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* Ulisses - starting federated biology-combo group of labs; mostly graduate students or working professionals; space is hosted by Rockville Science Center
* Ulisses - starting federated biology-combo group of labs; mostly graduate students or working professionals; space is hosted by Rockville Science Center
* New Orleans report-back -  
* New Orleans report-back -  
** Mesh Network - John would be open to partnering HAM Radio club on this project; Michelle reaching out to prof at Univ MD Baltimore County -- Michelle meeting with Foad next week in Baltimore, learning more about their grants for Meth networking; As a followup, Kevin says to reach out to Open Technology Institute, subdivision of the New American think tank in DC.  If anyone has experience with mesh networking in the Mid-Atlantic region, reach out to Michelle
** Mesh Network - John would be open to partnering HAM Radio club on this project; Michelle reaching out to prof at Univ MD Baltimore County -- Michelle meeting with Foad next week in Baltimore, learning more about their grants for Meth networking; As a followup, Kevin says to reach out to Open Technology Institute, subdivision of the New American think tank in DC.  If anyone has experience with mesh networking in the Mid-Atlantic region, reach out to Michelle, also look at www.projectwaves.net
*** DC Broadband Bridge - Kevin heard this used to be in DC -- Kevin reached out to former Broadband Bridge activists, have moved on/burned out, was going well for 5+ years but no longer
*** DC Broadband Bridge - Kevin heard this used to be in DC -- Kevin reached out to former Broadband Bridge activists, have moved on/burned out, was going well for 5+ years but no longer
*** [https://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php?title=Category:Byzantium Project Byzantium]
*** [https://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php?title=Category:Byzantium Project Byzantium]

Revision as of 23:56, 14 June 2022


Time and Location

Date: Tue 14 June 2022
Called to order at 7:35pm by
Members present: Oby Ken Kevin Michelle Tayeb Matt
Members remote: all
Others present: Elijah Angelman
Quorum
Quorum met? Yes

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Approved

Recognition

Tayeb for last meeting as a member -- moving to Chicago

New Members

Old Business

  • Ulisses - starting federated biology-combo group of labs; mostly graduate students or working professionals; space is hosted by Rockville Science Center
  • New Orleans report-back -
    • Mesh Network - John would be open to partnering HAM Radio club on this project; Michelle reaching out to prof at Univ MD Baltimore County -- Michelle meeting with Foad next week in Baltimore, learning more about their grants for Meth networking; As a followup, Kevin says to reach out to Open Technology Institute, subdivision of the New American think tank in DC. If anyone has experience with mesh networking in the Mid-Atlantic region, reach out to Michelle, also look at www.projectwaves.net
      • DC Broadband Bridge - Kevin heard this used to be in DC -- Kevin reached out to former Broadband Bridge activists, have moved on/burned out, was going well for 5+ years but no longer
      • Project Byzantium
  • PAR / Recycle Works (Philadelphia) back in the picture - owner of PAR has morphed organization into generic Windows computer training services; Michelle feels this is out of scope and region
  • WordPress work needed - Dreamhost needs us to upgrade to 8.1 -- Dreamhost saying it will happen imminently, Kevin manually upgraded but it broke things so he rewound the upgrade and now we need to retry, Michelle and Kevin will schedule to try again
  • AI Machine Learning - Oby interested in restarting this; we started in 2020 on the first course and Oby ; should be a part of the newsletter to gauge interest -- Oby will take leadership and restart this

New Business

  • Bike light event last weekend of July (Tayeb) -- request that individuals bring/buy their own supplies, spend next weeks ensuring supplies available online (https://lab64.stanford.edu/bike-light-pov)
  • Inventory Refinement - Spring Cleaning 2022 -
    • "Retain, Redistribute, or Recycle?" survey - Email Google Forms to existing members with photos attached
    • Basement water issues - (1) coming in from outside (2) not draining inside, possible super-clog that appears that there isn't even a drain (3) water leaking from busted drain pipe along wall; top of wall there is opening with a tunnel (the tunnel is not part of our storage space, was offered to us at one point)
  • Mail in workroom - how can we help get things in order more? who should be picking it up? when should they be picking it up?

Project Awesome Reports

Project SUPPLIES - ???

Project EXPANSION - ???

Project HAMRADIO - ???

Project Electron Microscope (SEM) - ???

Project Media Outreach - ???

Project IT Infrastructure - ???

Member Reports

Director Reports (Governance related stuff)

President's Report

Vice President's Report

Treasurer's Report

Secretary's Report

Director-at-Large Reports

???

???

Adjournment

Adjourned by at ??? by ???