Minutes:14 Jan 2015 Board Meeting Agenda

• Meeting attendees:
• Meeting starts at: 19:00
• Meeting ends at: 21:00

(45 min) Open For All!

• Rants, Raves, Comments and Concerns - Bring it on!

Old Business

• Action Item Status
• Board Pledges Incomplete

Standing Committee Reports (Outlined in p. 3 of Standing Rules)

• Note - Committee reports should include Action Item updates from last months Board meeting. (see temp folder)

(10 min) Financial - Zach S.

• • Current assets - $0000
  • Current debts - $0000 (Tyler W. and Larry W. paid back for drinks/snacks from 2014)
  • AMF was notified of $900 outstanding membership dues. Rakesh has since paid $500 w/ promise of remaining $400 and establishment of monthly dues payments.
  • Cash was pulled from register on a regular basis this past month and deposited in TCF account.

* MEMBERSHIP (Larry W.)

• Membership Report (Larry W.) - Members List kept updated daily with Thank You's mailed for every dues and donation.
• January 14th - 40 Total (35 are paying, 6 more than last month)
• Household Memberships - Needs to be implemented. (forms, website, PayPal Button)
• Membership Process needs to be updated in the Wiki from LW Draft

(20 min) Governance - Ken

• Review report posted in Temporary Folder (I can dream can't I?)

No news for elections.

Has salesforce news: Salesforce foundation will give us grants for volunteers hours worked for AHA. Nate again offers help to get membership tracking running in Salesforce -- need to get that sandboxed and then promoted into use for Larry to use on a monthly basis.

(10 min)Facilities - Nick

• Review report posted in Temporary Folder (I can dream can't I?)

Laser Ventilation installed - running much quieter now. Leaky Taste Kitchen drain fixed! Leaky toilet in the former women's bathroom fixed! New Leak in big bathroom ceiling. Gerald Coggins notified.

(10 min) Staff - Jon

• Review report posted in Temporary Folder (I can dream can't I?)

Gareth Fox is trained. New Staff Google Group Created. Member List posted for Staff by Front Desk. Still need to schedule staff training.

(10 min) Fundraising - Larry

• Review report posted in Temporary Folder

Soldering Equipment Purchased. Still need to purchase soldering badges (or make our own contraptions)

(15 min) Outreach

CLASSES - not getting done

PAST EVENTS

• North Quad Makerfest in Dec. went well.
• Cryptoparty quite successful. Tentative repeat on 2/14/2015 (note: event photos a privacy issue)

FUTURE EVENTS

• Next GSD (Wiki Party????) - Alec McBean wants to help along with Nate and Tyler
• Jan. 17th - MLK Weekend - UMSI Volunteers are coming!!! [UMSI Service Day, MLK Weekend,]link title Jan. 17th 2 shifts planned (9am-11:45am, and 1:15pm until 4pm)
• March 24-26 - Penguicon (who's going?)
• March 24-29 - Ann Arbor Film Fest - so far no Oculus Rift experimental videos. What to do?
• June - Japan Club would like some CosPlayers
• July - A2 Mini MakerFaire
• July 25th & 26th

EDUCATION

• UMSI Proposal - Sylvia Lindtner
• Community HS - First Robotics Team (decided primary worksite is elsewhere but may do some fabricating...tbd)
• We are looking to be available as a CHS Community Resource for CHS students to work on their projects here.
• AADL - Makerspace Coming in 2015 (will offer basic start-up classes ie. soldering)

New Business

GROUPS REQUESTING ACCESS

• FIRST Robotics - CHS
• BioTech Team - External Heart Monitor (proposes a single membership for 6 people)
• Another? BioTech Team? - Coming on Thursday during Build Night to check us out
• Class Development from Peter Washabaugh

VOLUNTEERS

• Getting cold calls to do 15 to 20 hours/week of service