October Community Meeting Agenda:

NOTE: All community meetings are open to members of the public. Attendance is encouraged! Please bring a potluck item to share.

Date: 07 October 2018

Time:

• 5:00 pm Pot Luck
• 6:00 pm Community Meeting

1. Board Report

2. Officer Reports

• President's Report
• Treasurer's report
• Education: position currently vacant
• Events Officer: position currently vacant
• Membership: position currently vacant
• Outreach: Charel Morris
• Social Media: Rebecca Snyder
• Donations: John “JT” Benedetto
• Facilities: John Murray
• Rental: Darren Moody

• Area Captains
  • 3-D Printing: Josh Pedersen
  • Arcade - Troy Ross
  • Digital Arts - Darrel Knutson
  • Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim
  • Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker
  • Laser: Craig Goldsmith
  • Metal Shop: Position currently vacant
  • Welding: John Murray
  • Woodshop: Gonner Menning

3. Old Business

• TBD

4. New Business

• TBD

Minutes:

1. Board Report

2. Officer Reports

• President's Report
  • No report submitted
• Treasurer's report
  • $2,406 September starting balance
  • $3,703 deposits
  • $5,684 withdrawls
  • $2,833 Monthly Rent
  • $2,319 Annual insurance premium
  • $425 End month balance
  • Balances Not reported: 3D, Digital Arts, Tool Repair Fund
• Education: position currently vacant
• Events Officer: position currently vacant
• Membership: position currently vacant
  • JT Reporting
    • 105 Active members, with 85 Sustaining, & 7 Associate & 13 Students
• Outreach: Charel Morris
  • Railyards Market, October 14
  • New Mexico New Makers (the people that put on MakerFaire) will have a maker area at the Railyard Market on Oct 14. If you are interested in showing something(s) you have made or just helping out let me or Zoot know.
  • Color Wheel Toys Fundraiser (more details later in the meeting)
• Social Media: Rebecca Snyder
  • Facebook donations - birthday fundraisers, Quelab is now on there for this purpose.
• Donations: John “JT” Benedetto
  • We received a $1,000 donation (but the donor wants to remain anonymous). Thank you, mysterious stranger!
  • Some donations came in from Eric Lee’s estate - most interesting (to me, at least) is the 1:1 Cessna “Experience” setup. We may take this to MakerFaire in April.
  • Member Terry has some electronics to donate. “will need a truck”, but that’s all I know so far. Currently in Belen, working on delivery schedule. I hope to get an inventory from him beforehand.
• Facilities: John Murray
  • Nothing to report
• Rental: Darren Moody
  • All benches functional
  • No injuries to report
  • One additional bench space rented for October.
  • Three 5' x3' bench spaces available for rent @ $22.50 / month each.

Area Captains

• 3-D Printing: Josh Pedersen
  • Nothing to report, no injuries
• Arcade - Troy Ross
  • Willie is almost finished with a Mario artwork for this room
• Digital Arts - Darrel Knutson
  • No report submitted
• Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim
  • Nothing to report
• Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker
  • Nothing to report this month
• Laser: Craig Goldsmith
  • Food (& ANTS) are still a problem in the room. A reminder: no food or drink in the laser cutter room except water, and that should not be on the same table as the PC.
• Machine Shop: Denis Muradov
  • Moved new mill in. Need to run power to it, probably from the annex.
  • Found the boring bar used for lathe training broken. Cost to replace $25.
  • Need to store smithy mill. Currently unusable due to the need for additional parts. Questionable utility. Need to finish up cleaning.
  • Welding: John Murray
    • Nothing to report this month
  • Woodshop: Gonner Menning
    • No report submitted

3. Old Business

• Show & Tell event @ Quelab, 9/25 - Ethan Moses
  • Members-only, initially
  • Wants to do it again
  • Some pics were posted
• Adric’s Polystyrene recycling
• Sherie showed raku glazes
• Some other misc projects were shown
• Electric bamboo bike demo
• Jeremy Wolfbrandt showed a pole camera

4. New Business

• Color Wheel Toys Fundraiser
  • Currently the Board (with Rebecca Snyder taking the lead) is partnering with Color Wheel Toys popup store to do a fundraiser for Quelab. Color Wheels Toy is a great source for interesting maker and innovative toys for kids and adults. Details will be coming soon.
  • https://colorwheeltoys.com/
  • Color Wheel Toys is a pop-up toy store, opening seasonally; currently located at 3418 Central Ave SE, just west of Carlisle in Nob Hill
  • This year, open from September 1 to December 31
  • Email will go out with more information as data is solidified
• Facebook Fundraising - Rebecca
  • Darren - Alice is moving to Washington this week, so shoot her an email if you want to say something

Adjourned @ 6:58