October 6, 2009

Meetings
Previous Meeting: September 29, 2009	Meeting Procedure	Next Meeting: October 13, 2009

Time: 7:00 PM

Space: Anchor Building, 2929 Spring Grove Ave.

Agenda

Status Updates / Old Business

• Officer Reports
  • President
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer
  • COO
  • CTO
• Form 1023 -Dave
• Cabling Oct. 10 - Starbuck
• Console Gaming Night Oct. 10 - ???
• MAME barter with KOIPound - Starbuck, Craig, ChrisA
• Cincy Co-Works - cjdavis
• Propaganda / Diplomacy Committee - ???
• BattleBots - Nathaniel

New Business

• Scheduling a Special Review Meeting - Dave
  • reviewing fees, officers, committees, etc.
• Establishing Policies - Board of Directors
  • contributing vs full, lending vs donating
• Roadmap
• University of Cincinnati Laboratory for Recreational Computing Linux Installfest http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/installfest/
• KOIPound

Attendees

• Dave
• gerard
• (someone)
• chris davis
• Paul
• Kris
• (someone)
• pokes
• nathan
• Chris A
• avishaan
• jason
• craig
• Jim
• linville
• TP

Minutes

KOI burners

• pokes, nathan, britney
• have a similar space KOIPound, 2008 freeman ave.
  • performance space, workshop space, open courtyard
• "collective of performers, artists, makers, mad scientists..."
• going to do a MAME cabinet project
• pedal-powered art car with some tech aspects
• will be getting into metalworking
• would be awesome to trade skills and projects
• around 30ish regulars
• koipound.org koiburners.com
• full woodshop, leather-smithing shop, stone carving tools,
• we have open potluck every week on wednesdays and sundays
• membership is $25 per month, was $50 for access to the shop
• craig: there is a contact in this shop with the ability to hook us or koi up with metalworking tools
  • let's follow up on this!
• let's trade emails, etc.

cincy co-works

• gerard
• co-working spaces are for people that would otherwise be working from home, tele-commuting, stuff like that
• gives people with laptops a place to work besides starbucks, panera, etc
• we are trying to start one up in cincinnati (there isn't one yet)
• there is also a Jelly group in cincinnati that is sort of related
• we are currently looking for a space, figuring out business aspects
• have had a couple successful meetups
• also good for networking with other people
• hive13 is pretty much empty all day in the day time
• is hive13 is maybe not finished enough?
  • co-working spaces are traditionally slicker than what we have here
• gerard is cool with how finished hive13 is
• would like to schedule a regular meeting at a regular place
  • cjdavis can let you in
  • pick a time and do it!  :)
  • about an 8 hour block
• might possibly charge for it

photographer

• a contact that Kris knows looking for a new space to to work
• does food, would upgrade the kitchen
• we should definitely talk to this guy too

Form 1023

• almost done
• will run it by experts within this week
• will post a query to the hackerspaces.org list also

networking

• let's just get it done
• tonight!

treasurer

• down this month
• 12 full, 6 student
• send out an email about membership drive to bring in new members?
  • everyone try to bring in new people with publicity
• not enough money to spend on extras this month

fees

• our fee is kinda high right now
• we can't lower it yet

should we have a 6-month review meeting

• yes, maybe it would be wise for at least the board to sit down
• or maybe quarterly?
• yes

membership tiers?

• lower fees?
• reduce to one tier?
• people keep wanting to become contributing members to pay less but then don't contribute extra
• "in-kind donation"
• how do account for what people "contribute"
• avishaan: maybe we need more group projects, competitions
  • everyone wants to be a part of a group
  • example: red bull racing, pumpkin tossing

competitions - group cohesion

• we need to do more of this type of stuff
• fun nights, movie nights
• open hack nights
• weeknights that are more generic - like instead of python night make it every wednesday is code night, microcontroller mondays
• give people reasons to come
• microcontroller mondays
• programming wednesdays
• drink beer friday - "full frontal nerdity"
• eggbot
• monthly lockin/hackathon night

officer elections

• we need to replace officers
• we will hold election first meeting of november

PR committee

• this needs to be a working group
• Jim is interested in this
• we should blog more more
• show off our stuff
• whuffie/twitter

leaks

• ChrisA - if you know where the leaks are get ahold of doug cuz he's looking to fix it up

business cards

• let's get a nice design and order up a crapload for free from somewhere

gaming nights

• let's try to do this this weekend