February 21, 2017

Meetings
Previous Meeting: February 14, 2017	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: February 28, 2017

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Housekeeping

• Noise Curfew - Quiet hours are 10:30pm to 7am until further notice.
• Liability waivers must be legible

Old Business

• Space next door:
  • Progress update on RFID locks
  • Maybe schedule a day to have a moving party to get some stuff in the space and get things started setting up as soon as the locks are installed!
• Pot luck: Elly's a bit shocked at how many Hiver's celebrate Valentine's day. hehe
  • Not too many in attendance, but delicious none-the-less - thank you!
• Leather working class: how did it go?
• Ian built a new laser computer, yay!
• Dust collector update

New Business

• Upcoming events:
  • Crypto party - Monday, March 6th - 7pm ish

Votes

• None scheduled for today

Minutes

Old Business

• Space next door:
  • Progress update on RFID locks
  • Maybe schedule a day to have a moving party to get some stuff in the space and get things started setting up as soon as the locks are installed!
• Pot luck: Elly's a bit shocked at how many Hiver's celebrate Valentine's day. hehe
  • Not too many in attendance, but delicious none-the-less - thank you!
  • Will schedule another on a non-holiday
• Leather working class: how did it go?
  • Went well, many people here
  • No one bled
  • Pictures
• Ian built a new laser computer, yay!
  • Tiff's donated computer
  • Dustin helped test it
  • Do the same with the CNC computer (maybe tonight)
• Dust collector update
  • Radial arm saw
  • Jointer more permanent
  • Cracked plexiglass has been fixed
  • Drum sander has a permanent fixture
  • Basically finished for the time being
  • Total cost came to $640
• Current Privacy Vote details
  • It will be rescinded in light of making a better voting system
• Ultimaker works (yay)
  • talking to Mike about training
  • Tim knows how to use it

New Business

• Upcoming events:
  • Crypto party - Monday, March 6th - 7pm ish
    • No cost for event, a door donation for the EFF or Free Software Foundation
    • Providing food and entertainment
    • Open forum for questions about social issues and technology (i.e. what is bitcoin, what info can people get from an open wifi network, etc.)
    • Demonstrations from Lorin's students
• Garage sale a couple blocks from here, may be of interest for metal working folks
  • This Saturday, check mailing list
• Voting system needs upgrading - Ian is working on it
  • Setting up an authentication server for the Hive, (need that first before the voting system)
  • Use a simple low impact thing as a test (What soda do you want? etc.)
  • Going to use open source software if possible - Lime survey
  • Trying to balance anonymity and transparency
    • Anonymized voting totals, but a list of names side by side not attached to a specific vote
• New computers coming to the hive
  • Computer going to the lounge again
  • Upgrade to the CNC computer
    • Maybe protect the cnc from the dust, maybe use the lounge? Anyone can work on this, not Ian :P
  • Upgraded (already) the laser computer
• Ian proposing a budget for buying 4 1TB hard drives for the server, some went missing awhile ago so we need more
  • Feb 28th $300

Votes

• None scheduled for tonight

Attendance

• Will - hosted mask making class, wore a mask to an event
• Lorin - doing STUFF, finished working on a wonky waveform guide of acoustical interest
• Ian B - been on dayshift (just totally awful: humans, and photons, ugh), spent the last week working on and fixing our computers
• Dave L - working on car
• Tim - found cheap routers under $1, open invitation if anyone needs one to mess with
• Doc Willy - doing work on the Shapeoko wiring it up, planning to laser cut a box to put things for it
• Nancy - CLEAN YOUR DISHES AND CHECK THE DISHWASHERRRRRRRRRR, did some bike riding on Saturday 240+ miles, found a thrift store she hadn't been to before
• James - work has consumed him, sick staycation, quadcopter work again after awhile
• Tom - new person, got a lot of projects, sensor data
• Brent - some electronics projects
• John - new person, met Brent at ham radio event, electronics
• John - work has been busy
• Brad - went to garage sale and got a drill doctor for $20 - donated to the hive, helped fix a box
• Andrew - volunteering time at multimillion dollar company that is close to the release date and it's not going well
• Steve - worked on jeep, finally got it out of the driveway
• Jim - will complete a laser project some time in the next year
• Hodapp - will be fighting Jim for the laser time in the next year
• Greg - tired recently, went home, enjoyed weather, did work on RV, working on the door RFID lock
• Shaddoxx - remoted in, forgot to ask what he did, whoops!
• Elly - Contemplated life, took advantage of the weather and went backpacking in RRG, did something else maybe