Meeting 2024-06-26

Consensus Agenda

No items for consensus

New Business

Proposed by Hannah: $500 budget for merchandise. Custom HackManhattan T-shirts to be sold at HOPE and following HOPE. Aiming to purchase shirts for up to $12. Aiming for around $6 if we buy blanks and print them ourselves

Vote: 7 ayes, 1 nay, 2 abstentions. Vote passes!!

Sponsored Members Induction

• Charlie
• Glib

Member Reports

Board Reports

President's Report

• The AC is fucked. If you know a HVAC tech, send us their information
• Coney Island Makerfaire has sent us a draft contract. More information to come as we look it over.

Treasurer's Report

May Totals:

• Number of Active Members: 48
• Operating Expenses: 3,954.40
• Rent: 3,120.99
• Utilities: 584.26
• Other: 249.15
• Total Income: 4,672.42
• Income from dues: 4,360.00
• Income from donations: 312.42
• Net Income: 567.17

Secretary's Report

• No report.

Directors-at-Large's Report

• No report.

Member and Project Reports

• Ellen: Sideloading applications onto Japanese feature phones is now possible!! A discord for the Ketai Wiki has been established, a link https://discord.gg/tWUYbF3N9F
• Tristan: Tristan got a bissel carpet cleaner for the space.
• Tristan: The lock on the office door was not operable by members. It has been removed until it is fixed.
• Tristan: Tristan is gonna try to finish repairing the laser soon! He purchased some sort of rotational engraving attachment to make custom engraved water bottles
• Michelle: Michelle is making good progress on her cosplay outfits. She is hand-filigreeing her HoTD outfit
• Justine: Justine has finished making the body of her sweater and is now on the sleeves!
• Nick: To all NYS residents: New York's DOL will pay for your Coursera account. They have some really solid classes, I'm taking a classes
• Nick: Regarding tickets to hope to operate our table, Widget (the Hackerspace village organizer) says "Our general policy is that people needed to run a Village get a ticket to HOPE." I don't know exactly what that means but I believe 2-4 tickets would be reasonable.
• Hannah: Look into getting an idnyc card. It can get you into some things for free
• Pidge: Hydroponics unit might be fixed? All the plants which were planted are dead, but we believe the unit to be correctly functioning

Meeting Meta

• Members in Attendance: Hannah, Pidge, Jay, Michelle, Nick, Bill, Ellen, Shway, Justine | Tristan
• By Proxy: Shaina (Jay)
• Called to order at 19:45 by Pidge.
• The meeting was adjourned at 20:23 by Nick.
• Minutes taken and submitted by Nick.