20160717 BOD Notes
Attendees: Jay, Joshua, Chris, Tanju, Ron... showed up late, new member and first timer
Notes:
Meeting agenda driven by Trello board as dated for 20160717
- Cleaning & Tidying the makerspace
- Website is now the wiki. Membership sign up is now a direct link from the wiki page to the Gumroad Page
- GenCan't - on track for Aug 5-7
- On track, Chris and Randy leading the effort
- Dino sculpture will get moved out back to make room
- Anniversary BBQ - on track for Aug 6
- Will be during the Saturday of Gen Can't event
- Shared the commemorative flashlight that was made for the 1st Cobb-County-Makers meetup with the Board.
- Roger bringing smoker
- Need to promote to the members and ask people to bring dishes to share
- Pokemon Go discussion
- side tracked by general discussion
- Josh submitted a request to Niantic to get a Pokemon Gym/Stop at the Station. They replied that it is under consideration, currenlty no new stops getting added
- We need to promote and let everyone know that even though we are not a stop, people can make Pokemon Team Decals and T-shirts here... among other things
- DragonCon
- Steam Punk table at the Museum of Alternate History. Tanju has started register for this
- Need to get more details on the schedule for set-up, timing, etc
- Parade - Powerwheels
- We'll be running the powerwheels at the parade and participating in the PPPRS panel discussion
- There will be an auto-show for powerwheels
- Tanju needs to use/borrow Chris's grommet press for the car's flag
- MakerFaire - Oct 1-2
- Jay won't be around for Makerfaire
- Luke has volunteered to lead setting up the booth. We need to support him. Planning to do a double table this year with similar demo items
- Jay has submitted the initial registration, waiting on the second round of the process
- Membership
- The membership report is out. Gained a couple new members in the past two months which is good, but we need more.
- Recent dispute from an old member, GumRoad is currently investigating but is witholding the disputed amount. Jay will followup with GumRoad and Tanju will follow up with the member.
- Maker Kids
- Kids room continues to get built out
- Still in discussion with Engineering-4-Kids about workshops... not going to happen for summer, now looking at fall
- Treasurer Update
- No major changes from last meeting, the $100 withholding from Gumroad will hit on Monday
- Social Media Manager
- Tanju has asked his daughter Mina to help out with the space's social media
- 3D printer needs couplings replaced
- Josh will order replacements and take the lead on replacement
- Suspect that the x-carriage got too far out of level.
- Wish List
- Josh wasn't able to get chairs per his previous intent
- Need a fan for the back shop
- We need to get a wish list going here on the wiki
- Closing Comments
- We need to get the lockbox combo reset with a new number
- What is the status of the RFID system, need to check with Steve