February 25, 2014

Meetings
Previous Meeting: February 18, 2014	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: March 4, 2014

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Old Business

• Space Improvement
• CPS Science Night

New Business

• Game day
• Hive13 marketing document
• Cincinnati DIY calendar

Attendees

• Mike
• Conan--former member, interested in getting involved again
• Jon
• Dave-helped to cleanup on saturday
• Josh
• Jim--working on robot arm, hurdle is USB working
• Hutch--M
• Chris--ferments things
• Dave--built mail server
• Franklin
• Tiffany--worked on dissertation
• Ryan--Saturday cleanup, leveled pallet racks
• Ian Mathhews--brought stuff to work on kegerator
• Shadoxx--propane, propane accessories,
• Nathan--autonomous blimp
• Jason--pathfinder adventure map
• JR--drilling holes
• Joseph--played minecraft on a big monitor
• John--pushstick for woodshop
• Ian--wearable computer system
• Brad--learned to solder, put a laser pointer on a nerfgun, phaser holster
• Nancy--rug is taking a long time
• Jim D (treasurer)
• Adrian--visitor

Minutes

• Jon--space improvement
  • Pallet racks are leveled, nearing finished
  • Saturday cleanup happened
  • working on outer door RFID

• CPS science night--no updates, watch the mailing list.

• Game day--This Saturday! see mailing list.

• Shadoxx--Hive advertisement
  • goal--get the hive marketed more, grow our group, bring in even greater variety of members
  • 1st step is a pamphlet--paper copy of draft was passed around
    • Shadoxx sent it out to mailing list--take a look
  • Looking for volunteers to help.
  • One thing Shadoxx would like help with: turning the text into a nice visually designed flyer.
    • Ellie said she can help
    • Joseph has visual experience and can help
  • This is really simple stuff that we should have been doing from the beginning
    • more "swag" to advertise the hive
    • we need someone to consistently answer the phone/check messages
  • There will be a vote on how much $$ to spend on printing pamphlets, stickers etc.

• Some discussion followed about space advertisement...
  • Ian M--advertise social side of things?
  • Ian (3.0) has some experience voice-overing intro videos
  • Dave--what will the distribution be?
    • Stack of brochures at hive, local sci-fi and game convetions, schools, etc.
      • Nancy: upcoming Science fiction convention: Millenicon
  • get more links to our webpage around online
  • Our website could use some updating
  • Shadoxx: Goal: In the next 6 months, a full redesign of the website
    • Conan may be able to help.
  • possible formats:business cards? bumperstickers? 3-fold pamplet?
• Shadoxx is coordinating this effort, talk to him after meeting or email him to help

• Mike--Cincy DIY calendar
  • monthly paper calendar put together by the Cincinnati DIY facebook group
  • Mike will send them some info about Hive events.

• March 2nd Tuesday speaker will be Carin, talking about Hexapod robot
• Short discussion of 2nd tuesday possibilities
  • April will be Robert Inhuman
  • Ham radio, as discusses last meeting.
  • Jason: minecraft talk?
    • Shadoxx--runs minecraft events for libraries, wouldn't be hard.

• Dave--open data hack-a-thon this thursday. OpenDataCinci
  • Brandery on Vine Street