Regular Member Meeting 2019 07 09

Time and Location

Date

Called to order at 7.35 pm by Karen

Members present: Tayeb, Bobby, Ken, Kevin, James, Dan, Karen, Mirage

Members remote:

Others present: Rob, Jeff

Quorum 5

Quorum met? Y

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Motion, seconded, approved by acclamation.

Recognition

Bobby, James and Kevin have done a lot of work on the 3d printers Members who have converted to automatic payment Welcome back Tayeb James has done a ton of work organizing the basement into a working shop - he also got a welder for the shop

New Members for July

Michelle

Old Business

• Rules of the road/code of conduct - there is input from Bobby that should be considered before we vote to accept
• Ken is taking the VR system to community program that he is supporting so the younger kids can experience it (so no VR in the space right now)
• Basement keys are sorted out, Karen and James need to go to the bank to sort out the signature cards
• Visit to Nonstop Art - aiming for a group field trip on Wednesday, July 17, 6pm - Karen will email Nehemiah

New Business

• Kevin made a connection with WABA (kind of) who offered to help HacDC get a table at community events
• Dan is looking for a part for his 3d printer that is on loan to HacDC
• Bobby's ideas for drawing new visitors - screen/tshirt printing, 3d printing out on the sidewalk, RC vehicle advertising HacDC in the neighborhood
• Visitor Jeff would like to join - members present approved

Project Awesome Reports

Project CRISPR -Enrique

- Report and updates

Project SpaceBlimp -Enrique

- Report and updates

Director Reports (Governance related stuff)

President's Report

Next movie is Young Frankstein on Friday, July 19

Vice President's Report

Out of town - no report

Treasurer's Report

Google for nonprofits?

• New subscriptions: Ken and Michelle Savage. Thank you for automating and for signing up, respectively.
• Ended subscriptions: Philip Stewart. Sorry to see you go. Thanks for the past support.
• Donations: Kyle Mulka, $10. Thank you for your donation.
• Business license renewed for 2 years. Paid personally due to president out of country. $632.50
• Hackdc.org domain name re-registered for 5 years.
• Check 1200? Dondé esta?
• Donation from Facebook arrived. Check is in locker. I will try mobile deposit.
• Balances: Paypal $500, BBT $5052.93.
• Burn rate: $1642/month expenses $690/month income, $952/month deficit = 5.8 months remaining.
• We need 16 new $60/mo. members.

Comment:

It would be nice to have monthly events where we could solicit donations (they would be free events otherwise) Some topics - AI, Blockchain, etc. Michelle's brain computer interface group?

Secretary's Report

Dave's not here man...

Director-at-Large Reports

Kevin

No reports, but will reach out to Brian at Exiles on Main Street to schedule a HacDC night

Ken

No report

Adjournment

Adjourned by at 8.25 by Karen