Regular Member Meeting 2015 02 10

Time and Location

February 10, 2015

Called to order at XXX by XXX

Members present: XXX

Members remote: XXX

Others present: XXX

Quorum?

Quorum met? XXX

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Regular Member Meeting 2014 12 09

Recognition

• Julia Longtin, et al. - Much work on the 3D printer, space cleanup, equipment salvage, and other things.
• Ben "sitwon" Mendis and James - IR thermometers much appreciated.

Director Reports

President's Report

Shed Media contacted HacDC about a Television show on January 14 2015.

• Spoke to Shed Media about their interest in HacDC for a reality/educational television show on Feb 3 2015.
• Shed Media develops concepts for TV shows and sells them to networks and they want to explore a Mythbusters-type show (6-8 episodes about the same space) on Hacker/Makerspaces. They want to show interesting people making cool things in a way that will be entertaining and educational to viewers.
• They got our name from Mitch? at Noisebridge (San Francisco) and are talking to other spaces. I also gave them the names of Reverse Space, Unallocated Space, and Baltimore Node.
• If this goes all the way, it will require a large and long time investment by those involved and will be a huge disruption on the space for the duration of the project. However, the space and the people involved will make some money.
• The next step is for interested people to talk to Shed Media.

Thusfar, no one has expressed an interest in participating. If I don't see/hear from anyone by the end of the week, I will tell Shed Media that HacDC is not interested.

Treasurer's Report

• These are the financial logs of the HacDC enterprise

+ We have a Net Zero on memberships gain/loss for the month + We netted an additional $614.34 due to membership catch-up payments and donations

Will be looking into money saving through advanced payment of the Insurance. Look out for an email tomorrow morning asking everyone to either switch to Dwolla for their payments to HacDC (Lower fees 25¢-Dwolla vs $1.25-Paypal). If everyone switched to Dwolla that would result in about an extra $50. Sorry it's taken so long to get this out.

Project Awesome

There was an error in the Financials spreadsheet during the record transfer of Earmarked accounts from 2014 to 2015 that resulted in the cancellation of an order from Amazon being cancelled due to what seemed like insufficient funding. That error has been corrected and is reflected in the current Earmarked account statement.

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Teaching for Change made a donation to HacDC for $150 after a member, ITechGeek, stopped by and helped them sort out their phone lines. Julia (Juri) has requested some parts for the giant robot being built on the optical table downstairs. It has been stalled due to our recent funding woes. The current need for the project downstairs are at least 24 V-wheels from open build. They are $3.50 each. If anyone would like to either purchase the whole lot or sponsor a few of those wheels please send an email to the members list. Also, If anyone has any supplies from Amazon, that need to be ordered please shoot [email protected] an email. There is a Project Supplies order that doesn't meet the minimum purchase for shipping requirement at the moment.

Project Awesome Reports

Project SUPPLIES

• Thoroughly needed replacement soldering iron tips have been requested, and ordered at a cost of ~$70.
• Fresh cleaning supplies for the Rostock Max (and 3D printer glass generally) have been requested, but not ordered.

A "clerical error" was reported earlier today.

Project EXPANSION

Still conservative.

Member Reports

mirage335

VP Candidacy

Would like to run for the Vice President position. Wrapping up a major project soon, and seems time I committed more time to HacDC's educational and technological missions.

3D Printer

Please, do not introduce food or finger grease to the 3D printer glass. Some unknown contaminant recently derailed use of the machine, much worse than any prior oil exposure.

Other Things

Although delayed a few weeks by another project, the RFID reader system is still underway. Have just constructed a new workbench at home, which should greatly improve my ability to clear off projects like this.

Optical Table Robot construction is apparently going well. Many thanks to other participants on this project.

Adjournment

Adjourned at XXX by XXX