Saskatoon Techworks Meeting
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, Oct 9, 2018 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
Minutes
- Attendance: 11 (Quorum)
- Regular Items
- Equipment, Safety and the Space
- Check fire extinguishers
- Quick Clean
- Equipment check
- Previous meeting minutes
- September 11, 2018
- Accepted unanimously as read
- New Membership
- no new members
- Exiting Members
- Sheila
- Erin
- Finances
- August
- profit - $3548.30
- expenses - $3279.19
- Net Income - $268.98
- September
- profit - $3653.09
- expenses - $2862.91
- net income - $790.21
- 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
- Oct 23 - Taylor will talked about something interesting
- Future Workshops / events
- Board Game night - Facebook announcement to come
- Winter open house or social
- Probably end of November, needing volunteers
- Spectrum - January 10-13 - start projects now
- Need a couple volunteers - list up on the whiteboard
- Newsletter sign up - Send to Sheila
- workshops
- events
- projects
- upcoming info
- Acknowledgements
- Al for equipment upgrades
- New controller in small laser, will accept gcode when he is finished
- Upgrades to Solidoodle coming to make it easier
- Lights upstairs + switches
- Scott for running the store
- Old Business
- Mitre saw replacement - moving forward with purchase
- Upstairs is being rearranged and marked off so rental space is clearer. If interested in space email thespace
- James will be bringing a table saw
- New business
- Space beautification/trendiness
- If you have any ideas for making the space a nicer place to hang out and/or use, please email thespace with your ideas
- Open Floor
- Taylor asked about VPN
- There is now a list on the white board of who is interested in paying $20/yr for openvpn-as access
- Scott mentioned a better CNC machine. Like Goliath
- ~$2500 USD, Estimating $4000 CAD total to get it here
- Does sktechworks pay for it all? Pay for half and fund raise the rest?
- There is approximately $2500 currently available in the bank for something of this nature
- Need to fund raise ~$2000
- Bake sale?
- Raffle?
- Silent Auction?
- Need volunteers
- James motioned to go ahead with this contingent that 50% is raised
- Scott seconded and members in attendance accepted unanimously
- Taylor has made a matching offer up to $100, which James has committed to donate.
- If wanting to donate in cash, please contact thespace
- Taylor has offered to organize working on the drywall
- Contact him if you want to help
- Next Meeting - Nov 13, 2018
- Purgatory box
