Meeting Notes 2015-12-29

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)

• Peter - cobol coder, dreamed about hacker spaces, meetup
• Whitney - artist, art teacher, sculpture - mechanical, people with similar interests at Columbia
• Del - drones mod, mobile computers, computers, makerbot - other people at maker lab at Harold Washington

Board and Area Hosts

• Justin
• Lyn
• Sheila
• Ron
• Shae
• Erik
• Dean
• Matt
• Anna

Two Random Members

• Sheila - programming, shop, python office hours - Carl videotaped a talk about hacker space
• Jeff - programming, electronic dabbling, making hardware that work with software -google hacker spaces

Things that need doing around the space

• Learn about hot metals - Ron
• Check the dust collector before you start your project and after
• Please cleanup after yourself in Hot Metals, OMG! Cleanup after yourself OMG!,
• Spray paint - put fire blanket back on welders
• Please cleanup after yourself in woodworking
• Please put your tools away if you take them from the tool cage
• When you are going in or out of the back door check to make sure the pins are still attached
• Buy security hinges for back door
• Use of the orbital sanders in the shop is not powerful, hook up a vacuum to it
• Matt - 120 gallon tank for the compressor needs to be brought here and installed within the next week
• Make sure the back doors are closed and the heat has trouble working and we have to pay for heat and Everett gets cold in the shop, Shellie needs to make Everett a sweater

Awesome Callouts

• Mike Skilton and Dean Anderson for patching up the cinder block wall
• Dean fixed the track for the back door
• Erik spent time diagnosing the heating issue in the shop
• Shae walking the shop collecting tools
• Patrick cleaned the laser appature
• Matt dealt with Home Depot in getting the fence for the router table

What have you been hacking

• Patrick - make a puzzle of the counties of Illinois
• Carl fixed the coffee grinder, replaced the ball bearing - walmart.com sells ball bearing for skates
• Matt -installed the fence for the router table

Announcements

• Tuesday, January, 19 annual meeting
• Nominations for board are open
• Peter Coons - Found a place that will loan tools
• Mike - vote for temporary budget next Tuesday
• No python office hours
• Genetic algorithms - wed. Jan 20 at 5:45pm, 6:30 talk at Loyola downtown campus, Louis towers auditorium 13 floor
• New Years Eve Gathering - Thursday

Questions

• Budget is good till calendar year? Current budget ends Dec. 31, 2015, new budget will be voted on in Jan.
• Size of budget - $250 for each area host and $250 for the cleaning company
• Steven id checks? After the member meeting
• Membership questions - 14/15 year old can't be a member, parent can be certified on equipment but kids can't use them
• What are some highlights from the year? We got more stuff, we got more people, we filed taxes, we applied for 501c3, 371 members, we are expanding the space sometime next year, no major accidents or incidents, no fist fights, we got a Tig welder, new band saw, new tables for electronics lab, rearranged art area, Carl took her his tables

Votes

none

Tour

Who wants to give a tour?

Ron, thanks for giving the tour.