Meeting Notes 2017-04-25

Meeting Minutes
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Agenda

• Intro to PS1 and what we're about. (2 mins MAX)
• Tour leaves (new people)
• Update from the BoD about what's going
• Update from area hosts about what's going on
• 8:15pm SHARP Voting time, if a vote is taking place
• Tour returns post voting
• Introduce the Board and Area Hosts
• Other announcements
  • Things that need doing around the space.
  • Awesome call outs
  • Events
• Let new members and visitors intro themselves, what are they interested in?
• Questions
• What are you working on?

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)

• Crystal | furniture-making | wood-working
• Sophia | stretchers
• Ben | sculptor & painter
• David | woodworking
• Christine | with David
• Gabrielle | electronics
• Nathan | Jeweler
• Matt in the Hat | hackerspaces
• Grant | Electronics, woodworking, computers
• Joseph | video games & everything

Board and Area Hosts

• Andrew - President
• Simon - Secretary
• Ed - Director at Large
• Jonathan - CTO
• Ray - PR Director
• Anna - Electronics Area Host
• Ron - Hot Metals Area Host
• Aushra - Small Metals Area Host
• Matt - CNC Area Host

Things that need doing around the space

• Tool organization! Andrew has been organizing tools. Join him!
• Window repair - somebody could go pick up the glass somewhere north of us on Kedzie. Talk to Andrew.
• Suggest or create an invoicing system that allows people to pay with cash or not PayPal.
• Beer church could move to the other corner of the loading dock.

Awesome Callouts

• Ron and Tom hung air hoses and extension cords and curtains, oh my.
• Sam dismantled the old sink in the shop.
• Tom for getting plasma CNC unit calibrated.
• Lyn for hosting our birthday party!
• Will for making birthday cake.
• Shelly for decorating the cake.

What have you been hacking

• Joseph made a synth
• Aushra working on a cast aluminum cicada - and then it ran away. Anybody seen it?
• Andrew pressed some shapes into metal with the hydraulic press and urethane.
• Will finished his Greg cosplay head for C2E2
• Ray is making a sawhorse barrier sign for the sidewalk
• Tom made a roofrack, bumper, straight lines with the plasma cutter
• Brian is in the process of building a vacuum-form machine
• Grant is making a pair of one-handed keyboards

Announcements

• Brian is planning first-aid courses. Details to come.
• Saturday is tabletop day. Come play games with us! Or go somewhere else!

Questions

• The agenda changed?
  • The agenda changed.
• Do decisions get made at this meeting?
  • Votes happen here. Not alw

Tour

Who wants to give a tour?