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

Date: 05 November 2017

Time:

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

1. 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
• Assets: Darren Moody
• 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

2. Old Business

• Return of Darth & Yoda Event @ Balloon Museum
• Stranger Things Carnival

3. New Business

• RFID system return!

Minutes:

Minutes: Meeting started at 6:05, Notes By Adric. Editing by JT after the fact. Since Celeste is on holiday, JT was to run the meeting, but he took sick. Charel ran this meeting (Thanks, Charel! -JT)

1. Officer Reports

• President's Report
  • No report this month
• Treasurer's report
  • No report this month
• Education: position currently vacant
• Events Officer: position currently vacant
• Membership: position currently vacant
• Outreach: Charel Morris
  • The Return of Darth & Yoda: Star wars event at the balloon museum was good, plans are to attend next year, with an increased area.
  • Recycle and Renew Event: Repair Reuse event was good, only 5 outside Quelab persons, but it was a good event. We would like to repeat it in January.
  • Stranger Things Carnival: - Neighborhood Event held at Tractor Brewing. The event went well, we netted about $90 of the ticket take, and did Beer Lights (throwies on an silicone band). A little over 100 beer and beard lights were made and handed out.
  • Rio Rancho Star wars event in January 2018. Darren has been in communication with the Librarians, and we are on tap to return to this event.
• Social Media: Rebecca Snyder
  • Rebecca talked about some of the posts, not much has been reported to her aside from the RFID return
• Assets: Darren Moody
  • Couches that were in the annex have been moved to the main classroom.
  • Donations area in the Annex is getting better. We even rejected some donations.
  • Working on trying to work with volunteers.
• Facilities: John Murray
  • Through Hannah Properties, requested the repair of roof leaks in the shop and electrical conduit, and verified the progress on those repairs, requested a repair of the overhead heater in the shop, which has not been completed. (A reminder request will be sent next week, if necessary.)
  • Reported graffiti and other activities on the south side of the building.
  • Furnished a spare key for the building's Knox box (a secure emergency access for the Albuquerque Fire Department).
  • Installed carbon monoxide detectors in the core adjacent to the public computer space and in the annex adjacent to the restroom. There is a spare detector that can be also installed in the space. (Eric Lee sent an email to the Members List that there is a carbon monoxide detector mounted next to the laser cutter room. Thanks Eric.)
  • Repaired the urinal in the annex rest room, per a request from a member.
• Rental: Darren Moody
  • No change. We have some spaces available for rent.

Area Captains

• 3-D Printing: Josh Pedersen
  • No report
• Arcade - Troy Ross
  • He is networking the playstation to network on PSN, and looking for feedback. (suggestion networking with the local Game Designers)
• Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim
  • apparently all the bench tool boxes went missing, and the room keeps getting left like a pigsty.
• Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker
  • Nothing Big, room is working
• Stained Glass: Sherie Pennebaker
  • No report
• Laser: Craig Goldsmith
  • new laser cutter computer has been built and deployed (thanks JT) and the cutter settings reconfigured with the new LaserCut install.
  • old projects on the old computer are randomly corrupted
  • new test cut and engrave files created and on the new computer. These are also backed up.
  • red laser dot pointer is dimmer and diffused than it used to be, we are looking into it and will probably do some diagnostics and look at solutions Sunday 11/5 after the member meeting
• Metal Shop: Eric Lee
  • The Bridgeport is down
• Welding: John Murray
  • Removed padlock on Hot Work Area, due to missing key. Replaced non-functional padlock with changeable combination padlock and keyed padlock in series, in case either padlock is not openable, the gate can still be unlocked.
  • Changed the cutting tip on the oxy-acetylene cutting torch and verified satisfactory operation.
• Woodshop: Gonner Menning
  • Bandsaw needs a new blade; Gonner is getting a new one for it.

2. Old Business

• Fundraising - (From what I can tell, and since no one got back to me with information about it, I think this was not discussed at meeting - JT)
• Holiday Hacking? - (From what I can tell, and since no one got back to me with information about it, I think this was not discussed at meeting - JT)

3. New Business

• Storage areas: No Storage up on the top of the storage hall!
• RFID system returns!
  • A BIG thanks to Troy Ross for his work in updating this system!
  • The revised system does not blink right away, because it checks with Wild Apricot real-time
• Gonner: Tool Room: someone put a bunch of paint and chemicals in there. Unknown whom did it, there is a more proper storage area in the big bathroom
• SECURITY: Crime we may have had some cars rifled Friday night
  • Suggestion: Adric, a fence along the 7th street side, from the NW corner of the building to the drive well would keep people/possible people the tracks and or from even wanting to cut through the Quelab part of the lot
  • Holiday activities: There was some mention of past holiday activities and the possibility of doing something this year, but nothing was settled on.

Meeting Closed at 7:14pm