Minutes:Meeting Minutes 20130917

2013-09-17 I3Detroit Regular Member meeting 7:30pm

Chair Justin Triplett

Agenda

• Intros - New Members / Guests
• Quick general discussion of meeting time
• Enforcement of sign in sheet for guests
• Appointment of Secretary
• Security Camera footage review
• Election of individuals by the general membership
• Coordinator Updates
• New Business

Intros: New Members / Guests

• Chris. Hi Chris.
  • New to Ferndale
  • Veteran
  • Artist
  • Paper maker
  • Interested in technological art

Meeting Time

Quick general discussion of meeting time

• Consensus for 7:30 pm meeting time
• A change would take a vote from board and general membership
• Original intent in by-laws was to have "doors open at 7:00pm" to allow non-members in. -Matt S.
• Proposed item for board to remove timestamp from by-laws. -Matt H.
• No one attending hates the idea of removing time from by-laws

Sign in Sheet

Enforcement of Sign in sheet for guests

• Currently not enforced very strongly
• Important to avoid litigation or theft, etc.
• Review of sign-in sheet process
  • Nate B. pretends to be lost.
  1. No unescorted guests!
  2. Liability form. Fill it out once per guest.
  3. Sign in sheet
     • Fill out for guests once per visit.
     • Sponsor member must stay present or hand off guest to a new sponsor

Ideas

• Door person idea: Assign someone to be on door duty. -New Chris
• Sign out: not currently necessary, but might be a good idea
• Put a concierge bell by the front so guest can get member attention. -Ken
• Revive open Fridays

Appointment of Secretary

• General members elected someone who does not exist(?).
• Some communication with elected secretary by email, but email address disappeared.
• Board voted over email and elected this guy ... applause ...
• Ohai! ~kmbrown314

Security Camera

Security Camera footage review

• We're being surveiled? Yes.
• For safety and prosperity.
• Recordings cannot be viewed without following a process.
• Process not implemented
• Incident in woodshop
  • Something was disassembled
  • Camera was viewed to determine what happened

• Idea: At least two persons from each group must decide that viewing the camera is necessary
  • Group A: Board + Officers
  • Group B: Member elected group
• Tabled.

Coordinator Updates

• E-Lab -Nate B.
  • Nothing of note..........that's it.
• Lazer Cutter: No news is good news -Matt A.
• Craft room: No news. -Kevin F.
• Kiln Zone -Terry
  • We can now make drop cast glass bowls
  • Kiln is up an running
  • New expansion to kiln zone up and running by end of September
    • Expanding 48" away from wall
  • Ceramic kiln operational - seeking those with ceramics experience
  • Public kiln class 10/10/13
  • Donation of a glass edge grinder - It needs maintenance, new parts, a table
• Tree house: Still a tree
• Wood Shop -Dave S.
  • Getting a tool grinder and Wooden lathe tools
• Machine Shop
  • The new buffer
    • It's larger than we thought
    • Actually, just a very large belt sander
    • Needs some work
  • Seeking metal drill press, $600 budgeted for it
  • New tools budget - currently under by $750
  • 'Fantastic' Craftsman tool chest donated by Gary Warren
  • Tools organized in steel cage? Not yet.
    • Not yet
    • Shelves to be added
    • Labels to be had
    • Help needed
• CNC Zone
  • No wood projects, spindle is not fast enough to do a good job
  • Update on new CNC
    • Donation is going forward
    • Current owners recieve their replacement on 10/28/13
    • New CNC going in the corner currently occupied by the Robotics Zone
    • Volunteers needed to move and reorganize shop for CNC-Robotics-Tool Crib area.
• Compute Zone -Justin T.
  • Software Freedom Day
    • Saturday 9/21/13, 1pm to 7pm
    1. 8GB USB drives with Linux or whatever FOSS, $7 donation
    2. Terreria
       • It's 2D Minecraft, but massive
       • Metroid meets Contra
    3. FPGA stuff
    4. Minecraft bukkit server for Python hacking
    • Volunteers?
    • Don't forget the sign in sheet for participating guests!
• Welding
• Tool Crib
• Fab Lab

New Business

• Email from Nick B. about Urban sensor hacks from Make Magazine. Seeking representation from big hackerspaces across country. Talk with people who are building stuff. -Matt O.
  • This is a personal invitation from the CEO of Make Magazine to get involved with this. Any one interested in organizing this?
  • Idea: censor network. Bleep out things people say? -New Chris
  • What is a sensor?: temperature, pressure, light, distance, moisture, etc.
  • Idea: Fukushima(sp?) - radiometer sensors used to track people in the area and compared with official sensors. -Terry
  • Who is interested: Max S, Justin T, Mark M, Kevin F, New Chris

• Roeper School -Matt O.
  • A private K-12 school
  • Looking for someone to come give a talk on creativity or projects done at i3.
  • Slots open at 8:30am on the 3rd Friday of the month in December, January, March, or April.
  • Will pay the individual, your option to donate
  • One time offer

• North American Sci Fi Convention 2014 -Matt A.
  • Detroit won right to run it at Ren. Center
  • Calling all Exhibits, workshops, demos
  • July 17th to 20th 2014
  • Point of contact: Matt Arnold

• Ham Radio -Mark M.
  • Antenna needs to go on roof
  • Landlord doesn't want anything on the roof
  • Justin is point of contact
  • Non-penetrating roof mounts not allowed according to Nate B.
  • Stick it to the wall instead?

• BK Precision -TJ
  • TJ's Zero to 2 Amp power supply departing from E Lab
  • Will return, but date is T.B.D.

• Art Classes -Kevin F.
  • General call for interest, yes from members present.
  • How do you make a modified budget proposal?
    1. Make a proposal
    2. Submit it to the Board

• Racing deathmachine at Thunder Drome -Derek
  • Two wheels
  • 55 MPH
  • Velodrome at Mound & Outer Dr.
  • Saturday 9/21 and Sunday

• Public Glass Casting -Terry
  • October 10 7pm to 9pm
  • Still has slots open

• Lan Party
  • Point of contact: -Matt S.
  • October 12, 2013
  • Terreria
  • Potentially other games
  • Open to guests

Action Items

• Konrad Brown: Email to list for electing security camera administrators
• Chris A: organize Urban Sensor Hacks
• Nate B: Perfect a functional phaser design for N.A. Sci Fi Convention
• Justin Triplett: Talk to landlord about putting ham radio antenna on the roof.

Attendees

• Justin Triplett
• Maddy Winans
• Konrad Brown
• Matt Oehrlin
• Brian Wennberg
• Steve Nowick
• Mark Miles
• Aaron Greenwell
• Margaret Leyell
• Dave Scholl
• Chris Arendt
• Mark Lenigan
• Kevin Flory
• Matt Arnold
• Matt Switlik
• Matt Huber
• Ken Buttery
• Terry Wynn
• Nate Bezanson

Virtual

• Nate Warnick
• Ed Platt
• Adrienne Patterson

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