Regular Member Meeting 2023 01 10

Time and Location

Date

Called to order at 19:40 pm by ???

Members present: Tristan, Gabe, Kevin, Matt, Michelle

Members remote:

Others present: Si, Michael Wang, Calli

Quorum

Quorum met? Yes

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Approved.

Recognition

• Gabe for fixing the old server (jobs / renderman)
• Obi for filling in last month
• Tristan for addin a new course (Nix)

New Members

• Calli

Old Business

• LaserCutter repair: Tristan and Calliope are working on bringing it back to life.
  • Adding safety locks.
  • Create safety documents.
  • Tristan posted a link to OSHA's Laser Hazards page.
  • Get information on goggles: What to buy, where to buy, etc.

New Business

• Elections
  • Michelle is stepping down as president at the end of her term. (Building a house, doing more bio research with John Hopkins, etc.)
  • Matt's third year as treasurer is up.
  • Kevin reluctant to be on the board again, but could do Secretary if push comes to shove.
  • Tentative slate: Obi for President, Tristan for Treasurer, Draft Phil Shapiro for.. At-Large?, Matt may also do At-Large
    • Michelle will reach out to Phil
• HacDC automated phone service not working? Again? According to a visitor on Jan 5 Visitors' Night, the phone menu is still there, but no longer rings the space, and somewhere else in the tree it says the space has been "closed since March" (year unspecified).
• Reach out to the wider hackerspace community for better training,
  • Nation of Makers
    • Dorothy Jones-Davis has stepped down as Executive Director at Nation of Makers
    • $350 per year membership
• Chris Knight and Daniel Aaron are interested in cyber-security / Capture the Flag etc, on the server Chris is bringing to life.
• Possible one-off courses.
  • Calli offering to run a small series on web scraping/indexing, or perhaps user experience design.
  • Tristan talking about Capture the Flag and/or FreeCAD class.
  • Combine Web Scraping and Machine Learning classes
• Use Discord more.

Director Reports (Governance related stuff)

Treasurer's Report

• When Coinbase hits $400 we're pulling the money out of that. $458.00 at present.
• Jeffrey Dahn gave $15
• Changing the reporting schedule from "meeting-to-meeting" to "1st-of-month-to-1st-of-month". This means the current report is a few days short.
• In cooperation with MoCo Makers / DMV Petri Dish, money was won at the Hack for NF - Children's Tumor Foundation, some of which was donated (we think) to HacDC.

Adjournment

Adjourned by at ??? by ???