Regular Member Meeting 2018 05 08

Time and Location

Date May 8, 2018

Called to order at 7:45 pm by Karen

Members present: Tayeb, Kevin, Bobby, Cliff, Tom, Ken, Karen

Members remote: Julia

Others present:

Quorum 7

Quorum met? Yes

New Business

Capitol Hill Maker Faire

• Call participants: Trey, Tom, Ken and Kevin
• Faire Date: June 12
• Faire Time: 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
  • 9:00 - 3:00 = Panels
  • 5:00 - 8:00 = Faire / exhibits
• Faire Place: Rayburn Building
  • Indoors. Table and power provided
  • Trey is gathering a list of acceptable materials
• Faire Target audience:
  • 1/5 (?) congressional representatives
  • 1/3 (?) funding agencies: (NSF, NIH, IMLF, etc.)
  • General public
• 100 tickets to the panel sessions
• Decide by 2018.05.09 (after member's meeting) but can be revised later:
  • List of projects
  • Point of contact
  • Materials being brought in
  • Table should include info (brochures, fliers, posters, video), at least one "participatory" demo, other projects
  • Soldering / desoldering probably allowed. Trey is checking
• Previous faires in 2015 and 2016. None last year.
• In cooperation with Nation of Makers
• Trey is (was?) a biologist who got into the educational aspects of making / hacking. He and Dorothy (Nation of Makers) largely responsible for the first DC Mini Maker Faire down at the Waterfront a few years ago.
• Congressional Maker Caucus is composed of "about 20" Congress-things, and is "very bipartisan"

Project Awesome Reports

Project CRISPR -Enrique

- Report and updates

Project SpaceBlimp -Enrique

- Report and updates

Adjournment

Adjourned by at xxx by xxx