Board Meeting Notes 2025-01-21

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Meeting Start:

Attendance

3d Printing
- Matt wants to buy 4 3D printers
- The current ones are dying, he can throw parts at it but it's time to just replace them
- He wants the board to tell him that we have budget to buy 4 printers at $1200 each, before he choses a model and runs a vote.
- We discussed whether we can afford this or not.
- We told him to propose a vote and we can finalize timing later.
GenOps
- We had a heating problem in hot metals, turning the switch on fixed it
- Uwe asked for a larger doormat, Andrew Morris will look into it.
Tech Team
- Sky is cleaning up the member server rack and the server room
- She will red ticket the computers and detritus on the catwalk

Reports from Committees

Scholarship stuff
- Lots of complaints of long process / no response or update from applicants
- V put a vote proposal in to update the process
- Uwe asked V to send an update to applicants letting them know what the new timeline is (selection by end of feb)
V introduces an architect that can discuss grant writing after the meeting
Uwe wants to be able to identify members on Discord
- Sky says the current technical process is not good enough to make it mandatory, but improvements are on the roadmap that will make this possible.
- Uwe wants it to be a priority to solve this
- Sky will continue to work with the Tech Team to figure out the technical backend
- The Board will work on deciding which channels we will lock behind 'verified member' status

The PS:1 Board of Directors votes to establish a Committee for Club Oversight (CCO). The initial members are Books, Nick Hawley, Ian Sampson, and James Lamken.
- For: 5
- Against: 0