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- Kossel rewired -- Alex has an extruder in the works. | |||
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Revision as of 15:54, 12 May 2015
- Meeting attendees:
- Meeting starts at: 19:00
- Meeting ends at:
==(15 min) Open For All
- All are worthy, All are welcome.
Old Business
Action Item Status
- Inventory Status - Nate Y. - still going on (being folded into Workplace Worksheet in Google Docs)
- Monthly Task List posted on bulletin board for Volunteer Hours. [1]
- Art Fair booth...not FREE (min. $600)
- Spring Clean Began on Sunday May 3rd! - the following Members helped out; Gareth F., Ed V., Nate Y., Nick R., Larry W., Tyler S., Este T., Alec M.,. Thanks!
Formal Event Request Status (Ken L.)
ANNUAL EVENTS - How do we get people interested and committed in helping out?
- FoolMoon - 4/11 Dusk to Midnight
- Nothing planned currently as a group.
- FestiFools - 4/12 4pm-5pm
- Nothing planned.
- GameStart Spring Festival - 4/18 10am-2pm - AHA will be there with 1 electric car
- Ken got an email from GSS about what we can do. They are awaiting a reply.
- Penguicon - 4/24-26 (no soldering support, AHA 3D printing hands for Raptor Reloaded [2]
- Nate Y. will coordinate
- AAHOM TechTwilite - 5/15 6:30pm-9pm
- We need to tell them what we are doing, but it's thought just requesting a table at this point is sufficient. Maybe broach the subject for the membership at the election night. - Nick suggests running a special ham radio station that night.
- A2 MiniMaker Faire - Saturday 6/6 10am-4pm
- See Twilight
- Detroit Maker Faire - July 25-26 9:30am-6pm
- See twilight
Standing Committee Reports
(10 min) Financial - Zach S.
- March 2015 P&L - [3]
- Lots of money from donations again. We are good into the black this month!
- Zach will check into iQguys debt. Believes we are close to retiring this debt permanently.
(20 min) Governance - Ken
- Membership Update (Larry W.)
- Monthly Membership Update [4]
- 51 members this month, an increase of 5 from last month!
- Finalized Membership Forms submitted for final approval. - Larry
- Need to set a date on when we will publish these new Membership Forms. 48 hours from now for Board to decide on whether we should approve them or offer corrections.
- Nate Y to initiate recurring payments w/ AMF
- Doin' it!
- Elections coming up in April
- Ken will send a reminder with the current Board Nominees.
- Important dates: 3/23 - Board nomination period starts, 4/16 - Board nomination period ends, 4/23 - Board Elections
- CRM (ie. Salesforce) - Need tasks mapped to AHA processes for testing.
- Larry and Ken will meet about Salesforce by May 15th.
(10 min) Operations & Facilities - Nick
- Display Case soon to depart for Gamestart
- Improvement Projects (small laser cutter, redo front desk, kitchen improvement, sand blaster coming as soon as space is made for it)
Monthly Maintenance report [ADD MAY LINK HERE filed here].
- Toilets still a problem (bubbling waste water)
- Kossel rewired -- Alex has an extruder in the works.
(10 min) Staff - Larry
- Staff being proactive getting Shift replacements.
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(10 min) Fundraising - Larry
Monthly Fundraising Report
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(15 min) Outreach - Larry
- Class Schedule - April posted any minute now, Website and Social Media updated
- Larry will sit down with Nate and show him how to do the schedule stuff.
- FYI - I'm organizing a Washtenaw County Wide Meeting for Maker/Hacker Leaders as follow-up to last October. Emily P-R is too busy and we plan to rotate it through the spaces themselves. Date/Time - TBD
- Emily has passed on the torch to organize this event since she has too many commitments. AHA will be the next place this happens when it happens. Supposed to be a quarterly event. There is another event which focuses on kids, driven by UMSI/AADL/Brainmonkeys, etc..
- Zach suggests an "Ann Arbor Makes!" day at such a meeting, that encourages city-wide making, and moves around between various places.