FEBRUARY Community Meeting Agenda:

DRAFT. If you have an item to add to the agenda, please let an officer know.

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.