Meeting 2023-08-30

Consensus Agenda

• Consensus Item 1: Attending Coney Island Maker Faire October 6-8.
  • passes

New Business

Sponsored Members Induction

Welcome Tristan M!

Member Reports

Board Reports

President's Report

• VGNY was looking for people to staff their booth at NY comic-con. Look at the new gigs and tasks channel.

Treasurer's Report

• Rent is up a scheduled 3% to $3120.99
• Still operating on a small loss
• Elec $270ish

Secretary's Report

• Previous minutes- approved

Directors-at-Large's Report

• No report.

Member and Project Reports

Shway

• Proposals of members projects or space needed for potential projects for Maker Faire 2023.
• Submitted out necessary forms (https://coneyisland.makerfaire.com/call-for-makers/)
• Yay/Nay to booth or sponsor. Additional costs/responsibilities involved with sponsorship.
  • Call for makers submitted. Intentionally vague so we can think of whatever projects/ideas we want to. It’s in the members’ discord (entire submission)
  • Maker table is 8x3ft, 2 chairs and a table. Upgrade to 10x10 is available for how much?
  • Clyde – Gametank, Shway – Typewriter, Robin – Radio, Sidepocket – Lockpicks
• Matthew, Ellen, & Shway did Raspberry Pi event
  • Dominican day parade was happening during the time so our street was closed off, making it very hard to get access.
  • Matthew interested in making another Pi project
• Nick, Shway, Tristan talking about a Git class on September 13th

Spaceheater

• Spaceheater did Holey Day event
  • People came in with expectations that repairs would be quick. Need to temper expectations on how much sewing can be taught and repairs can be done.
  • Perfect vibes
  • Might change it to un-holey day
• Shoutout: Luna continues to do an amazing job organizing and sorting things into drawers.

Anna

• menstrual products stocking the bathroom have been purchased by members. Call for Hack Manhattan as an organization to fund recurring purchases

Luna

• Rack Manhattan underpowered. Marceline is going to be giving us a new server. Password manager solution will be on that when it’s installed.
• Tomorrow we are getting 2 Ender 3s from someone from Mesh NYC meetup.
• Tristan and Luna working on MeshNYC connectivity. Difficult because our room has no line of sight.
• Tristan, Luna and Shway still working with MeshNYC to connect others. If interested in these meetups, contact Tristan, Luna, Shway.

Ellen

• Involved in preserving Japanese feature phones – flip phones from early 2000s-2010s, looking for exploits through browser and/or hardware hacking.
  • If people are interested, reach out to Ellen.
  • Figured out how to load shockwave files so far.

Tristan

• Hacking workshop posted on discord. Tristan has been talking to someone who wants to run workshops on Wi-Fi hacking. They previously ran workshops on satellite and drone hacking. There's a potential to use Hack as a space for a future watch party. The idea is to piggyback off a hackerspace to promote it. If there are proceeds, we get a cut.
  • The Drone one is scheduled for Sept 3rd, but that might be too soon.

Meeting Meta

• Members in Attendance: Anna, Peter M, Spaceheater, Luna, Michelle, Shway, Robin, Ellen, Clyde, Jay, Tristan |
• Visitors: Myron
• Called to order at 7:35pm by Peter M.
• The meeting was adjourned at 8:24pm by Peter M.
• Minutes taken and submitted by Robin.