Minutes:09 AUG 2023 Members Meeting Agenda

Meeting begins: 1905

Meeting ends: 2013

Participants: Joe D., Brian J., Nate Y., Sarah B., Victor M.

Agenda

• Announcements/new business - 10m
• Operations
• Financial
• Membership
• Outreach
• Education

Minutes

• Announcements/new business:

• Operations:
  • Wish list migration - Sarah B.
    • Using MyRegistry.com
    • We can add items directly from the browser with a chrome browser extension
    • You can mark list items as "private" to keep them on the list but hidden, i.e. we have them in stock but expect to run out periodically
    • Still have a few items from the old wishlist that need more info to go on MyRegistry, e.g. washers (what size?)

• Financial:
  • We have more or less retired Rerun in favor of PayPal invoices
  • Financial Position: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nYIjTEdrX1RQs9-vbyNsZlvMszWVKeOr/view?usp=drive_link
  • Financial Activity: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YtjR0eah0q12yPT7MSjXVVdzyFyUnrhz/view?usp=sharing
  • Finances doing great, we are actually in the black this year.
  • Joe reached out to Nation of Makers to see what things other hackerspaces track on a monthly basis. Some responses include:
    • Financial position
    • Number of members gained/lost
    • Profit/loss
    • Gender identities/ethnicities
    • Time from initial contact to starting a membership (can we use link shortener to track interest from us doing events?)
    • Things we have already started tracking better: event attendance, volunteer hours
  • Can we do a monthly "report card" to see how we're performing each month?

• Membership:
  • Gained one or two new members, have several in the works (a good number of volunteers). We are around 30-40 members now, including volunteers (which are harder to track since they don't pay monthly)
  • Application form has been updated with the changes discussed last month
  • Membership tracking spreadsheet hasn't made much progress
  • Benevity has been set up so companies can do donation matching

• Outreach:
  • Social media posts for events - Sarah B.
    • One quick takeaway from the message Sarah posted in #operations, we should use some tools to unify social media posts/accounts to make it easier to do.
  • Grant opportunity spreadsheet has been made.
  • Nate has been getting Xander started with the Creative Washtenaw grant

• Education:
  • Mesh network class idea is in the works (Nate Y./Mike Z.). September timeline.
  • Joe D. would like to do a nail art class; needs to do some more research on the techniques. September timeline.