Thanks for taking notes Weston with the absence of myself and Jeff. I'm glad we had some good discussions happening at the member meeting.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Weston Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wstnturner@gmail.com" target="_blank">wstnturner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Eugene Maker Space Membership Meeting
9/29/2012 Notes</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Members Present:</p>
<ul>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Bob Miller (discussion leader)</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Kassandra Kaplan</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Ben Hallert</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Darrell Perko</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Mark Danburg-Wyld</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">New guy, forgot name (sorry)</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Ionel Pusca (technically present
:-)</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Weston Turner</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br></p></li></ul>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Meeting started at roughly 1:20pm.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Discussion Topics:
</p>
<ul>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Changing the meeting time (how
self referential):</p>
</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Action item: Preference voting
using Doodle (again). Darrel elected to head this up</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">My 2 cents: although mid
afternoon on a Saturday is perfectly doable for me, It would seem
that having the meeting earlier (9am perhaps) would be a good start
to a Saturday. It would get us up and out of bed and be a good
kickstart to the day rather than an interruption to it. It is
plausible that the average Maker Space member would have big plans
on a Saturday and want more continuity in the day.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Shop Floor plan:</p>
</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Action item: Move Red-Bull
project to upper level next to Tesla Coil.</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Action item: Label things, I
suggest labeling tool cases as a high priority since it is not
always obvious what is inside them, and one must spend time
searching through them in order to find out.
</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Vote: Label personal things, If
your name is not on your stuff by some time in November, then it
becomes shop property. Decided in the affirmative unanimously.</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">W tentatively enlisted James
Hukill (in absentia) as the manager of space and junk</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Discussion topic: Do we want a
couch in the shop? opinions were mixed. We want to open this topic
up to wider discussion.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Finances: We are broke</p>
</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">We need more members and more
creative ways to raise money</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Action item: Advertise on
Craigslist, UO, LCC, and the Science Factory (forget who elected to
head this up but you know who you are).</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Discussion topic: Time banking. We
initially thought it would be a good idea to require key-holders to
work for an hour each month doing shop improvement. But then we all
turned against the idea (curious...) I still think time banking is a
good idea, but we would need to develop a good accounting system for
it and be careful not to alienate members by creating a teared
membership structure.</p>
</li></ol>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0in"> Shop Jobs</p>
</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Action item: Create a list of jobs
that need to be performed periodically in the shop. Kassie elected
to head this up.</p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Vote: Create a checklist of tasks
that will be performed after the open house nights and before
closing the shop. For example: take out the trash, vacuum and sweep,
etc.. Decided in the affirmative unanimously. Ben, Kassie, and
Weston will head up the creation of the list and the criteria for executing each task, e.g., trash above a certain level, made a big mess with the drill press.. </p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Vote: Perform a quarterly shop
cleanup. Decided in the affirmative unanimously.
</p>
</li></ol>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Meeting adjourned at 2:30.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Best Regards All, Weston</p>
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