Regular Member Meeting 2019 02 19
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Time and Location
- Date: February 19 2019
- Called to order at 7.30 pm by Karen
- Members present: Kevin, Ken, Bobby, James, Dan, Karen
- Members remote: Mirage, Tayeb, Enrique
- Others present: ITechGeek? Aidan
- Quorum 6?
- Quorum met? Y
Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
Recognition
Bobby for printing a new cool reel holder Mirage for calling meeting with NoM and starting convo on fundraising Ken for persevering with his community technology project Kevin for hard work on Taz James for volunteering to fix laser cutter Dan plans to lend a 3d printer (woo hoo) NOT FOR HACKING
New Members
Noah, maybe?
Old Business
IRC Bot hosted by ITechGeek - Kevin will take control if he receives info on taking control. Failing that, it's not being used so the suggestion is to kill it.
Outgoing process
Dumpster in parking lot now, general trash should go in there now E-recycling this weekend - members will arrive around 10am Saturday to start clearing out the basement. We can stack things on the 16th Street side Members should claim/clear out their items HacDC does not plan to toss tools, items labeled with names of current members, or items that are considered valuable by consensus
Video cameras for the space - tabled for after the clean up
New Business
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
- The evolution of the Lulzbot TAZ 1.0 continues apace: EEPROM settings have been enabled, which means that the machine is now both capable of reporting on a lot of its current settings, and storing some settings without recompiling and re-uploading the entire firmware. However, the calibration of the Z axis (steps per millimeter) is still an arcane, occult, dark art. -- Ubuntourist
President's Report
State of HacDC - last meeting before the annual bod election meeting Rent is now 1591/month as long as we clear out half of the basement Fundraising is top of mind Kevin, Ken, Dave and Karen visited Robert Meins at Dupont Underground who is interested in partnering with HacDC on events and possibly helping with his tech needs Karen's pipe dream: if he is able to stay in the space beyond this year (he has a balloon payment coming up on his lease with the city) HacDC might be able to relocate there. Potential issues (besides tenancy) are hvac, access (number of doors) and 'facilities' First up - another tour, plus organizing movie night Karen is looking into a license to show a movie publicly; if too expensive, we'll look into a public domain movie like From the Earth to the Moon or Metropolis
Gofundme campaign - please share on your facebook pages
New member type discussion: Example: Unallocated Space: basic, no key, some storage, WiFi, $25/month For HacDC - no key, some storage, private wifi, can still vote but not a meetup organizer
Meetup idea - silk screen workshop (TBD) with Dan
Vice President's Report
Treasurer's Report
Secretary's Report
Director-at-Large Reports
Kevin
State of 3d printers Upgraded firmware of Taz - things better, however, the movement of the z axis is still not quite right, still working on mapping for distance X and Y may need work but much better than the Z
Ken
Kevin and Ken attended the PSA 702 community outreach meeting Contact is ANC member Brenda Richardson who has confirmed a technology demo with Ken 2455 Alabama Ave. SE, Tuesday March 12 9.30 am to set up, tear down around 5pm (before monthly member meeting back at HacDC) Demo is 11.30 - 2 - 3d printing, VR headsets, A/R, voice controlled robot, possibly brain-computer interface Will run concurrently different stations all at one time Room is small - could be a challenge with VR headsets but we'll see Purpose is to spark some community partnerships to make new technology available to local kids
Adjournment
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