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Regular Member Meeting 2023 02 14

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Time and Location

Date
Called to order at 19:39 pm by Michelle
Members present: Kevin, Gabe, Max, Chris, Calli, Ken, Obi, Michelle
Members remote:
Others present:
Quorum
Quorum met? Yes

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Recognition

  • Gabe, Ulisses for organizing the basement clean out (and Ray for hauling off the stuff Benning Road wouldn't take).
  • Michelle for sticking with the presidency even after moving, getting a new job, etc., etc.

New Members

  • No new members

Old Business

  • Basement clean-out
  • This is Michelle's last meeting as president
  • Reaching a wider audience.
    • Join Nation of Makers for the resources (networks, safety guidelines, etc.) We think we have enough money for membership
  • Chris Knight and Daniel Aaron interested in cyber-security. Chris installed GNS-3 network emulator GUI on the server. Drag'n'drop servers, etc, to create the network topology. Eventually, a competition.
  • Michelle proposing the creation of an automated Meeting Minutes template
    • A "Looking forward" section for future events (or for removing events)
  • Possible one-off courses.
    • Calli offering to run a small series on web scraping/indexing, or perhaps user experience design.
    • Tristan talking about Capture the Flag and/or FreeCAD class.
    • Combine Web Scraping and Machine Learning classes
  • Use Discord more. Still.
    • 125 people at the moment are "subscribed" to the Discord server.
  • Events
    • Last Open Project Night was seven people
    • Visitor's Night is more variable
    • For every event, one person has to be officially responsible.
  • Kevin proposes a restaurant or movie night quarterly?

New Business

  • Phone system? See last month's minutes
    • Set up an Asterisk server?
    • Access: Until the phone works, take the phone number notice off the space.
    • Go back to a hardwired landline
  • Web changes
    • Remove message about access to "the server" from the web page as well
    • Onboarding for new members? (How to get a key, how to get a wiki account, etc.)
    • Michelle: We should give members who are not board members more control
    • Max and Calli would to help with web / wiki editing
    • Michelle: Be careful about "SEO credits" and changing wiki page names.
    • Add an "editors onboarding / best practices" page.
  • GitHub
    • Admin access now available
  • Codeberg too
  • Rockville Science Day
    • Michelle didn't feel it was worth the effort as a tabler, but a good place to visit as a member of the public.
    • The relationship with Ulisses is the only win to come out of that.
  • New board:
    • Vice-president is "president-in-waiting" / apprentice president training to take over from the outgoing president. (Basically a two-year minimum commitment. One as vice, one as president.)
    • President liaisons with church and treasurer. Not a lot of power but it's a good role for guidance person / project manager.
    • Obi interested / willing to become president.
    • Gabe putting in for vice president
    • Tristan possibly running for treasurer
      • Set "auto-pay" notices to be sent to the entire BOD
    • Keep one at-large position for a ham radio person. Probably John or Brian.
    • Michelle will reach out to Phil for the other at-large (or other BOD position).
    • Duties of the Secretary
    • Bylaws, standing laws, proposed standing laws, etc. Instead, we generally operate by consensus.

Adjournment

Adjourned by at Michelle by 21:12

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