Regular Member Meeting 2023 02 14

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

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.

Old Business

• Basement clean-out
  • Lessons learned: When Benning Road says "Electronics and toxic materials" that's the only thing they take.
  • Matt Pfiefer (sp)? has a new 3D model of the basement with the OTR rotated
• 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Network_Simulator-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?
  • Michelle recommends "General Magic" documentary

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

Adjournment

Adjourned by at ??? by ???