Regular Member Meeting 2022 08 09

Time and Location

Date: Tue 09 Aug 2022

Called to order at 7:42 pm by Michelle

Members present: Michelle, Oby, Kevin, Gabe, Matt, Fernand

Members remote:

Others present: Carter

Quorum

Quorum met? Yes

Recognition

• Gabe, for bringing in the Security Summit donation of $500
• Michelle, for coordinating / communicating with Security Summit folks to smooth over details

Old Business

• Tayeb has dropped off a parking pass with Gabe
• No new details from Michelle on mesh networking effort in Baltimore, but the ham radio people are still interested and Michelle hopes to attend tomorrow's ham radio meeting tomorrow

   + Oby was recently visiting Philadelphia Books's Mesh Jam.

• DreamHost payments are now up-to-date.
• At Michelle's prompting about setting up a Capture the Flag session, Gabe has said he'll be able to set one up for the fall (after August)
• Oby is a bit busy at the moment to host the Machine Learning class, based on the Coursera Deep Learning class, but hopes to free up time after August.
• Michelle believes she's fixed the problem with the PayPal logo on the main site

New Business

• New lease: a 2.5% increase of $22.50 / month resulting in a new rent of $922.50 ($990.00 next month as "makeup payments")

   + Two-year lease
   + This is much better than pre-COVID rates, but is slowly creeping up
   + New equipment (laser cutter(s), etc.) will additional space. So, remove / move other items from the space, or... ??? (Matt)
   + The general consensus is leaning towards staying and rearranging rather than trying to move.
   + 5 in favor, 0 opposed. Motion to sign the new lease is **APPROVED**

Adjournment

Adjourned by at ??? by ???