email
** Twelve members unpaid for January (happy mailing list membership reminder
day!)
== Proposals ==
* '''Proposal''' by --[[User:Tdfischer|Tdfischer]] ([[User
talk:Tdfischer|talk]]) 19:47, 1 January 2013 (EST): Implementing [[Proposals]].
** '''Passes'''
== Discussion Items ==
* All the stuff that needs done for opening day
** Workbench needs done
** Where to store raw materials?
*** Possibly in the retail space, since if you want a huge piece of something
you'd best pay for it
** One bin per ubergeek
* Possibly, you need to be Serious Geek or above for key access
** Suggestion to propose this next week
** Misc discussion about how to do digital locking of the door
* Suggestion to create a Sponsorship or Benefactor level
** Possibly for Sponsorship, since we can pitch it to businesses
* Opening up the space on Saturdays
** Ask discuss to see what is holding people back from membership
* Elections should be happening soon, mid-februrary
** Trever will announce it after opening day to encourage newbies to be more up
to date
* PR stuff
** Press release needs proofreaded
** We need our bigger banner on the building this week.
*** Devin will ask Tony about getting a huge SYNHAK sign composed of various
letters
*** Trever will buy a banner if we don't have one by Friday
** Trever will post to the reddits
** Word of mouth is most excellent and been very successful so far
* Make an incoming bottle bucket
** Or a bottle tray over the sink where you hang it upside down
** Signs by the recycling bin
* Devin was offered a chance to buy a CNC mill and table.
** He's looking into it, it could be really super cheap (<$1k each, paid for by
devin)
** They are each roughly 15% of our space. The alcove next door might be rented
out by devin for it.
* Opening day stuff
** Andrew will do homebrewing stuff
*** Ideas for brews
** Doug will maybe do 3d printing if we hear back from him
** Devin will have the vac forming
** We need to talk to someone (name redacted) about the pegboard
** Chris will do pinball stuffs
** Trever will show stuff around
** Andy will show soldering and stuff
* We need to build a bikeshed outside (or maybe inside (or even both))
=== Pending Proposals ===
* Requiring serious geek or above to get key access, and removing the $25 fee
** It incentivizes upgrading your membership
* Create a Sponsorship or Benefactor membership level, to make it come with
some bigger perks.
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