Regular Member Meeting 2023 02 14
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Time and Location
- Date
- Called to order at 19:39 pm by Michelle
- Members present: Kevin, Gabe, Max, Chris, Calli, Ken, Obi, Michelle
- Members remote:
- Others present:
- Quorum
- Quorum met? Yes
Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes
Recognition
- Gabe, Ulisses for organizing the basement clean out (and Ray for hauling off the stuff Benning Road wouldn't take).
- Michelle for sticking with the presidency even after moving, getting a new job, etc., etc.
New Members
Old Business
- Basement clean-out
- Lessons learned: When Benning Road says "Electronics and toxic materials" that's the only thing they take.
- Matt Pfiefer (sp)? has a new 3D model of the basement with the OTR rotated
- This is Michelle's last meeting as president
- Reaching a wider audience.
- Join Nation of Makers for the resources (networks, safety guidelines, etc.) We think we have enough money for membership
- Chris Knight and Daniel Aaron interested in cyber-security. Chris installed [GNS-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Network_Simulator-3] network emulator GUI on the server. Drag'n'drop servers, etc, to create the network topology. Eventually, a competition.
- Michelle proposing the creation of an automated Meeting Minutes template
- A "Looking forward" section for future events (or for removing events)
- 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. Still.
- 125 people at the moment are "subscribed" to the Discord server.
- Events
- Last Open Project Night was seven people
- Visitor's Night is more variable
- For every event, one person has to be officially responsible.
- Kevin proposes a restaurant or movie night quarterly?
- Michelle recommends "General Magic" documentary
New Business
- Phone system? See last month's minutes
- Set up an Asterisk server?
- Access: Until the phone works, take the phone number notice off the space.
- Go back to a hardwired landline
- Web changes
- Remove message about access to "the server" from the web page as well
- Onboarding for new members? (How to get a key, how to get a wiki account, etc.)
- Michelle: We should give members who are not board members more control
- Max would to help with web / wiki editing
- Michelle: Be careful about "SEO credits" and changing wiki page names.
- Add an "editors onboarding / best practices" page.
- GitHub
- Admin access now available
- Codeberg too
- Rockville Science Day
- Michelle didn't feel it was worth the effort as a tabler, but a good place to visit as a member of the public.
- The relationship with Ulisses is the only win to come out of that.
- New board:
- Vice-president is "president-in-waiting" / apprentice president training to take over from the outgoing president. (Basically a two-year minimum commitment. One as vice, one as president.)
- President liaisons with church and treasurer. Not a lot of power but it's a good role for guidance person / project manager.
- Obi interested / willing to become president.
- Duties of the Secretary
- Bylaws, standing laws, proposed standing laws, etc. Instead, we generally operate by consensus.
Project Awesome Reports
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Member Reports
President's Report
Vice President's Report
Treasurer's Report
Secretary's Report
Director-at-Large Reports
Gabe
John
Adjournment
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