Meeting Notes 2016-03-29

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Agenda

For extended discussions, we may take stack and borrow from MIBS Rules#Meeting Procedures.

New People (name - where did you hear about us - what do you make/hack)

Dan | Wood & metal in the past | a member referred me
Matty | Makes food | With Romeo, Miro, Carlos
Romeo | Programming, drones | Heard from a friend
Miro(?) | Made godzilla out
Carlos | Arts & Crafts, clay, claymation
Amy | Paint & Sculpt | Friends with Jeremy
Patrick | Plays guitar, cooks food
Andy | Just moved to Chicago | Metalworking, 3D printing, interested in electronics | Googled Hackerspace
Jamie | with Lovetech - putting on electronic music shows across the country |
Rich | with Lovetech | Designs musical instrument | has a 4-player instrument at Catalyst right now
- Lovetech

Maria | Repairing Bridgeport, fixing equipment, helping with expansion plans | Googled "woodshop membership"
Sonya | Makes kinetic sculpture & furniture from found objects | working on cabinet made out of erector set parts | found us on meetup

Two lightbulbs need to be replaced in Arts & Crafts
Eating food from potluck
Come to the birthday party
Remove the soda fridge that does not work - take parts from it if you want, and let's call a scrapper to pick it up
Trash needs to be taken out
Take care of items that were ticketed in the wood shop
Clean out the dust collector
Stomping kitchen ants

Shellie for helping Duby with reverse engineering & sewing a costume from youtube
Lyn for birthday party planning and waiver organization
Skilton for organizing the shop cleanup
Jennie for helping alphabetize 5 years of waivers
Greg for artwork in the stairwell
Jason for fixing the laser with temporary belt
Lucas for letting people know about the laser (and containing the flames)
Jamie for rooftop art
Maria, Everett for the space-planning work
Everybody who brought food to the potluck

Carl has been in an epic battle with his drain & tree roots / collapsed pipe(?) and shared a great liveblog to the list
Shellie fixed a massive bust of the Thing by sanding and repainting it
Jennie rehabilitated a rescued palm tree with some literal hacking
Carl is working on a camera for a drain

Birthday party is on April 2nd (THIS SATURDAY) at 5 pm - we're turning 7!
- Sock tie-dying, lock-picking, wall-painting, meat- & non-meat-grilling
Plans for expansion are posted around the space and on the mailing list
- Aushra, Jennie, Lyn, Maria, Everett are here tonight if you have feedback
- Or share feedback on the mailing list
Free, libre, and open source software conference is Friday and Saturday at UIC
- http://flourishconf.com/2016/
Tomorrow night - Bike night, 7 pm
- If the wheel is bent, can we fix that in the shop?
  - Bring it in, and we'll see how bad it is.
Lovetech is looking for collaborators
- Looking for projects that involve LEDs, projections, interactivity, etc.
- The event is April 23rd in Chicago
- contact@lovetech.org
Northside Mini-maker Faire
- May 7, 10 am - 4 pm, Schurz High School
- http://makerfairechicagonorthside.com/
- Participate! PS1 will have a booth too.
There's a cool animation software suite that's free now...
- ... without documentation in English. So if you know Japanese or want to help, talk to Jennie!

Any feedback on taking attendance?
- It's in the bylaws
Trying to create a skull - Bob Skull from the Dresden Files
Met with producer for Cultural mile, putting together Halloween Parade - they're looking for more nonprofits to contribute floats
- http://www.chicagoculturalmile.org/about/initiatives/halloween-gathering-festival-parade/
Looking for WD40 and a wirebrush to do some repair on an LED pendant