Regular Member Meeting 2022 01 11
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Time and Location
- Date Tue 11 Jan 2022
- Called to order at 7:35 pm by Tayeb
- Members present: Mario, John*, Tayeb*, Kevin, Oby, John*, Dan, Brian, Michelle*
- Members remote: (none)
- Others present:
- Quorum
- Quorum met? Yes
Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
Recognition
Matt - new member on-boarding process (payment transactions & TechSoup) Kevin - communications & risk management process (website and wiki backups) John - funding & relevant new programming (grant proposal acceptance)
New Members
Old Business
- Zoom - want to switch from Jitsi; initially requested by Ethan; will use TechSoup nonprofit account; former person setup was Nicholas (secretary before Tayeb)
- O'Reilly Community Partner - Kevin set us up; we need to add their logo on the website and add them to at least one of our newsletters
- “Unified Data” Project (Phase 1) "Wiki-Website-Meetup-Google" - Michelle is interested in leading, already in discussion with Kevin on to spec out requirements to do this (as well as backup-and-recovery strategies) (potential other phases: instructor/member on-boarding, open data pilot project)
- April 24, 2022 at Montgomery College at Rockville Science - "family fun" event; outdoors and free to host a booth; HacDC will host a booth (soldering class, robotics); Tayeb will follow-up; exhibitors setup is (April 23 and April 24 early morning)
- John & Don - their grant for Amateur Radio looks good; will get $26k to improve antenna system - mostly goes to Aries (radio for emergency)
- Trivia Vender Machine (via Dallas Hackerspace) - only way to get food is to answer science questions; Phil wants to build a portable one where students write the questions (can use coupons or others); would be interested in donating
- PairsMathGame.com - Phil interested in helping share his invention during the Rockville event
New Business
- Board Member Elections * - on Mar 8 during regular Monthly Members Meeting; decided during Board member meeting we had on Dec 21
- Grants Project Committee * - start an email distribution list for members interested in pursuing grant-based projects for HacDC (needs: aggregate list of potential grants, manage future projects/hardware, partner with like-minded community partners, create business plans for consideration). Can merge with this matrix list for comparison.
- Ham Club * - status on the grant and address any questions about the Ham Club initiative; bonus: with Ethan rejoining HacDC, we now have 5 licensed hams!
- Precious Plastics - global open source but community-level plastics drop-off, collections, shredder workspace, melting & molding, extrusion, and so on services. Similar to 3D printing outcomes but slightly more scalable and vastly more sustainable. Compared to another partner we've looked at before, PAR Recycle Works: PP is bigger community, more documentation/videos on how to get started. Can HacDC get a grant to become a Precious Plastics workspace? Can HacDC become pipeline to sell the final products regionally online instead? Reach out to new member Mario who might be interested in projects involved with recycling.
- Unified Data - Website designs sent out for review, comments; Also questions: (1) what was the address of the old location in the header image on the designs sent out? (2) is there a higher quality version of our logo somewhere? (3) currently, only myself, Tayeb, and Kevin on the "Unified Data" team, any board member interested in joining should email [email protected] - first meeting will be later on this month discussing the Newsletter and the latest Website design changes.
____ (*) = Address in first 30 minutes for full Board member attendance
Project Awesome Reports
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Project EXPANSION - ???
Project HAMRADIO - ???
Project Electron Microscope (SEM) - ???
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Project IT Infrastructure - ???
Member Reports
President's Report
Vice President's Report
Treasurer's Report
Secretary's Report
Director-at-Large Reports
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Adjournment
Adjourned by at ??? by ???