Meeting 2023-09-27

New Business

• Spending up to $195 on 250 brochures for Makerfaire
  • 7 yea, 1 abstention, 1 nay
  • passes
• Lending soldering irons to Makerfaire
  • 9 yeas, no nays
  • passes

Member Reports

Board Reports

President's Report

• No report.

Treasurer's Report

• $280 for power bill

Secretary's Report

• Previous minutes approved

Directors-at-Large's Report

Ellen

• Brought the safety waivers back out. Please have people sign these!

Member and Project Reports

Luna

• Sent an email to Makerfaire asking about the bigger table in exchange for soldering irons

Peter

• Someone said our makerspace felt more welcoming than other makerspaces. Thanks everyone for making it a welcome place.

Anna

• A couple of days ago a non member who regularly showed up at hack told me that one of our members went up to them and tried to guilt them into paying for membership and got a little aggressive about it. I feel like that’s beyond not okay. Hack is and always has been a community space, and I really don’t feel like it’s anyone’s place to try and cajole someone into membership.

Ellen

• Update on JP phones. This month has been pretty active. Most of them are not in NY but invited people from the project to join the discord. Right now there’s a stream on Twitch showing the brute force decryption of the DRM on one of the phones. ETA 24 days. This might mean recovery of several new games never before archived, but it could be nothing.
• Updating the hack Manhattan wiki with progress on that as well

Tristan

• The “is anyone in the space” project… is bot access ok?

Shway

• Went to Shakespeare night with Xander last Monday. They’re definitely still active. Tale of Genji is the current reading. It’s currently still online but if more members get involved it could become in person/hybrid again.

Clyde

• Arcade update – 4 drawers will be completed this weekend in time for Makerfaire. For Makerfaire we’ll use Clyde’s smaller version of a similar concept so that we don’t need to disassemble the arcade.

Michelle

• Finished the winter soldier cosplay. Might bring it to Makerfaire!

Meeting Meta

• Members in Attendance: Peter M, Ellen, Clyde, Robin, Tristan, Luna, Michelle, Shway, Jay
• Visitors: none
• Called to order at 7:39pm by Peter M.
• The meeting was adjourned at 8:09pm by Peter M.
• Minutes taken and submitted by Robin.