March 21, 2017

Meetings
Previous Meeting: March 14, 2017	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: March 28, 2017

Time: 7:30 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Housekeeping

• Noise Curfew - Quiet hours are 10:30pm to 7am until further notice.
• Liability waivers must be legible

Old Business

• Space next door:
  • Start moving tables, etc. in.
    • think about the power needs and flexibility for moving those tables into different configurations
    • The full table move might need to wait for the electric upgrades
  • Leak status:
    • Need to nudge Garden Street about the leak above the workbench which has been ongoing for months and not fixed. A bucket is not a permanent solution, and people keep tripping over it.
• Voting system needs upgrading - Ian is working on it
  • Update
• Server Rack Overhaul
  • Update
• March Purgatory - reminder

New Business

• Upcoming events:
  • Saturday Cleanup - March 25th
    • Time TBD
    • Will have a list of cleaning tasks to direct help
    • Might provide food/drinks
  • Brad: Oscilloscope intro - Saturday April 1st?
    • See mailing list for interest poll to add to content of class
• Lorin is adding air drops and needs help:
  • This Wed (3/22) or Thurs (3/23) afternoon
• Lorin is doing a group digikey order, by end of day today
  • Add to mailing list thread if interested
  • Building Value, LLC
  • Approached us after attending meeting in January
  • Can donate shelving/other industrial things possibly?
  • In exchange for participating in their fundraiser with PTDR
• Electronic bench upgrade report:
  • Amount Spent: $542.98
  • Amount Budgeted: $1439.32
  • Remaining $709.16 remains in our accounts
  • We managed to spend less than half of the allotted budget due to scrounging, hacking, smart buying, etc.
  • Amazing job Lorin and those who helped along the way
• Vote tonight - electrical upgrades
  • See below and mailing list for details

Votes

• $700 for electrical improvement for the new space
  • More lighting - its own circuit as well as the fixtures
  • At least one, if not two, more 20A circuits for plugs
  • One 240V outlet for 240V things
    • 5 mailing list "yes" votes as of 16:30 on 3/21/2017

Minutes

Old Business

• Updates for the annex
  • Can move tables in here
    • Maybe as classroom space here, too
    • Wait for electrical upgrades for a lot of stuff
  • Still leaking
    • Talk to Garden Street and get them to fix it
    • Or maybe fix it itself
• Online voting
  • LDAP is starting to work
  • Starting work interface to create/manage profiles
• Server Update
  • Waiting for the hard drives to arrive
• March Purgatory
  • Take a look

New Business

• Upcoming events
  • This Saturday, 25 March
    • Cleaning, not organizing
    • Starts at noon
  • Brad's Oscilloscope intro
    • Date not yet firm, but Saturday, April 1
    • Split - hour of never seen an oscilloscope, hour of using the thing
• Lorin is adding air drops to the electronics area, this Wed. or Thurs. afternoon
• Lorin is also having a DigiKey Order
  • Go check the mailing list for more info
• Building Value might donate shelving
  • Or other industrial storage solutions
  • Donate things they have in exchange for us participating in their fundraiser
    • they suggested bringing PTDR
  • May 19th
  • Brad's getting more details
• Budget Report
  • Completed Electronics Upgrade Project
    • Spent about $450, had voted in about $1500
    • Scrounged, hacked, and fixed stuff for the upgrade
    • Lorin gets an attaboy
• Steve is going to be missing, can someone take over pizza
• Lounge PC
  • Should be fine after it gets Ethernet

Votes

• Greg proposes a vote for $700 for electrical improvements for the annex.
  • 5 yes votes from the list
  • Here: 15 here, 0 abstain, 1 no, 14 yes

Frisbee round!

• Elly - making thickness guides for rolling pin, finishing cedar outdoor table, maybe going backpacking
• Greg - brought some resistors and diodes to donate, has circuit board here he made, working on door access
• Mike - still kinda new, resurrecting hobby of R/C boats that fire ball bearings
• Aaron - brand new - 3D, props, costuming, neighbor has a 3D parlor near his house, recommended he go here
• Mike - brand new - grant from People's Liberty for his project, wants to learn electronics and coding, found us out by looking for someone to teach him
• James - new job in Easton, commute sucks, stressed
• Nancy - sewing, cleaning, waiting for warm weather
• Steve - RasPI
• Coy - CNC
• Brad - updating wiki
• Hodapp - nothing
• Karensa - cooking, baking, dishes
• Ian B. - auth system, actual job, not sleeping
• Dave L. - old cars, upgrading laptop, working on MIDI puncher
• John 2.0 - fighting with GPID interfaces for apes (???)
• John - circuit board design, neural network
• Adrian - selling shit, Mendelson's, MCM Electronics
• Will - Dengue fever, built some shit, testing flame cannon on Friday
• Brent - python, Inkscape plugins