January 21, 2014

Meetings
Previous Meeting: January 14, 2014	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: January 28, 2014

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Old Business

• Proposal for more pallet racks
• Proposal for new lights
• DIYBio workshop

New Business

• Proposal-no meeting on 2nd Tuesdays when we have speaker?
• New floor for dirty room?
• Plasma cutter
• Chaos Computer Club

Attendees

• Mike
• Hodapp
• Nancy
• Jason
• Jon
• Dave
• Ryan
• Brent
• "Not Here" AKA Shadoxx
• Tye
• Franklin
• Ian
• Paul
• Dave
• Ellie
• Dave B(virtual)

Minutes

Old Business

• Pallet Racks--email vote has occurred, voting at meeting tonight
  • Proposal is: 1 new unit, similar to our current size, but with more shelving levels
  • $700 budget for president and COO to buy shelves.
  • A couple leads for purchasing: Indianapolis, Hutch's Boss.
  • Unanimous vote yes

• New lights--our fluorescents are slowly dying, do we want LEDs?
  • we already have one LED light to hang up, thanks to Ian.
    • It is super bright.
    • We would like to improve light for back area over meeting table, also in the dirty room.
  • Discussion: should we replace all at once? or replace as the old ones burn out?
    • All at once: efficiency, would look nice. One at a time: better for budget
    • We need 10-15 lights. The nice LED ones are $200 each.
    • Fluorescents are cheaper. $60 for the fixture, plus ~$20 for bulbs.
    • LEDs are probably going to fall in price as time goes on (hopefully)
    • Dave knows a guy who has a lighting business. Might get us good prices?
      • Ian will send Dave info to investigate this.
  • Dave B (via video):Halides are nice and inexpensive for a lot of light.
  • Mixed lighting technologies may be best--different needs for different areas
  • General consensus: put up the LED light we have now, keep replacing with best light for each area.

• Mike--DIYBio workshop
  • Presented this last week, workshop would be based on Genomikon kit
  • Mike's current project: build a cheap bacterial incubator
  • When that's complete, expect a call for a vote to have workshop
  • Dave--how big will this setup be? Will it be permanent?
  • Mike--Table similar to one of the meeting tables will go in dirty room
  • Box of supplies and the cooler-size incubator go underneath table
  • After the workshop, Mike could pack everything up and take it home, or leave it at hive
    • Depends if people want a permanent DIYBio area.

New Business

• Ian-Proposal to eliminate meetings on 2nd Tuesdays was bouncing around email.
  • Members would like to have speaker start at 7:30 rather than ambiguous "after the meeting"
  • Ian--our bylaws say we have meetings weekly at 7:30 on Tuesdays
    • Not really a problem--just say the content of the meeting is the speaker.
  • Some discussion followed
  • Dave B--just have the speaker go first, and have other meeting stuff afterwards
  • Consensus--go with speaker first, plan on keeping the rest of the meeting short.

• Jon--Bill said he will bring in a 2'x2' CNC plasma cutter
  • It will be arriving as parts.
  • Bill will be putting it together, check email if you want to help.

• Jon--A potential future Hive improvement
  • A big, non-inflammable floor for the space.
  • Put down a thin concrete floor in the dirty room--1 inch think
  • Paul--can you do an epoxy floor?
  • Dave B--epoxy floor is more resilient to physical abuse, but not great for sparks/welding.
  • Our floor has excellent load-bearing abilities, should handle concrete no problem.

• Hodapp
  • Chaos computer club says we have a spot reserved in Chaos VPN
  • Shadoxx is excited and is OK with helping spearhead it.
  • Hodapp will look up the instructions.