Regular Member Meeting 2017 11 14: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 18:49, 16 November 2017

Time and Location

Date

Called to order at 8:00 pm by Julia Longtin

Members present: kevin cole, enrique, james, ken, bobby

Members remote: none

Others present: nancy

Quorum

Quorum met? No

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Recognition

ken, for getting us in contact with the city.

New Members

Old Business

remind nancy about disclaimer.

New Business

Project Awesome Reports

Project SUPPLIES - Mirage

Project EXPANSION - Mirage

Project HAMRADIO - Jeff

Project Electron Microscope (SEM) - Julia

4.7 torr. rebuilding the imaging board. re-greased and re-installed a seal. python serial is almost working. scanned all the docs except the PCB.

Project Optical Table Robot (OTR) -Julia

Project CRISPR -Enrique

Nothing to report. We have not gotten back to The ODIN's offer to send free new supplies.

Project SpaceBlimp -Enrique

We motivated the Rockville Makerspace to have Spaceblimp meetings with us. We've had two meetings (Nancy, Sam). They have licensed radio operators that are interested.

Report back from meetings with Rockville Maker Space Report back from attendance - MUD - Balloon Launch program - Saturday Nov 11 Future Steps regarding, networking and collaboration By Nancy C. Wolfson

I tried but I keep forgetting how to edit the Wiki... Thanks in advanced Hug, see you tonight Nancy

I inquired about purchasing the gas cylinder rather than renting it at $30/mo. No response so far and the rental fees are racking up. I haven't had a chance to go back up to Hyattsville with the cylinder to return it after the aborted launch in August. I'd rather donate the rental cost for now but will try to return and ask about purchasing it in person. (Enrique)

Project Media Outreach - Matt

This project is orphaned as Matt does not want to lead it. Nic may be taking this over.

Project IT Infrastructure - Tom

Member Reports

Ken has invited Marvin Gay, Community Outreach Coordinator, for Safer, Stronger DC (Office of Neighborhood Saftey and Engagement, Executive Office of the Mayor) to visit the space on November 21 at 1:00 PM, and Mr. Gay has accepted. Dorothy Jones-Davis, the Executive Director for Nation of Makers is also invited and attending.
Ubuntourist attended a Community Makerspace Day to shill for HacDC. The crowd was a bit young, but the woman who was the ringmaster, Shaia Belt, appears interested in learning from us.
VolkswagenFeature and Ubuntourist are now able to read the SEM MKS Instruments 925 Micro Pirani™ Vacuum Transducer via multiple serial communications programs (e.g. Minicom, Miniterm), one of which is part of the Python serial package, which should serve as a guide for how to write custom Python code to monitor the SEM.

Director Reports (Governance related stuff)

President's Report

Vice President's Report

Treasurer's Report

Secretary's Report

Director-at-Large Reports

Kevin

Matt

Adjournment

Adjourned by at julia by 9:02

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 == Old Business ==
+remind nancy about disclaimer.
 == New Business ==
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 === Project HAMRADIO - Jeff ===
-=== Project Electron Microscope (SEM) - Enrique ===
+=== Project Electron Microscope (SEM) - Julia ===
+.7 torr. rebuilding the imaging board. re-greased and re-installed a seal. python serial is almost working. scanned all the docs except the PCB.
 === Project Optical Table Robot (OTR) -Julia ===
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 === Project SpaceBlimp -Enrique ===
+We motivated the Rockville Makerspace to have Spaceblimp meetings with us. We've had two meetings (Nancy, Sam). They have licensed radio operators that are interested.
 Report back from meetings with Rockville Maker Space
 Report back from attendance - MUD - Balloon Launch program - Saturday Nov 11
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 Hug, see you tonight
 Nancy
+I inquired about purchasing the gas cylinder rather than renting it at $30/mo. No response so far and the rental fees are racking up. I haven't had a chance to go back up to Hyattsville with the cylinder to return it after the aborted launch in August. I'd rather donate the rental cost for now but will try to return and ask about purchasing it in person. (Enrique)
 === Project Media Outreach - Matt ===
-Is Matt still a member? - Enrique
+This project is orphaned as Matt does not want to lead it. Nic may be taking this over.
 === Project IT Infrastructure - Tom ===
 == Member Reports ==
+* Ken has invited Marvin Gay, Community Outreach Coordinator, for '''Safer, Stronger DC''' (Office of Neighborhood Saftey and Engagement, Executive Office of the Mayor) to visit the space on November 21 at 1:00 PM, and Mr. Gay has accepted. [https://nationofmakers.us/about/staff/ Dorothy Jones-Davis], the Executive Director for '''[https://nationofmakers.us/ Nation of Makers]''' is also invited and attending.
+* Ubuntourist attended a '''[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-makerspace-day-tickets-39168856103# Community Makerspace Day]''' to shill for HacDC. The crowd was a bit young, but the woman who was the ringmaster, '''[http://attconline.weebly.com/about.html Shaia Belt]''', appears interested in learning from us.
+* [https://github.com/volkswagenfeature VolkswagenFeature] and [https://github.com/kjcole Ubuntourist] are now able to read the SEM [https://www.mksinst.com/product/Product.aspx?ProductID=648 MKS Instruments 925 Micro Pirani™ Vacuum Transducer] via multiple serial communications programs (e.g. [https://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/ Minicom], [http://pyserial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools.html#module-serial.tools.miniterm Miniterm]), one of which is part of the [http://pyserial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Python serial] package, which should serve as a guide for how to write custom Python code to monitor the SEM.
 == Director Reports (Governance related stuff) ==
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 == Adjournment ==
-Adjourned by at xxx by xxx
+Adjourned by at julia by 9:02