20180322 BOD Notes
Attendees:
BOD: Chris K, Mike Y, Tanju B, Jay D
Members: Brain F, Jay S,
Notes:
Planning Agenda
- Introduce Mike as new role for Safety & Equipment Director
- Financial update
- Membership update
- New Items & Updates
- Apr 2-6 Engineering For Kids doing a day camp at the Station for spring break week. Its on our meetup
- May 19 MakerFest at Red Top Mtn State Park May 19th
- Jun 10 Nation of Makers Conference in June (Santa Fe, NM), Adam Savage promo video http://bit.ly/2HS1SFl
- Jul 21 Mini Comic Con at Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center
- Oct 27 ATL Maker Faire & Powerwheels is back to 2 event
- Follow Up/Final decision for Private Event request on a Saturday night in April
- Other items
Discussed
- Introduced Mike as new role for Safety & Equipment Director
Membership Update:
February might be a new record for new member volume with 7 new members joined. However it was offset with departure of 4 people.
The primary draw for new members continues to be meetup events and activities at the Station.
| ____________________ | __Feb__ | __Mar__ |
| New Member Total | 7 | 2 |
| * Maker | 5 | 0 |
| * Student | 2 | 2 |
| Canceled Total | 4 | 0 |
| * Maker | 1 | 0 |
| * Student | 3 | 0 |
Total Summary
- 46 Total Members as of March 22
- 30 Makers
- 15 Students
- 1 Premium
Financial Update:
- February was rough, we had to pay all of the utilities moving fees
- Down to only losing to ~$250 per month at this time
- Our current runway is 8 months at current run-rate
- We need approx 5-6 more Maker Members to be sustainable
- Taxes have been filed and accepted by the IRS
- The new financials have been filed in the BOD records for Feb
General Discussion
- Venue request for a private party has been withdrawn. Per member poll, majority of members were ok with the request but several raised concerns about the space being closed off
- Mike Y going to poll members of interest in tools to start soliciting donations from companies
- General discussion with Mike organizing a monthly shop safety class, consider coordinating with a space build out
- Heads up about Spring Break Camp with Eng For Kids. There will be kids at the space during business hours that week. Be aware
- Upcoming Events noted in next section below below
- PowerWheels racing has been requested for Maker Faire , however there is currently no lead organizer for the race. We will need to work with the Faire organizers to make a race happen, perhaps may be easier to make an exhibition race happen
- General discussion about making marketing videos working with Jay Starling, focused activities on going discussion in the #marketing channel on Slack
- Discussed adding a second Open House on a Saturday as a one-off, to be scheduled by Chuck and Jay S. Want to keep the current Thurs night event as-is and then supplement that with a Saturday
Upcoming Events:
- Apr 2-6 Engineering For Kids doing a day camp at the Station for spring break week. Its on our meetup calendar
- May 19 Red Top Mountain Maker's Festival - Saturday May 19th https://wiki.themakerstation.com/Red_Top_Mountain_Maker%27s_Festival_2018
- Jun 10 Nation Of Makers Conference NOMCon - June 10-11 https://www.nomcon.org/
- Jul 21 Mini Comic Con at Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center
- Oct 27-28 Atlanta Maker Faire is back to two days
