Minutes:Meeting Minutes 20091027

Meeting Minutes of 10-27-2009

Location

i3Detroit

• 322 E. 4th St.
• Royal Oak, MI

Attendees

• Attendees: See the sign in sheet
  • ~10 members
  • ~4 visitors

Minutes

Introductions

• went around the room, explained i3 for new people
• Someone mentioned Techtown
• visitor: "I had been looking for something like this for a long time"

• how much for membership?
  • $100
  • three open slots for $50
  • not breaking even yet
  • still have some costs, 501c3 costs $700 to file

• how do you become a member?
  • visit the space
  • new members are voted in

Standing rules

• same as last week, been busy
• "it is reasonable that next tuesday there will be something to vote on"

• parking: where do we park by the way?
  • side streets
  • metered parking
  • free lot 2 blocks to the east
  • 328 east.. little shack, the people across the street own it.. check it out.. 4 on the alley, 10 more on the 3rd street side

Punch list

• get things done.. sign them off on the whiteboard
• if you're bored.. go to the list

Door alerts

• we need a feed or something to tell people someone is in building
• that way people will know when to stop by, without emailing Russ and asking him
• other groups have set up e.g. a twitter bot
• the security system has outputs for this, we would just need to figure it out

Classes

• Nick wanted to put together a calendar for classes
• hand it out on Wed/Thurs
• hang it up in the window
• he compiled the list of classes
• November is a booked month!
  • papercraft card making
  • Tuesday meetings
  • Intro to Web Design, Web Wednesdays
  • Organization I
  • Open shop
  • iPhone app development
  • Mercurial
• give Nick an Eventbrite account
• start coming up with ideas for December

Special announcement: Maker Faire 2010

• Dale from makemagazine is coming to i3
• we will be hosting a brainstorm session for Maker Faire 2010 at Greenfield Village
  • saturday 11/7 meeting at i3 Detroit
  • open meeting, 11am to 1pm
• there is also a meeting friday 11/6 at greenfield village
• they want us to be a part, they know we have a group of people now
• folks from AA mini maker faire will be in

November 21st - Detroit Urban Craft Fair

• at the Majestic
• all day event, on a Saturday
• i3 was asked to be a part of it
• stage area donated for i3 Detroit, do whatever we want, do something cool
• we are actually a sponsor
  • they have a clothing changing room, changing booth, but it was always half-finished
  • they want a cool, well put together changing room
• need to brainstorm, multiple things
• going to need to build it
• going to need people to volunteer at the event
• there will be a tweetup the night before on the 20th, at the Majestic

• Monday the 9th - cross stitching video game characters :)

Note on teaching classes

• we have a donation jar
• let classtakers know we operate on donations / memberships
• "donate whatever you can, $1, $5"

• also, if you host a class or group, please stay the entire time the attendees/guests are here, or ask another member to take over

Bylaw change

• from Nate:
  • 1 member 1 guest policy..
  • Nate wants to relax that policy.. unless it becomes a problem
  • proposed change: remove 1 member 1 guest policy.. move the guideline into the standing rules
• the rule has also been broken for classes (1 member.. classroom full of people)
• we need more of a system for classes

Co-working idea

• some members and potential members want to use the space for actual work, running a business during work hours out of the space
• M-F the space is mostly dead during work hours
• what happens when someone wants to use the band saw while someone is on the phone for work?
  • that's the nature of the space.. it's an open shop.. someone can use a noisy tool
• agreed: no problem with having members co-work in the space

Ignite Detroit

• meeting last week: Russ, Nick, Brandon Chestnut (bought domains), Sara (started a facebook group)
• Nick wanted to pull everyone together
• middle of January is the proposed date
• what is Ignite?
  • 20 speakers
  • 5 minutes, 20 slides, slides are on a fixed timer
  • open to any topic
  • quite popular
  • 400 people at Ignite Lansing #2
  • 300 people at Ignite AA
• where will it be held?
  • Mark Ridley's?
  • general feeling is to do it downtown
  • and the space should be free..

Dues

• next week is the first meeting of the month.. bring dues

FIRST robotics update

• Oak Park team is pretty much defunct
• two options:
  • Ferndale team
  • brand new team for Clawson High School
    • would be eligible for a grant
• Ted will follow up on those

• also, Evil Dead the musical.. talk to Ted.. two free tickets Halloween weekend

Administrivia

• member space.. back room needs to cleaned up

• idea for promotion - why didn't we have a table at the Ham Swap?
  • let's get a table at the L'Anse Creuse Ham Swap.. which is much bigger

• mailing list for non-members?
  • will go along with a full redesign of the site
  • we need a meeting to work on the redesign

• Wordpress meetup last night - seems like it went well

• shirt of shame
  • a horrible donated shirt from snorgtees.. it's not even funny
  • you are given the shirt if you break bylaws

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