Meeting Notes 2009-11-17

Attendance

• Eric
• Eli
• John S.
• Nathan
• Shawn
• Josh
• Bob
• Dave
• Ishmael
• Adam
• Zane
• Zach
• Jim
• Devin
• Nicky
• Ryan
• Sacha
• Tim
• Jordan
• Jeff
• Paul
• Balthazar

Come to Order - 8:00

• New people
• Board Intro
• Hackathon: Come On Feel The Noise
  • DJ sets, Projection Mapping, Lots of Noise
  • Cacophony club's 1st meeting that night as well.
  • Synchronous with lots of other hackerspaces.
  • Bring a projector please, need at least 3.
  • http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Synchronous_Hackathon

• Welding Class
  • Classes broken into 30 minute sessions, 3 persons each

• Pecha Kucha
  • Email Laurie to sign up
  • Signup by the 21st.
  • Talks on ANYTHING

• Memes Class Thursday
  • Art Institute, room 230 @7:00
  • Punch and pie

• Transistor Thursday's Dec 3 Freeduino class
  • Basic electronics class reintroduction non-holiday weeks to follow.
  • This version more application based, as opposed to theory.

• Speed Reading
  • $25/$30 Member/Non-member right before hackathon: come on feel the noise

• Business virgins book club
  • Nov 30 will be moved, date TBA.
  • Next Book: Ready, Fire, Aim.

• Hackerspaces Book Entry
  • Finalized and submitted
  • Founding Members are listed.

• 26c3 (26th Chaos Communication Congress)
  • Berlin this holiday season (and every one)
  • All talks will be streamed live online

• Killigrew (Famous Female Pirate) Box Update
  • Now have PostgreSQL, Apache, OpenLDAP
  • See Zane, Ryan, Nicky or Eric for account
  • Setting up DHCP server.
  • Non-public wiki installed as well

• CAD Station
  • We have one now
  • has Sketchup, AutoCAD, Autodesk Suite, Inkscape, GIMP, Blender, Alibre Design, etc.

• Lightning Talks after the meeting

• Projects
  • Sacha's 2010 version of Chicago Opera Theatre videos
  • Eric wants bricked iPods (or any other MP3 player)