meeting:june_12_2018

Meeting minutes: June 12, 2018

Reading of the meeting minutes from May 8
- accepted

New Members
- Torban Peterson
- Scott Baumgartner
- Mena Ryan
- Tasha Cooper

Exiting Members
- none

Finances
- last month
  - profit - 3444.23
  - expenses - 2811.24
  - Net Income - 632.95
- Forcast
  - profit - 3173.33
  - expenses - 2775.66
  - net income - 397.67

Social Events / Group Projects
- Small Talk / Show and Tell
  - June 26 - Leah Royal game of UR
- Future Workshops / Events
  - MakerFaire
    - How did it go?
    - What you can do vs what people have done at the space
    - Being better prepare to work at the booth
    - list the tools you used to make the thing
    - how it's made videos/documentation
    - interactive displays
    - Identify projects as techworks projects
  - Open House
    - How did it go?
    - consistent level of traffic
    - Demos went well
    - have a script for tours next time
    - name tags
    - food for next time?
  - June 14 - Soap making
  - June 21,28 - Electronics from zero
  - July 19,26 - Arduino 101
  - October - Ignite - Regina science center
    - Volunteers
- Newsletter sign up
  - workshops
  - events
  - projects
  - upcoming info

Acknowledgements
- All Volunteers for makerfaire
- volunteers for the open house
- Quentin for brochure
- Rylan and Karl for cleaning
- Kurtis, Val, and Cara for makerfaire
- Sheila for newsletter
- Anyone who has been giving tours for the space

Old Business
- material and tools left in space, back lot
- we need to be diligent to clean up after ourselves
- putting tools back means next person will be able to find and use easier

New Business
- short term goals - simple/achievable
- replace rails on Goliath
- Consumable items
- network terminations
- doorbell fixing
- what else can be done?
- Tool inventory - John, Taylor
  - update website
  - who owns the tools
  - Cable management
- internet things
  - website refresh
    - make the website enticing
    - what you can do vs what has been done
  - IRC
    - instructions for use
    - intimidating to new users
    - get a better web client
    - used for live conversations
- Fixed structure out back
  - storage of tools
  - there are concerns of safety and abuse of storage
- Security cameras
  - installation of camera facing back lot and TW entrances
  - Scott and Andrew are discussing setting this up
- Throw food away in the dumpster

Next meeting July 10, 2018

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