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Regular Member Meeting 2017 03 14

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Time and Location

Date
Called to order at 7:47 pm by Tom
Members present: Tom Ken Kevin James
Members remote: juri_ mirage335
Others present: nobody
Quorum
Quorum met? no

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Regular_Member_Meeting_2017_02_14

Recognition

  • Correction to last month: Kevin bought the Flexystruder head and NinjaFlex rubber filament, and taught the Lulzbot Mini how to print rubber after installing the new head.
  • James has been putting the lasercutter into service with some help from Tom. We are working getting the actual laser to fire on appropriate gcode command.
  • SEM vacuum gauge has arrived.
  • Kevin reports his robotic finger now operates on voice command.
  • Pres. and VP picked up a haul from a local non-profit's former server room on moving out.
  • http://implicitcad.org now works!
  • [email protected] is celebrating upcoming nuptials in St Stephens' Church! Saturday 2pm. Congratulations Julia and Jesse!
  • Julia found a microcontroller with an RS485 port to talk to the vacuum gauge on the SEM.
  • We participated in 3d/dc again this year. Julia spoke on a panel, "Women in 3d Printing".
   [20:07] <juri_> it was recorded, and will be on the public knowledge wiki page within ~2 months.
  • James has arrived 20:08 with a homemade pie!

New Members

   No new members this month.

Old Business

Ken has something RE: Fiscal Sponsorship.

New Business

   [20:08] <fugitive_at_larg> Coming up: Scientist's March on Washington, vs. Conservation X? Or some such? (Smithsonian Institute, right?)
   [20:08] <juri_> yepyep.
   [20:08] <juri_> we need to get a media package out to Conservation X.

Project Awesome Reports

Project SUPPLIES

Nothing to report.

Project EXPANSION

Nothing to report.

Project HAMRADIO

Project Electron Microscope (SEM)

Project Optical Table Robot (OTR)

Project CRISPR

Project SpaceBlimp

Member Reports

Director Reports

President's Report

Vice President's Report

I am working on creating various VM appliances for in-house use:

  • Improved web conferencing
  • Sandstorm for various webapps
  • potentially self-hosting things like the Wiki, a Gitlab or something, Etherpad, etc.
   What are people interested in using collectively here?

We've gotten some neat toys from cleaning out a server room, two of them are kind of bulky

  • A full-height patch panel
  • A single-poster server rack

Treasurer's Report

Secretary's Report

Director-at-Large Reports

Ben

Matt

Adjournment

Adjourned by at xxx by xxx