MARCH 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: 04 March 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
  • Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim
  • Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker
  • Laser: Craig Goldsmith
  • Metal Shop: Eric Lee
  • Welding: John Murray
  • Woodshop: Gonner Menning

3. Old Business

• BOD Election Results

4. New Business

• Special Election to replace departing Director Chris Zapotocky

Minutes:

1. Board Report

• Adric - Just met today
  • Verifying bylaws changes
  • Space Federation still referred
  • New Directory, Jesse T.
  • Old Director departing, Craig
  • New Chair is the old chair - Charel & JT
  • Power Bills VERY large; will be investigating

2. Officer Reports

• President's Report
  • Most importantly, Special Election coming up in April
• Treasurer's report
  • Dealing with large electric bill; please keep lights off, and be mindful of your power usage
  • Power comes into the complex in one place, and is split up by the landlord
  • $4600 in checking, with 6K in savings
  • Account at the new bank is setup. We will be working to go away from Square & Stripe to a new payment processor that the bank offers
• Education: position currently vacant
• Events Officer: position currently vacant
• Membership: John “JT” Benedetto, acting officer
  • 103 active members, 78 Sustaining, 9 associates, and 15 students
• Outreach: Charel Morris
  • Maker event at SY Jackson school this past Friday
  • MiniMakerFaire coming up. We will be doing promos & stuff
    • April 21, 22 of 2018 for MMF
    • John & Terri will be here
  • Visit to AFRL & the campus MakerSpace, MakerHub, available to anyone that has base access
  • AFRL is donating a multi tool that Eric has approved coming into the metal shop
• Social Media: Rebecca Snyder
  • MMF coming up
  • Rebecca is self-volunteering to handle the Volunteers for MMF
• Donations: John “JT” Benedetto
  • Have sold the following on eBay on behalf of Quelab:
    • $19.25 - Resistor, Axial, Military, Metal Film, Precision, 100K Ohms, 0.1%, 200V, 1/8W
    • $30.00 - Gold Scrap - Mixture of CPUs and RAM (74.55 oz - 2117 g)
    • $15.00 - Cable, Lens Extension, Dimâge EX (New)
    • $64.25 = TOTAL (Before eBay and Paypal Commissions Taken Out)
  • Recycling run of $36 of transformers, etc.
• Facilities: John Murray
  • Looking into tile replacements
• Rental: Darren Moody
  • Nothing new to report, 4 benches available

• Area Captains
  • 3-D Printing: Josh Pedersen - no report
  • Arcade - Troy Ross
    • Another PS4 controller
    • Hung some acoustic panels in the room
    • Still missing the remote control
  • Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim
    • Nothing to report
  • Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker
    • Nothing to report
  • Laser: Craig Goldsmith
    • Nothing to report
  • Metal Shop: Eric Lee
    • No injuries, all major machines operational
  • Welding: John Murray
    • Looking into coordinating welding classes again. Working with the Board
  • Woodshop: Gonner Menning
    • No report sent

3. Old Business

• Board of Directors’ election
  • Quorum reached between 7 & 7:30 the night of the election. Very good!
  • Decided to not make phone calls requesting people to come vote as was done in previous elections
  • Jesse Trujillo elected as Director, Craig Goldsmith finishing his term
  • Thinking of an RSVP setup for next year's Election Party for the catering to better control food costs
• S Y Jackson Elementary Maker Fair (Josh, Morgan, Celeste)
  • Attended Friday the 2nd showing Sabers & 3d Printers
  • Had propaganda for both Quelab & MMF
  • Some interesting news about Fuse:
    • To demo stuff for Fuse, you must pay to take a class

4. New Business

• Special Board election to replace resigned Director
• One of the Directors stepped down
  • Emails to come
  • It won’t be catered
  • The newly elected director will be serving out the remainder of a term - about 11 months
• Radio Club member collaboration
  • Reproducing an element of a radio case. Based on a picture from a book from the 40’s or 50’s, then Adric found out that the member also had broken piece
  • Radio Club member made a donation to Quelab out of gratitude
  • We hope to get a pic of the finished project
• Josh assisted a friend in making a large “Cat-thulu” about 6 feet long. Based on a file from Thingiverse

Meeting adjourned at 6:42 p.m.