Board Meeting - December 10th, 2018

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Agenda

• Open Finance Website updates
• Membership Status
  • Now a weekly thread for late payments
  • Update membership application policies
    • Did we succeed last month?
• Warden positions to fill
  • Metal - Open
• Buzzkill
• Open House
• Long Term Planning
  • Membership Plans for the next 2 years
  • Location Plans for the next 2 years
  • Where do we focus growth? Members? Member Engagement? Capability?
• Processes and Procedures
  • What can we improve
  • What is tripping us up?
• Re-invigorating Hive Culture

Minutes

• • • Attendees
      • WillB, GregA, JimD, DaveV, IanB, RyanH
      • Belated Nancy Arrival
    • Review of action items
      • Ry - no.
      • Greg - no.
      • Nancy - Not present.
      • Dave - Has put in some work on his five year plan.
    • Open Finance
      • Jim has updated data. Current as of last day of October.
      • Membership is slightly down, and tool purchase expenditures are trending up.
      • Would starving hacker/volunteer rates be of interest? Will has worked at a space that had a 10/hr a month requirement for such rates. There were a limited number of such slots.
        • How many positions?
        • What would the requirements be?
    • Membership Status
      • Recent outreach and social media does seem to be bringing new members onboard to offset this.

• • • • Two pending applications, Ry to contact.
      • Might we consider reinstituting the Tuesday talks?
        • JimD will seek a Tuesday guest for
    • Open Warden positions
      • Metal
    • Buzzkill
      • Trouble ticketing system is available. See Greg or Ian for access.
    • Open House
      • Generally went well.
      • We had 34 guests.
      • Let's have another in Spring!
        • Start planning in January.
        • Add thoughts to the open house page on the Wiki.
      • Dave reiterates that we need other group activities again.
        • Ry to keep up with 3D Thursday. Which may not be Thursday.
    • Long Term Planning
      • Are we considering moving?
        • What might we do with more space? Need to compile a list that justifies the move.
        • Are we simply adding space and capabilites? Or opening other lines of business?
        • How many active members can the current space sustain?
          • We've had past nights, not super recently, with 30+ people active in the space. There's still quite a bit of headroom.
          • Scheduling conflicts for machinery would be good to have.
        • Where do we focus growth?
          • Social Media, new member engagement.
    • Newsletter
      • Greg sucks. He will try again in December.
      • Greg needs content.
      • Why is this different than a new blog post? Let's just do that.
    • Process and Procedures
      • Ry needs to follow up with pending memberships
      • We need more formal maintenance procedures.
        • Add inventory checks to the Saturday cleanup.
        • Poll wardens for a checklist.
          • Can we use the warden spreadsheet?
    • Jim mentions he may have a CNC mill to loan to the hive.
    • Consider setting up a sewing station.