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+ | 1. Officer Reports | ||
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+ | * President' | ||
+ | * Quelab has seen much change through the month of February. | ||
+ | * Out the gate were our Board Elections. | ||
+ | * Many of you might be aware that Space Cadets has been busy working on our East Attic next to our wood shop. Anyone who has things stored up there should be labeling it and perhaps preparing to remove excess items. | ||
+ | * As a Makerspace, Quelab is growing. | ||
+ | * On the conversation of tools: Bandit Gangwere attended the Aerospace auction this last week. A selection of tools and supplies were purchased with the vision that they would improve Quelab' | ||
+ | * Lastly, I am excited to let everyone know that UNM will have a team of students using Quelab to build a rocket for their Senior Engineering rocketry project. | ||
+ | * Paul Rosenburg - Eagle Scout e-waste project | ||
+ | * April 22, Earth Day, @ Cherry Hills Library | ||
+ | * Volunteers needed - supervisors of the kids deconstructing stuff, people to haul stuff back to Quelab | ||
+ | * E-waste to benefit Quelab | ||
+ | * Promotion through the scouts & Paul’s church, & Quelab channels | ||
+ | * Collection to start an hour before the Take-Aparty event starts | ||
+ | * If anyone from Quelab wants to promote the space with a table (3D printing, or anything else about the space) | ||
+ | * Any questions? | ||
+ | * Treasurer' | ||
+ | * There’s money in the bank - we usually run zero profit, some months plus, some months negative. | ||
+ | * Last year, we set aside 2.1 months of expenses | ||
+ | * Bank access will be changing with the new Treasurer | ||
+ | * We want members to stop using PayPal | ||
+ | * Manual payments add too much overhead | ||
+ | * They may be asked to pay before the 1st for the following month or you risk being locked out of the RFID system | ||
+ | * Education: Darrel Knutson | ||
+ | * Welding class started yesterday, 6 attendees | ||
+ | * Woodworking class starts Tuesday night | ||
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+ | Darren asked if we have done any outreach to any of the woodworking places in town? Woodworker’s Supply, Hunter Lumber? | ||
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+ | Charel - Can we put propaganda at ABQ Exotic Woods? | ||
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+ | \\ Josh - some of our propaganda is placed at Walker Electronics, | ||
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+ | * Events Officer: position currently vacant | ||
+ | * Membership: Sara Simon | ||
+ | * 97 active members, 13 are students & 75 are sustaining. | ||
+ | * She has figured out WildApricot & Orientations | ||
+ | * Outreach: Charel Morris | ||
+ | * Feb was a GREAT month for outreach | ||
+ | * Star Wars Fest @ Rio Rancho Library- we had a great location, and are already confirmed for next year | ||
+ | * Nuclear Museum - we had quite a bit of square footage - 3D printers, the manual lathe, giant chess set. We’ve already been invited back next year and we got a great thank you letter, too! | ||
+ | * March: | ||
+ | * 3-20 Learn to fly a drone class with member Troy Ross (Volunteers needed to assist Troy) | ||
+ | * March 22 - | ||
+ | * March 25 - “Flying for All” for people with various mobility problems. | ||
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+ | Morgan has gotten feedback from previous visitors to our events, and they often think we are only 3D printing. It would be nice to expand and bring members’ projects to such demos. | ||
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+ | * Social Media: Rebecca Snyder | ||
+ | * Looking at Yelp. If anyone wants to review us on Yelp, that would be great. | ||
+ | * Assets: Darren Moody | ||
+ | * Huge shoutout to Steven Hall. More cleaning of the Annex. | ||
+ | * Picked up some cubicle walls to partition off the donations area. | ||
+ | * Facilities: John Murray | ||
+ | * John & Drew went on the roof & reconnected the swamp coolers (for positive ventilation for the welding shop) | ||
+ | * Drew and I put 3 of the 4 swamp cooler on line to operate to blow fresh air in to the shop. The landlord' | ||
+ | * At the same time, the horsepower of each fan motor was recorded and will be used to determine the size of the exhaust fan which will eventually installed in the shop. This is a requirement for obtaining an occupancy permit. | ||
+ | * Rental: Darren Moody | ||
+ | * Rentals about the same; two large blue/white benches are available. Generating $140 a month | ||
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+ | * Area Captains | ||
+ | * 3-D Printing: Josh Pedersen | ||
+ | * Shout out to Peter, Paul & Morgan for helping keep the area clean | ||
+ | * Arcade - Troy Ross | ||
+ | * Speaker wire run for the 5.1 sound system | ||
+ | * Working on skim coat to make the walls pretty again | ||
+ | * Now have a PS4 for the room | ||
+ | * Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim | ||
+ | * No report | ||
+ | * Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker | ||
+ | * Nothing new to report for fiber arts, except that I do want to run a dye/ | ||
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+ | Rebecca has craft booking supplies if anyone is interested | ||
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+ | Bandit knows someone that can help train in the Juke machine in there | ||
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+ | * Laser: Craig Goldsmith | ||
+ | * No problems reported with the Laser Cutter | ||
+ | * We have enough money in the fund to purchase new honeycomb bed. Sent email last week about how to go about actually paying for the purchase (I can't lay out and be reimbursed); | ||
+ | * Reworking of room will start 2nd or 3rd week of March; will send notice to members when that starts | ||
+ | * Need to beef up consistency and responsiveness of training, particularly for new members | ||
+ | * Metal Shop: Eric Lee | ||
+ | * A heavy duty industrial work table has been purchased at auction by John Anthes with assistance from Darren Moody. | ||
+ | * Metal shop is operating smoothly. | ||
+ | * No injuries reported. | ||
+ | * All machines are operational | ||
+ | * Welding: John Murray | ||
+ | * Everything is running fine, he collected money for yesterday’s welding class | ||
+ | * Woodshop: Gonner Menning | ||
+ | * The UNM Rocket people has been mentioned elsewhere | ||
+ | * There is a table there in the shop that is up for grabs | ||
+ | * New tags will be printed soon | ||
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+ | 2. Old Business | ||
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+ | * Space Cadets Business | ||
+ | * East Attic - by the end of March, stuff should be out of the East Attic | ||
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+ | 3. New Business | ||
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+ | * Sherie Misc announcements: | ||
+ | * Game night is this Thursday. | ||
+ | * The small kiln works great, but we need to alter the large kiln to make it heat up enough to work well. | ||
+ | * I have some donations of stained glass supplies for anyone who wants to learn or use. Ask me first, they’re all in my basement right now. | ||
+ | * Bandit attended the auction this week, and has stuff available for personal purchase or purchase for Quelab. | ||
+ | * Ray has repaired the large format printer | ||
+ | * Adric summarized the Space Cadets meeting | ||
+ | * Room switches - Ham Shack & Storage room switching around with some storage items going into the former Library room | ||
+ | * Some phones that work have been put into place in the ‘space. E911 address may not be correct | ||
+ | * Darren spoke about the Train people (the 2926 project down the street) that used our space for a safety training. | ||
+ | * They have extended the invite for Saturdays & Wednesdays for a more detailed tour & the possibility of towing the engine over here for a special event | ||