July 28, 2009

Meetings
Previous Meeting: July 14, 2009	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: August 4, 2009

Time: 7:00 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

1. COO Report
   1. fridge
   2. utility sink
   3. shelving
   4. Door Locks
   5. Leaks
2. Phone List / Google Voice
3. Internet for the space (skip til next week - craig out of town)
4. Insurance
5. Party report
6. Tshirts
7. Co-lo box
8. Donation Spreadsheet
9. MakerBot
10. Five Minutes of Fame
    1. Time Slots
       1. 8:00pm - Jim with homebrew CNC
       2. 8:06pm -
       3. 8:12pm -
       4. 8:18pm -
       5. 8:24pm -
       6. 8:30pm -

Attendees

• Karl
• Hodapp
• ChrisA
• Chrisha
• Jim
• Nauseaboy
• Jrhoffa
• Kibitz
• Karen
• Dave
• Kris
• Catherine

Minutes

The Hive

• Kibitz just got a text from Vendy:
  • Networking help, please check on the wiki, mailing list it
    • Karl has equipment
    • Kibitz recommends do it on the second weekend of August
  • Vendy has co-lo box in hand
• fridge:
  • it's hard to get the craigslist / freecycle ones
  • Kibitz: should we just buy one?
  • Karl: there is a used appliance store in northside; could be as cheap $100-150
  • Dave: we should get one (even if it means buying it) by the next party.
• Kibitz: i have a gas stove i can donate. need help getting it out
• We should a look at what our plumbing situation is if we want to hook up new stuff
• we need to talk to criag/landlords about the lock situation
• Kibitz: can we also ask the landlords about the windows?

Phone List / Google Voice

• ChrisA: we have a google voice number, a gizmo account, and a 425 area code phone number :)
  • it is tricky to set up a hunt list the way we wanted
  • if we set up a SIP box in here, we can haz telephony
• if we do a asterisk box here, we can do hunt list ourselves here

insurance

• kibitz: limit what you do now so that you don't have to carry a huge amount of waivers and can save cost
  • if we say we are definitely not going to do, definitely are going to do

party report

• it was sweet!
• jrhoffa: need more semi-organized events/activities
  • like instead of just having guitar hero, do guitar hero competition, etc
• jrhoffa: grillin
• everyone: bacon...

tshirts

• t-shirts are in hand now as of wednesday morning. Starbuck late for meeting because his job hates him.

donation spreadsheet

• dave slacked it's not built yet

MakerBot

• dave: ordered
• pledgie exists, please contribute!
• Hive76 is taunting us on twitter
• it will be on it's way sept. 3rd

presentations set up

• we should start looking for guest speakers to come talk to us
• Karl when is the IT Crowd -athon?
• we can do five minutes of fame too

Next Actions

• coordinate via mailing list what day to have networking-athon
• shop around a little for used fridges, pick date to buy one
• examine plumbing situation for possible future utility sink, etc; mention this to landlords
• ask landlords about the windows - can they be opened, uncovered, etc?
• build an asterisk box to live in the hive
• write up list of activities we definitely will and won't do for insurance purposes
• plan activites, etc for august party
• get tshirts
• build donation spreadsheet
• contribute to makerbot pledgie campaign
• work on getting people to come and give talks (also, do better scheduling of Five Minutes of Fame)