Regular Member Meeting 2011 08 09

Note: This page serves as the 2011-08-09 Member Meeting's agenda (before the meeting) and minutes (after the meeting).

Time and Location

August 9, 2011

Meeting called to order at __07:50__ by: Ben the Pyrate

Members Present: Ben, Toast, Tim S., Alberto, Martin, Phil, Brad, Shahar, Xaq, Chris

Others Present: Sean

Quorum met? No.

Approval of Previous Meeting's Minutes

Regular Member Meeting 2011 07 12

Director Reports

Treasurer's Report (Tim Slagle)

Here is the July 2011 financial summary: File:HacDC Financials July 2011.pdf

We came out a bit ahead in July due to additional member donations, the robotics class ($200), and $344 in cash collected from the tip jar. Membership revenue are still $600 short of our expenses so thanks to the generous members who are chipping in extra. We ended July 2011 with a reserve of about 2.5 months expenses.

In July, we had 43 paying members, three non-paying members, added two new membership subscriptions (Bjorn Westergard & Stephen Beuttel), and lost one member (Alan McCosh). Shahar Goldin also reactivated his subscription and chipped in for a missing month, so thanks and sorry for announcing his departure prematurely!

I found we were paying $6/mo for a fax service we were no longer using, so I cancelled it. We should have a plan for asynchronously receiving faxes - Google Voice?

Member Reports

• Alberto on Smithsonian Institution's 3D Imaging Lab's:
  • loan of a CNC mill to HacDC. Call for volunteers to transport it, if necessary.
  • offer of a 1-hour tour of the 3D Imaging Lab for HacDC members, and
  • offer of the the possibility of housing their powder 3D printer at HacDC in order to experiment with alternative powder/binder media. Alternatively, hosting HacDC's 3D printer community of interest for a day of brainstorming/experimentation on alternative media for that printer.
• Alberto on (e)merge Art Fair and HacDC's Brad B helping build a visualization for it which will be branded with HacDC's logo.
• Absent member Katie...
  • participated in a build-your-own-Geiger-counter workshop at Tokyo Hackerspace on Monday night. She now has a simple working Geiger counter, consisting of a Freakduino motherboard, a NetRAD shield daughterboard, and a SBM-20 Geiger–Müller tube for sensing radiation. (photo)
  • found a four-story ham radio gear store in Akihabara! (photo)
  • reports that Hackers on a Plane 9.0: Hackers for Japan brings hackers to Japan this November, with a bargain of a presale price at US$1337. Check it out.

Adjournment

Adjourned at: