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June Community Meeting Agenda:

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

Date: 05 June 2016

Time:

  • 4:00 pm Pot Luck
  • 5:00 pm Community Meeting

Reports

  • President's Opening Statement
  • Treasurer's report
  • OFFICERS REPORTS:
    1. Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker
    2. Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim
    3. Woodshop: Gonner Menning
    4. Metal Shop: Eric Lee
    5. 3-D Printing: Ben Kuttesch
    6. Laser: Jonny Romero
    7. Assets: Darren Moody
    8. Education: Darrel Knutson
    9. Facilities: John Murray
    10. Outreach: Charel Morris
    11. Social Media: Rebecca Snyder
    12. We are in need of an Events Officer, a Business Development Officer, and a Membership Officer
  • NEW BUSINESS
    1. Changing the procedure for becoming a Quelab member.
    2. Instructables Hackerspace contest -adric
  • OLD BUSINESS
  1. Yard Sale

Contact us:

Board@quelab.net, Officers@Quelab.net, celeste@quelab.net

Minutes:

OFFICERS REPORTS:

  1. Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker
    1. I’m the officer for the Dragon’s Weir (fiber arts room), and Flynn’s Arcade (gaming room).
    2. The gaming room got cleaned up, there’s a couch there now and all the game consoles have been checked with games arranged as to which console they belong. Notes on the different consoles are posted on the white board in Flynn’s Arcade. I would like to move the board game cabinet into that room, but there is at least one defunct video game that needs to be moved first.
    3. For the textile area, the industrial machine is oiled, but it’s breaking the fishing line when it’s sewing. I’ve worked with the tension, but I think it may need more maintenance. We have a new Janome basic sewing machine, and it works really well. I’m going to make a list of quick checks that you can do to troubleshoot your machine when it’s not working well. For example, try a new needle, check the tension, that kind of thing. I’ll hold a small fabric dying workshop in a month, around June 25. This will not be advertised, since we’ll be using my personal stock, but if you’re interested, contact me and I’ll invite you.E
  2. Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim
  3. Woodshop: Gonner Menning
    1. The woodshop is getting somewhat cleared out, but still has too much stuff being stored there for a long time.
  4. Metal Shop: Eric Lee
    1. Possibly planning a metal shop night to meet up with other people who use the metal shop
  5. 3-D Printing: Ben Kuttesch
  6. Laser: Jonny Romero
    1. The laser was cleaned recently and its performance was greatly improved
    2. Needs a new honeycomb board for the inside platform
  7. Assets: Darren Moody
    1. Oversee incoming donations assisted by John Benedetto and Christopher Zapotacky.
    2. Determine disposition of donations to include on using within Quelab, reselling eBay, offering for sale to Quelab member, and / or stripping for recycling.
    3. Oversee Take Apart Zone at events such as Mini Maker Faire, Railyards Market, and STEM day at Museum of Nuclear History.
    4. Scrounger always on the lookout for items of use for Quelab at auctions, and other venues.
    5. The amount of Donations sitting at Quelab has been pared down a lot
  8. Education: Darrel Knutson
    1. A welding class will be advertised soon
    2. Contact Darrel if you have ideas for new classes
  9. Facilities: John Murray
  10. Outreach: Charel Morris
    1. Maker Faire is coming in August and it would be great if more Quelab Members were involved
  11. Social Media: Rebecca Snyder
    1. Rebecca would like to write more blog posts for our Social Media and she would like ideas for what to write about.
  12. We are in need of an Events Officer, a Business Development Officer, and a Membership Officer

NEW BUSINESS

Changing the procedure for becoming a Quelab member.

30 days, Charel said the Board may be able to okay a task force

Instructables Hackerspace contest -adric

This year’s rules are a little more palatable compared to last year, and some of the prizes could be reachable for a Quelab team.

Five people have committed to help (the minimum needed), and there will be a secret password to include in your ‘ible

OLD BUSINESS

Yard Sale

Someone with a pickup to put up signs

Anything in PFUDOR, not on benches, would be fine to take out and sell