Regular Member Meeting 2023 04 11

Time and Location

Date 11 Apr 2023

Called to order at 7:35 pm by Obi

Members present: Obi Christopher Kevin Braaains Gabe Jared Calli Michelle Max

Members remote: Yes

Others present: Tom

Quorum

Quorum met?

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Recognition

Calli for looking at the door lock and replacing / charging the batteries

New Members

Braaains (into cyber security, AI, and trading)

Old Business

New Business

Internet service - how to pay Mobile Citizen? how to get connection/installation instructions? who will setup our service with Mobile Citizen & when?
Phone service -
- Jamie: "You should be able to set-up the adapters to register directly w/ Twilio now (I think they implemented that in 2017 or 2018) in which case the voip.ms account can probably be dropped."
- Jamie: "So first course of business, find the adapters (or has HacDC moved to VOIP phones) and figure out the logins to them or reset them and set-up an elastic SIP trunk on Twilio."
- Mobile Citizen phone service annual bill + adaptor = $411.95 ($282.00 for adaptor, $120.00 for annual membership, $9.95 shipping)
- Accounts for Twillio and VoIP.ms details recovered
- There's been a recommendation for Vtech VCS754 ErisStation Conference Phone with 4 Wireless Microphones VoIP and Device but we have a Polycom SoundStation (obsolete) in the space.
Machine Learning by Doing Night is merging with Open Project Night. However the Discord channel will remain.
HetrixTools warns of an expiring SSL certificate on wiki.hacdc.org
Meetup calendar fix
Discuss the purchase of an in-house battery charger (door lock, multimeters, etc.)
Gabe has been adding links to other hackerspaces, etc. in Discord
Michelle has added a page for on-boarding new members
Finances
- Current balance as of April 1: $19,493
- Currently expenses slightly more than revenues. So, "be careful".
Ideas for increasing revenue:
- Michelle in her At Large position working on recruiting and modeling after John Hopkins Fast Forward Innovation Hub
- Max is suggesting getting fancy graphic cards (GPUs) for AI, etc. Lots of activity on Discord
- Gabe says having events in the space is what's drawing in new blood
- If someone offers to donate equipment, it needs a member sponsor to maintain it, promote it and use it. Otherwise "No" as we don't want stuff sitting idle.
- Michelle wants to bring back Movie Night
  - In house? At a theater? Food?
  - Is the church still having a pest problem? Find out about the church tenants meeting.
  - "D&D" in theaters and "Tetris" in the space?
  - What night?
  - Maybe something at Suns Cinema?
  - See Discord poll posted by Michelle (April 11, 2023 20:24)

Adjournment

Adjourned by at 20:25 by Obi