Board Meeting - April 13, 2015

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Hive13 Board Meeting April 13 2015

Next Meeting

Monday May 11th 7:30pm at Hive13

Agenda

• Purgatory first!
• area warden budgeting
• feedback and critique of area wardens
• Power series, Kansas city end of June, Detroit end of July. What level of hive presence at these fairs?
• Finances
• Moving infrastructure (Ryan)
  • Approved
• laser cutter
  • Approved
  • Need people to help procure this.
  • Jim D - Any progress on trying to sell the accuris laser cutter?

Attendees

• Jim S.
• Dave M.
• Dave B.
• Dave L.
• Jon N.
• Dustin
• Daniel
• Elly
• Ian

Minutes

• Jon took a picture of the purgatory to send out to the list.
• Area Warden review discussion
  • The good:
    • Things done regularly
    • Improved Kitchen
    • More Mailing List Updates
    • Improved space organization
  • The bad:
    • Need better accountability
    • Inconsistent participation (fablab)
    • Budget needs better definition
    • Better Area Warder training/ensure comprehension
    • Need open to public houses?
    • Head warden to manage warden/reduce overhead
    • More Classes
    • Make budget public
  • What happens if warden/officer spends something that they shouldn't?
    • Membership would have to deal with that via vote.
  • System needs to be in place for transitioning area wardens. (Dave B may have been confused about how wardens are chosen. No vote goes on so it isn't a messy change. The head of wardens just picks a new person).
  • Need to update membership addendum for new "class" of membership by the area wardens.
  • Should the wardens still be under president? Makes a lot more sense for them to be under COO. The COO can also resolve space disputes if they appear while the president can't really.
• Power Series:
  • KC in June
  • We should have some type of "Media" presence for hive13 -- documenting the hive's presence
  • How involved big do we want to be? Just get some t-shirts?
• Power tool drag racing
  • Does Jim D need any help with this? Electronics replaced, board replaced?
• Finances
  • $28,000 in bank
• Infrastructure stuff:
  • Ryan started moving stuff over last weekend
  • Progress is moving
  • Joeseph is working on a new design (Yay! Bootstrap!)
• Laser Cutter
  • We need to sell one of the laser cutters prior to acquiring a new one
  • Rabbit laser is willing to either donate a laser or give a percent off depending on which one we would want.
  • Fundraising - We originally sold minutes for 25c/min to raise money for the original laser cutter. Let's do this again!
• How do we get people to document more stuff at the hive?
  • Quarterly grants like lvl1 does?
  • Give people $50 once a year if they do a neat project?
  • Elly is going to organize a day once a month to work on the wiki/documenting stuff/blog posts.