Minutes of ERPS General Meeting #274
18 December 2003
(Rick Eversole recording)
The President called the meeting to order at 8:19 PM. Members present were
Rick Eversole, Sean Lynch, Dave Masten, Julie Porter, Adrian Tymes, Michael
Wallis, and Pierce Nichols.
Reports and discussion on agenda items were as follows:
DOCUMENTATION
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Chris Winter
Nothing to report
INFOTECH
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Sean Lynch
Rick reported that he has finally gotten Zope and Plone up on his home
FreeBSD 5.1 box. His next steps involve recreating the ERPS website under
Plone. Rick had to build NPTL for FreeBSD from the ports area.
LIAISONS
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Michael Wallis
Nothing to report
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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Michael Wallis
Michael reported the successful launch of SpaceShipOne to 68,000 feet. He
also reported that Paul Allen has been identified as the private benefactor
for Scaled Composites.
TREASURER
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Rick Eversole
We have received a generous donation from Dave Weinshenker for the
purchase of a diesel generator for use at the ranch.
We do not have enough money to cover all the remaining budgeted items.
Find us some more generous donors.
We have also received a donation of various items for use or sale. Among
these items are some ten foot unistrut type beams, a tilting milling vice
and a milling gage. There is also a Schilling Conan 7P robot arm that will
be donated once an appropriate (and IRS acceptable) value can be
established.
CHIEF SCIENTIST
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Kevin Bollinger
Nothing to report
FLIGHT CONTROLS
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Dave Masten
Nothing to report
PROPELLANTS/SPARGER/FF
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Pierce Nichols
The new tower has been added to the sparger at the ranch.
REGULATORY
AFFAIRS
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Dave Weinshenker
Nothing to report
SAFETY
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Dave Masten
Safety is AOK.
TESTING
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Dave Masten
No news about liability insurance, and nothing else to report.
**** PROJECTS
Composites
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Kevin Bollinger
Nothing to report
Gizmocopter
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Dave Masten
Sean reported that Gizmo has successfully lifted three legs off the ground
and momentarily bounced the fourth one off the ground all while under
control of the laptop computer. The current control constants are probably
too large by an order of magnitude.
The limiting factor in Gizmo flight motors is the current flow not the
power density. This means that a gel lead acid battery can be used as the
power source and actually be on board so that we are not limited to ground
based power.
The next step is to move the control software to the on board flight CPU.
KISS
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Dan Solvin
Nothing to report
POGO
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Dave Masten
Nothing to report
SMARTFLIGHT
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Dave Weinshenker
Nothing to report
Spike
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Sean Lynch
Nothing to report
Meeting #274 adjourned at 9:11 PM. THERE WILL BE NO MEETING ON 1 JANUARY
2004, NEW YEAR'S DAY. The next meeting will take place at the Denny's on
Bowers Avenue in Santa Clara. Watch the list for meeting date and full
driving directions.
Respectfully submitted,
Rick Eversole
Treasurer, ERPS
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