Board Meeting Notes 2012-02-14

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Meeting started at 07:05 pm

Attendance

  • Tim Saylor
  • Patrick Callahan
  • Shawn Blaszak
  • Ishmael Rufus
  • Eric Stein
  • Steve Finkelman
  • Dan Meyers

Agenda

Old Business

  • Did Eric ever get access to our dedicated server?
  • Update on the space hunt
    • Status of LOI?
    • Status of Lawyer hunt
  • Budget for moving

New Business

  • Financial/membership report full starving members in total
  • Flourish Workshop
  • The compressor for the laser is broken. Do we need anything more to fix the big one? How should we pay for new/fixing compressor?

Minutes

  • Eric found out that we no-longer have a dedicated server and are being hosted on Ryan's server service.
  • We have received a response to the LOI for the new space.
    • 90 day wait for move-in (May 1st)
    • need to hire a lawyer to look at it
      • we have a list of potential lawyers from the mailing list
    • ask about whether, or not, he's going to be storing the van in the garage area
    • make sure the following is written into the lease:
      • being able to build out and move things into the new space before the lease starts.
      • some provision to cover 'no answer from landlord on something that the lease requires us to request permission on, equals permission.
    • would he be interested in leaving his shelving?
    • we need to hire someone to do an inspection, the lawyer we hire may be able to make a recommendation.
    • Moving budget
      • moving truck
      • moving accessory
      • table building supplies
      • bribing the members to help (pizza & beer?)
      • Tim will propose the vote for the moving budget and to authorize the move tonight
    • Do we want to start a Kickstarter for the move?
  • Ish has a solution for tracking memberships and will present it next meeting
  • The compressor for the laser cutter is, apparently, not broken and just needed more oil
  • Flourish workshop (flourish is March 30-31)
    • Ed is organizing it
    • Ed will be teaching Arduino
    • Patrick will be teaching soldering
  • Geoffrey purchased a gas cylinder for the welders - $212.00
  • Dan purchased two carts for the gas tanks and the welders - $208.00
  • Dan wants to buy another gas cylinder for Aluminum welding - $171.00 + gas cost
  • Dan needs to buy 2 solenoids for the welders

Meeting adjourned at 07:55 pm