meeting:july_14

Saskatoon Techworks General Meeting Minutes

— Time and Location —

Tuesday, July 14, 2020 7pm
Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E, and remote Zoom meeting
Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)

Minutes

Attendance 8 (Onsite), 1 (Zoom) (technical quorum)
Regular Items
Equipment, Safety and the Space
- Check fire extinguishers
- Quick Clean
- Equipment check

Previous meeting minutes
- May 12, 2020
  - Accepted unanimously
- June 9, 2020
  - Accepted unanimously

New Members
- Braedon Leisler
  - No objections
- Brian Lazorko
  - No objections
- Dave Kozicki
  - No objections but need to get the waiver signed
Returning Members
- Lauren Meier
  - No objections

Finances - monthly
- Gross profit: $4,666.46
- Ordinary expenses: $4,398.64
- Net income: $267.77
- Liabilities: $2,377.13
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes

Social events / group projects
- Future Workshops / events
  - Workshops to start back up again soon - check website/facebook for updates

Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
- workshops
- events
- projects
- upcoming info

Old Business
- Equipment
  - Belt sander timing belt broken - ordered
    - Contacted a local company and was unable to find one to be able to get sooner
    - Torban got a refund for the one that still hasn't shown up, found another one in Canada this time and is ordering two
  - Air compressor fixed
  - OMIO - working again - still waiting for extra collet nuts
  - Mitre saw has no guard - looking into replacement
    - Torban has brought his for the time being
  - new OLFA knife
  - new tape measures
  - Programmable controllable thermostat
    - $110
    - air conditioner has been set to a low temperature and then left for hours-days (same has happened in the winter with setting to a high temperature)
    - prevent large cost that could be incurred from sated situation via a rest api that can be controlled via software
    - James motioned to add the $110 to the budget, seconded by Andrew and passed unanimously
    - We need a volunteer to install the thermostat
- Goals for the coming year
  - Upstairs
    - Location to store techworks stuff
    - Taping off areas
  - Videos
    - we have some lighting and AV equipment now
    - video editing class/workshop is in the works (TBA)
    - looking for assistance with techworks title/intro for official videos
    - James brought another monitor for the video box, Andrew will calibrate them in the near future
  - Community
    - group project committee - Rylan
      - Thermostats
        
        New thermostat in the regular space
        
        Replace thermostat in front space so we can turn on the fan to keep air circulating up front
      - Air filter mounting up in the suspended ceiling to try and cut down on the noise
      - Reorganize grinder bench
      - If you volunteer to Rylan, Rylan will find you
    - bring back social gatherings (when we can)
- To Do List
  - Add/Remove/Assign to list
    - Rebuild solidoodle has everything figured out by James/Scott but needs time to be worked on
    - Still need to make the wall of shame
- if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
  - thespace@sktechworks.ca

New business
- new laser cutter - needs some work to get up and running
  - Will be running the same controller and software as the existing later
  - More details to be announced
- Some benches are going to be moved around, modified, rebuilt, thrown out to make better use of the space and room for the new laser
- Open Floor
  - MacDougall auctions has some auctions with some wood working from the public school division, coming up on the 28th
  - Andrew purchased a camera for the back area was ~$235 and received $50 from John. If willing to help out please give money to Andrew.
  - Virtual meetings
    - Zoom has a cost which seems cheaper than competitors, $20/mo
    - Jitsi has self host options which would be free, Andrew is going to look into
    - Consensus is virtual meetings are beneficial and we want to keep it going
    - Andrew has purchased a mic to be permanently mounted for this purpose, if it works well and the meetings keep going he would like sktechworks to buy it off him

Acknowledgements
- Andrew for getting knives
- John for getting measuring tapes
- Thanks Torban for bringing his laser
- Thanks Chad and Brent for replacing the carpet
- Andrew and Torban for network drops upstairs
- Scott, Rylan, Torban, Erik, John for the new fridge/freezer
- Scott for the snacks
- Thanks everyone for keeping food out of the space and in the back dumpster
- Thanks 'Churl' for bringing pizza on one hack night
- Thanks for the donation of cheap keyboards and mice from mcwil companies
- Thanks Lance for taking on mounting the motor on the mill
- Thanks Randy for going and getting the motor for the mill

Next Meeting - August 11, 2020

Purgatory box
- proceeded not virtually