Meeting Notes 2016-12-06

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)

• Lizzie | found us on google | interested in woodworking |
• Carl | generally curious | found us by parking a divvy bike, somebody came out and asked is he was
• Kurt | electronics, wants to make physical things, such as welding, laser cutter, cnc equipment | found us
• Seth | industrial designer, fabrication, maintenace | found us on Google or word of mouth
• Stephan | student of design & technology | went to NY makerfaire | ordered a 3D printer, interested in woodworking, casting iron, lasercutting
• Rick | programmer | found us researching a stem project | looking for people to help build a manual compressor for hurricane-proof homes
• Christine | largevolume system| would like to whittle medal | heard about us from workshop 88
• Joseph | found us on meetup | industrial designer

Two Random Members

• Simon | looking for workspace and community |
• Lyn | member since 2013 | joined to 3D print something, but found the lasercutter was rad instead | analog game nights, lock picking |

Board and Area Hosts

• Justin - president
• Jennie - vice president
• Lyn - director of purple and willld events
• Simon - secretary
• Michael - director at large
• Ron - hot metals

Things that need doing around the space

• Please close the back door, especially at night (and turn off the lights)
• Pull the front door closed with a firm grasp, but don't slam it
• Mount the projector and screen in lounge 2.0
• Keep fire lanes and the electrical boxes clear

Awesome Callouts

• Trygve for all the work he does around the space
• Ray for getting quotes for ADA assessment
• Anthony helped Will reassemble the front door window
• Lyn for helping Jennie teach her buddy how to sew
• Justin for getting Adriana set up with wiki credentials

What have you been hacking

• Simon made a spoon
• Ron made the TV snow
• Joseph made a side table out of a cardboard box
• Seth made an Iron Man light-up hockey goalie helmet
• Stephan reworked a laptop into a portable screen
• Will working on a tiara for his sister that will flicker like candles
• Rick reworked a Singer sewing machine to make growbags out of polypropylene
• Jennie made a bunch of spool clamps
• Christine working on a new server
• Miles is piecing together information about RFID system
• Stephan bought five theater seats at Salvage One, working on reworking
• Manual compressor to turn food trays into bricks

Announcements

• Woodshop authorization is canceled on Monday
• Cookie Exchange on Saturday the 10th at 6pm
  • Bring at least two dozen cookies for trade
  • If you can't make it, contact Shelly for an early dropoff
• Cake Decorating Class at 4 pm on Saturday
• Miles sharpened two of the knives in the kitchen
• Bike night - Wednesday at 8 pm in the shop
• Lockpicking - Wednesday at 8pm in the lounge
• SIGBOT - special interest group for robotics - Thursday at 7 pm
• Holiday gathering December 20 - at member meeting
• New Year's Eve party at PS1 - you'll have to guess when it is
• Ring-making class on Sunday and on the 18th - signup on the Meetup groupo
• Shopbot authorization is on Saturday at noon

Questions

• Are there any javascript programmers here?
  • Yup. Maybe not in this room. Come to Python office hours, because it's not all Python.
• How could I find out if people want to take something I want to donate?
  • Talk to area hosts
• Was there a TV with all the game consoles?
  • The projector!
• What's the deal with the big tv in the lounge?
  • Good question.
• Do I need to know how to use the shopbot in order to go to the authorization?
  • Nope. No experience necessary.
• If I want to make a vacuum cleaner to suck up leaves for compost is this the right crowd.
  • Yep. Post to the mailing list to find people with ideas or expertise.
• 3D scanning, can we do it here?
  • Yep, we've got a couple of scanner things, maybe.

Tour

Who wants to give a tour?

• Thanks Will for giving a tour!