Regular Member Meeting 2022 07 12

Time and Location

Date Tue 12 Jul 2022

Called to order at 7:35 pm by Michelle

Members present: Michelle, John, Matt, Gabe, Oby, Kevin, Bobby

Members remote: (none)

Others present: Fernand Gouveia

Quorum

Quorum met? YES

Recognition

• Gabe for getting free complementary admission for HacDC people to the 9th Annual Official Cyber Security Summit (Thursday July 28th, 2022) and a $500 donation to HacDC from the summit organizers.

Old Business

• Bike light event last weekend of July (Tayeb) -- request that individuals bring/buy their own supplies, spend next weeks ensuring supplies available online (https://lab64.stanford.edu/bike-light-pov) -- reach out to DC Bike Party and/or other groups and add to Facebook, Twitter, Blabber (first step)
• Inventory Refinement - Spring Cleaning 2022 --
  • "Retain, Redistribute, or Recycle?" survey - Email Google Forms to existing members with photos attached
  • Basement water issues - (1) coming in from outside (2) not draining inside, possible super-clog that appears that there isn't even a drain (3) water leaking from busted drain pipe along wall; top of wall there is opening with a tunnel (the tunnel is not part of our storage space, was offered to us at one point) -- request help from church maintenance to unclog drain, send email
• Mail in workroom - how can we help get things in order more? who should be picking it up? when should they be picking it up? -- .
• 3D Printer Server -- Kevin working to set up 3D printer server after it broke, wiping machine, installed PopOS 22.04, now in the process of restoring the backed up user directories and putting back in printer related software and configuring. Likely one more day of effort to set this up -- need new filament and profile for Ultimaker 2
• DIY Bioplastics -- Michelle went to this event Sunday July 3, 2022 at Rockville Science Center, a big space with free food for events (sometimes); good cross-over for our members interested in biological industrial applications of tech

New Business

• Mesh Networking Project - Michelle met with professor who also runs a "university makerspace" at Univ Maryland Baltimore County and partnered with Project Waves via NSF grant to put up mesh networking in low-income neighborhoods; would like similar partnership going for HacDC even if just an MVP that is funded; will talk with HAM Radio Club about more next week & any interested parties now
• The Official Cyber Security Summit - on July 28, 2022; working with them promotionally to get free tickets plus donation (Gabe); will send emails Today and July 20, 2022 to our members
• [email protected] email list - any BOD member who wants notifications of financials we can add you here
• Financial & Mail Automation - working en tandem with Matt once a month to start tracking financials automatically in organized (and visualized format) for BOD in something like AirTable with Napier
• Web Hosting Payment - Kevin will update on status of this
• Machine Learning Classes (oo-oo-oo!) - Oby might have something to share here

Adjournment

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