Regular Member Meeting 2010 08 10
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Note: This page serves as the 2010-08-10 Member Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).
Time and Location
August 10, 2010 Meeting called to order at 7:36 by Daniel
Members Present: Todd, Daniel, Tim, Ketan, Tim Collins, Jamie, Arc, Andy, William, Katie
Others Present: adam bradshaw, pete edworthy
Quorum Met.
Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
Note: Dan Barlow has to update last meetings minutes to fix some things that are missing.
Regular Member Meeting 2010 07 13
Director Reports
President's Report
We have a new server now.
Treasurer's Report
HacDC Transaction Detail by Account July 2010 Date Type Num Name Memo/Description Split Amount Balance BBT Checking 07/06/2010 Check 1092 American Express POS $7.95 Office Expenses -7.95 -7.95 07/06/2010 General Journal 15 -SPLIT- -100.38 -108.33 07/07/2010 Check 1088 Steve Nejelsk keys Office Expenses -150.00 -258.33 07/08/2010 Sales Receipt 1051 Membership Dues 50.00 -208.33 07/08/2010 Sales Receipt 1048 Non Profit Income 100.00 -108.33 07/08/2010 Sales Receipt 1049 Non Profit Income 100.00 -8.33 07/08/2010 Sales Receipt 1050 Membership Dues 50.00 41.67 07/26/2010 General Journal 16 insurance update for months -SPLIT- -420.31 -378.64 07/26/2010 General Journal 17 intuit -10.55 -389.19 07/26/2010 Check 1091 St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church rent and inet Rent or Lease -2,020.00 - Total for BBT Checking $ -2,409.19 Paypal Total for Paypal $1,884.54 Membership Dues Total for Membership Dues $1,740.50 Non Profit Income Total for Non Profit Income $443.73 Insurance Total for Insurance $420.31 Office Expenses 07/06/2010 General Journal 15 -SPLIT- 100.38 100.38 07/06/2010 Check 1092 American Express POS BBT Checking 7.95 108.33 07/07/2010 Check 1088 Steve Nejelsk BBT Checking 150.00 258.33 07/26/2010 General Journal 17 -SPLIT- 10.55 268.88 Total for Office Expenses $268.88 Rent or Lease 07/26/2010 Check 1091 St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church BBT Checking 2,020.00 2,020.00 Total for Rent or Lease $2,020.00 Interest Earned 07/01/2010 General Journal 13 -SPLIT- 0.31 0.31 Total for Interest Earned $0.31 HacDC Balance Sheet As of July 31, 2010 Total ASSETS Current Assets Bank Accounts BBT Checking 5,743.00 Total Bank Accounts $5,743.00 Other Current Assets Paypal 1,836.34 Undeposited Funds 0.00 Total Other Current Assets $1,836.34 Total Current Assets $7,579.34 Other Assets Rent Security Deposits 850.00 Total Other Assets $850.00 TOTAL ASSETS $8,429.34 Opening Balance Equity 9,023.84 Retained Earnings 0.00 Net Income -594.50 Total Equity $8,429.34 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY $8,429.34
Vice President's Report
Something shady with the POS? VP lost his wallet.
Secretary's Report
Director-at-Large Reports
William: Is really happy to be back from India. Had a lot of fun painting HacDC.
Katie: Will be emailing all on the guest lists and asking them to join. Movie night sometime soon. Will require laptop to drive video. Contact her for details.
Member Reports
===Andy=== Booze Class (was too busy talking to type).
===Redbeard=== Did an advanced SSH class. Was well received.
===Elliot=== Ash's Electronics class is ongoing. It's been going well. We have done etching and are moving on to actually making simple circuits. Amps are immanent.
===Arc=== New project server set up in the hall. Talk to Arc about it if you want access. Planning a Tues intro to programming class in Python to replace open slot for Disassembly Tues. in the next few weeks. Would like to organize 1 night/week work party (Friday?).
===Todd=== NARG is planning an ambient light project to have lights in the space that would be controllable through an open API (XMPP controlled). Could potentially evolve into a flexible network for controlling microcontroller projects in the space. These could then be left in the space and would instantly be networked.
Old Business
New Business
- marketing meeting - August 24
- setup new voip service; we can get voip service for $1/mo (plus $.01/min incoming calls) from voip.ms (same as we're using now, Jason's account) and transfer the Google Voice number (202-556-HACK) to it. This will make it easier to fix when the phone goes out.
Modern Device JeeNode kit order
There is currently interest in the JeeNode, an AVR-based Arduino clone with a built-in multi-node radio.
http://www.moderndevice.com/products/jeenode-kit
Individual HacDC members want to buy them, there is talk of a workshop, and NARG group members are thinking of using them in their ambient device network project. They are $22.50 each but ModernDevice.com has a 16% discount for quantities of 10 or more ($18.90 each). Since I am doing a similar order of Adafruit.com kits I offered to coordinate a ModernDevice kit order as well. I would place with order with HacDC funds and make the kits available for a suggested donation with a bit of "profit" built in as I'm doing with Adafruit. This "profit" would initially be folded back into stocking the kits but will eventually be returned to HacDC.
Arc Riley assures me that there is a lot of demand for the kits (>=14 people currently) and suggests ordering a batch of 20. Since we would also want to order some JeeLink Modules at $36.50 and probably some USB<->Serial converters at $14 the dollar values will add up quickly. Here are some possible order levels:
Item, Qty, Price Ea., Total
JeeNode v4 kit 20 $18.90 $378.00
USB BUB Board 4 $14.00 $56.00
JeeLink Module 4 $36.50 $146.00
ModerDevice total: $580.00
JeeNode v4 kit 15 $18.90 $283.50
USB BUB Board 3 $14.00 $42.00
JeeLink Module 3 $36.50 $109.50
ModerDevice total: $435.00
JeeNode v4 kit 10 $18.90 $189.00
USB BUB Board 3 $14.00 $42.00
JeeLink Module 3 $36.50 $109.50
ModerDevice total: $340.50
Please discuss and approve whatever size of purchase everyone is comfortable with. I am happy to place future orders once these sell out, so the smaller orders will cost only shipping (~$7 for ground from RI) and time delay.
I will try to pursue an additional "hackerspace discount" with Modern Device, and (if people think it is okay) would even talk about having them sponsor some of the NARG ambient project with hardware in exchange for acknowledgement and links in the project writeups and publicity.
--Tim Slagle
New Members
Adjournment
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