Meeting 2011-09-20
From Hack Manhattan Wiki
Meeting will be held at 7:30PM at 137 West 14th St. Studio 201. We'll congregate in the space and then migrate down to Bunga's Den for a drink.
Agenda
- Ordering/gathering basic equipment
- Basic space layout (table/chairs/storage)
- prioritizing use
- equipment: electronics bench, sewing machine,
- guestbook (start w/ paper notebook?)
- Jeff will take over facilitie section of wiki
- add section on wish list for donations/loans
- rent hourly space from theaterlab?
- rent space from YMCA?
- Incorporation/board/elections
- Make final decision on name
- Appoint someone(s) to draft bylaws (see the sample bylaws on the administration page http://wiki.hackmanhattan.com/index.php/Administration)
- fail clause -- who gets stuff
- business plan draft (Julio)
- quote for liability insurance (dir and off. also)
- bylaws (send bylaws to Dan)
- sysadmin committee (Julio, Joe, Steven)
- Membership/dues/keys
- Analysis of projected expenses/costs vs. committed dues
- Activities planning
- Fund-raising
- kickstarter
- Project ideas / requests
- member area with pics & interests (chris)
- hackerspace winter mini con (daniel)
- parent/teacher/kid events (daniel)
- order kits & sell for classes?
- subsidize some kids
(please add items as you see fit)
- costs
- liability insurance, $50/mo, labor for landlord
- people feel good about starting in the subsidized space
- Infrastructure
- need wifi
Roll call
- Daniel Packer
- Nikolas Coukouma
- Julio Terra
- Sam Wurzel
- Joe Sadusk
- Steven Kreuzer
- Ai Coscolluela
- Jeff McCrum
- Bryan Newbolb
- Alex Kay
- Chris Stratton
- Stephen Lynch
- Dan Lavine
- Antonio Simonini
- Luke Swanson