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

Date: 08 February 2014

Time:

• 4:00 pm Pot Luck
• 5:05 pm Shout Outs
• 5:10 pm Meeting

1. Agenda Review (1 minute)

2. Ground Rules (<1 minute)

3. Reports

• Membership - 88 members (18 of those are Associate Memberships) as of 2/8/15 9:28 am (<1 minute)
• Treasurer's Report (3 minutes)

Announcements

• Board Election Results (5 minutes)
• Inclusivity & Anti Harassment Policy Cameron ( 10 minutes)
• Upcoming Classes and Events
  • Intro to Arduino Class with Van Sat, March 7, 10am – 3pm - Rebecca (2 minutes)
  • Epic Pie Day (3.14.15 @9:27am) - Help (3 minutes)
  • Coder Dojo -Christopher Suski
  • Crochet Class with Desiree - Sherrie (2 minutes)

• Outline of Training - (20 Minutes)
• Discuss Skill Trees (10 Minutes)
• Make Skill Trees (30 Minutes)

Notes:

Meeting kicked off at 5:05, 36 in attendance

Appreciations - jeremy for new server & isp host

Bandit played robotics judge

Adric for leading the Makey makey workshops

Membership Report - see above

• Darren: expect more memberships after our STEM event outreach at the nuclear museum

• Charel: can we track membership changes over the next few weeks?

Treasurer’s Report - Geoff “we have money in the bank” Employer matching time is upon us, and that means more money coming in, including the space fed

• 5K in the bank

• 2K in 3d printing fund

• Paid current through 1st & 2nd quarters, waiting for 3rd quarter bill

• priority projects include plumbing for kitchen & library shelves

• Charel: have we payed rent? Geoff: yes

• Morgan: are we solvent? Geoff: we are 105% funded, we’re getting an extra $50 per/month

• Jeremy: is the rent going up again? Geoff: yes, going up in April, that will be our last increase

• Darren: do we have budget for library shelves? Geoff: yes, $300 from the Indiegogo Darren thinks we can get some from bentleys, And JT may have one available soon.
  

Announcements

• Board elections

• Thank you everyone that came & voted

• 4 positions returned -= adric & Geoff reelected for 2 year term

• Jezzri & Lissa joining the board as new members

• Darren: can we change the meeting to a hacknight? Walter: we are discussing making modifications in the future

• Inclusivity & Anti Harassment policy

• Cameron presented on the new policy

• Board to host an open forum this coming Thursday at 6:30pm

• March’s meeting main topic will be this policy

• Celeste: what will the format be on Thursday? Walter: I will facilitate, please bring your ideas and input to be held @ Quelab in the Core

• Cameron: please bring your specific ideas, please read the language

• Rebecca: where will the meeting be held? Walter: in the Core

• Upcoming Classes and Events - Rebecca

• Intro to Arduino Class with Van Sat, March 7, 10am – 3pm - Rebecca (2 minutes)

• Signup on EventBrite, sign up ending Feb 23rd, $55 for members, $65 non-members, includes Arduino pack from AdaFruit, discussion on whether to offer price for those that already have the Arduino

• Jeremy: is there a different price for people bringing their own Arduinos?

• Taught by non-member Van Legg

• Epic Pi Day (Saturday 3.14.15 @9:27 a.m.) - Help (3 minutes)

• Membership only event, but you can bring friends & family

• Visiting to PieTown, NM for some Pie

• Back to Quelab to discuss Pi & have pi-related contests

• hope to get a gift cert from Adafruit

• Want to encourage new members to come out

• BYOP(ie)

• Coder Dojo -Christopher Suski

• Christopher just joined Quelab

• for kids to learn how to code

• proposed for 2nd & 4th Saturdays

• similar to “hour of code”event at CNM

• Coder Dojo is a project based club for kids to work coding

• coderdojo.org

• There are about 400 around the country, Chris wants to get one started at Quelab

• Needs volunteers, at least 4 other Quelab members

• Initial idea: 10-noon on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays in the month

• Zoot: are kids going to be restricted from leaving the Core? Chris: yes

• Zoot: will kids be here with their parents? Chris: yes

• Rebecca: what would Quelab volunteers be doing? Chris: need 1 member for 7 guests to comply with Quelab rules, need a minimum of three technical mentors but if you want to just come and hang out that’s fine too

• bandit: cost per family and is there a minimum age? Chris: free and minimum age of 7

• John: if I’m a mentor, can I get in on the training? Chris: oh, yeah

• Crochet Class with Desiree - Sherrie (2 minutes)

• $5 for members, $10 for non members, BYOY(arn)

• Date? Thursday, Feb 19 6 - 9 to be confirmed, will be placed on calendar when it is finalized

• Outline of Training - (20 Minutes)

• Walter discussed the new policy

• quelab.net/moodle to tracking new training

• Everyone will have to go through this

• Will be up & running in a week, & will be announced to all

• users will need to register to our moodle instance & take the QUelab Basic Usage & Safety (BUS)

• Can email [[training@quelab.net| training@quelab.net

to make suggestions

• Members will have two months to go through this & complete

• Starting with May meeting, if you have not completed, you will not get the door key code

• There are some graphic images in the presentation, but they are marked as such, and warning is given (next slide contains….)

• Cameron - when changes are implemented, will everyone have to re-take it? Is it one time or annual? Walter: no, no re-take, because training will be required annually

• Jeremey: can non-members still use tools? Walter - Yes.

• Charel - Q. on public & tool use

• Ray - are we at the point of labeling tool color levels? Walter - Red for members only, yellow requires training, green no training needed

• Eric talked of his experience in academia, new people with NO training of any kind. Usually done one-on-one. Techshop trains people “for adequacy” - how to not hurt themselves, how not to break the machines

• Discuss Skill Trees (10 Minutes)

• Jezzri lead the process on filling out the radar chart of skills

• Why are we doing this? We are community, and can teach & learn from each other.; these charts will help facilitate that

• Make Skill Trees (30 Minutes)