Regular Member Meeting 2017 03 14

Time and Location

Date

Called to order at 7:47 pm by Tom

Members present: Tom Ken Kevin James

Members remote: juri_ mirage335

Others present: nobody

Quorum

Quorum met? no

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Regular_Member_Meeting_2017_02_14

Recognition

• Correction to last month: Kevin bought the Flexystruder head and NinjaFlex rubber filament, and taught the Lulzbot Mini how to print rubber after installing the new head.
• James has been putting the lasercutter into service with some help from Tom. We are working getting the actual laser to fire on appropriate gcode command.
• SEM vacuum gauge has arrived.
• Kevin reports his robotic finger now operates on voice command.
• Pres. and VP picked up a haul from a local non-profit's former server room on moving out.
• http://implicitcad.org now works!
• [email protected] is celebrating upcoming nuptials in St Stephens' Church! Saturday 2pm. Congratulations Julia and Jesse!
• Julia found a microcontroller with an RS485 port to talk to the vacuum gauge on the SEM.
• We participated in 3d/dc again this year. Julia spoke on a panel, "Women in 3d Printing".

   [20:07] <juri_> it was recorded, and will be on the public knowledge wiki page within ~2 months.

• James has arrived 20:08 with a homemade pie!

New Members

   No new members this month.

Old Business

• Bylaws amendment proposal (unless it was already voted on?): Change the threshold for future bylaws amendments from "more than three quarters (3/4ths) of voting members," to "more than three quarters (3/4ths) of member votes cast 90 days from the proposal approval date," and from "Notice of such petition must be submitted electronically to all members," to "Notice of such a petition must be submitted to all members electronically and, where electronic means produce no response, all other available means." (Explanation: We are dangerously close to having 1/4th of members not respond aye/nay and making amendments impossible) - Enrique

• We still need to address lingering security concerns after last month's burglary.

• Rockville Science fair is April 23rd and HacDC could have an exhibit. Space is free if we want a table.

Ken has something RE: Fiscal Sponsorship.

   Would like us to have membership vote on delegating BOD to evaluate and approve on a case-by-case basis any opportunities for funding in this way. Tabled for next month.

New Business

   [20:08] <fugitive_at_larg> Coming up: Scientist's March on Washington, vs. Conservation X? Or some such? (Smithsonian Institute, right?)
   [20:08] <juri_> yepyep.
   [20:08] <juri_> we need to get a media package out to Conservation X.
   [20:09] <juri_> they want logos and such to place on promotional materials.
   [20:30] <juri_> i just recieved another "give us logos for materials!" from conservationX.

   [20:47] <fugitive_at_larg> Ken switching to digital badges
   [20:48] <fugitive_at_larg> https://openbadges.org/
   [20:48] <fugitive_at_larg> Contest in DC, due next week, so we won't be elegable. But it is a city-wide database for educational activities.
   [20:49] <fugitive_at_larg> We could award badges to attendees of educational events -- i.e. a 3D printing digital badge to attendees of an intro event.
   [20:50] <fugitive_at_larg> Ken will write a more detailed messsage to the membership list.

   [20:36] <fugitive_at_larg> http://earthoptimism.si.edu/innovation-commons/
   [20:36] <fugitive_at_larg> Conservation X  Innovation Commons link above.
   [20:37] <fugitive_at_larg> http://rockvillesciencecenter.org/rockville-science-day/
   [20:37] <fugitive_at_larg> Rockville Science Day
   [20:38] <fugitive_at_larg> https://www.marchforscience.com/
   [20:38] <fugitive_at_larg> Scientists March on Washington

Project Awesome Reports

Project SUPPLIES

Nothing to report.

Project EXPANSION

Nothing to report.

Director Reports

Vice President's Report

I am working on creating various VM appliances for in-house use:

• Improved web conferencing
• Sandstorm for various webapps
• potentially self-hosting things like the Wiki, a Gitlab or something, Etherpad, etc.

   What are people interested in using collectively here?

We've gotten some neat toys from cleaning out a server room, two of them are kind of bulky

• A full-height patch panel
• A single-poster server rack

Adjournment

Adjourned by at xxx by xxx