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Meeting minutes: August 9, 2016
- Attendance: 10 full members, 1 associate member
- Reading of the minutes from July 12, 2016. Accepted unanimously.
- Finances:
- Members:
- New members: Eylon Mogilner and Devin Bradburn
- 33 full members, 4 associates
- Laser cutter donation/agreement: James discussing with Rob Phillips. He is still interested in donating to us to buy the laser cutter. James sent him a first draft of the agreement and is waiting to hear back.
- Bylaws: No progress due to our focus on new space search. Board has set a deadline of having a first draft of new bylaws in November.
- Website: No progress due to our focus on new space search. Scott plans to change the theme to make it feasible to use WooCommerce for the store.
- Advertising: Kijiji ad is up. John plans to update it once we move to use the new address.
- Fundraising:
- We have the store on the website. We plan to sell things on consignment. If a member would like to sell them, they may propose it to the board and negotiate for the terms of sale.
- Corporate sponsorships will go through a single point of contact, which we've chosen to be Albert. If members find a business who is interested in becoming a sponsor, they can refer them to Albert, who will negotiate the terms.
- Social events:
- We would like to have a scheduled day for social events so that people can plan in advance.
- Retro video game day went well. About 8 people attended. We had lots of fun and went quite late. The only unfortunate thing is that it was mostly the regulars; it didn't really draw those who don't attend other functions often.
- Suggestions for how to get more engagement? Could advertise in Bridges, Planet S, Saskatoon Express. Need to give them at least two weeks notice. Post to meet-up groups.
- Social committee: Albert is willing to be part of it. Rylan is interested, but not available at the moment.
- Workshops all postponed during our move.
- Collaboration with outside groups:
- Al is giving a 3D modelling talk at ETC Makerspace in October.
- James is giving a quadcopter and drone talk at Sask Polytechnic in September.
- The board has established a student rate package where a full-time student could get a full membership for $240 for 8 months. This will be offered in the fall as students are coming back to school. This is similar to what ENTS and Victoria Makerspace do. Eylon offered to design a poster to put up. John is willing to call up some places to get our posters up.
