Meeting at marble was sparcely attended, Gabe, Walter, Adric, And Ray

Notes are as follows:

–Event Recap–

  • Attendance was down from January, less interesting topic/too constrained,short month, lots of folks dropped the ball on advertising
  • Robots month, must start early!
    • Build a calendar and media contact list for these events, and timetables for publishing details
      • list sofar: Alibi, DCF, NMTechCal, LocalIQ, Lobo, Craigslist, ABQ Journal
    • Looking for members in EE and CS department that can post listserve notices. (looking for folks with projects to show off/attend)
    • Contact Explora, or CEC or other learning centres, also to see if they have projects to demo or want to attend.
    • Better at networking, we need to invite fablab and other kindred spirits.
    • Looking for cool kits, or simple beam (solarbotics) bots we can make kits for, deadline for some ideas is Wednesday (hacknight or via email)
    • Get bristle bot parts ordered
    • Must advertise/spread the word about the Temperature controller talk here 03/15 at 7pm,
      • Talk to him about a interview about Holy Scrap Hotsprings, and his other projects
    • Try to contact invento of beam bots up in los alamos
  • April Earthday theme? possibly a daytime event?
  • June and August, possible table space at Abq Comic Expo, and Bubonicon,
  • June or May, Steampunk theme?
  • projects section needed in the blog, wherefolks can note progress ask for help. (perhaps a forum?)
  • logo/business card /sticker design still needs doing. possible Wordpress website tweaking.. Steen was mentioned.
  • approved the idea of non quelab events renting the place. (might request a member is involved, or a membership obtained first)