Regular Member Meeting 2017 11 14

Time and Location

Date

Called to order at 8:00 pm by Julia Longtin

Members present: kevin cole, enrique, james, ken, bobby

Members remote: none

Others present: nancy

Quorum

Quorum met? No

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Recognition

ken, for getting us in contact with the city.

New Members

Old Business

remind nancy about disclaimer.

New Business

Project Awesome Reports

Project SUPPLIES - Mirage

Project EXPANSION - Mirage

Project HAMRADIO - Jeff

Project Electron Microscope (SEM) - Julia

4.7 torr. rebuilding the imaging board. re-greased and re-installed a seal. python serial is almost working. scanned all the docs except the PCB.

Project Optical Table Robot (OTR) -Julia

Project CRISPR -Enrique

Nothing to report. We have not gotten back to The ODIN's offer to send free new supplies.

Project SpaceBlimp -Enrique

We motivated the Rockville Makerspace to have Spaceblimp meetings with us. We've had two meetings (Nancy, Sam). They have licensed radio operators that are interested.

Report back from meetings with Rockville Maker Space Report back from attendance - MUD - Balloon Launch program - Saturday Nov 11 Future Steps regarding, networking and collaboration By Nancy C. Wolfson

I tried but I keep forgetting how to edit the Wiki... Thanks in advanced Hug, see you tonight Nancy

I inquired about purchasing the gas cylinder rather than renting it at $30/mo. No response so far and the rental fees are racking up. I haven't had a chance to go back up to Hyattsville with the cylinder to return it after the aborted launch in August. I'd rather donate the rental cost for now but will try to return and ask about purchasing it in person. (Enrique)

Project Media Outreach - Matt

This project is orphaned as Matt does not want to lead it. Nic may be taking this over.

Project IT Infrastructure - Tom

Member Reports

Director Reports (Governance related stuff)

President's Report

Vice President's Report

Treasurer's Report

Secretary's Report

Director-at-Large Reports

Kevin

attended a Community Makerspace Day to shill for HacDC. The crowd was a bit young, but the woman who was the ringmaster, Shaia Belt, appears interested in learning from us.
now able to read the SEM vacuum gauge via multiple serial communications programs, one of which is part of the Python serial package, which should serve as a guide for how to write custom Python code to monitor the laser.

Matt

Adjournment

Adjourned by at xxx by xxx