Regular Member Meeting 2022 06 14

Time and Location

Date: Tue 14 June 2022

Called to order at pm by

Members present: Oby Ken Kevin Michelle Tayeb Matt

Members remote: all

Others present: Elijah Angelman

Quorum

Quorum met? Yes

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; Kevin says to reach out to Open Tech think tank in DC
    • DC Broadband Bridge - Kevin heard this used to be in DC
    • 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 does not
• WordPress work needed - Dreamhost needs us to upgrade to 8.1
• 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

New Business

• Bike light event last weekend of August -- request that individuals bring/buy their own supplies, spend next weeks ensuring supplies available online
• 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?

Adjournment

Adjourned by at ??? by ???