View source for Regular Member Meeting 2008 07 22

Added to Agenda:
* Personal Member Storage Member
* Toorcon
* [[Cash register]]

Called to order @ 7:33

People should be bopped, often.

== Minister Reports ==

[[User:Q|Andrew]]:
Training: Eliot, and him september microcontroller meeting, AVR - setup 2 mailing list, [http://hacdc.org/mailman/listinfo/micromondays_hacdc.org microcontroller mondays], and [http://hacdc.org/mailman/listinfo/smartclothing_hacdc.org another for Smart Clothing].

Richard:
Please submit items by Saturday at 11:59pm, to info@hacdc.org.

Alli:
Could use people to give constructive insight on website.  If so, please email info@hacdc.org.  If anyone is interested in doing wiki stuff, email Alli - cleaning it up, reorganizing.

[[User:Nickfarr|Nick]]:
Grand opening week, HOPE, [[cash register]] added to agenda.

If you spent money on behalf of HacDC, please send Nick receipts by next week, as soon as possible.

Register says we made $1700.  How ridiculously proud he is of everyone who was there.  Been working with people in the hacker scene for over a decade, never seen before.

Introduction from Richard Aden - wants to build a giant robot & learn more.

Richard Bewley:

Working on administrative things, coordination, food.

== Member Reports ==

* Asked about training, would be nice to have a wiki page for training.

[[User:Q|Andrew]] - could be nice to post what people are capable of teaching... under inventory, someone is dropping off video camera gear to tape stuff.  Still needs to upload, needs 

[[User:Ben|Ben]] - Building a light box for photography, diffused light source.

Derek - HOPE was really cool.  He got a telephone, a payphone in exchange for butt sets.  Derek would like to leave the sticker on the side of it.

[[User:Katie|Katie]] - [http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/64kbps/A_Collaborative_Approach_to_Hardware_Hacking_NYCResistor.mp3 NYCResistor talk] was inspiring.  Members talking about how cool their hacker space.  She brought conductive thread.

[[User:Ben|Ben]] - One of co-workers gave him a DVD player, a printer that sometimes works, and a fax machine.

Derek - Has LCD monitors, invited lots of people to come visit us.

[[User:Nickfarr|Nick]]'s Agenda Items----
* Every HacDC member has posting access to [http://hacdc.org/ the blog].  People should blog, so it looks like they are doing stuff.  They just pull everything off their blog.

* [[cash register]]: We should leave it in the space, and we have our own personal [[Components Store]], along the same lines as purchased drinks.  Keep all cash in [[cash register]].  Machine itself is only used for tracking money.  This also trains people how to use the [[cash register]], so that when we go to a [[Conferences|conference]], they already know how.

* Grand Opening Ceremonies: 
** Performance happening tomorrow @ 8:30.  Will be well attended, and it will be weird.  Will be really weird.
** Thursday night, Gareth and Alberto from [http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc DorkBot DC] will be talking about building the tech community.
** Friday night, nothing scheduled except drinking at Brickskeller @ 9.  Ben is coordinating.
** Saturday, officially scheduled visit to Grace Hopper's grave @ noon.
** Sunday, big dinner and acknowledge people, such as Yhenn.  Pot Luck dinner.

== Personal Member Storage Area ==

2 alcoves outside, ask [[User:Myself|Nate]] if there's some way to make that a personal member storage area.

== Toorcon ==

Last weekend in September in San Diego.  Not yet issued a CFP (Call for papers), however Nick believes that we could make a lot of money and have fun at Toorcon.  Organize in the next 2 weeks, if we want to do it.  Should HacDC sponsor members to visit Toorcon.

== HOPE ==

Get writeups into members list and on blog.  

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8:13 - adjourned

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