Meeting Notes 2016-07-05

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)

• Lizzie | getting into woodworking | word of mouth
• Katie | sewing and knitting | learned about us at a panel on WizCon
• Hakusho | interested in woodworking | carpenter friend suggested us as a workspace
• Melissa | makes Room Escapes | everybody keeps mentioning
• Vince | carpentry | with Michael
• Michael | architect, woodworking, looking for shop space
• Kathryn | wrote about us in 2009 | makes collapsible CNC dollhouses, 3D printed flea circuses
• Cassie | augmented reality sandbox | lives near us
• Naomi | interested in synth DIY and electronics | learned about from Cassie

Two Random Members

• Jeremy | Machinist & welder | found out about us through Google, member since 2010
• Ken | electronics, metal, wood | working on PS1's power racing series cars | heard about us through Madison makerspace - the bodgery

Board and Area Hosts

• Justin - President
• Jennie - Vice-President
• Lyn - Director at Purple & Wild Events
• Simon - Secretary
• Anna - Electronics Area Host
• Ron - Hot Metals Area Host
• Shellie - Arts & Crafts & Creative Stuff &c Area Host

Things that need doing around the space

• Take out the trash & make sure the dust collector is empty
  • Ken's going to do that tonight
• Wash out your cans before throwing them in recycling - too many bugs!
• Paint fun things on more walls!

Awesome Callouts

• Shelly painted the octopus on the wall in the lounge!
• Will for an awesome game night!
• Lyn for waiver organization and buying nice pens for Jennie!
• Ken for all the awesome cleaning and putting stuff away and other awesome stuff in the workshop!
• Jennie and Will for drawing cool things on peoples arms

What have you been hacking

• Will has been modifying water pistols with Sugru
• Jeremy made a hand out of beef jerky - go vote for him at the Jack Links Facebook page
  • Video here
• Catherine is figuring out how to teach all of STEM through tiny dollhouses
• Justin fixed a pannier & made french cleats to mount a piece of a mountain on his wall & fixed some solar lights
• Lyn finished her summer hairdo
• Melissa made a cryogenic photobooth out of cardboard and duct tape
• Katie made her own bias tape

Announcements

• Buccaneer's Galley this Saturday at 5pm - Strawberry Soiree - Strawberry Genoise & Vegan Strawberry Shortcake
• Hypertufa and hardy succulent class on Saturday
  • 11 am - 1 pm - cast planters and learn about succulents that can live outdoors
• Lockpicking - Wednesday at 8 pm - learn how to pick locks with The Open Organization of Lock Pickers
• Inaugural Cadoo-ocracy is this Friday, 6pm - 9pm
  • Come talk about computer aided and parametric design
• Annual area host review is beginning now - submit applications to be an area host
• Bike night is Wednesday at 8pm - come work on bikes and talk bike
  • Jeremy is going to bring a truing stand to make it Wheel Wednesday
• Vote tonight on CNC Plasma Cutter
• Vote next week on cleaning service & sprawl

Questions

• When are we going to sprawl?
  • Waiting for Tony to move out and for landlord works - Tony is supposed to be out of his space any day now
  • We're not paying rent until we move in, so that's good
• How did I do with my parking ticket request?
  • Pretty good - we need to print out more parking ticket requests
  • Forms are on the wiki for reprinting
    • Right here, specifically
• How does this space work?
  • It's all volunteer run. Need to get authorized for all equipment.
• Cassie wants to make a big sandbox out of acrylic - advice?
  • Cut it with a tablesaw, flame polish the edges

Votes

Vote buy CNC Plasma Cutter

• What will it cut?
  • Anything that conducts
  • Up to 1/2"
• Vote passes with 45 in favor, one opposed, two abstaining

Tour

Who wants to give a tour?

• Thanks for giving the tour, Jeremy!