March 21, 2017
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Previous Meeting: March 14, 2017 | Meeting Procedure | Next Meeting: March 28, 2017 |
Coordinates
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.
- Start moving tables, etc. in.
- 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
- Saturday Cleanup - March 25th
- 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
- Can move tables in here
- 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
- This Saturday, 25 March
- 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
- Completed Electronics Upgrade Project
- 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