Guten Tag, hakkers!
I've noticed that there was a meeting on 2014-03-04 and that the minutes are
posted. They are visible on the web at
https://synhak.org/wiki/Meetings/2014-3-4. I've also included them in this mail
for reading at your leisure:
{{Infobox_meeting
|time=7PM
|date=2014-03-04
|venue=48 South Summit
|next=Meetings/2014-3-11
|previous=Meetings/2014-2-25
}}
This page was automatically copied from [[Meetings/Template]] by
[[User:Phong]]. If you would like to change the structure of how meetings
future perform, please make any modifications to [[Meetings/Template]]. If you
would like to propose something at the meeting, send it to
[email protected], or bring it up at a meeting.
== Note-taker ==
* Open a text editor to take down some '''detailed''' minutes.
** Detail is important. If it isn't written down, it never happened.
* Project the minutes and notes throughout the meeting
* Follow the instructions in the End of Meeting section at the appropriate time.
* Tell [email protected] and [email protected] if there are new members.
If the [[treasurer]] is already present, there is no need to email them.
== Moderator ==
* Make sure everyone gets a chance to speak
* Speak minimally yourself
* Keep the meeting moving
* Handle the membership voting process
* Be sure to thoroughly follow the procedure outlined in this document, as the
template may occasionally change without warning.
** The order of things is also important. We induct new members prior to
proposals, so that they too may have a say in things.
== Participants ==
* Say your name the first time you speak
* Remain on-topic
* Remain respectful of other participants
= Agenda =
* '''Note Taker:''' G
* '''Moderator:''' Devin
== Introduction and Names ==
* Justin - wears a hat
* Frank - Found synhak through paper article
* Andy - Still working a lot
* Martha - Taught computer maintenance for 2 years
* Alex - Wears pants finally
* Mike - Found space from friend in Minnesota makerspace
* Neela - Came for opening day and came back; Part timer at Don Drumms
* Craig - Smells
* Becca - Allergic reactions to Giant Eagle (asthma)
* G - Software Engineer, Board member
* Chris - Sysadmin, Champion
* Bob - here on opening day; renews civil engg license; found us from newspaper
article
* Torrie - Builds robots; treasurer
* John - Invited by G last week at SunDownRunDown - Buckminster Fuller advocate
(triangles); juggles with rubber city jugglers at St. Pauls Church
* Dave - Found us from newspaper; came to open house; radio and TV productions
* Andrew - Learns SQL by numbers
* Devin - Machinist and Champion at Synhak
* Jimmy - arrives late
== Announcements ==
* Dave: history project for springfield township of trolley car line that will
be converted to bike and hike trail from US224 to Springfield high school
* Alex: Will speak on Linux at Akron Linux User Group on 3/6/2014
* Andy: Thanks to Doug for helping with 3D printer. Andy has great prints of
train wheels and other objects
* Torrie: Open house last sat., heard it was fun - 130-150 visitors showed up.
We got 1000 hits on that day - usually 120 hits per day; lot of member
applications taken; pretty cool; floor plan committe has expired
* Andrew: Sent email to Jimmy hearing from him this week; Know Matt Wenger? or
Matthew Stevic? Please contact Andrew Leitholf regarding membership
application. Application needs to be processed. 2) At some point lock was
broken for desk that contains member information - the clasp specifically.
Contact information might have leaked. related to that.. if you notice locks
anywhere, please notify existing members of the space for immediate action.
* Torrie: Speakers Bureau: 8pm: March 12th Welding Session - bring closed
shoes, long pants, long sleeves, face protection provided. Please wear cotton,
denim, cloth tennis -- 3/26: Talk on how to run Synhak's Infrastructure -
ansible etc. Alex speaks on Wireless Mesh Protocols on 4/9.
* G: Cleveland Mini Maker Faire 3/29 - 100 makers, in two buildings at
Cleveland Public Library.
* Torrie: TechPint 3/6 at 6pm Jillys Music Room - small tech conference in bar
with beer $15 entry fees, come and talk about startups - Eric Wise (Akron
Software Development Guild) & Ron Seide (Laird Technologies) are keynoting the
event
* BoardMeeting: 3/9 7pm; all members are invited to discuss - board members and
champions get to vote on issues. Agenda: Board Member training basically. All
discussions fair game.
* Bob: Announces: This yr is the 100th year of Civil enggg - student chapter
will be hosting a steel bridge contest. Week of 5/22-28. They have a choice of
materials to build a bridge. For those interested, civil engineers will be
coming over from all over USA. It will be held at Knight Center.
== Membership ==
* None
== Financial Report ==
* $19580.76 Assets
* $2910.5 A/r
* $2110 Liabilities
* $1525 A/c payable
* $435 util budget
* $50 in general operations
* $100 in summit build out (inaccurate)
Torrie is processing receipts
* $2105.5 unpaid dues
Update on spiff; some of it is inaccurate, and pay synhak.
Becca: family plans?? pay dues before/after
== Proposals ==
* None
== Discussion Items ==
* Torrie: Proposes associate members - good for community bldg. Torrie to email
definition to discuss; has been in use at Noisebridge in 2013 it has been
working great. Members get approved. Assoc members can get 4 existing members
to sponsor and can work at Synhak building the hackerspace. Assoc. membership
will establish a web of trust. Assoc members setup a wiki page, and start
seeking members, and start tracking their contributions to the space.
* Devin: Is there a due Torrie: No, more like a shiny sticker
* Justin: Likes it if is inclusive to regular members
* Dave: Being an assoc members of several associations, loved Torrie's concept
- I can't be a regular member, but it shouldn't prevent me from contributing
say $5 myself in the interest of belonging to synhak Torrie: Recurring
donations spiff has a way to donate, and add a subscription.
* Alex: great idea, probably add requirement for wiki page - what have you done
for the space, a get to know you page Torrie: Likes concept, but shouldn't have
it as a requirement.
* Chris: Becoming a Member, the official technicality - social barrier there is
requiring two members to co-sign. out of curiosity - why is this barrier twice
as high compared to associate membership torrie: Feels like its lower social
barrier - full Membership will you sponsor and vouch for me. Basically
interviewing process Mike G: Assoc membership will slowly get assoc members
familiar with our processes Chris: If someone comes in and wants to become
Member, they need to be vouched by two people. Assoc member will never have
those abilities. So basically Member sponsorship process much more intense than
Assoc membership process
* Alex: What is regulations to mitigate assoc members to invite other assoc
members. torrie: Misconstrued. If assoc member, I don't care if you say that.
* Devin: Lets talk about $5 Dave suggestion. Torrie: disagree - no money should
be paid
* Craig: Lot of people have come here and wouldn't pay money
* Dave: Wrong interpretation of my comment: In FOPA: we have $40 membership,
then you have $25 membership and we have another membership level with no
contribution
* Justin: Lets do the drug dealer approach - first one is always free. Thank
you.
* Mike: Should be no barrier to entry; surely should be a mechanism for assoc
members to pitch in.
* G: Money and time can be donated regardless of member or non-member status
* Bob: Run list of things to do?
* Justin: Brain idea: are we concerned that we will ever have to reject assoc
members Torrie: Community Working Group will solve that. Currently board vote
can do that right now. CWG will be instituted for this purpose. don't need to
talk about it. its like public shaming. neela: assoc membership is for
volunteering? Devin: You get a gold star. Torrie: Not trying to recruit
volunteers. There isn't a concept of volunteerism here, we follow do-acracy. We
don't have a fixed direction, other than maintain a space. Torrie: Has typed
official wording, will email to discuss later.
* Becca: Safety classes to use wood shop. Email speakers bureau. 4/23 8pm.
* Andy: CMMF take a SYNHAK table? Andy has his own table. Ken has his own
table. G will follow up.
* Devin: met with Monique from Akron Library - they moved Akron Mini Maker
Faire 10/18th Sat. proposed date. Asked Synhak to be a spotlight maker as a
group. We can use upto $5K for a project. Sculpture, interactive, something can
be child safe installation. It will be debuted at the Akron Library Becca:
Robot with skirt? so I can contribute to it too? Devin: two things people
wanted more of - arduino's and robots.Torrie: can we make it a robotic bike
shed? Chris:Dial Bot - a giant dial bot. Devin: Arduino is a single board
computer $35, program it once and it runs.
Internal strife time.
* Devin: Intro: breach in protocol - leasing of racks - Leased to Something
Entertainment. Miscommunication about terms. torrie: those racks in garage, I
sent email. Cites her email at discuss, read it for fulltext. Rack stuff was
moved elsewhere. Board member is leasing a space at synhak. I posted issues to
mailing list. According to lease, synhak is liable as well, impossible for
synhak to manage it. I'd prefer: Leasors can protect space from hackers. It
wasn't mentioned anywhere, and I'm not happen. Racks are taking space vs space
for hacking. Another member can lease the front door for money. Synhak is not a
storage provider. We're an educational non-profit. Rack's lease was brought
forth not because we were broke. There wasn't a board vote on it. Its all kinds
of terrible.
* Devin: 1/14 it was mentioned in the meeting minutes. G said it was awesome.
the person bringing it up asked, got a reply "do-acracy it dude". Same response
given to Tim Seely for robotics projects. It wasn't considered as a proposal at
the time, and the extra income for synhak. Will get signed lease.
* Justin: Had proposed the lease. Something Entertainment was using space
elsewhere for $100 and at the time it made sense to support synhak's finances
at the time. It would be convenient for myself and synhak to be a mutually
beneficial arrangement. Synhak could use the shelving units. Solution proposed:
close off areas with false walls or plastic sheeting. Those projects broke down
pre-open house. Devin: It wasn't hidden from membership, and Devin explained it
verbally to everyone who asked but one. Something Entertainment's insurance has
covered their equipment even at synhak. Torrie: peeks at meeting minutes. Its
late to react. Storage unit needs to go. It allows for bad precedent. Devin: 3
outcomes. Shield the racks, redact and resign it, $100 goodbye and SE moves
racks elsewhere. Mike: Likes the racks at the space. We can use the racks for
synhak storage as well. Please make it as less impacting and provide access to
attendees of synhak. Justin: Yep, flow was always su
pposed to be mandatory. Racks were supposed to be recessed towards the walls.
I am handling the liability of my stuff. I'm not pulling wool on anyone's eyes.
We didn't follow our process. Devin: It was done really late. It was treated as
a discussion item - thats what I think. My requirement would be 6 feet access,
and will encourage traffic. Becca: We've been using racks for marking spaces,
if removed what happens. Torrie: If racks go, I will build partitions. I don't
have issue with the racks we're using. Its the fact that the space in a public
resource is being used for private purpose. Devin: At the time it was a
community decision. Becca: remembers it was brought up at Rockne's. Chris:
doesn't remember being proposed. Devin: was community was ok with this? we
talking about bills in the future. Jim: Everyone assumed it was voted on, what
is term of lease. Devin: Something Entertainment and synhak can terminate and
re-address it. Torrie: Never said we cannot afford $900 g
as bill. Diff between $900 for utilities and we have buffer money. In those
months, we can only lose max $500.And make those monies could be recouped
later. Devin, Andrew: you were raising alarm bells. Torrie: I still accounted
$500 reimbursements from element14. I understand there was confusion. At no
point synhak was going under. That's assuming there weren't any member dues
were coming in. Dues are coming in, utilities aren't that expensive. We won't
die for 4-5 years. Devin: I think what it comes down to, it was put through
some people feel ok, let's go around and vote on the three possible options.
Something Entertainment would like to have block sheeting to be able to block
the racks. Not to put something in front of the space to retrieve stuff from
the racks.
1) Finish out the lease as is written right now
Becca, MikeG, Alex, Andy B
2) Redact lease, peacefully, rewrite it - define it at that time
3) Ask SomethingEntertainment to terminate the lease (loss of $100, and racks)
Board meeting 7p 3/10 to discuss this further.
Bob and Devin will help with the move if the racks are moved.
Dave would like to help with any changes to the existing paperwork at synhak.
Jimmy: Is there a list of things to setup synhak from 21 W North? No concrete
response.
Becca: Need hole in the craft room ceiling fixed. Will interfere with my own
work. Devin: next week shall be done.
Torrie: Can't support a board that allows the racks in the space for storage,
lease etc.
= End of Meeting =
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