Regular Member Meeting 2024 01 09

Time and Location

Date Jan 9

Called to order at 7:34 pm by Obioma

Members present:

Members remote: Aure Chris Jared Matt Liz Callie Oby Gabe

Others present:

Quorum

Quorum met? Yes!

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Approved by Obioma and Gabriel

Recognition

Callie for beginning to design the domain Aure has been helping a bunch on space upgrades, including noise cancellation! Aure has been managing the lock battery on the inner door Obioma shared a large collection of common batteries

New Members

Liz has been adopted as a member! Unanimous applause. Ask members for onboarding!

Chris for wifi access
Callie for email address
Obioma for a key

Old Business

Coming back from 2023

Open Project Night Rebuild HacDC.org Game night Lightning talks

Beginning

3d printing / microcontrollers Oleksi: PCB manufacturing AI study group Robotics group Occupancy sensor

Scheduling on Meetup:

Low-friction scheduling for our members: ask to become an admin on Meetup.

New Business

Rebuild Fund working group

Bringing in new members requires us to keep up our equipment:
Laser cutter & 3d printers
Pick and place machine or reflow oven

Members:

Gabe - 3d printers
Liz - researching our tools & needed equipment
Matthew - procuring gear

Public Engagement and Social Media

Do more displays such as in public fairs, and engage in social media
Pictures from Open Project Night and from around our space
Begin by gathering a working group, and begin to assign access to our online accounts

 * YouTube, Discord, Blabber, Twitter, GitHub, CodeBerg
 * LinkedIn is being held by someone else

Members:

Chris is eager to manage the Discord channels -> use "Onboarding" process
Obioma is going to help lead
Callie can pick up on Gabe's management of the codebases

LAN club in Chris' public school

Chris is bringing in a rack server to the school, and using Senet as a network boot launcher for some workstation towers. He is using spare graphics cards and secondhand refurbished workstations.

A call for keyboards, mice, displays, and similar peripherals for the LAN club.

Hacdc.org migration

HacDC.org is running on DreamHost's cPanel DNS - this means that we are unable to use the hacdc.org domain (or subdomains!) from computers in our space.

Thursday - speak to Callie or Tristan if you can help on Nix & Proxmox deployments

Treasurer's Report

Had been an issue - our bank held up payment of checks to the church, so going ahead Matthew is going to change us to use ACH payments for rent.

Matthew secured an exemption using mytaxdc -> we payed no property tax to DC. The papers need to be filed once per year on a recurring basis. Also doing Form 990 in coming weeks.

Should look to increase membership. Has gone from 23 -> 19 members in a couple months.

Is going to lead a session on recording treasurer's role for their successor. $10/mo: Can commercialize some of our resources, including GPU access, email addresses.

Adjournment

Adjourned by at 8:18 by Obioma