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:Members present: Mario, John*, Tayeb*, Kevin, Oby, John*, Dan, Brian, Michelle* | :Members present: Mario, John*, Tayeb*, Kevin, Oby, John*, Dan, Brian, Michelle*, Gabe* | ||
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# O'Reilly Community Partner - Kevin set us up; we need to add their logo on the website and add them to at least one of our newsletters | # O'Reilly Community Partner - Kevin set us up; we need to add their logo on the website and add them to at least one of our newsletters | ||
# “Unified Data” Project (Phase 1) "Wiki-Website-Meetup-Google" - Michelle is interested in leading, already in discussion with Kevin on to spec out requirements to do this (as well as backup-and-recovery strategies) (potential other phases: instructor/member on-boarding, open data pilot project) | # “Unified Data” Project (Phase 1) "Wiki-Website-Meetup-Google" - Michelle is interested in leading, already in discussion with Kevin on to spec out requirements to do this (as well as backup-and-recovery strategies) (potential other phases: instructor/member on-boarding, open data pilot project) | ||
## Kevin: who is on HacDC "admin" list? we probably need some monitoring/clean-up there. | |||
# April 24, 2022 at Montgomery College at Rockville Science - "family fun" event; outdoors and free to host a booth; HacDC will host a booth (soldering class, robotics); Tayeb will follow-up; exhibitors setup is (April 23 and April 24 early morning) | # April 24, 2022 at Montgomery College at Rockville Science - "family fun" event; outdoors and free to host a booth; HacDC will host a booth (soldering class, robotics); Tayeb will follow-up; exhibitors setup is (April 23 and April 24 early morning) | ||
## Tayeb: has signed us up - will be outdoor event; if anyone has anything to demo, let us know! | |||
## Kevin: we will need to know if they have power | |||
## Michelle: we should get a photographer too - good shots for PR, website, newsletter, etc. | |||
# John & Don - their grant for Amateur Radio looks good; will get $26k to improve antenna system - mostly goes to Aries (radio for emergency) | # John & Don - their grant for Amateur Radio looks good; will get $26k to improve antenna system - mostly goes to Aries (radio for emergency) | ||
# Trivia Vender Machine (via Dallas Hackerspace) - only way to get food is to answer science questions; Phil wants to build a portable one where students write the questions (can use coupons or others); would be interested in donating | # Trivia Vender Machine (via Dallas Hackerspace) - only way to get food is to answer science questions; Phil wants to build a portable one where students write the questions (can use coupons or others); would be interested in donating | ||
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# Grants Project Committee * - start an email distribution list for members interested in pursuing grant-based projects for HacDC (needs: aggregate list of potential grants, manage future projects/hardware, partner with like-minded community partners, create business plans for consideration). Can merge with this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vxa7L7dPvZi0qEluxKf1EvKdPnKa62sAdr3RdY97cAU/edit#gid=225237387 matrix list] for comparison. | # Grants Project Committee * - start an email distribution list for members interested in pursuing grant-based projects for HacDC (needs: aggregate list of potential grants, manage future projects/hardware, partner with like-minded community partners, create business plans for consideration). Can merge with this [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vxa7L7dPvZi0qEluxKf1EvKdPnKa62sAdr3RdY97cAU/edit#gid=225237387 matrix list] for comparison. | ||
# Ham Club * - status on the grant and address any questions about the Ham Club initiative; bonus: with Ethan rejoining HacDC, we now have 5 licensed hams! | # Ham Club * - status on the grant and address any questions about the Ham Club initiative; bonus: with Ethan rejoining HacDC, we now have 5 licensed hams! | ||
## One of members who moved to CA uses transponders and weather balloons called attention to organization interested in funding HAM radio activities to encourage "digital modes" of HAM radios and RF-propogation; another objective of theirs is to support HAMs as hobby and want to grow it to be real presence in DC and three specific initiatives: (1) bring back emergency comms capability through A2RLs (Aries) (?) program through -most states have multiple, but one in DC was dormant can be helpful when major events in city (protests, etc) and is a great way of engaging HAM radio (repeaters, stable comms, etc) to connect to emergency operations center for DC also connect to hospitals for Aries groups; Elizabeth Goodson (?) is leading this effort (2) second effort to license HAMs to develop various aspects of the hobby to a variety of things like activations in subtopics which they want to explore: on mountaintops, parks, people who like to communicate with satellites, people who like to bounce signals off moon (3) continue with upgrade of their radio station (all the equipment has been donated by members. NEXT STEP => they welcome new members from HacDC (will help get license and pass the test) and be included in their planning meetings going forward | |||
# [https://preciousplastic.com/starterkits/overview.html Precious Plastics] - global open source but community-level plastics drop-off, collections, shredder workspace, melting & molding, extrusion, and so on services. Similar to 3D printing outcomes but slightly more scalable and vastly more sustainable. Compared to another partner we've looked at before, PAR Recycle Works: PP is bigger community, more documentation/videos on how to get started. Can HacDC get a grant to become a Precious Plastics workspace? Can HacDC become pipeline to sell the final products regionally online instead? Reach out to new member Mario who might be interested in projects involved with recycling. | # [https://preciousplastic.com/starterkits/overview.html Precious Plastics] - global open source but community-level plastics drop-off, collections, shredder workspace, melting & molding, extrusion, and so on services. Similar to 3D printing outcomes but slightly more scalable and vastly more sustainable. Compared to another partner we've looked at before, PAR Recycle Works: PP is bigger community, more documentation/videos on how to get started. Can HacDC get a grant to become a Precious Plastics workspace? Can HacDC become pipeline to sell the final products regionally online instead? Reach out to new member Mario who might be interested in projects involved with recycling. | ||
## Mario: interested as long as isn't distraction | |||
# Unified Data - Website designs sent out for review, comments; Also questions: (1) what was the address of the old location in the header image on the designs sent out? (2) is there a higher quality version of our logo somewhere? (3) currently, only myself, Tayeb, and Kevin on the "Unified Data" team, any board member interested in joining should email [email protected] - first meeting will be later on this month discussing the Newsletter and the latest Website design changes. | # Unified Data - Website designs sent out for review, comments; Also questions: (1) what was the address of the old location in the header image on the designs sent out? (2) is there a higher quality version of our logo somewhere? (3) currently, only myself, Tayeb, and Kevin on the "Unified Data" team, any board member interested in joining should email [email protected] - first meeting will be later on this month discussing the Newsletter and the latest Website design changes. | ||
## Kevin: wants us to decide on Recovery & Restoration | |||
## [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16V30z4HMzw8cBTL5OS91JNGNpRfyqNWBqGwtf6Fs1zg/edit#slide=id.g10769e895e5_0_23 Diagram of data services, providers, features, and pros/cons] | ## [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16V30z4HMzw8cBTL5OS91JNGNpRfyqNWBqGwtf6Fs1zg/edit#slide=id.g10769e895e5_0_23 Diagram of data services, providers, features, and pros/cons] | ||
## Kevin: current web host provider, Dreamhost, is seriously limited; cannot install packages and do innovative web projects | |||
### Tayeb: Digital Ocean has application process to review | |||
# Laser Cutter - on the agenda to purchase for a while now; is a big draw for people come to space | |||
## 43% of survey respondents want this; many email requests for prospective members looking to use this | |||
## Funding - can be donations (via website tagged with "laser cutter") + grant funding for longer-term maintenance | |||
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== Member Reports == | == Member Reports == | ||
Louie - will terminate membership; "gave it a year" to be useful to him and it hasn't; now doing some cool digital art stuff; possibility remains to rejoin | |||
== Director Reports (Governance related stuff) == | == Director Reports (Governance related stuff) == | ||
Latest revision as of 09:28, 12 January 2022
Time and Location
- Date Tue 11 Jan 2022
- Called to order at 7:35 pm by Tayeb
- Members present: Mario, John*, Tayeb*, Kevin, Oby, John*, Dan, Brian, Michelle*, Gabe*
- Members remote: (none)
- Others present:
- Quorum
- Quorum met? Yes
Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
Recognition
Matt - new member on-boarding process (payment transactions & TechSoup) Kevin - communications & risk management process (website and wiki backups) John - funding & relevant new programming (grant proposal acceptance)
New Members
Old Business
- Zoom - want to switch from Jitsi; initially requested by Ethan; will use TechSoup nonprofit account; former person setup was Nicholas (secretary before Tayeb)
- O'Reilly Community Partner - Kevin set us up; we need to add their logo on the website and add them to at least one of our newsletters
- “Unified Data” Project (Phase 1) "Wiki-Website-Meetup-Google" - Michelle is interested in leading, already in discussion with Kevin on to spec out requirements to do this (as well as backup-and-recovery strategies) (potential other phases: instructor/member on-boarding, open data pilot project)
- Kevin: who is on HacDC "admin" list? we probably need some monitoring/clean-up there.
- April 24, 2022 at Montgomery College at Rockville Science - "family fun" event; outdoors and free to host a booth; HacDC will host a booth (soldering class, robotics); Tayeb will follow-up; exhibitors setup is (April 23 and April 24 early morning)
- Tayeb: has signed us up - will be outdoor event; if anyone has anything to demo, let us know!
- Kevin: we will need to know if they have power
- Michelle: we should get a photographer too - good shots for PR, website, newsletter, etc.
- John & Don - their grant for Amateur Radio looks good; will get $26k to improve antenna system - mostly goes to Aries (radio for emergency)
- Trivia Vender Machine (via Dallas Hackerspace) - only way to get food is to answer science questions; Phil wants to build a portable one where students write the questions (can use coupons or others); would be interested in donating
- PairsMathGame.com - Phil interested in helping share his invention during the Rockville event
New Business
- Board Member Elections * - on Mar 8 during regular Monthly Members Meeting; decided during Board member meeting we had on Dec 21
- Grants Project Committee * - start an email distribution list for members interested in pursuing grant-based projects for HacDC (needs: aggregate list of potential grants, manage future projects/hardware, partner with like-minded community partners, create business plans for consideration). Can merge with this matrix list for comparison.
- Ham Club * - status on the grant and address any questions about the Ham Club initiative; bonus: with Ethan rejoining HacDC, we now have 5 licensed hams!
- One of members who moved to CA uses transponders and weather balloons called attention to organization interested in funding HAM radio activities to encourage "digital modes" of HAM radios and RF-propogation; another objective of theirs is to support HAMs as hobby and want to grow it to be real presence in DC and three specific initiatives: (1) bring back emergency comms capability through A2RLs (Aries) (?) program through -most states have multiple, but one in DC was dormant can be helpful when major events in city (protests, etc) and is a great way of engaging HAM radio (repeaters, stable comms, etc) to connect to emergency operations center for DC also connect to hospitals for Aries groups; Elizabeth Goodson (?) is leading this effort (2) second effort to license HAMs to develop various aspects of the hobby to a variety of things like activations in subtopics which they want to explore: on mountaintops, parks, people who like to communicate with satellites, people who like to bounce signals off moon (3) continue with upgrade of their radio station (all the equipment has been donated by members. NEXT STEP => they welcome new members from HacDC (will help get license and pass the test) and be included in their planning meetings going forward
- Precious Plastics - global open source but community-level plastics drop-off, collections, shredder workspace, melting & molding, extrusion, and so on services. Similar to 3D printing outcomes but slightly more scalable and vastly more sustainable. Compared to another partner we've looked at before, PAR Recycle Works: PP is bigger community, more documentation/videos on how to get started. Can HacDC get a grant to become a Precious Plastics workspace? Can HacDC become pipeline to sell the final products regionally online instead? Reach out to new member Mario who might be interested in projects involved with recycling.
- Mario: interested as long as isn't distraction
- Unified Data - Website designs sent out for review, comments; Also questions: (1) what was the address of the old location in the header image on the designs sent out? (2) is there a higher quality version of our logo somewhere? (3) currently, only myself, Tayeb, and Kevin on the "Unified Data" team, any board member interested in joining should email [email protected] - first meeting will be later on this month discussing the Newsletter and the latest Website design changes.
- Kevin: wants us to decide on Recovery & Restoration
- Diagram of data services, providers, features, and pros/cons
- Kevin: current web host provider, Dreamhost, is seriously limited; cannot install packages and do innovative web projects
- Tayeb: Digital Ocean has application process to review
- Laser Cutter - on the agenda to purchase for a while now; is a big draw for people come to space
- 43% of survey respondents want this; many email requests for prospective members looking to use this
- Funding - can be donations (via website tagged with "laser cutter") + grant funding for longer-term maintenance
____ (*) = Address in first 30 minutes for full Board member attendance
Project Awesome Reports
Project SUPPLIES - ???
Project EXPANSION - ???
Project HAMRADIO - ???
Project Electron Microscope (SEM) - ???
Project Media Outreach - ???
Project IT Infrastructure - ???
Member Reports
Louie - will terminate membership; "gave it a year" to be useful to him and it hasn't; now doing some cool digital art stuff; possibility remains to rejoin
President's Report
Vice President's Report
Treasurer's Report
Secretary's Report
Director-at-Large Reports
???
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Adjournment
Adjourned by at ??? by ???