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* Meeting attendees: Henry Marshall, Kim Burton, Demure, Brian Morse
* Meeting attendees: Henry Marshall, Kim Burton, Demure, Brian Morse, nate
* Meeting starts at: 19:05
* Meeting starts at: 19:05


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* All Are Worthy. All Are Welcome.
* All Are Worthy. All Are Welcome.


Kim is interested in running for the board.
- Afternoon delight's plumber will likely contact landlord for plumbing access tomorrow, the 21st
 
- contacting landlord for maintenance, and about heat.
 
- google drive for membership, education?
 
- turning off allhandsactive.org google 'less secure' app setting
 
- We need to update AHA emergency contact list.




==Minutes Approval==
==Minutes Approval==
We all approve last two months minutes.
==Governance - Nate==
- We did an election, Yay!


==Governance - Collective Ownership==


- Election announcement is overdue. Alex will contact Nate to ensure the email goes out by Friday.
==Education/Events - Kim==


- Election is scheduled for November 16th
- Kim just got account access


- Transition meeting tentatively scheduled for November 18th.
- Still wants to set up donation event


==Education/Events - Henry Marshall==
- We had a laser and vinyl cutting class this month, thanks Henry!


- Tyler ran a 3d printing course last month.
- Dan is doing a HAM radio class in January


- Henry will schedule a CNC course this month.
- demure and Kim are starting to plan how a chainmail class would work.


- Henry will run a laser cutter class on October 22nd.
- Henry reached out to BYB about a BBBS workshop with their kits, they would be willing to lend us kits


- Kim will be planing a basic computer safety class for young kids, 12-16.


- We will contact Cindy about her new organization wanting to use the space.


==Finances/Membership - Alex White==
  - Talked about how to handle political groups.


- We haven't been paying utilities for the other rooms all year. We are making up this difference over the next 3 months. This is an extra ~$700 per month. The amount billed will be an estimate, so there may be further reconciliation in January. Starting in January our increase should fall to ~$200 over historical levels.
  - We should figure out sit down with her.


- Rent is rising from $1952 to $2010 per month effective this month.
  - We need to be careful that their politics do not appear as messages.


- We need to add $250/month to stay solvent.
  - Do the zines in the window send a neutral message?


- ~$2000 in the bank
  - We may need to formalize policy.


- Assuming we draw from these funds to pay the $700 per month, and then $200 per month, we will run out of money in March.
  - We will add an message board for public, inner side of outside pillar.


- He have taken over paying the meetup fees.
  - Making things is good, but we can't be a base of operations.


- Having not heard back from Lauren for 1 month, we must assume she is no longer our accountant.
  - We will contact Cindy to see if they can meet us in the first week of Jan


- Alex will contact go pass members do cancel or pay for continuing membership.
- Thank you Michael for having a class that generated donations!


- Alex will add another few people to the mailing list when people sign up as a new member.


== Fundraising - Nate Yost==
==Finances - Brian==


# Halloween Fundraiser
- Brian now has bank access!


- Board members to field questions
  - Alex still on account, Nick R is off, Larry is off.


- Would like to get volunteers together for a cleaning party on October 19th.
- Planning finances member potlucks, aiming at Feb.


- Help at the event would also be helpful.
- Paypal is were most of our money comes in from.


- Members need to be notified that the space will be unavailable.
- Nov has a lot of deposits due to back pay.


- Create blog post for event.
- BYB needs invoices before they can pay.


- Fliers have been put up around town by Kim and Henry (created by Madeline)
  - Will have conversation when Greg is in town again.


- Posted on mLive.
- Brian has print outs!!!


- Everybody needs to pitch in!
- demure asks how we see new members join?


- Henry will put a blog post on the homepage that points to the meetup.
- Regained account access to Zero, but need to pay to play again.


==Marketing/Outreach==
- Look at having paypal email a new board only googlegroup


- Henry will get the social media keys for Kim
- Verified stadium hardware standing.


=== Google Adwords ===


- Alex will add "Halloween crafts" & "coworking desk"
==Membership/Volunteers - demure==


=== Marketing Email Updates ===
- We posted holiday hours!


Nothing new.
- Will have sit down with Kim to work on On Boarding process for [all] new members.


==Operations/Volunteers - Brian Morse ==
  - Will see about doing this early Jan.


- Henry will contact Brian about updates to this.
- Brian has statistics!


- Henry will get copies of the new forms.
  - Nov: 13 Paid Regular, 14 Paid Reduced, 3 Coworking, 1 Business (Spark), 5 Volunteers.


- Demure will update the wiki to make these easy to find.
- demure needs ldap access?


- Craig will print out new copies.
- Brian is the best!


Updates re:


- Bill is now covering Thursday evening.
== Fundraising - Kim(+Others?)==


- Brian is still on Saturdays.
- Jan will have discussions happen.


- Craig is a new member/volunteer on Saturdays.
- Has done investigatory leg work


- Kale and Augustine on Friday.
  - There are tons of makery stuff to work we could be involved with.


- We need more fliers.  Brian mentioned this to Kale, who wanted to coordinate; has not heard back yet.
  - Festifools is one option!


====Storage policy====
- Super long term calander will be worked on!


Brian and Larry developed an AHA floor plan of where common items can be stored, and where people cannot store their personal stuff (barring a parking permit).


Some permits have been expired as of last month, should be re-evaluated.  Looks like there are no current ones left, so action needs to be taken.
==Marketing/Outreach==


- Feedback on the parking permits this month is minimal.
- (moved to Jan) Kim will contact the University about whether any marketing people would want to have an internship for the space.


===Clean Table & Trash===


Trash compactor location, quirks (close door before typing code), code need to be documented.  Nate will do it.
==Operations - Nate ==


===Volunteer===
- Is on top of contacting landlord.


- Will work on lock in next few weeks.


===Equipment===
- Need better outdoor rear door entrance.


- Fire extinguishers are out of date. Larry says they can be recertified at Spears. Brian will take care of this.  Still in progress.
  - And pointing at rear door from front.


- We are out of button making supplies. We need 2 1/4" shells.
- There is a bucket of salt by the out door stairs.
Nate will pick some up.  


- How do we network the new printer?
- Contact Nick R about 3d printer bed glass
Nate will take a look.  Info is on the wiki, Tyler might have already made a static IP.


- Henry spoke with Tinker about Greg getting us wider shelving unit for the acrylic and various hardware drawers.
- Fire Extinguishers


Brian will again re-re-re-inquire about the exterior door access with the landlord.


Brian said he wanted to recharge the extinguishers, but needed more info.  Nate mentioned that bringing them into the business usually works best.
===Equipment===


Cabinets mostly installed.
- Fire extinguishers are out of date. Larry says they can be recertified at Spears. Brian will take care of this. Still in progress.


Pick and Place idle. Can we incentivize people to help finish this project? Free membership for a month?
- Henry and Brian will put up the last cabinet in the coworking space.
 
- Brian will contact the landlord to make sure they only open the space for board members in the future. He will send this email after the new board is in place to minimize noise.


Talk to landlord, have them call someone on the Board before unlocking the door for "someone" who asks.


===In progress===  
===In progress===  
- Tyler was possibly going to work on the LDAP June 25th. Has this happened?
- Tyler was possibly going to work on the LDAP June 25th. Has this happened?
Wound up cleaning instead. Nate will try and schedule sometime soon.
 


===To Do===
===To Do===
====All====
====All====


- Has there been a backups on all machines to NAS? Nate wants to know more about this, possible document on the Wiki.
- Has there been a backups on all machines to NAS? Nate wants to know more about this, possible document on the Wiki. Henry will ask Tyler.


- [Has Bill Putt wired the] second patch panel to rack.
- [Has Bill Putt wired the] second patch panel to rack.


- Tyler has boxes, conduit, caps, wall hangers, and cables to expand the network, but needs help. Any volunteers? This should be shared with the larger membership.
- Tyler has boxes, conduit, caps, wall hangers, and cables to expand the network, but needs help. Any volunteers? This should be shared with the larger membership.
Demure and Nate will be available to help during the break.




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> Nate wanted to mount a display [on the pole outside the space], how can we make this happen?
> Nate wanted to mount a display [on the pole outside the space], how can we make this happen?
Raspberry Pi (we have one), monitor (Henry has one), monitor mount (Larry has one), HDMI to DVI cable.  Henry M. will email Larry about it.
Raspberry Pi (we have one), monitor (Henry has one), monitor mount (Larry has one), HDMI to DVI cable.  Henry M. will email Larry about it.
Something about a 21 inch brackets.

Latest revision as of 16:24, 15 March 2020

AHA Mission Statement
We seek to establish, build, and support a collective of individuals organized around the principles of community-driven education in the arts and sciences, and to ensure ready access to the tools needed to pursue the realization of those principles.

  • Meeting attendees: Henry Marshall, Kim Burton, Demure, Brian Morse, nate
  • Meeting starts at: 19:05

Board Meeting Protocol

* Standing Committee Reports - Individual Updates by Assigned Director/Officer presented in the time allotted.

* Open Time: For anyone to bring anything up to the Board. IF the Board agrees the item requires action, it will be put into New Business and addressed at the end of the meeting.

(15m) Open For All

  • All Are Worthy. All Are Welcome.

- Afternoon delight's plumber will likely contact landlord for plumbing access tomorrow, the 21st

- contacting landlord for maintenance, and about heat.

- google drive for membership, education?

- turning off allhandsactive.org google 'less secure' app setting

- We need to update AHA emergency contact list.


Minutes Approval

We all approve last two months minutes.


Governance - Nate

- We did an election, Yay!


Education/Events - Kim

- Kim just got account access

- Still wants to set up donation event

- We had a laser and vinyl cutting class this month, thanks Henry!

- Dan is doing a HAM radio class in January

- demure and Kim are starting to plan how a chainmail class would work.

- Henry reached out to BYB about a BBBS workshop with their kits, they would be willing to lend us kits

- Kim will be planing a basic computer safety class for young kids, 12-16.

- We will contact Cindy about her new organization wanting to use the space.

 - Talked about how to handle political groups.
 - We should figure out sit down with her.
 - We need to be careful that their politics do not appear as messages.
 - Do the zines in the window send a neutral message?
 - We may need to formalize policy.
 - We will add an message board for public, inner side of outside pillar.
 - Making things is good, but we can't be a base of operations.
 - We will contact Cindy to see if they can meet us in the first week of Jan

- Thank you Michael for having a class that generated donations!


Finances - Brian

- Brian now has bank access!

 - Alex still on account, Nick R is off, Larry is off.

- Planning finances member potlucks, aiming at Feb.

- Paypal is were most of our money comes in from.

- Nov has a lot of deposits due to back pay.

- BYB needs invoices before they can pay.

 - Will have conversation when Greg is in town again.

- Brian has print outs!!!

- demure asks how we see new members join?

- Regained account access to Zero, but need to pay to play again.

- Look at having paypal email a new board only googlegroup

- Verified stadium hardware standing.


Membership/Volunteers - demure

- We posted holiday hours!

- Will have sit down with Kim to work on On Boarding process for [all] new members.

 - Will see about doing this early Jan.

- Brian has statistics!

 - Nov: 13 Paid Regular, 14 Paid Reduced, 3 Coworking, 1 Business (Spark), 5 Volunteers.

- demure needs ldap access?

- Brian is the best!


Fundraising - Kim(+Others?)

- Jan will have discussions happen.

- Has done investigatory leg work

 - There are tons of makery stuff to work we could be involved with.
 - Festifools is one option!

- Super long term calander will be worked on!


Marketing/Outreach

- (moved to Jan) Kim will contact the University about whether any marketing people would want to have an internship for the space.


Operations - Nate

- Is on top of contacting landlord.

- Will work on lock in next few weeks.

- Need better outdoor rear door entrance.

 - And pointing at rear door from front.

- There is a bucket of salt by the out door stairs.

- Contact Nick R about 3d printer bed glass

- Fire Extinguishers


Equipment

- Fire extinguishers are out of date. Larry says they can be recertified at Spears. Brian will take care of this. Still in progress.

- Henry and Brian will put up the last cabinet in the coworking space.

- Brian will contact the landlord to make sure they only open the space for board members in the future. He will send this email after the new board is in place to minimize noise.


In progress

- Tyler was possibly going to work on the LDAP June 25th. Has this happened?


To Do

All

- Has there been a backups on all machines to NAS? Nate wants to know more about this, possible document on the Wiki. Henry will ask Tyler.

- [Has Bill Putt wired the] second patch panel to rack.

- Tyler has boxes, conduit, caps, wall hangers, and cables to expand the network, but needs help. Any volunteers? This should be shared with the larger membership. Demure and Nate will be available to help during the break.


Annex

Classroom

  • Mount projector.

Signage

> Nate wanted to mount a display [on the pole outside the space], how can we make this happen? Raspberry Pi (we have one), monitor (Henry has one), monitor mount (Larry has one), HDMI to DVI cable. Henry M. will email Larry about it. Something about a 21 inch brackets.