Regular Member Meeting 2018 05 08
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Time and Location
- Date
- Called to order at xxxx pm by xxxx
- Members present:
- Members remote:
- Others present:
- Quorum
- Quorum met?
Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
Recognition
New Members
Old Business
New Business
Capitol Hill Maker Faire
- Call participants: Trey, Tom, Ken and myself
- 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 SUPPLIES - Mirage
Project EXPANSION - Mirage
Project HAMRADIO - Jeff
Project Electron Microscope (SEM) - Julia
Project Optical Table Robot (OTR) - Julia
Project CRISPR -Enrique
- Report and updates
Project SpaceBlimp -Enrique
- Report and updates
Project Media Outreach - Matt
Project IT Infrastructure - Tom
Member Reports
President's Report
Vice President's Report
Treasurer's Report
Secretary's Report
Director-at-Large Reports
Kevin
Ken
Adjournment
Adjourned by at xxx by xxx