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