Meeting Notes 2015-10-27

Meeting Minutes
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PS:One Meeting Notes

Meetin' time. Current Hackerspace conditions: shop: 2% busy, electronics: 35% busy, crafts: 0% busy, lasercutter: 23% busy

Agenda

• Intro to PS1 and what we're about.
• Let new members and visitors intro themselves.
• Pick 2 random people to introduce themselves.
• Introduce the Board and Area Hosts
• Go over things that need doing around the space.
• Awesome call outs
• Tell me about What You Hack
• Announcements
• Questions
• Votes

For extended discussions, we may take stack and borrow from MIBS Rules#Meeting Procedures.

Minutes

Intro to PS1

Bylaws#Purpose

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Introductions

New People

New People (name - where did you hear about us - what do you make/hack)

• Karthik, via coworkers, has been working with rpis on things
• Ryan or Brian via google, likes hacking everything, electornics
• Nina via spouse, laser engraving
• Jason? via google, does a lot of laser cutting, rpi, things like that
• Caleb via google, was at a Boston makerspace? physical side of making, 3d printers, bikes, ... etc
• Brett via seeing beer people in the back, and read about it in the reader for the cryptoparty piece, just signed up.
• Mike via living in the neighborhood, Irish music and Bagpipes and likes woodworking and stuff

Board and Area Hosts

Blurbs the board and area hosts.

Two Random Members

• Matt, heard of us via friend, three years later. woodworking pojects, maintaining woodworking equipment, grad school
• Carl, is busy hacking on a thing and talking to mithro on irc about hdmi2usb I bet

Things that need doing around the space

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• mark fire lane in ship in accordance with code. Ron will look up code.
• Find locations to hang fire extinguishers
• Emergency lighting https://rt.pumpingstationone.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=1237 maybe?
• Clean up and put tools away
• Art on things

Awesome Callouts

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• Ron for helping look up
• Jason, Ray, Andrew for taking apart and rebuilding laser laser
• Jason and Eric for working on table saw thing I can't hear
• Eric for cleaning glue out of the planer
• Rei for painting

What have you been hacking

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• Rei painted wall by the door
• Erica Renovating 4 flat

Announcements

• 10/28 7pm Thursday, bike night
• 10/31 Saturday digital game night, Halloween edition, horror games, jump scare games, customs encouraged, food, movies?
• 11/1 Sunday kitchen office hours, e.g. learn about cast iron care

Questions

• What is the best way to get people to teach? What is the best way to learn?
  • focus
  • be mindful of volunteer's time
  • prioritize the first thing
  • look up office hours schedule
  • ask on mailing list

• What is membership? hours? how do you get authorized?
  • Justin explains member tiers, and so on, and how to sign up. orientation
  • You need to get authorization for almost all the tools, even if you already know how to use those tools
  • quirks of our equipment get taught too, so it helps even if you are already an expert

• Does anyone know a crane operator to help get a large dining table in to an apartment. can't get it up the stairs. 2nd floor
  • try scissor lift?
  • pully?
  • it can fit diagonally through a window
  • how do people move drywall? ask at an actual lumberyard?

• Anyone want large cardboard boxes? ask on the mailing list.

• What are area budgets and total budgets?
  • 2015 budget vote wiki page
  • Area hosts have budget information, ask area hosts. Ron has a google doc.
  • Brian C. is setting up monthly quickbooks report

Votes

None today

Tour

Ray is giving a tour. Thanks!