Meeting Notes 2016-03-15

Meeting Minutes
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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
• Tour

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

Minutes

Intro to PS1

Bylaws#Purpose

Introductions

New People

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

• Don | 3D printing | 12 year old wants to build a forge | learned about us online
• Zack | industrial engineering | home from college out of state | son of Don
• Joe | teaches imagineering class @ Montessori | built a robot that flew an autonomous powered parasail | learned about us online
• Gregor | builds things that include tables. Oh, and a hydrogen processor | First came to a meetup a year ago
• Al | found us through Google | working with python, wants to get into woodworking
• Keith | with roommate recommendation | bikes are fun |

Two Random Members

• Patrick | runs power racing series - next one is in San Mateo in May, then Kansas City, Detroit, Colorado. Milwaukee is in September www.powerracingseries.org, www.makerfaire.com | Member since 2010

Board and Area Hosts

• Justin - President
• Simon - Secretary
• Lyn - Director at Purple
• Anna - Electronics Area Host
• Shellie - Arts & Crafts Area Host
• Triano - Woodshop Area Host

Special Announcement

• We're officially a 501(c)3!
• Awesome Callout and thanks to the previous directors and those who made this happen.

Things that need doing around the space

• Please wash your dishes, either by hand or by dishwashing machine. Put dishes in and turn on.
• Sweep up the shop (and everywhere else that there is floor) and put tools away when they are not in use.
• Take out the trash.

Awesome Callouts

• To everybody who made Pumping Station: One's nonprofit status possible
• Shelly Loke cleaned all the towels in the kitchen
• Shelly & Gerald ran an event making chocolate truffles
• Lyn hosted Pi Day
  • there's still pie and it needs to be eaten!
• Sheila made an emergency pie plate run pi day
• Space planning committee for all of their work
• Eric B for negotiating our lease with landlord

What have you been hacking

• Justin & Everett invented a new card game called Thai Pirate Rummy
  • Ask them for the rules
• Lyn made a doodle app for Android
  • Four colors are available. (You'll be surprised what color didn't make the list.)
• Gregor made mozzarella cheese

Announcements

• Everybody is invited: Potluck after the open house/member meeting on March 29th - bring food!
• Birthday party for PS:1 is April 2nd.
• Shelly is running a pathfinder game on Friday starting at 3; feel free to drop in later than that with a character.
• Patrick needs to repeatedly practice taking vitals to get his EMT certificate - he'll take your blood pressure after the meeting.
• Bike night is tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8pm in the shop. Bring your bike, bike accessory, bike-related project, or bike thoughts.
• SIGBOT - Robotics Special Interest Group - is Thursday at 7 in electronics lounge.

Questions

• Has anyone installed raspbian on a microsd card for raspberry pi using a mac?
  • Dubi is setting up a pi for the first time
• Do we have t-shirts?
  • There is a link on the website to buy t-shirts
  • [You can get t-shirts printed on-demand]
  • But if you want to make other t-shirts happen, do it
• Do we do anything with our sawdust? Can we donate it somewhere?
  • There are stoves that burn sawdust
  • if the sawdust contains elements that don't burn safely (acrylic, treated wood), that could be dodgy

Votes

Vote_to_Donate_SEM

• Vote_to_Donate_SEM
• Guests from the Analytics Lounge: Peter & Josh
• [Analytics Lounge Website]
  • Goal is a place in maker culture for equipment less focused on making and more focused on measuring & lab equipment

Questions and Answers:

• Analytics Lounge (AL) will pick up the SEM
• Ryan sponsored this vote
• Analytics Lounge is working on creating a reduced dust environment
• We had trouble getting data off the SEM due to it using floppy disks as storage
  • We were able to network it to get data off
  • Analytics Lounge (Peter) has expertise supporting older equipment
  • Considering converting the SEM VGA output to DVI so that the output can be streamed on the internet
• AL membership model:
  • Avoiding paid membership because not sure if there is a large enough user-base for that model
  • Anybody is welcome to come by on Sundays
  • Want to get people involved and educated in using these scientific instruments
  • Goal is to build a community of mutual support and information
  • Looking into grant funding, depending on requirements from funders
  • Part of the charter is a recycling operation for lab equipment
    • Plan is to process donations, rehabilitate gear that is worthwhile, and sell surplus
    • Have talked to freegeek about their experience with this
• If you want to take part or check it out, people are usually around on Sundays.
  • Have chaos hours - if somebody is in the space, come by and they'll let you in
  • RFID tag access system provides up-to-date info of availability
• Co-located with a metal-working shop (Chicago Metal)
  • Those folks have a waterjet with a 55 x 100" bed]
• Contact the analytics lounge at [their website]

• Vote passes with 44 in favor, 0 against. 46 votes cast.
• 10 full members attended the vote.
• 37 full members voted by proxy.

Tour

Thanks to those who gave the tour! I missed exactly who all did that - Lyn, Shelly, and at least one more person.