Minutes:14 SEP 2022 Members Meeting Agenda

Meeting begins: 1910

Meeting ends: 2030

Participants: Brian J., David G., Andrew C., James K., Nate Y.

Agenda

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

Minutes

• Announcements/new business:

• Operations:
  • Larger Area Space Reorganization
    • Reallocate the space of the classroom by the doors, e.g. moving 3d printers in there. Obviously will sacrifice a bit of space in the classroom, possibly disrupt some classes (although this space is not well-utilized, so not a strong argument against it). Rapid prototyping area could become another general workspace, e.g. for co-working reasons, a little more privacy than the common room, etc. (there is sunlight!).
    • Organizing Bins are being used to sort the craft stuff for now, but the idea is to extend this scheme to the rest of the space in some way.
      • Need to figure out what stuff is just not useful for us and give it a good home.
      • Could use help -- gather up things of similar types and put them in a bin, and label the bin.
  • Donate a table for the common hallway area? Would be nice to have a place to set things down
  • Space Improvement Day - 9/25 @ 2-6pm

• Financial:
  • Financial health outlook: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MTjgdvGJI9-FI7OFxkDdw-hJbirdUaxwBpERWVGVSQs/edit#gid=0
  • Current Profit and Loss https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zyFGgMt1vwGwDnciNzjhT5_X7A4ackqJ/view?usp=sharing
  • Only losing $289!

• Membership:
  • Gained two members
  • Volunteering update
    • Had to shut down Open Hours because there was inconsistency in availability on Saturdays, and sometimes communication didn't happen when we were not able to open on time.
    • Nate made a survey to see if there are better times that might work to hold open hours so we can get more people in the rotation.

• Outreach:
  • Partnering with co-workings spaces! - James
    • Would like to see how we can exchange resources
  • Partnerships with Blues Amp? - David
  • Upcoming events:
    • Trash Talk Tour (A2 Zero Waste) - 9/18 @ 12-4pm
    • Tech Trek Logistics Luncheon? - 9/22 @ 11:30am-1pm
    • Living ArtsEngine - 10/8 @ 4-6pm
    • Women In Science and Engineering (WISE UM) visit to Repairsday - 10/13 @ 6-8pm
    • Tech Trek - 10/14 @ 1-5pm
    • Artisan Market - 10/23 @ 11am-4pm
    • Nate will add these to the volunteering schedule
  • Still no word from Arduino folks - David
  • Time to start planning the end-of-year-fundraiser/membership drive
• Education: