From St. Louis Hackerspace Wiki

Contents 1 Objectives 2 Meeting Agenda 2.1 Officer reports 2.1.1 President 2.1.2 Vice President 2.1.3 Secretary 2.1.4 Treasurer 2.1.5 Sargent at Arms 2.2 Director Reports 2.2.1 Webmaster 2.2.2 Space Design 2.2.3 PR and Fundraising 2.2.4 Education 2.2.5 Social Affairs 2.3 Old Business 2.4 New Business 2.4.1 Other Projects 2.4.2 Voting Results 2.4.3 Follow up:

Objectives

Meeting Agenda

Get from the members, especially the new members about what they are looking for form the hacker space.

Pitch a topic tonight and see how its received and then go ahead and schedule the class and see how it goes.

Brainstorm with the group on the white board, then narrow it down to managable ideas and to who will actually show up. Everyone is interested in everything, but not necessarily willing to show up.

Officer reports

President

Greeted the new members. Tonight will be for gathering ideas. Making sure the space is for everyone. Disclosed that the Board will be meeting seperately, mainly to spare other members of the boring business side of the organization. However, all minutes from the board meetings will be posted online. Members are welcome to ask any board member questions they may have. Board members will give status updates during regular meetings as needed.

Vice President

Passed

Secretary

Passed

Treasurer

Any expenses that need to be submitted please do so. Please also pay any outstanding dues. Make sure we can cover our expenses with the nest egg we gained from the donations before we started spending towards extra purchases.

Sargent at Arms

Rules and policies for equipment are located on the wiki.

If a materials belong to you, please mark it with your name so that it doesn't accidentaly get used. This has already become an issue. A more official policy will be devoloped.

Director Reports

Webmaster

Still transistioning into the new role. Updates soon.

Space Design

See President

PR and Fundraising

Discussed Ryan's plan to sell make magazine subscriptions. Looking for fundraising ideas. Fundraising will goto new toys. Any services you can offer please contact Stacy on the forum or mailing list.

Education

Now officially the "Minister of Truth". Reiterated that we spoke during the board meeting that we are looking for ideas about classes. Hopes to have at least one educational event a week. Polling will be held on the forum for desired classes

Social Affairs

Refer to PR and Fundraising report above.

Old Business

No old business to discuss this week.

New Business

New members outnumber the current members tonight.

Opening up the floor for ideas. The ideas were then voted on for popularity of interests.  Each person present was allowed to vote for five different suggestions.  The following table includes a list of suggested ideas and total votes for each suggestion. The leading votes were highlighted.

Class	Votes
Starting a World of Warcraft Guild	1
Audrino Classes	16
Continuation of the Datamining talk from the Open House	1
Beginner Programming Class	9
MIT Processing Language	0
Ammunition Making / Firearms	1
Woodworking	10
Solder Practice	4
Robotics	6
Circuit Board / Electronics classes	13
VEX Iron Robot Competition	3
Lego Robot Competition	0
HTML/CSS Classes	4
Costuming and Sewing	6
Alternative Energy	6
Metal working and casting	4
Glass Blowing	1
3D Animation	2
CNC Milling	11
Monome	1
Amplifiers	3
Art Club	8
Screen Printing and T-Shirt Making	4
Leather working	2
Old School Materials	0
IT User Groups	2
Telephony	5
Console Game Modding	1
Darknet	6
Photography	3

Other Projects

Several other projects were suggested, and determined to be neccesities that need to be done regardless of the above voting.

• Complex Equipment Training
• Kids Programming.
• A reliable way to contact people at the space.
• Member Directory
• Show and Tell
• Library
• Non-kids Programming

Noah volunteered to show up at the SLUUG Steering Committee meeting to put us on their calendar.

Stacey suggested to the new faces at the meeting to consider becoming a regular member. She suggested that during the voting to meet with Deech to answer any questions, and with Keith to pay dues.

Voting Results

Voting finished at 8:55

Volunteers were solicited to take lead on the most popular class ideas:

• Derek will take lead on the Audrino class
• Ryan, with the assistance of Dan, will work on the CNC Milling class.
• Steven takes the lead on woodworking
• Keith will take lead on basic electronics.
• Stacey and Meredeth take lead on the Art Club
• Aram will check with Pete about taking on the Beginner Programming class. Ross will fill in if Pete declines.

Follow up:

• Keith to discuss how to progress with electronics class next week.  Likely starting at the end of February or during March.
• Keith also looking into an Amazon Affiliate account for the purchase of materials.
• It still needs to be determined if a class will be ongoing, or a one shot presentation.
• The Board needs to discuss the presence of minors without a legal guardian present, but under the care of someone else of legal age.
• Daniel posted to the record a need for faster internet access in the space.

The meeting ajourned at 9:28 with a round of introductions