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 |

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

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

Special Announcement

• We're officially a 501(c)3!
• Thanks to the previous boards of directors to make 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 this possible
• Shelly Loke cleaned all the towels in the kitchen
• Shelly & Gerald ran an event making chocolate truffles
• Lyn hosted Pi Day yesterday
• Sheila got plates for 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
• Lyn made an Android app to doodle
• Gregor made mozzarella cheese

Announcements

• Potluck after the member meeting on March 29th - bring food!
• Birthday party for PS:1 is April 2nd
• Shelly is running a pathfinder game on Friday at 3, feel free to drop in later than that with a character
• Patrick needs to practice taking vitals to get his EMT certificate - see him for free blood pressure screening after the meeting
• Bike night is tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8pm in the shop
• SIGBOT - Robotics Special Interest Group - is Thursday at 7 in electronics lounge

Questions

• Has anyone formatted a card for raspbian on a mac?
• Do we have t-shirts?
  • There is a link on the website to get on-demand shirts
  • [[1]]
  • But if you want to make it happen, do it
• Do we do anything with our sawdust? Can we donate it somewhere?
  • There are stoves that burn sawdust - but that might be dodgy given the things that might end up in it

Votes

Vote_to_Donate_SEM

• Vote_to_Donate_SEM
• Guests from the Analytics Lounge
• Peter & Josh
  • Wanted to have a place for equipment less focused on making and more focused on measuring & lab equipment
• Analytics Lounge (AL) will pick up the SEM
• Ryan sponsored this vote
• Analytics Lounge is working on creating a reduced dust environment
• SEM had trouble getting data off
  • We were able to network it
  • AL has expertise supporting older equipment
  • Considering converting 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 to fund the equipment they want
  • 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
  • Planning on setting up a recycling operation for lab equipment
    • Process, cherrypick, and sell gear
    • Have talked to freegeek about their experience with this
• If you want to take part, people are usually around on Sunday.
• Considering instituting chaos hours - if somebody has checked in with RFID access, the space is open
• Co located with a metal-working space
  • Their co-tenants (Chicago Metal) have a waterjet with a 55 x 100" bed]
• Contact the analytics lounge at [their website]
• Vote passes with 45 in favor, 0 against. 47 members voted in person or via proxy

Tour

Who wants to give a tour?