Meeting 2022-09-28

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Consensus Agenda

<no items submitted before saturday cutoff>

New Business

  • Welcome Thomas!

Member Reports

Board Reports

President's Report

  • No report.

Treasurer's Report

  • Budget: $12,485.13
    • Paypal $9,792.69
    • LESPFCU: $2,692.44
  • Monthly Membership Dues: $3430 (short ~$500)
  • Additional Income:
    • $400 from Blackbaud
    • $250 from American Online Giving Foundation, Inc

still waiting on security deposit, should come from Stephen momentarily

Secretary's Report

  • NY Charities form 500 for 2021 completed. Got email from them, need to correct some numbers to match 990.

Directors-at-Large's Report

  • No report.

Member and Project Reports

HMBot for Discord

Configured a bot to track RFID access scans with the space door. Currently posting to #bot-test channel. Contact @Jay for more information or improvements. Additional development will be tracked on Github Repo.

Electronics workstation shelf

pidge made a shelf for electronics table

Pros:

  • brings outlets forwards
  • gets tools out of the way for more workspace
  • top drawers actually attached to the wall with drywall anchors

Cons:

  • people under 5’ 5” may not be able to reach the drawers (will make a step stool)
  • some weird power blocks may obstruct the lowest drawers

Package delivery

jay: package delivery is iffy, some packages have been lost

meg: can we get a code for package delivery?

jay: probably not, since landlord has been strict with RFIDs

Ham radio

shway: people have been studying ham radio, see study guide in discord, tests are happening middle of the month

Lost & Found

drew: what do we do with misc items when cleaning up

peter: see last month's minutes for lost and found policy

Dungeons & Dragons

shway: D&D happening on Oct 29th

Cleanup & Sawdust

thomas: cleaned up a bunch of stuff, including sawdust all around mitre saw and in an uncovered outlet

peter: mitre saw has a vacuum connector now, please use it when using mitre saw

NASA Hackathon

shway: not hosting NASA hackathon in HM physical space, people can join HM virtual GatherTown

Wiki

peter: come have an opinion in #wiki-works channel if you want to coordinate wiki

shway: new members should get wiki accounts

robin: there are a ton of stale user pages on the front page, what should we do?

jay: remove from front page

peter: talk about in Discord and then just do it

Halloween

shway: halloween arts and crafts?

thomas: raffle?

shway: should we do a halloween thing???

thomas: make it an open house / recruiting event?

talk about it in #loosely planned gatherings channel

Power Tools

meg: please warn people before you use power tools, both a courtesy and safety issue

Classes?

meg: are we ready to host classes?

marsha: there's someone who whittles, I'd love to learn woodworking

nick and shway also interested

Gardening?

shway: wasn't there some gardening stuff?

peter: someone emailed info@hm offering to donate a wall-mounted hydroponics thing, haven't heard back from them after saying we'd accept it

Discord

nick: can we change #market to market / free stuff?

meg: will do that

Meeting Meta

  • Members in Attendance: Shway, Nick G, Marsha, Jay, Peter M, Thomas K, Robin, Ellen | Gadi F
    • on Zoom: Meg, Kevin S | Drew
  • Called to order at 7:35 by Peter M.
  • The meeting was adjourned at 8:04 by Peter M.
  • Minutes taken and submitted by Peter M.
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