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1. Officers' | 1. Officers' | ||
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- | August! We are now in August! The month of Mini Maker Faire and the return to school. Holy | + | |
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- | Mini Maker Faire is just around the corner (Aug 27th and 28th). Each year Quelab has a tent for | + | |
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- | this event in order to showcase our amazing abilities. This year will be no different. We will | + | |
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- | have a representation of each section there modeling all the cool possibilities. Can you help? | + | |
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- | Of COURSE! We'd love to have help, big or small, loading in or out or both. Could you sign up | + | |
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- | to show off your latest cool thing? YES. Though, in fairness, it's hard to beat the light sabers | + | * Outreach: Charel Morris |
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- | Eric Lee makes. Just sayin'...BONUS is that if you help during Maker Faire you get in free. | + | * Social Media: Rebecca Snyder |
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- | Who do you talk to for such a thing? Personally, I'd go straight to JT. He's got the spreadsheet | + | * Area Captains |
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- | thing going and can hook you up. | + | |
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- | Less fun this month is the loss of Ben Kuttesch, our 3D printing Officer. As many of you know, | + | |
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- | work often dictates where we live and Ca called Ben's name. He was an amazing Officer and | + | |
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- | will be sorely missed. | + | |
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- | Our amazing Accounting Officer, Geoff, has tendered his resignation at the end of this year | + | |
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- | also. By the time he finishes our taxes for us this year it will have been five years of hard | + | |
- | + | * Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker | |
- | accounting that he has given us. We really do owe him our gratitude. And perhaps a beer or | + | |
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- | two. The Board is open to thoughts about his replacement. Likely as not, we will need to hire | + | |
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- | someone, which brings me to memberships. | + | |
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- | Sustaining Memberships are the backbone of Quelab. We need 90 and right now we are not | + | |
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- | there. Everyone knows someone who would love to participate in Quelab. Bring them! | + | |
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- | Encourage them to take a class and become a member. We have many very cool things going | + | |
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- | on here. Don't be selfish! Share the fun with your peeps! If you need an indirect way to | + | |
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- | introduce them to Quelab bring them to the Maker Faire. They can see all the nerdy fun there | + | |
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- | and Quelab will have a membership/ | + | |
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- | events on the calendar https:// | + | |
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- | July saw the first ever Officer Corps meeting. If you did not see the meeting notes from this | + | |
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- | they are posted on the Quelab Wiki herehttp:// | + | |
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- | We covered a lot of topics that are important to the membership. Be sure and catch up with | + | |
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- | what we've been up to. Our next one is on the calendar for 14 Sept 2016 at 7:30 pm. | + | |
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- | ● Treasurer' | + | |
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- | ● Business Development Officer: position currently vacant | + | |
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- | ● Education: Darrel Knutson | + | |
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- | We offered a Basic Welding class for August and did not have any sign ups. Lesson learned | + | |
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- | about summer classes. I posted a September class and we already have 2 sign ups. I will also | + | |
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- | post an October basic class and probably offer an intermediate class in November. Will Smith | + | |
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- | decided to make the classes a maximum of 8 (up from 6). With the upcoming Mini Maker Faire | + | |
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- | we anticipate having full classes | + | |
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- | I have posted both a Basic Woodworking and Introduction to Woodworking for Teens class for | + | |
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- | September and October. We have had 3 or 4 requests for classes recently and again with | + | |
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- | advertisement at the Mini Maker Faire I anticipate full enrollment. Gonner and I will be leading | + | |
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- | these classes with assistance from JT, bandit and Ed Heron. If you have a fair knowledge of | + | |
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- | woodworking and power tools and would like to be involved in a very enjoyable project please | + | |
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- | let me know. You never really know how much you know and don’t know until you teach | + | |
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- | someone. But it is great fun. | + | |
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- | I will be posting a September class in Laser Cutting shortly. Jonathan Romero will be teaching | + | |
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- | it. It will basically be about using the free program Inkscape to design and develop projects that | + | |
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- | can be readily be converted to the Laser cutter software and cut or engraved using our | + | |
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- | equipment. Because of the Quelab restriction on the Laser Cutter as member only use this | + | |
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- | class will require Quelab membership. | + | |
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- | Jt brought up a good point yesterday in that we had one person sign up for the Welding Class | + | |
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- | as a member even though they are not an active member. This just makes it important that we | + | |
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- | double check on membership at the start of a class and in the case of the woodworking classes | + | |
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- | at the start of the second month. This raises the question of how soon after the start of the | + | |
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- | month does membership dues have to be paid? Does anyone have any suggestions? | + | |
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- | Does anyone have a class they would like to take? We have a very diversified group and if you | + | |
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- | have an interest and at least 3 other people would like to take the same class let me know so I | + | |
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- | can try to hunt up an instructor. On that same note, if you really enjoy something like I enjoy | + | |
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- | woodworking and would like to offer a class please let me know. We can compensate | + | |
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- | instructors with free membership and even pay you a stipend if we have a class of 4 people or | + | |
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- | more. Talk to me because no one will know if you are doing a class for the fun of it or being | + | |
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- | paid except me and our Prez. On that same note, Madam Prez and I are the only ones who can | + | |
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- | authorize free membership for teaching a class. | + | |
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- | ● Events Officer: position currently vacant | + | |
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- | ● Membership: Sara Simon | + | |
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- | ● Outreach: Charel Morris | + | |
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- | ● Social Media: Rebecca Snyder | + | |
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- | ● Area Captains | + | |
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- | ○ Orientations 2nd & 4th Sundays of the month @ 6:30 p.m. no orientation the | + | |
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- | weekend of MMF | + | |
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- | ○ 82 active member, 8 students & 5 associates | + | |
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- | ○ Currently at DefCon, not here | + | |
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- | ○ Let her know anything for Sept/Oct so she can make a calendar to pass out | + | |
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- | ○ 3D Printing: position currently vacant | + | |
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- | ○ Assets: Darren Moody | + | |
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- | ■ Shoutout to JT a lot has happened in the INBOX, lot of stuff scrapped | + | |
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- | ■ Scrap $61.25, $231.25 stuff sold on Craigslist, another $30 tonight for | + | |
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- | sold | + | |
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- | Anthro carts | + | |
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- | ■ Reminder: INBOX area is not “up for grabs”, please check with JT & | + | |
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- | ○ Electronics Lab: Aaron Birenboim | + | |
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- | ○ Facilities: John Murray | + | |
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- | Darren if you are interested in something in that area | + | |
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- | These are the facilities related projects for the above time period: | + | |
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- | An original request for a second 220 volt outlet in the MASTS welding area expanded | + | |
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- | somewhat. Drew, Eric, Gonner and I worked on the installation a new electrical circuit of two 50 | + | |
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- | amp, 220 volt receptacles for the welding machines, kilns, and other large power consuming | + | |
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- | equipment, one inside, adjacent to the north rollup door, and the other, outside in the fenced | + | |
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- | area (formerly a storage area) on the north side of the building. | + | |
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- | Two new 20 amp, 120 volt circuits were also installed in the fenced area, These outlets are to | + | |
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- | power the abrasive blaster, now located in the fenced area, and other equipment as required. | + | |
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- | National Research Laboratories (NRL), Quelab' | + | |
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- | their two circuit board dryers from the fenced area, in order to give us complete use of the | + | |
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- | space, and donated two metal workbenches to Quelab. (Thank you, Jay, and a reminder that | + | |
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- | NRL is a full service printed circuit board manufacturer for 1 to 1000+ quantities of tiny to large | + | |
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- | circuit boards. Just walk over and ask for a quote.) | + | |
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- | During the installation, | + | |
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- | volt, 3 phase receptacles did not meet The National Electrical Code for 220 volt use and rewired | + | |
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- | them appropriately. (If needed, they can be changed back to 3 phase mode). | + | |
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- | The stored items in the fenced area were moved to the Disposition Area in | + | |
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- | the Annex, repurposed or otherwise removed. Approximately $300 worth | + | |
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- | of insulated copper cable, copper wire, conduit and other electrical hardware was salvaged | + | |
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- | from no longer used electrical circuits in other parts of the Quelab building, and the same | + | |
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- | amount in purchased goods was used in the installation. | + | |
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- | The plug on the large kiln in MASTS was changed so that it can be plugged into any of the four | + | |
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- | 220 volt outlets. (See Sherrie for specifics about what else may be needed for the kiln. Thanks | + | |
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- | for the cake at the July Quelab Officer' | + | |
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- | Two leaks in the MASTS swamp cooler water lines were repaired, as well as a leak in a cooler' | + | |
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- | pump to pad water line. (Please talk to me about some suggestions about how to climb onto the | + | |
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- | roof and what areas to avoid walking on, while on the roof. Since the landlord had been | + | |
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- | contacted regarding these leaks, and a response was not forthcoming, | + | |
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- | ourself! This should also save the cost of the plumber' | + | |
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- | building' | + | |
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- | Last week, JT told me about one of the annex' | + | |
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- | the facility repair list. | + | |
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- | Finally, one of the members expressed a concern about the annex,s south side emergency exit | + | |
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- | door, as it was opening with some difficulty (as a dead bolt on the door was failing to open | + | |
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- | completely). On Friday, Darren, Drew and I replaced the lock cylinder on the panic bar portion | + | |
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- | of the door. Adric suggested that the deadbolt' | + | |
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- | parts of the deadbolt remain on the exterior portions of the door. Hopefully, evil doers will think | + | |
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- | that there is a deadbolt on the door, as well as the panic bar lock. The existing Quelab front | + | |
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- | door key now also will open the south door from the outside. (There will be a clarification of how | + | |
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- | Quelab' | + | |
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- | and when, before the next general meeting.) | + | |
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- | He also suggested that the chain link fence gate, outside the annex' | + | |
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- | to discourage unauthorized access to that roll up door. That was done and the key is on a | + | |
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- | magnet next to the west side of the roll up door. (Finally, one of the above unpaid technical | + | |
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- | consultants suggested that it might be a good idea to take cell phone camera pictures of locks | + | |
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- | during the disassembly process...it only took my two hands to get it apart, but it took six hands | + | |
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- | and a proclivity of profanity to get it back together again! If two heads are better than one, do | + | |
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- | six hands cube the effectiveness of only two hands?) | + | |
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- | I don’t have a lot to report for the Dragon’s Weir. I organized most of the fabric by color, it’s in | + | |
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- | the cabinet. I’ll be removing the top cabinet doors soon. The maker space at Meow Wolf is | + | |
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- | pretty inspiring, very open and inviting. | + | |
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- | Orientations I emailed all the people on the wiki that haven’t received orientation. I’ve gotten | + | |
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- | several replies, so we’ll have an orientation on August 14 at 6:30. The wiki list is updated. | + | |
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- | ○ Fiber Arts: Sherie Pennebaker | + | |
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- | ○ Laser: Jonny Romero | + | |
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- | ○ Metal Shop: Eric Lee | + | |
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- | John Murray successfully fixed the faulty swamp cooler that had been raining water on the | + | |
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- | metal shop drill press and workbench. | + | |
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- | The new lathe is running well. | + | |
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- | Everything else in the metal shop is running smoothly. | + | |
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- | ○ Welding: John Murray | + | |
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- | ○ Woodshop: Gonner Menning | + | |
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- | ■ New belt sander, collecting money from those that volunteered it | + | |
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- | ■ Ticketing parking permits, thanks to those that have cleaned their stuff | + | |
2. Old Business | 2. Old Business | ||
- | ● Railyard Markets July | + | * Railyard Markets July |
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- | ○ The lathe was a huge draw, showed off Gonner’s 9 pins set (both will be taken | + | |
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- | to the MMF) | + | |
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- | ● Orientation Process Revisioning by Officers | + | |
3. New Business | 3. New Business | ||
- | ● Special Use Occupancy Permit | + | * Special Use Occupancy Permit |
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- | ● MakerFaire | + | |
- | + | * Laser Cutter (if not addressed by the Laser Officer) | |
- | ● Laser Cutter (if not addressed by the Laser Officer) | + | |
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- | ● Bench/Area rentals | + | * We will be needing a Fire Marshall walk through, so the Annex & INBOX area will become our priority to get straightened out |
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- | become our priority to get straightened out | + | |
- | + | * Instructables Hackerspace contest ends on the 31st all submissions must be tagged/ | |
- | ○ MMF is probably our biggest PR event of the year; Darren & Charel suggested | + | |
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- | creating a “wish list” handout to give out at MMF; email | + | |
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- | DONATIONS@quelab.net with any suggestions | + | |
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- | ○ We can use old consumer electronics & the like for TakeApart | + | |
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- | ○ Down right now, power supply on order, due here tomorrow, With luck, the cutter | + | |
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- | will be up on Tuesday | + | |
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- | ○ The Annex will be our focus & priority to clean up & organization | + | |
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- | ○ We will be putting out notices that we will be starting to collect monies | + | |
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- | ○ Adric reminded people to not leave Quelab tools on their rented bench | + | |
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- | ● Friday the 26th Locksports event @ Quelab | + | |