Minutes:08 Apr 2015 Board Meeting Agenda

• Meeting attendees: Ken L., Nick R., Alex W., Esty T., Tyler S., John H., Larry W., Dan R., Zach S., John N., Nate Y.
• Meeting starts at: 19:00
• Meeting ends at: 21:00

(15 min) Open For All!

• Guests Expected To Attend:
• Gerald Coggins - Facilities Maintenance Resolution
• Jon Huhn - Computer Platform Operating System Plans
• John Nagle - BYB

Bandsaw is still being abused. We need to replace brushes. The back room is very clean otherwise, though.

Questions raised about the duration of reprimands. Reprimands have no duration by default -- member must come into board meeting to address them (either appeal or remove).

Message moderation is done by the Board and Nate Y. in a timely fashion.

John N. has had folks talking about installing Linux on the public PCs, feels it will alienate some users who rely on Windows applications. AHA doesn't have money enough to buy site license for Windows 10, so that's why Linux was in such high demand (can be done now vs. much later on). Zach S. has contact info for the SE-MI Microsoft "evangelist", offered to give Larry info to see if we can get any kind of deal.

Old Business

Action Item Status

• AMF Paid Up To Date - Thank You Rakesh!!!!
• Inventory Status - Nate Y. - still going on

- Nate Y. plans to integrate the remaining inventory-taking with the Spring Cleaning event.

• laser cutter rates implemented - instruction updated...unsure of wiki
• NO CUT List posted by the laser - Thanks Nick R.!!!
• Monthly Task List posted on bulletin board for Volunteer Hours. [1]
• Spring Cleaning Notice to be sent as soon as date chosen (suggestion?)

==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
• FestiFools - 4/12 4pm-5pm
• GameStart Spring Festival - 4/18 10am-2pm - AHA will be there with 1 electric car
• Penguicon - 4/24-26 (no soldering support, AHA 3D printing hands for Raptor Reloaded [2]
• AAHOM TechTwilite - 5/15 6:30pm-9pm
• A2 MiniMaker Faire - Saturday 6/6 10am-4pm
• Detroit Maker Faire - July 25-26 9:30am-6pm

(10 min) Financial - Zach S.

• March 2015 P&L -

(20 min) Governance - Ken

• Membership Update (Larry W.)
• Monthly Membership Update [3]
• Finalized Membership Forms submitted for final approval. - Larry
• Nate Y to initiate recurring payments w/ AMF

• Elections coming up in April

- 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. -

(10 min) Operations & Facilities - Nick

• Display Case soon to depart for Gamestart

• Electric cars will slowly move over to Gamestart as space permits

• "New" laptops kept in file cabinet. Old Dell now loaded with Fedora

• Improvement Projects (small laser cutter, redo front desk, kitchen improvement, sand blaster coming as soon as space is made for it) - to be part of Spring Clean

• Should AHA implement a "points system" that could be applied toward your monthly membership fee? The more unpleasant a task you do (ie. bathroom, the more points you get).

Monthly Maintenance report filed here.

(10 min) Staff - Larry

• All Shift staff trained [4]

(10 min) Fundraising - Larry

Monthly Fundraising Report - .....link here......

(15 min) Outreach - Larry

• Class Schedule - April posted any minute now, Website and Social Media updated

• 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