Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, June 11, 2019 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E
- Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)
Minutes
- Attendance: 8 (Not Quorum)
- Regular Items
- Equipment, Safety and the Space
- Check fire extinguishers
- Quick Clean
- Equipment check
- Previous meeting minutes
- May 14, 2019
- May 21, 2019 Addendum
- No quorum, can't vote
- returning Member
- Emily Hitz
- No objections
- Michael Jack
- No objections
- Exiting Members
- Michael Mitzel
- Ryan Thompson
- Drew Blakely
- Finances
- Gross profit: $4,120.60
- Includes $58.80 of donations
- Includes $500.00 donation from SaskPower
- Ordinary expenses: $3,734.69
- Includes $1000 write-off for Bitrix sponsorship
- Includes $50.00 for bad debt write off.
- Includes -$100.00 for previously written off debt collected.
- Net income: $385.83
- Liabilities: $3,277.23
- 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
- June 25
- Future Workshops / events
- May 25 - Saskatoon Mini Maker Faire
- how did it go?
- Lot of fun
- SKTechWorks booth was hard to find and facing the wrong way. Found out afterwards that we had more space we weren't utilizing
- Rylan and John handed out lots of brochures and flyers
- Positives?
- Easier access and great better advertising this year
- Negatives?
- Kilobots was too loud
- Plan for next year
- June 8 - Post Maker faire Open house
- how did it go
- Scott made food all day
- It went well ~6-8 came to visit
- Nobody was ignored, got visitors involved in activities
- Would have been nice to have more people
- Be nice to have a sign at the end of the street to attract attention
- reddit
- Got a post stickied in r/saskatoon. Hopefully can do this again in the future.
- May 30 - Soap Making
- Went well
- 4 for next one already
- June 13,20 - Electronics from Zero
- sign up available online store
- June 22 - Soap Making
- July 6 - Tiny Die
- July 11 - CNC Training
- July 18,25 - Arduino 101
- Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
- workshops
- events
- projects
- upcoming info
- Old Business
- fundraising for metal CNC mill
- get stuff for a donation
- Chocolate bars are still available
- $1,229
- To Do List
- remove from list
- Add to list
- assign from list
- if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
- thespace@sktechworks.ca
- New business
- Space lease expires this year
- We are pursuing a 3 year lease with an a/c unit added to the space
- Open Floor
- Acknowledgements
- Scott for getting a cash deal for shelves
- Paul Chavady for getting the reddit post stickied
- Next Meeting - July 9, 2019
- Purgatory box
