Board Meeting - August 13th, 2011

Board Meetings
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Attendees

• Dave Myers
• Chris Anderson
• Craig Smith
• Dave Menninger
• Chris Davis
• Jason Bailey
• Paul Vincent

Minutes

• Started at 11:00 am, 8/13/2011

Goals & Objectives

• Improve long term stability
  • 3 month saving goal met
  • Barely met, and only because half are at $50 and half are at $100
  • Diversity?
    • Met, more students, several women, still need more work
• Enhance Hive13 Capabilities
  • Negatory
  • Needs much more focus
  • Administrative process & communication
    • Fail, see: Lease
    • Relatively Ad-hoc
    • Office of the president? (Phone number)
    • When this happens, what do I do? (newspaper, asked question)
• Asset to the community?
  • Hosting more classes & workshops
  • "What is Hive13 class"
    • Fail, did not really happen.
  • Unique Tools
    • Laser cutter, sewing machine, bandsaw
    • Done well, need more
  • Workshops
    • We have had more,

SWOT Analysis

• Strengths are good

Weaknesses

• Doesn't offer easy opportunities to join ongoing projects
  • What ongoing projects are there? That is the problem
  • Craig: Mame cabinet
  • Bailey: Maybe Hive13 could fund group projects?
  • General Response: What about self funding?
  • Dave M: Funding != commitment to the project.
  • Common: Most group projects are minor 1 person jobs that don't attract attention.
  • Consensus: Using small amount of funds if the project is an improvement to the space,
  • Create funding request form, requires feedback from fundee
• Expensive & Time consuming - Thus not friendly to more casual enthusiasts
  • Requires you, the user, to provide all the materials.
  • Do group projects address this?
  • Davis: Time demanding? You need to put in a lot of effort to get your projects done.
  • Bailey: Change language of this line.

Board Meeting Agenda Minutes

New Ideas

Dave M.

• Program Director?
  • Oficer in charge of classes, organizing them, following a procedure.
  • New Position vs. Existing Officer?
  • Mailing List it, bring it up at the meeting.
  • What about Jim? He will need other people to work with him.
• Recording Classes
  • Make it damn simple, it will get done.

Anderson

• Board of directors responsibilities well defined
  • Fund Raising
  • Involvement of the board in fund raising
  • Grow up and be a real non-profit.
• Donation // Grant Specter
  • Grants, do not want.
  • Donations++
    • Send out millions of donation request letters

Davis

• Laser cutter stuff in place
• Security? Might not want to consider
• Maker Fair -

Craig Smith

• How do we organize, how do we do group projects.

Bailey

• Current Space
  • Positives
    • Costs + Size
  • Negatives
    • ... numerous
• What does LVL1 and Detroit have that we do not.

Next Actions

• See above for undocumented.
• Program Director
  • Contact Jim & Mailing List & Meetings
  • Contact Instructors, set up classes, repeating classes
  • Dave Myers
• Donation Letter Format
• Mr. President
  • Keep track of officers.
  • 1st meeting, Officer report in meeting. After "meeting" have officer discussion meeting.
• Next Meeting: 19th, 3rd Saturday in November, 10:00 am
• Classes, Organization, Projects