Minutes: April 8, 2014
- 8 members in attendance, 2 additional via proxy
- Regular Items
- Treasurer's year-end report
- Motion to accept financial statements without audit
- Passed unanimously
- Financials update
- 31 full members, 1 associate member
- ~ $3000 in the bank
- ~ +$100 cash flow
- 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)
- Should do some kind of school outreach, but what?
- Electronics workshop, part 2 - James
- 3D printing?
- Kilobots event mid-May
- More events: board games, LAN games
- Tools
- CNC vacuum shoe - the saga continues
- New parts for Solidoodle arrived, just needs some testing
- CNC needs maintenance
- Mentorshop process
- New Business
- Open house? This would be a good time of year to have one. Tentatively June.
- New board
- Al will now be President, Kurtis is Vice President
- MoSo conference
- June 11-14th
- Haven't spoken to them yet
- Price is a concern
- M2M was good, but holding a booth wasn't worthwhile
- Bert's House email
- Youth group. One of their members thought that we offered day programs and lessons in electronics. We informed them that we don't offer that.
- Children under 18 cannot be members, but may attend if accompanied by an adult member.
- Reminder about keeping the space clean. Put it away or it gets tossed out.
- Be sure to empty garbage bins into Loraas bin when full
- Add sign-out sheet for spare parts
- Organization night, next Tuesday (April 15)
- SaskPower employee volunteer program is still ongoing
- James wants to put together a survey/questionnaire to existing members to gauge usage and value
