Meeting Notes 2014-07-22

Meeting Minutes
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Agenda

• Intro PS1 and what we're about
• let new members and visitors intro themselves
• pick 2 random people to introduce themselves
• go over things that need doing around the space
• Awesome callouts

Introductions

• Brief overview of what PS1 is (<1min).
• New members/visitors introduce themselves.
• Introduce the board and area hosts.

Announcements

• Dzak is giving a tour to a bunch of research librarians. This Thursday. 7pm. Pumping Station: One.
• Sevin wants someone to hack a 2.4ghz radio signal from a thing in his brain. Someone put some more voices in his head. Get in touch with him.
  • Hackathon?
• Justin - Chicago South Side Mini Maker Faire - we could use some people to kick in towards noisemakers or bring in other projects.
• Will has two open seats in his car for Detroit Maker Faire. He's leaving Friday morning. Dave has space but no air conditioning?

Minutes

• Meeting beings at 20:09
• Everett welcomes folks to PS1 and talks about what a hackerspace is
  • Horrifying things
• New members introduce themselves
  • Roger Moore has a problem. No. He doesn't recall how he heard about us. Engineering undergrad, HAM, willing to hack anything.
  • Roger's son, Roger. He builds robots.
  • Valerie, his daughter. She likes robots but isn't sure what she wants to do yet.
• Everett introduces board members and area hosts.
• Two random people introduce themselves.
  • Dave works on mostly bikes and linux stuff, but some other stuff too. He heard about us from linux/python meetups and TOOOL.
  • Donald has been here for a couple years (but isn't familiar with this bit! Shame). Member for 2.5 years, found out about by googling hackerspaces. That's the end of that sad story. Google is your friend.
• Jason hates it when people are productive.
• Awesome callouts
  • Tac (Mike) taught a linear algebra class on Sunday, and then again tonight. What a guy
  • Jerry organized Pitchfork volunteers. Bry didn't go, she's sorry.
  • Hef scored us a kickass label printer.
  • Will doesn't know any bands. He's not that kind of music fan.
• Announcments.
• Dzak leaves on a tour.
• Meeting ends at 20:21