Minutes of ERPS General Meeting #280
1 April 2004
The President called the meeting to order at 8:10 PM. Members present were
Rick Eversole, Dave Masten, Pierce Nichols, Gerald Nordley, Julie Porter,
and Chris Winter.
Reports and discussion on agenda items were as follows:
DOCUMENTATION
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Chris Winter
Chris reported the following progress:
WEBSITE: Several pages are on-line for testing. The general design of
these pages is complete, but fine-tuning is deferred to a later time. When
viewed with a standards-compliant browser, the main menu stays in place as
intended while content scrolls; however, IE6 still does not "get it". The
site is usable with Lynx 2.8.2; the latest version of Lynx should do even
better.
CD-ROM: About 500 MB of data are on hand. Organization of these files has
begun; the effort is still on track to be complete by the target date of
April 15.
Julie reported that she received yet another inquiry about her Gerber-file
conversions. She proposed to put this on the Web site as a data file. The
proposal passed on a voice vote.
INFOTECH
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Sean Lynch
Nothing to report
LIAISONS
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Michael Wallis
Sean reported that, at a Stratofox event near Buttonwillow, the team
received 1 APRS packet from a rocket in flight.
Gerry will take an electronic copy of our brochure to a science fiction
convention he's invited to next weekend.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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Michael Wallis
Nothing to report
TREASURER
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Rick Eversole
We've disbursed money, but still have some left.
CHIEF SCIENTIST
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Kevin Bollinger
Nothing to report
FLIGHT CONTROLS
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Dave Masten
See the entry for Gizmocopter.
PROPELLANTS/SPARGER/FF
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Pierce Nichols
A Saturday test of the new sparger assembly with plain water was
successful. On Sunday, the Ranch water system was empty due to a leak.
During the hunt for this leak, it announced itself in the form of a 10-foot
geyser. It was soon fixed; further improvements are pending.
Work on Freezewheel Mark 1 continues.
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
Nothing to report
**** PROJECTS
Composites
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Kevin Bollinger
Nothing to report
Gizmocopter
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Dave Masten
Gizmocopter is close to flying. The pacing item is an IMU, which must be
ordered. We still have a chance to get some video to show at Space Access
'04.
KISS
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Dan Solvin
Nothing to report
POGO
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Dave Masten
Welding proceeds.
SMARTFLIGHT
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Dave Weinshenker
Nothing to report
Spike
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Sean Lynch
Nothing to report
Meeting #280 adjourned at 9:00 PM. The next meeting will take place on 15
April at the Denny's on Bowers Avenue in Santa Clara. Watch the list for
full driving directions.
Respectfully submitted,
Chris Winter
Secretary, ERPS
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