Meeting Minutes: July 8, 2014

* Attendance: 11 members, 1 guest

  • Regular Items
    • Financials update
      • $3633 in the bank, but rent hasn't been deposited yet (-$1450).
      • Spent $600 last month on a new computer for the space
      • 32 full members, 2 associates
    • Reports on Committees
      • Workshop Committee
        • Class requests? PCB mfg, soldering, Solidworks, casting and molding, Arduino
          • Solidworks class, Andrew says he will get to it. Peetros also offered.
          • Albert - casting/molding (multiple classes)
          • T-shirt - July 31, Albert to present, T-shirts available. Cost $10.
          • Soap making - August 21, Scott to present. Bring your own oil and container.
          • Robot Workshop - Need orders by July 19th. Workshops in September.
          • Bike Workshop postponed - Still need to hear back from them.
          • Quadcopter workshop - Maybe 3 or 4 interested. Probably in October.
          • Sheila would be willing to do 3D modelling workshop at some point.
          • Rylan would do a welding workshop.
          • Rylan will also do a lathe workshop once we get a lathe.
          • Scott will do OpenCola workshop once he gets it working.
    • Tools
      • Need new blade for band saw
      • James bought replacement taps and knife blades
      • Need acetone
      • 3D printer back
        • Working
        • The temperature point is resetting for some reason
        • Have to watch when printing
    • Open house July 19
      • Rylan will get us a sign to advertise
      • Robot arena coming
      • Scott has a Google Doc for planning timed demonstrations
      • Start at 10AM
  • New Business
    • Periodic workshops on using tools
    • Calgary Makerfaire 2014
      • Leah and Al registered. Al taking small laser cutter. Call for projects. Event is Sept 6-7.
    • Stuff from ENTS - Still waiting to hear back.
    • Rent may go up as a result of landlord paving parking lot as part of expanding the building.
meeting/july_8_2014.txt · Last modified: 2014/07/09 02:12 by reveng
Back to top
Driven by DokuWiki Recent changes RSS feed Valid CSS Valid XHTML 1.0