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

Date: 02 February 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: John “JT” Benedetto, acting officer
• 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

• Star Wars Fest 6

4. New Business

• Mini Maker Faire
• Board of Directors Election

Minutes:

1. Board Report

• Adric:
  • Board meeting today, 3 - 5
  • Looking at changes to the By-Laws
  • Clarifying banned members
  • Same household members would not be able to serve as Directors
  • Looking into a bank account switch, but should be transparent to most all members
  • Trying to work on resuming welding classes

2. Officer Reports

• President's Report
  • Working on BoD election
  • Nominations close next Saturday
  • Election a week after that
  • Using OPAVOTE for electronic voting
• Treasurer's report
  • 21K + in checking & Savings
  • Got the Electricity bill for the last six months
  • Also for Jan & Feb Rent
  • Those two are about 3 - 4 K in bills payments
  • Bank switch upcoming, which will include getting away from SQUARE & STRIPE, using a bank service for payments processor
• Education: position currently vacant
• Events Officer: position currently vacant
• Membership: John “JT” Benedetto, acting officer
  • January did a verification of student process. Of the 18 student members, we got ten verification emails. I have not yet locked down the members that did not respond.
    • 104 active members:
      • (78) Sustaining
      • (9) associate
      • (17) Student, though that number will go down with the verification process
• Outreach: Charel Morris
  • This Saturday is STEM day at the Nuclear Museum
  • Reach out to Josh for info - josh@quelab.net
• Social Media: Rebecca Snyder
  • No Report
• Donations: John “JT” Benedetto
  • Processing the previous donations; most of things being put on the up for grabs shelf
  • 2nd Donated air compressor needs a plug, will probably move to the metal shop
  • Nice donation of BluRay player, Tormek Grinder, Biscuit Joiner, Compressor
  • AFRL donation of multi machine
• Facilities: John Murray
  • Still a leak in the welding area
  • For requests, send him an email facilities@quelab.net
• Rental: Darren Moody
  • We’ve recovered one of the lost spaces from last month, and there may be another person interested in rental. That will leave three blue/white spaces available for rent.

• Area Captains
  • 3-D Printing: Josh Pedersen
    • Printers are printing
    • Blinky is good, with Octoprint set up, with Morgan doing training
    • Orion is printing as is the PrintRBot
  • Arcade - Troy Ross
    • Not too much, but he will be setting up DMX controlled lights under the shelves
    • Still looking at maybe building a couch
  • Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim
    • Some stock came in, really accurate resistors
  • Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker
    • Don’t just dump stuff in there
    • Some untagged items will be purged in the next month or so
  • Laser: Craig Goldsmith
    • Cooling fan is down over the main board
  • Metal Shop: Eric Lee
    • No injuries, all lathes & mills operational
  • Welding: John Murray
    • Brought in some gas & welding wire, all operational
  • Woodshop: Gonner Menning
    • Adric reported that Gonner got new parking tickets, please make sure your stuff is properly tagged
  • Stained Glass
    • One of the nice glass cutters has gone missing
    • Cleaned out the toolbox & will work with Adric for tools trays
  • Digital Arts Lab
    • Printhead path error - the error went away (eventually) & is now clear. It may have an intermittent issue? He will leave a note on it

3. Old Business

• Star Wars Fest 6
  • Last Saturday we attended the Rio Rancho Loma Colorado Library’s Star Wars Day
  • A big thank you to all that represented Quelab & a special thank you to Craig & Sully for coming out
  • We did something new - making 100 small Tie Fighter model kits for adults to do, and got nice feedback on it.
  • We are looking into collaboration with the 501st.
  • Got a possible lead on a CNC Plasma cutter

4. New Business

• Mini Maker Faire
  • April 21 & 22
  • Fewer volunteer meetings this year
  • Bi-weekly maker orientations at different locations
  • Quelab people can be in the Quelab tent or separate, in their own
  • All are encouraged to sign up as makers, regardless of where they will be
• Board of Directors Election
  • Josh, Celeste + volunteers helping
  • Nominations close 2-10, final announcement of nominees on 2-11
  • Election afternoon 2-18
  • Electronic only voting, can vote “none of the above”
  • Membership voting is required & we need to make quorum
  • Some of the nominated were given a chance to talk. These people gave a brief speech:
    • Charel Morris
    • Don “Gonner” Menning
    • Craig Goldsmith
    • Jesse Trujillo
• Cleaning
  • Cleaning will be of the bathrooms, the entryway room, and the main classroom
  • Everything in the core needs removed from the main classroom
  • Access to the space Monday will be via the Annex door

Adjourned 6:41 p.m.