Meeting Notes 2014-08-05

Meeting Minutes
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Agenda

• Intro PS1 and what we're about
• let new members and visitors intro themselves
• pick 2 random people to introduce themselves
• go over things that need doing around the space
• Awesome callouts

Introductions

• Brief overview of what PS1 is (<1min).
• New members/visitors introduce themselves.
• Introduce the board and area hosts.

Announcements

• Will says Make is going to blog about his (and Elizabeth's) work at Ancona setting up a maker program.
  • Ancona is hiring some folks for an after-school program. See mailing list for details.
• Mike is giving a talk, "Introduction to Functional Programming" this Sunday, August 10 at 5pm in the electronics lab.
• Next Tuesday we have 300 seconds of fame. Here's your chance to talk about whatever you want for 5 minutes with no interruptions!

Minutes

• Everett opens meeting at 20:04
  • Talks about what a hackerspace is.
• New folks introduce themselves
  • Connor makes software. He found out about us on Reddit. (r/chicago)
  • David lives in the neighborhood. He found us searching for 3d printers on the internet. eBay seller - repurposes old lenses and wants to make parts for a centrifuge
  • Bosco heard about us... well he doesn't remember. Meetup told him to come here. He doesn't know what he likes to make, he's a software developer. Software totally counts.
  • Bruce is a software developer. He sits next to Bosco for a living. He heard about us from Bosco. Model making, electronics.
  • Garret puts speakers in old suitcases. He's here to do that.
  • Caroline heard about us from her teacher. She's a props designer so she makes all kinds of stuff.
  • Matt has known about us for a while. One of his coworkers encouraged him to come out. He makes software and electronics.
  • Steve just moved to Chicago last Saturday and went hunting for hackerspaces. He's into Linux and server hardware. Python. Into embedded electronics
  • Jamie also heard about this place on Reddit. (Also a friend). Studied furniture design at SCAD - looking to get into making more furniture.
  • His wife, Olinka, is a yoga teacher. She's here with Jamie.
  • Carson found out about us at the South Side Maker Faire. He's here to see what it's all about. He's into all kinds of things, cameras, audio.
  • Scott likes to hack his brain, with infrared light. Meetup sent him here.
  • Trevor likes to make LED projects. He heard about us on meetup probably.
• Announcements
• Awesome callouts!
  • Justin wants to thank everyone who helped out at South Side Maker Faire. Jenny, Derek, Justin and Sevin. We made lots of noisemakers and snared at least one visitor.
  • Dean has made significant progress on the dust collection. It runs now and collects some dust.
• Awesome callouts!
  • Justin wants to thank everyone who helped out at South Side Maker Faire. Jenny, Derek, Justin and Sevin. We made lots of noisemakers and snared at least one visitor.
  • Dean (and skilton!) has made significant progress on the dust collection. It runs now and collects some dust.
  • Justin, Toba, Doorman Dave, Arturo and some other folks cleaned up the beer church area on Sunday.
  • Donald got us two new nozzles on the replicator - hopefully it works for a while.
  • Jerry organized the volunteer labor for Pitchfork and helped earn us a cool $1000.
• Meeting ends at 20:19