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Meeting minutes: September 13, 2016
- Attendance: 9 full members (quorum not met)
- We reviewed the minutes from August 9, 2016, but will defer voting the minutes in until the next monthly meeting.
- Space cleanliness:
- Thank you to Albert and Leah for cleaning everything up to get us started.
- Make sure to clean up any mess you make and any mess you may find.
- We will be planning a regular cleaning schedule for important things.
- Financials: James forgot to bring financial statements. He will bring them to the next general meeting to be reviewed.
- Membership:
- Jordan Yowarski and Jack Vu have both cancelled their PayPal payments.
- Acknowledgements:
- Thank you to everyone who came out to help move!
- Thank you to Albert and Leah for cleaning up the old and new spaces.
- Thank you to Andrew for getting the network wired.
- Thank you to Scott for arranging the lease, construction, internet installation.
- Thank you to Albert for taking care of the sale of the desk.
- Thank you to Randy and Scott for working on our new door and equipment access.
- Thank you to Rob and Rylan for helping to build the wall for the dirty space.
- Laser cutter agreement:
- The donation and the sale have been finalized: we now own it!
- It still needs ventilation built and installed. Rylan has some good ideas of how to work on it, but we aren't sure when he will be able to work on it. We started discussing with our furnace guy, but we didn't yet get a quote from him.
- Bylaws: Still on hold. First draft planned for November.
- Website: Minor changes. Student rate added. James updated donation page to list this year's donors. Kurtis thinks we should still list people who have donated in past years.
- Advertising: No work done; busy moving into the new space.
- Fundraising: We raised $1000 of the $1200 that we were looking for. We could still use more over the coming months. Please provide any extra you can afford.
- Social events:
- We have a movie night planned for Friday October 14th.
- We would like to hold an open house as a grand opening for our new space on November 19th. Need volunteers to help organize. James, Scott, and Jeremy Rans will help out. No volunteers to be a coordinator. The idea will be postponed until we can find an organizer.
- John would like to get members involved in our own 2×4 challenge. Several people mentioned interest. John is willing to organize. Peter volunteered to help out. Thinking to do it in December.
- Workshops:
- Albert is presenting his 3D modelling workshop at ETC Makerspace tomorrow.
- John is still planning to hold his soldering workshop the third week of October.
- James is still planning to present at Sask Polytechnic on September 20th.
- Albert will host a combat robotics workshop on October 1st. It will be announced at SaskExpo.
- Albert still plans to hold workshops on milling and laser cutting.
- Scott will do a soap making workshop once everything is settled down at the shop.
- Collaboration with outside groups:
- We have ongoing workshops and talks with ETC Makerspace and Sask Polytechnic
- John is in contact with USSU, SESS, and other groups at the U of S. Kurtis knows somebody involved with the IEEE robotics club.
- Erik says Future Ops at Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce would likely be interested in us. James says to have them talk to Albert to arrange to come visit us.
