Saskatoon Techworks Meeting Minutes
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, April 14, 2020 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E, and remote Zoom meeting
- Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)
Minutes
- Attendance 2 (Onsite), 4 (Zoom)
- Not Quorum
- Regular Items
- Equipment, Safety and the Space
- Check fire extinguishers
- Quick Clean
- Equipment check
- Previous meeting minutes
- March 10, 2020
- New Members
- Curt Rouse
- Josh Grasby
- Returning Member
- Gavin Whitmore
- Exiting Members
- Andrew Colborn
- David Martin
- Finances
- Gross profit: $4,465.73
- Ordinary expenses: $4,382.10
- Net income: $83.60
- Liabilities: $2,258.97
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- Social events / group projects
- Small talk / Show and Tell
- March 24
- Future Workshops / events
- May 30 - Saskatoon Maker Faire
- Newsletter sign up - talk to Mena
- workshops
- events
- projects
- upcoming info
- Old Business
- Equipment
- Planer needs a tune-up to cut evenly
- reminder to only use for thickness planing of real wood. DO NOT use on other materials including finishes such as paint, laquer, varnish etc
- To Do List
- Install Doorbell - Brent working on it?
- Emergency Light in Expansion - John?
- Purchase Community FWB - What is this?
- Organize Dirty Room -
- Rebuild Solidoodle - Scott
- Tape - Scott bought some, stored in cabinet
- Help Taylor make Techworks Sign - Rylan?
- Buy hookup wire - Scott maybe?
- Buy Eyewash - Torban/Scott
- Hang Projector - Torban
- Ant poison -
- if a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
- thespace@sktechworks.ca
- New business
- New Board
- Chair - John
- Vice Chair - Torban
- Secretary - Andrew
- Treasurer - James
- Open Floor
- ISC Due date - Andrew
- Covid Effect - Not affecting us like AB, Seems to be ok for now,
- Someone stole a hand sanitizer?
- Youtube Access - Scott has it back, thespace@sktechworks.ca, Torban has camera coming + mic + tripods
- More content online? More projects to share?
- Andrew - Better Mic's for use, Window in for remote people
- Bylaw issue with remote voting - not a problem?
- Acknowledgements
- Everyone for keeping the COVID at bay
- Josh Grasby for fixing the lathe
- Torban’s friend Travis from ainsworth for donating the pack pole
- Bun-Bun or fixing the network twice very quickly recently
- Bun-Bun for upgrading the store cam and inner door cam
- Jared Francais for donating batteries for the network UPS
- Scott for running the store
- Scott and Torban for figuring out Zoom and hosting a virtual hacknight
- Gary for checking in from Calgary Makerspace
- Next Meeting - May 12, 2020
- Purgatory box
