Regular Member Meeting 2021 05 11

Time and Location

Date: May 11th 2021

Called to order at 7:36 pm by Tayeb Zaidi

Members present: Ken, Kevin, Karen, Matt, Gabe, Oby, John Pancoast, Don, Matt

Members remote:

Others present: Elijah Angelman

Quorum

Quorum met? Yes

Recognition

• Michelle -- For sending out the monthly sentiment survey and aggregating the results!

• Open Project Night -- everyone who showed up!

Old Business

• Pro RecycleWorks collaboration -- will visit their facility in late May/beginning of June with Kevin, Tayeb, and Sanjay (+ maybe others)

• Open Project Night -- successful first event! Mostly people talking about their projects and not much working. Approximately 10 attendees

• Food Kitchen -- Karen has been there, group volunteering possible. Likely in two weeks Saturday morning (9am-12pm)

New Business

• Karen -- Talked to Tristan, thought he could do CTF online, interested in doing a different game from the website to change it up. He was ready to go Karen suggested that we should do a test first. Tristan could use someone to help with the admin (Meetup/promotion) and the help during the event. Gabe volunteers to do one in the next two weeks sometime (21st/22nd of May?)

• Gabe -- Kaggle competition for finding alien signals in synthetic SETI data. Could be an additional meetup, could be a component of the open project night. https://www.kaggle.com/c/seti-breakthrough-listen/overview/description

• Tayeb -- Monthly Sentiment Survey results discussion -- will request that members be vaccinated before coming to the space

Project Awesome Reports

Project CRISPR -Enrique

- Report and updates

Project SpaceBlimp -Enrique

- Report and updates

Director Reports (Governance related stuff)

Treasurer's Report

Increase of $333 from last month's total balance, total revenue $1070/month

Adjournment

Adjourned by at 8:50pm by Tayeb Zaidi