Regular Member Meeting 2019 05 14

Time and Location

Date 5/14/2019

Called to order at 7:35 pm by Karen Shunk

Members present: Dan, Bobby, Ken, Kevin, John, James

Members remote: Hunter

Others present:

Quorum

Quorum met? Y

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Minutes by John, motion James, seconded Kevin, approved

New Members

2 new paying members, Maxwell and Alex 1 full member, 1 student

New Business

• Tech Circus
  • We now have a FEW trinkets from James and Kevin.
  • Send walk-through and Thursday setup notes, logistics to all the players not in attendance today (e.g. NonStop Art).
    • 10:00 AM Thursday early setup.
    •   5:00  PM Thursday late setup, with teen schleppers and greeters.
    • Don't forget HacDC banners and brochures from top drawer of the filing cabinet.
    • Don't forget blue tape and glue for the printer(s)
    • 12 (?) tables.
    • Soft drinks, beer, and wine available. No food.
    • Teen schleppers available to help with tear-down.
    • Stage with sound system at far (east) end of tunnel
    • Dan lives close, has a car, and, in a pinch, has space that can act as a very temporary storage relay
  • Program
    • Opening remarks / welcome to the Dupont Underground at stage (Robert Meins)
    • Intro to HacDC at stage (???)
    • Music with video at stage (Dan)
    • Looping 3D-related videos and 3D printing (Kevin and Esti from DCPL)
    • SpaceBlimp 6 video, and possibly Robert Meins drone video
    • "Live" video projection of VR gear view (Ken)
    • 3D room scanning / modeling (Betty)
    • Robotics? (Oby)

Schedule / Program

Table #	Organization	Showing...	Contact	Email
1	HacDC	VR/AI	Ken Kenworthy
2	HacDC	3D Printing	Kevin Cole
3	HacDC	Electronic Music	Dan Monego
4	HacDC	Legos for fun	Karen Shunk
5	HacDC	Information	John Pancoast
?	HacDC	Robots	Oby Anomnachi
6	Nonstop Art	Information	Nehemiah Dixon	[email protected]
7	Nonstop Art	Wearable tech	Nehemiah Dixon
8	District Makers Collective	sculptural lights	Kent Slowinski	[email protected]
9	David Kaufman	art	David Kaufman	[email protected]
10	DCPL	3D Printing	Esti Brennan, Chelsea Kirkland	[email protected]; [email protected]

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• Invitation to participate in Capital Hill Maker Faire -- Rayburn Building, June 24. (Maybe too late: Deadline for response was May 10)
• Inquiry from National Building Museum to entertain 16 "campers" this summer with a talk about HacDC and hackerspaces / makerspaces
• Now we have letterhead, courtesy of James
• Need to write a "Thank you for the parts donation" letter.

Project Awesome Reports

Project CRISPR -Enrique

- Report and updates

Project SpaceBlimp -Enrique

- Report and updates

Adjournment

Adjourned by at xxx by xxx