Regarding Hacker grants: Since Torrie proposed this and will not be at
meetings in the near future could someone who understands her vision
please answer a few questions I have? The following is the current
wording:
/"I'm proposing that we allocate $5400 of our recent $15k knight
foundation grant to, each month, give $150 to a hacker with great
ideas who applies for it "/
* $5,400 is a lot of money to ear mark for one project with uncertain
terms. It is in fact 3 years worth(at the proposed 150/mo) of hacker
grants as well as over 1/3 of our total grant monies. Could we lower
this dollar amount? perhaps to $1,800 offering 1 years worth of
mini-grants instead. We can always revisit the idea after one year.
* What exactly is the application process and constitutes 'great
ideas'. If two people apply in the same month how do we decide between
them? Two in the same hour? If only one person applies does that
guarantee them the money? What's the application deadline?
* Do we hand people a check for $150 or refund reciepts?
* It sounds like this is open to the public, how do we best promote this?
regards,
Andrew L
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Omar Rassi <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Regarding the hacker grants proposal, I have a question for Steve.
Steve said, "before we spend any money, we should have a
discussion of what we want to do with this, before we start
spending it."
Isn't that what we're doing with the proposed expenditure on
funding mini-hacker grants? By discussing spending money on hacker
grants, we are in fact discussing how we're going to spend money.
What sort of discussion were you looking to have on this?
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Chris Egeland
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The link has been properly updated.
Here are the minutes:
{{Infobox_meeting
|time=7PM
|date=$date
|venue=48 South Summit
|next=$next
|previous=$previous
}}
= Agenda =
* '''Note Taker:''' MikeG
* '''Moderator:''' Becca
== Introduction and Names ==
* Round of introductions
** What is your name?
** What do you do?
** If this is your first time, how did you hear about SYNHAK?
* Ed, Robert R's Grampa, Retired Study of Law.
* Jen, Stay at home mom
* Robert, likes to invent
* Becca, frosts cakes,defrosts bread
* Mike, pressed the button
* STeve, brings horribly outdated computers to syhak
* Matt, updates software
* Matt, Deathray enthusiast
* Linda, Librarian, wants her own Makerspace, found out from
Clev Pub Library
* Joe, retired mechanic
* Craig, flips cars
* G, restores bycicles, for kiks
* Andy, computer tomography machines
* Chris, untapps
* Will, gots a new phone
* Philip, takes pictures, wants to start bike refurb service,
with MAtt, G, and Theresa, not for profit, but for fun
== Announcements ==
* Mini Maker fair, KSU Library, 12-4pm Thurs
* Informal announcement Akron Mini Maker Faire October 18th
11-4pm Akron Bublic Library, main branch
* NAMES Convention: MEchanical engineering society, makes
working mini trains, in Michigan
* Shop Safety tomorrow 8pm
** Closed toed shoes
** Long sleeve shirt/short sleeve/overshirt
** long pants
** stick with cottons
* Matt: may have line on garage toolshop, but in Michigan
== Membership ==
* Jen, never considered to be a member, was told Rob couldn't
skype into a meeting, or join via proxy
** G, can we have special off-tuesday meeting for a
non-tuesday enabled person?
** Becca, why can't he be interviewed over the phone.
** Chris E, don't see bylaw restriction, to a non-tues meeting
to address a new member app.
== Financial Report ==
* Funds in bank:
none reported
== Proposals ==
* no one wishes to propose to split the member dues/key
restrictions proposal
open: proposals -see proposal page
https://synhak.org/wiki/Proposals
* Hacker Grants
** Becca- would like to see a proposal that focusses on the
greatest good with the grant money, instead of whittling down
until we come up with a great idea that we don't have money
for any more.
** Matt, Mozilla is broke from funding women programmers
** Robert's Gpaw- that's the Govt's governance that put a hole
in the bottom of that boat.
** Steve-before we spend any money, we should have a
discussion of what we want to do with this, before we start
spending it.
* Andy, machine shop walls, still getting quotes for
materials, Carter Lumber was not so helpful as of yet
** wants to make a trip to Restore for steel firedoors
** Chris, do we have a plan of where doors/walls, windows,
-will there be pet doors?
** Andy -yes, no pet doors as of yet, maybe a robot door.
* Roberts Key proposal:
** will not be here without an adult
** where to keep key so it's not lost? maybe get a key
lanyard and hang it up where other keys are kept at home.
** Robert's key proposal-approved! money accepted by
Chris/champion
== Discussion Items ==
* Jen -freespace for finding doors?
* mailing address for Synhak:
<nowiki>SynHak
12 East Exchange St
2nd Floor
Akron, OH 44308</nowiki>
On 4/23/2014 9:44 AM, Chris Egeland wrote:
They were accidentally posted to Meetings/Template instead of
the correct page. I'm fixing the formatting then posting
them on the correct page. Give it about 10-20 minutes.
Chris
On 4/23/2014 8:51 AM, a l wrote:
Where are the minutes?
-Andrew L
On Apr 23, 2014 8:34 AM, "Phong" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
ã "ã,"ã «ã ¡ã ¯, hakkers!
I've noticed that there was a meeting on 2014-04-22 and
that the minutes are posted. They are visible on the web
at https://synhak.org/wiki/Meetings/2014-4-22. I've also
included them in this mail for reading at your leisure:
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|time=7PM
|date=2014-04-22
|venue=48 South Summit
|next=Meetings/2014-4-29
|previous=Meetings/2014-4-15
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<blockquote>SYNHAK is an infrastructure provider for
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