This is the agenda for the next meeting. Once the meeting has been held, this agenda will be moved to the page for that meeting, and a new agenda created.

• Tuesday, December 12, 7pm
• Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
• Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)

• Attendance: 13 members (Quorum)
• Regular items
• Quick cleanup before meeting
  • Previous meeting minutes
    • Accepted ad read unanimously

• New Membership
  • Keeley Haftner
    • Hoards broken umbrellas
    • When asked if she does knife making and hydroponics she answered “probably knife making”
• Returning Members
• Exiting
  • Colleen McCaw confirms end of membership but wants to come back in the future
  • Colleen Miller confirms end of membership

• Finances
  • James read a summary of the finances
  • Profit of $2,763.83
  • Expenses of $2,639.87
  • Net Income of $123.39
  • Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
  • Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
  • We are in the black!

• Social events / group projects
  • Small talk / Show and Tell
    • Dec 19 - James Cooper Deck Presentation
    • Jan 23 - Albert La Tinkercad
  • Christmas workshops
  • Future Workshops
    • Jan 13 or 27 Soap Making
    • Feb 15 - Fusion 360
    • Electronics/Arduino

• Acknowledgements
  • Kurtis Claus for Color Printer and Vinyl cutter
  • Chevez for cleaning Filament Bin
  • Scott for editing last presentation video and expanding the store (seconded by Rylan) and taking care of the Fire Extinguishers and the contact board
  • Jeff for the thickness planer, Rylan found it useful
  • John for replacing the the blade on the big band saw (note it is only for wood)
  • Scott for the green screen area upstairs
  • Nathan for lighting for the green screen area

• Equipment maintenance
  • laser cutters need flow sensors, John is working on this
  • No other issues known

• New business
  • Guest book
    • Guests to sign on the way in as an acceptance as our waiver
  • Fire Extinguishers
    • Have been maintained or replaced
    • One in the dirty room, one near the big laser and one upstairs on the landing
    • All are powder extinguishers
    • If you notice anything wrong or amiss with them please notify any board member
  • New lounge area
    • Both Rob (our landlord) and Michelle (our neighbor) are onboard
    • Wide area of the front hallway is a open social area
  • Volunteers for SPL drop-in hack night
    • if anyone is interested contact Al
  • Collab projects for Maker Faire
    • Al is proposing two projects and is looking for helpers
      • Large robot platform
      • Combat robot demonstration kit
    • No expectation to go to maker faire
    • If interested, contact Al or thespace@sktechworks.ca
  • Mentorship
    • The board is organizing a program to help new members get aclimated with the space
    • If interesting in helping out or have any ideas, contact thespace@sktechworks.ca
  • Proposal to the board to consider the space lending of tools to the membership
    • idea given is to create a “tool library” of tools willing to leave the space and a checkout system of some sort
  • Rylan brought tools/did stuff
    • Potters wheel and some clay. Also has a small kiln upstairs. Larger kiln on its way and will live in the back corner.
    • Air nailer and nails
    • Air tin snips
    • Small band saw while ours is getting fixed
    • Makita cordless drill
    • Chop saw
    • Storage bins near goliath, plans to install drop cloth to keep from filling with dust
    • with Taylor, bought parts for a ball mill for the lathe
    • Reorganized table with grinder wheels
      • Brought to our attention that it is a safety hazard to have grinders not bolted down
      • Suggested bolting them down with wing nuts so can still change/move them
    • Reorganized cordless tools
    • with Bob, fixed the big drill press
    • 3ft power bar for dirty room and some extension cords
    • with Jeff, dust collection for the thickness planer
      • Al notes to be proactive in emptying the vacuum used for dust collection
    • Moved his stuff to back upstairs
    • Moved some peoples stuff into the community greenwall space
    • drywalled Scotts room
  • Rylan is missing a couple Makita batteries
  • Rylan has noted that people have been breaking the rule of staying by the laser cutter when it is operating
    • The laser cutter is prone to starting material on fire
    • Rylan razzed Keeley for breaking the rule during the meeting
    • Rylan suggested to build fire detection that could sound an alarm
    • The instruction book should be updated to clarify this rule
    • To reiterate, stay by the laser cutter when you are cutting
  • To further the unattended operation rule, it applies to all major equipment in the space
    • 3D Printers, unattended can destroy the print head and/or cause a fire
    • Goliath, unexpected tool paths can do serious damage to you or the machine. ex. the spindle was recently replaced due to such an issue and cost $300

• Next Meeting - January 9, 2018

• Material policy
  • Tool clean up in dirty room
  • Purgatory box
• Motion to adjourn accepted unanimously