Saskatoon Techworks General Meeting
— Time and Location —
- Tuesday, June 8, 2021 7pm
- Location: Saskatoon TechWorks, 412 44th St E, and remote Zoom meeting
- Previous meeting minutes (please read ahead of time)
Minutes
- Regular Items
- Attendance: 8 in person, 3 in zoom (quorum)
- Previous meeting minutes
- May 11, 2021
- Accepted unanimously as read
- New Members
- none
- Finances - monthly
- Gross profit: $4,268.92
- Ordinary expenses: $4,348.10 (Other: $0.05)
- Net income: -$79.13
- Liabilities: $1,956.70
- Could we cover our liabilities? Yes
- Are our accounts being taken care of promptly? Yes
- Social events / group projects
- Future Workshops / events
- TBA
- Newsletter sign up - Newsletter
- workshops, events, projects, upcoming info - newsletter@sktechworks.ca
- Old Business
- Equipment
- New laser cutter - in slow progress
- Space reorganization - in progress
- laser filter box - procuring parts
- Mitre saw dust port is broken - 3d model design in progress
- air distribution and vac piping - James chamberlain is back and has started working on these projects
- belt sander - motor looks like it over heated, investigating repair/replacement
- OMIO - throwing error, started troubleshooting with OMIO
- Maker bot replacement button is here, James Cooper will replace after the meeting
- Weavers guild - no update at this time
- Covid
- Sask Government has announced that we are in stage 1 of re-opening. This mean we can have 30 people and thus can start having workshops again.
- To Do List
- Add/Remove/Assign to list
- If a problem is found with the facilities please contact the board
- thespace@sktechworks.ca
- New business
- foci for this year
- Space culture
- Encouraging cleaning/maintenance
- Teaching safe use of tools
- Space project board
- Work on space projects on Tuesday nights
- Online presence
- Training videos
- Marketing on facebook, youtube, in newsletter
- Business advancement
- Attracting new members
- Providing tools and consumables
- Video capture day - June 7th
- some board members captured video and audio for some how-to videos
- editing to follow
- Mena has offered to try and do the editing
- Roof is leaking
- landlord is brought in repair personnel - will have to see how it turned out
- Front has be pressure washed in anticipation of parking lines being painted
- Open Floor
- James cooper would like to improve the engravibility
- Has new lenses on order
- Is looking into buying a smaller tube to put in the second spot
- There were no objections at the meeting to do this
- Acknowledgements
- Torban for investigating blade for mitre saw
- Torban for pressure washing the parking lot
- Andrew for taking care of the VPSes and website
- To John, Scott, Rylan, Torban, James Cooper for coming to the video capture day and helping out
- Next Meeting - July 13, 2021
- Purgatory box
