December 1, 2009

Meetings
Previous Meeting: November 24, 2009	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: December 8, 2009

Time: 7:00 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

New Business

• uc surplus sale this coming saturday
• december synchronous hackathon
• xmas party
• pizza
• Mendel
• cinci2600
• dualcore video shoot
• stove
• MAME
• first meeting of the month - officer reports

Attendees

• Dave
• Craig
• Jim
• Ed
• Aaron
• Deckmaster
• ChrisA
• Paul
• Thurman
• cjdavis
• James
• hodapp
• intx80
• imhotep
• ramone

Minutes

Introductions - New People

• Ed and Aaron
  • are awesome!

Finances - Craig

• we're doing ok right now
• we will try to re-institute the profit-point spreadsheet

Secretary - Dave

• paper still almost filled out
• might be good to sumbit after the new year, to save money

COO Report - Paul

• got some new tools - nice!
• screwdrivers, exacto blades, pvc pipe cutter

CTO - ChrisA

• fried a cobalt server with fire

Events this Week

• cinci2600 this friday
  • contests!, prizes!
  • pxe server fun
• dualcore video shoot this saturday
  • dualcore get here at 9am, start shooting at 10am

uc surplus sale this sat

• should we go this time? - yeah
• be at the sale at 9am

pizza

• let's start paying for it out of the coffee can money
• $25 pizza -> $1 per slice -> $5 dollar profit!

stove - James

• we would need like 100ft of 10-3 romex ( about $100 of copper)
• greybar?
• grant should ok this improvement
• should grant pay for it too?
• new pigtail for the stove too?
• just get a gas stove? - more dangerous?

hackerspaces in Seattle - Craig

• visited two hackerspaces over the holiday
• one was totally private, privately funded
• explosions on $250,000 high-speed video camera
• second one was like a corporate hackerspace
  • called metrix-create
  • like a fablab type thing
  • everything like pay-as-you-go for anyone to come use

Synchronous Hackathons

• Dec 19 http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Synchronous_Hackathon_2
• Dec 27 http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/wiki/index.php/Dragons_everywhere

xmas

• dec 12th?
• foxydot?
• possibility louisville hackerspace people might be

MAME special interest group

• we need to set up an "arcade night"
• get people involved

CNC Electronics - James

• has boards all designed
• is getting 5 of them built by Seeed Studios
• drop-in replacement reprap/makerbot electronics

Mendel

• Ed adopt this as an official project
• maybe use james' electronics

Web Shop - Jim

• how hard would it be to make a little web shop to sell our electronics, tshirts, snowflakes

Entertrainment Junction - Jim

• Jim went back at thanksgiving time
• met the software guy this time
• we could collaborate on projects with them?
  • incline
  • engine yard
  • city streets traffic lights

contact the guy with a cnc that craig knows

• do some cnc parts in alumnimum
• craig will hook jim up with contact info

the bay networks switch thingy

• it is owned by a community group in walnunt hills
• let's try to get it working
• we might be allowed to keep it
• cjdavis is finding out more details about it on friday