meeting:december_12_2017 [Saskatoon Techworks]

Time and Location

Tuesday, December 12, 7pm
Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)

Agenda

Attendance: 13 members (Quorum)
Regular items
Quick cleanup before meeting
- Previous meeting minutes
  - Accepted as read unanimously

New Membership
- Keeley Haftner
  - Hoards broken umbrellas
  - When asked if she does knife making and hydroponics she answered “probably knife making”
Returning Members
Exiting
- Colleen McCaw confirms end of membership but wants to come back in the future
- Colleen Miller confirms end of membership

Finances
- James read a summary of the finances
- Profit of $2,763.83
- Expenses of $2,639.87
- Net Income of $123.39
- 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
  - Dec 19 - James Cooper Deck Presentation
  - Jan 23 - Albert La Tinkercad
- Christmas workshops
- Future Workshops
  - Jan 13 or 27 Soap Making
  - Feb 15 - Fusion 360
  - Electronics/Arduino

Acknowledgements
- Kurtis Claus for Color Printer and Vinyl cutter
- Chevez for cleaning Filament Bin
- Scott for editing last presentation video and expanding the store (seconded by Rylan) and taking care of the Fire Extinguishers and the contact board
- Jeff for the thickness planer, Rylan found it useful
- John for replacing the the blade on the big band saw (note it is only for wood)
- Scott for the green screen area upstairs
- Nathan for lighting for the green screen area

Equipment maintenance
- laser cutters need flow sensors, John is working on this
- No other issues known

New business
- Guest book
  - Guests to sign on the way in as an acceptance as our waiver
- Fire Extinguishers
  - Have been maintained or replaced
  - One in the dirty room, one near the big laser and one upstairs on the landing
  - All are powder extinguishers
  - If you notice anything wrong or amiss with them please notify any board member
- New lounge area
  - Both Rob (our landlord) and Michelle (our neighbor) are onboard
  - Wide area of the front hallway is a open social area
- Volunteers for SPL drop-in hack night
  - if anyone is interested contact Al
- Collab projects for Maker Faire
  - Al is proposing two projects and is looking for helpers
    - Large robot platform
    - Combat robot demonstration kit
  - No expectation to go to maker faire
  - If interested, contact Al or thespace@sktechworks.ca
- Mentorship
  - The board is organizing a program to help new members get aclimated with the space
  - If interesting in helping out or have any ideas, contact thespace@sktechworks.ca
- Proposal to the board to consider the space lending of tools to the membership
  - idea given is to create a “tool library” of tools willing to leave the space and a checkout system of some sort
- Rylan brought tools/did stuff
  - Potters wheel and some clay. Also has a small kiln upstairs. Larger kiln on its way and will live in the back corner.
  - Air nailer and nails
  - Air tin snips
  - Small band saw while ours is getting fixed
  - Makita cordless drill
  - Chop saw
  - Storage bins near goliath, plans to install drop cloth to keep from filling with dust
  - with Taylor, bought parts for a ball mill for the lathe
  - Reorganized table with grinder wheels
    - Brought to our attention that it is a safety hazard to have grinders not bolted down
    - Suggested bolting them down with wing nuts so can still change/move them
  - Reorganized cordless tools
  - with Bob, fixed the big drill press
  - 3ft power bar for dirty room and some extension cords
  - with Jeff, dust collection for the thickness planer
    - Al notes to be proactive in emptying the vacuum used for dust collection
  - Moved his stuff to back upstairs
  - Moved some peoples stuff into the community greenwall space
  - drywalled Scotts room
- Rylan is missing a couple Makita batteries
- Rylan has noted that people have been breaking the rule of staying by the laser cutter when it is operating
  - The laser cutter is prone to starting material on fire
  - Rylan razzed Keeley for breaking the rule during the meeting
  - Rylan suggested to build fire detection that could sound an alarm
  - The instruction book should be updated to clarify this rule
  - To reiterate, stay by the laser cutter when you are cutting
- To further the unattended operation rule, it applies to all major equipment in the space
  - 3D Printers, unattended can destroy the print head and/or cause a fire
  - Goliath, unexpected tool paths can do serious damage to you or the machine. ex. the spindle was recently replaced due to such an issue and cost $300

Next Meeting - January 9, 2018

Material policy
- Tool clean up in dirty room
- Purgatory box
Motion to adjourn accepted unanimously

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