Regular Member Meeting 2023 04 11
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Time and Location
- Date 11 Apr 2023
- Called to order at 7:35 pm by Obi
- Members present: Obi Christopher Kevin Braaains Gabe Jared Calli Michelle Max
- Members remote: Yes
- Others present: Tom
- Quorum
- Quorum met?
Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
Recognition
- Calli for looking at the door lock and replacing / charging the batteries
New Members
- Braaains (into cyber security, AI, and trading)
Old Business
New Business
- Internet service - how to pay Mobile Citizen? how to get connection/installation instructions? who will setup our service with Mobile Citizen & when?
- Phone service -
- Jamie: "You should be able to set-up the adapters to register directly w/ Twilio now (I think they implemented that in 2017 or 2018) in which case the voip.ms account can probably be dropped."
- Jamie: "So first course of business, find the adapters (or has HacDC moved to VOIP phones) and figure out the logins to them or reset them and set-up an elastic SIP trunk on Twilio."
- Mobile Citizen phone service annual bill + adaptor = $411.95 ($282.00 for adaptor, $120.00 for annual membership, $9.95 shipping)
- Accounts for Twillio and VoIP.ms details recovered
- There's been a recommendation for Vtech VCS754 ErisStation Conference Phone with 4 Wireless Microphones VoIP and Device but we have a Polycom SoundStation (obsolete) in the space.
- Machine Learning by Doing Night is merging with Open Project Night. However the Discord channel will remain.
- HetrixTools warns of an expiring SSL certificate on wiki.hacdc.org
- Meetup calendar fix
- Discuss the purchase of an in-house battery charger (door lock, multimeters, etc.)
- Gabe has been adding links to other hackerspaces, etc. in Discord
- Michelle has added a page for on-boarding new members
- Finances
- Current balance as of April 1: $19,493
- Currently expenses slightly more than revenues. So, "be careful".
- Ideas for increasing revenue:
- Michelle in her At Large position working on recruiting and modeling after John Hopkins Fast Forward Innovation Hub
- Max is suggesting getting fancy graphic cards (GPUs) for AI, etc. Lots of activity on Discord
- Gabe says having events in the space is what's drawing in new blood
- If someone offers to donate equipment, it needs a member sponsor to maintain it, promote it and use it. Otherwise "No" as we don't want stuff sitting idle.
- Michelle wants to bring back Movie Night
- In house? At a theater? Food?
- Is the church still having a pest problem? Find out about the church tenants meeting.
- "D&D" in theaters and "Tetris" in the space?
- What night?
- Maybe something at Suns Cinema?
- See Discord poll posted by Michelle (April 11, 2023 20:24)
Adjournment
Adjourned by at 20:25 by Obi