Regular Member Meeting 2023 01 10
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Time and Location
- Date
- Called to order at 19:40 pm by ???
- Members present: Tristan, Gabe, Kevin, Matt, Michelle
- Members remote:
- Others present: Si, Michael Wang, Calli
- Quorum
- Quorum met? Yes
Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
Approved.
Recognition
- Gabe for fixing the old server (jobs / renderman)
- Obi for filling in last month
- Tristan for addin a new course (Nix)
New Members
- Calli
Old Business
- LaserCutter repair: Tristan and Calliope are working on bringing it back to life.
- Adding safety locks.
- Create safety documents.
- Tristan posted a link to OSHA's Laser Hazards page.
- Get information on goggles: What to buy, where to buy, etc.
New Business
- Elections
- Michelle is stepping down as president at the end of her term. (Building a house, doing more bio research with John Hopkins, etc.)
- Matt's third year as treasurer is up.
- Kevin reluctant to be on the board again, but could do Secretary if push comes to shove.
- Tentative slate: Obi for President, Tristan for Treasurer, Draft Phil Shapiro for.. At-Large?, Matt may also do At-Large
- Michelle will reach out to Phil
- HacDC automated phone service not working? Again? According to a visitor on Jan 5 Visitors' Night, the phone menu is still there, but no longer rings the space, and somewhere else in the tree it says the space has been "closed since March" (year unspecified).
- Reach out to the wider hackerspace community for better training,
- Nation of Makers
- Dorothy Jones-Davis has stepped down as Executive Director at Nation of Makers
- $350 per year membership
- Nation of Makers
- Chris Knight and Daniel Aaron are interested in cyber-security / Capture the Flag etc, on the server Chris is bringing to life.
- Possible one-off courses.
- Calli offering to run a small series on web scraping/indexing, or perhaps user experience design.
- Tristan talking about Capture the Flag and/or FreeCAD class.
- Combine Web Scraping and Machine Learning classes
- Use Discord more.
Project Awesome Reports
Project SUPPLIES - ???
Project EXPANSION - ???
Project HAMRADIO - ???
Project Electron Microscope (SEM) - ???
Project Media Outreach - ???
Project IT Infrastructure - ???
Member Reports
President's Report
Vice President's Report
Treasurer's Report
- When Coinbase hits $400 we're pulling the money out of that. $458.00 at present.
- Jeffrey Dahn gave $15
- Changing the reporting schedule from "meeting-to-meeting" to "1st-of-month-to-1st-of-month". This means the current report is a few days short.
- In cooperation with MoCo Makers / DMV Petri Dish, money was won at the Hack for NF - Children's Tumor Foundation, some of which was donated (we think) to HacDC.
Secretary's Report
Director-at-Large Reports
Gabe
John
Adjournment
Adjourned by at ??? by ???