January Monthly Meeting Agenda

Date: 17 January 2012 Time: 8PM-10PM Place: FamiLAB and Google Hangout

Agenda

• State of the Treasury
• Space update
• New Members
• Upcoming events
  • Mission Workshop
  • Classes
  • Retro Arcade

Decisions

• New Member Forms and Documentation - Presentation and Voting for Ratification Postponed pending further review. Hybridsix 08:04, 16 January 2012 (CST)
• Need approval to spend lab funds on electrical improvements - Mack 07:53, 17 January 2012 (CST)
• SOPA blackout? - Mack 11:40, 17 January 2012 (CST)

Discussion

• Members holding public events in the space: What are their obligations, how do we handle scheduling, how do we protect the lab? Mack 09:15, 16 January 2012 (CST)
  • event submission form page on blog that emails classes@familab.org based on How_to:_Classes,_Workshops_and_Events tetsuharu 11:48, 17 January 2012
• Ways we can better organize the lab Hybridsix 08:04, 16 January 2012 (CST)
  • Personal responsibility for cleanup of your trash. (Drink Cups, food wrappers, wire cutoffs, broken parts, wood/metal shavings, etc.)
  • Tool Storage
  • Pegboard Location
  • Component Storage (Through-Hole, DIP, Hardware, etc) Abyssknight 13:56, 16 January 2012 (CST)
  • StuffDB QR code labeling [1] (projector would be nice) [tetsuharu] 15:12, 17 January 2012

* Proposed Shop layout extravaganza with Hybridsix and AutoCAD (Projector Needed) Hybridsix 08:04, 16 January 2012 (CST) ** I'd ask that we shelve this for another discussion, unless you have specific suggestions and want a yea/nay vote on them Mack 09:15, 16 January 2012 (CST)

• Above postponed. Find interested parties who can spend some time with Hybridsix to devise Plan of Attack for next month's meeting. Hybridsix 12:09, 16 January 2012 (CST)
• Non-Member entrance provisions - When do we let them in, how can we keep them out when necessary. Hybridsix 08:04, 16 January 2012 (CST)
• Proposed LightBlock / Foyer area for front room. Hybridsix 08:06, 16 January 2012 (CST)
• Book scanner project status? Need to regroup and revisit commitments. Abyssknight 13:55, 16 January 2012 (CST)
• Policy on bringing items/cables/parts to the lab that have no specific immediate or future planned function. Are we accepting "donations" of random items? What are we accepting, what wont we accept? Hybridsix 17:36, 16 January 2012 (CST)
• LM eWeek Blimp Contest - gauge of interest. ($100-200 budget provided, build a blimp that can collect ping pong balls and deposit them safely.) Abyssknight 15:40, 17 January 2012 (CST)
• gadget emporium? Da3v 20:16, 17 January 2012 (CST)
• lasersaur? Da3v 20:16, 17 January 2012 (CST)