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Regular Member Meeting 2013 08 13

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Time and Location

August 13, 2013
Called to order at ___ by ___.
Members present:
Others present:
Quorum?
Quorum met?


Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Regular Member Meeting 2013 07 09

Recognition

  • Alberto - for running a classy class and giving the kitbuild tools a maiden voyage, and for tackling the WP autoupgrade bugs.
  • Dan B & Mirage - for getting the laser up and running, and training people to use it.
  • David W - for helping the church guard out by giving him a laptop and hopefully for having fixed it by this meeting.
  • Sean N - 1) for successfully forking and merging his genetic code 2) for getting a bunch of us on retroshare
  • ITG and Shawn S - for spearheading the next cryptoparty organization

Director Reports

President's Report

Vice President's Report

  • working on the de-datacenter machine. got harddrives, need to install them.
  • tvb dongle SDR is running at work with gqrx
  • website performance is getting better
  • planning for wired network inside the space

Treasurer's Report

Here is the financial summary spreadsheet for July 2013: File:HacDC Financials 2013 07.pdf. We gained David Pietrocola as a new member (voted in last month), and prospective members Jeffery Herrity and Robert Ryan-Silva have already started paying dues. Jason Fox and Chris Danicic were voted in as members last month but have yet to pay dues; four other members are delinquent on dues. Graham C., Timothy R., and Nicolas J. (Loki) left. Six people (members and non-members) made non-dues donations.

Project Awesome

Since we only had a surplus of $109.64, I am adding that entire amount to our reserves and declining to declare a Project Awesome dividend for the month of July. Here is the Project Awesome spreadsheet for July: File:HacDC PA Projects-2013 07.pdf. There are currently 15 votes.

Secretary's Report

Nothing to report.


Director-at-Large Reports

Shawn Nock

Rubin

Project Awesome Reports

Project LASER

Project BYZANTIUM

Project KITBUILD

Project SUPPLIES

Total expenditure: ~$120

Replenishment

  • PLA filament.
  • Copper clad board.
  • Spare PCB milling bit.

Expansion

  • PLA polishing solvent for silky smooth parts.
  • Solder paste.

Unaccounted

  • Light bulbs for HacDC DIY projector. Not charging to SUPPLIES unless other HacDC members agree they should be.
  • IGBT Modules. We may get 3 of these for $3 each. Usual price is $100 each. Credit to Dan Barlow for the find.

Future

Requests for Commentary

  • Large plastic buckets. Are these within the PA_SUPPLIES project scope? If so, cleanup efforts need them urgently.

Project SPACECAM

Member Reports

mirage335

Projector

HacDC needs a new projector, ideally 1080p and >5k lumens output.

  • DIY is a well-trodden path. Estimate cost around $300 and three weeks, size at 1000mm*515mm*300mm (36"*21"*12") with an 80% chance of high-performance under budget and time. Any unused optics would become core tools in our growing optical lab.
  • Commercial-off-the-shelf costs $1500.
  • Either way, funding is needed.
DIY

So far, technical design is by me, labor by haxwithaxe, oversight by Dan Barlow.

Progress
  • Successful projection with stage light, LCD, and overhead projector lenses.
  • Complete light path calculation spreadsheet for redesign.
  • Basic optics experiments. Minimum beam expansion with non-laser source and Fresnel lens stacking.
  • Prototyping frame (excessively large for future-proofing).
Equipment Requests

A high-power visible spectrum (ie. Ar/Kr) laser would trivialize this project.

Wiki

Most of our expensive equipment is now listed in at Category:Equipment with pictures. Might be wise to link that to the front page.

Dehumidifier

Bought, working, and draining to the outside. Steam pipe opening sealed. (cut on 3 sides to enter, tape afterwards)

Is it sufficient?

Old Business

New Business

New Members

Adjournment

Adjourned at ___.