June 8, 2010

Meetings
Previous Meeting: June 1, 2010	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: June 15, 2010

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Status Updates / Old Business

• Dave - "year two"
  • money issues: membership fee, profit points, savings, etc
• Jason/Paul - Blackboards
• Jason - Filing with Ohio AG
• Jim/Craig - 501c3->Taxes,Google
• lease renegotiations/research
• birthday party date, planning, etc
• Ed - cleanup, construction, general space make-over
• Vote - New quote on tshirt order: 177.32

Items to be Voted on

• New quote on tshirt order: 177.32

Attendees

Dave, Chris Davis, Jim, Paul, Craig, Rob Melly, Steve Lackermann, scott* (new person), Thurman*, TP, jason, james, hodapp, ed

Quorum Present (y/n)? YES

Minutes

minutes recorded live at: http://piratepad.net/eFGYVJ7NeZ

profit points

• profit points is not the most effective way to get money into projects, just get with craig if you want something

membership fees

• ed's concept seems good: (long explanation fill later)
• jason: what if people quit
• craig: changing the paypal would be kind of a pain
• chris: i'd be a bit irritated if other people got in cheaper
• all: what about $99 or $95
• jason/dave: lowering the price should be a goal
• scott: what about a trial membership
• james: bigger carrot to get people in here on other days, to make tuesdays less of a standalone event
• thurman: i'd like more classes
• jim: i can teach sweat plumbing
• dave: does anyone have a "i can't teach a class because of x"?
• craig: i would need a better classroom type environment for a software based class; tables, chairs, etc for laptops
• jason: bring people in from outside to teach things
• jim: a committee to program meetings, and events
• dave: what is the consensus on the membership fees
• ed: what about doing a big membership drive like other orgs do
• rob melly: do it in two steps - do the $95 thing, then take a longer period to do the bigger price drop
• james: what about three tiers, an intermediary tier that still has to pay full price for classes
• TP: members should get the class at cost, everyone else pay some extra
• paul: i would not be able to afford the full price since i have no job as a student
• jason: classes are a big draw for non-members, we need to motivate more people to teach classes
• dave: so the consensus is just to do the $95 thing, no other fancy stuff in the next month or so
• james: thurman, what would get you in here and pay $
• scott: i'd feel more comfortable paying after i felt like there was a project i could get into
• rob melly: i'd like to get into the propagandists thing; the pr needs to be about what we're about
• dave: who can edit the google calendar
• jason: all this communtication strategy should be under the PR people groups belt
• jim: how can we run our projects better?
• jason/craig: we don't have time
• rob: http://fffff.at/ is a good model with the speed projects
• james: are people overwhelmed
• rob: you have to have that rhythm to get people back in here on other days
• jason: there are a bunch of people who might not have their own projects who just want to jump on something that's going on
• dave: irc is a place where these types of conversations happen
• rob melly: what about a project bounty board on a bounty board
• thurman: have a committee for recruitment, classes, etc

blackboards

• jason left dude a message and hasn't heard back

Ohio AG Filing

• no update

501c3/Taxes/Google

• jim needs to email, or usb drive copy to craig
• did they cash our check?

lease

• this is dead unless someone has a burning question
• craig: ed wanted us to ask grant if he would go in for half on AC in here
• jason: i'll ask grant about that and try and get $ or free rent or some such in exchange

birthday party

• dave: do we need to have a party czar
• james: i think it should be free for members, charge for non-members
• dave: should we choose date?
• ed: it's probably better to pick a date online
• dave: i'll make this a task for me - i'll email the list

space cleanup/construction/etc

• ed: the space itself is a big disconnect for us
• the physical condition is gonna have a big impact on people's attitude
• think of space vertically in terms of priority
• project ideas: rolling carts to stow stuff in, maybe 2.5'x3', with workspace on top, each member gets one, pimp your station
• working on budgeting this out, but would get really nice workbench/shelf system
• big thing: better long term storage - up high so it's not in anyone's way
• proposing building the work areas, start with the wood-working area in "1D"
• bought some floor tape - so people don't invade spaces with junk

vote on t-shirt quote

everyone if fine with the higher quote.

trash schedule

• is this not clear enough for people
• jason: do not put anything in there between tonight and next week's meeting
• jason: when is the "teardown day"
• dave: disposing this stuff may cost us money
• paul: we could take some of it to CCC
• dave: we don't actually know where stuff is going on the final dispose day
• dave: figure out destiniation for junk
• this saturday is demolition day

james - computer help

• friend of mine is disabled, needs a new PC
• looking for donations of stuff that would be semi-decent to put together
• jason: i have something i can give you

paul's cnc

• the cnc needs a parallel port breakout board
• james: i have one that could potentially work
• people: we are willing to chip in for that

Remote Access

Wave

• https://wave.google.com/wave/waveref/googlewave.com/w+Fo-3X3xWA

Ustream

• http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hive13