Date: 12/11/11
Time: 6:57 Attendees: Greg, alfred, aaron, ray, adric, geoff, morgan

Reports:

• Board meeting notes

Discussions

• Quick review of Strategic Planning Activities
• Comic Con table? Jan 13-15
• Room rental
• Teaching classes
• Andrew Stones Proposal (paid year membership & webhostingfor a winner)
  • Needs defining
  • how to advertize
• Abq Sprout http://www.abqsprout.org/about-sprout/
• payment method (other than paypal)
• SproutNM micro funding event Jan. 28

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Meating notes:

next icebreaker is canded camera elevatorpitch. all members were here for for the board

Albuquerque Comicon Convention, Cameron will fund table, if he gets advertizing,

• someone organize people/event
• who will man event
• what to flyer
• what to show.

Aaron was gong to get this started.

Note on coworking: igor suggested if we can define some more co-working spaces, desk/chair type of spaces, perhaps modular space. photo of what people get co-working might sell it.

Room Rental:

• membership needed

Ideas: use office as co-working, jewellery space? electronics shop, rent it out, as office?

• ammenities: wifi, electric, kitchen, utilities, membership, workshop, free tshirt 24/7, bathrooms….
• geoff will initiate rental writeup

Teaching Classes:

• pricing
• price + materials: lets start off cheaper go up from there
  • soldering
  • embedded processor class(arduino)
    • perhaps a rolling self starting 101 arduino class
• C programming
• wordpress(get wordcamp folks involved)
• opensource stuff
• seeyourself teaching

Anyone who wants to teach things, even total n00b classes.

Stones proposal: Video contest: get people who are interested in us, contest may be more about what they would do with a year membership at Quelab.

• criteria, benefit to albuquerque community tech community.
• coolness, self improvement/skill development,
• how to advertize
  • video for youtube
  • advertize stuff, create nm, dukecity fix, abqhotspot, kunm,

insurance, need info from gabe on dayton diode,

Next meeting for the 8th of january,