Minutes:Meeting Minutes 20171205

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Agenda for 12-05-2017

Chair: Jamie Burdeski

Epoxy Resin Painting by James
Kevin twirling

Introductions

Experienced Members

  • Paul is planning to run classes on budgeting and crocheting. Let him know if you're interested @inaudible on slack.
  • Alec is a board member and one of the member advocates

New Members & Guests

  • Robert has a background in sculpture and audio-visual
  • Rado is here visiting and is from a hackerspace in Slovakia
  • Anthony is an engineer who likes to build stuff and this is his second time stopping by i3
  • Chris has been going through the membership phases and will be joining i3 soon
  • Gary is a techshop orphan who joined i3 last month. His background is in electrical engineering, computer science, and prop making

Show and Tell

  • Epoxy Resin Painting - James O'Dell
  • Oil painting from EmJae
  • Kevin is wearing his in-progress 17th century french court suit and he did a twirl

Old Business

Recent Classes

  • Epoxy Resin Painting Workshop by Emily
  • Miniature Painting Workshop by Swit
  • Introduction to Music Theory Class by Martee

Recent Meetups

  • Python User Group
  • Autonomous Vehicle Group

New Business

Announcements

i3 Demo Days - James O'Dell

  • Jan 27th, Saturday
  • Public event day
  • Show off demos, make and takes, projects, etc
  • Chance to show public what i3 can do
  • Wiki page to submit ideas/projects
    • Please suggest ideas, doesn't mean you have ran with the idea
    • Demo Day Jan 2018 - Link to submit ideas or email me
  • Contact James O'Dell - macodis@gmail.com

Emily: how are we going to advertise this locally? Gary: recommends getting in touch with local news as content for their weekend shows

More Epoxy Resin Painting Workshops

Emily will be hosting two more epoxy resin workshops:

  • 12/13, 7-9 pm
  • 12/16 1-3 pm
  • Look for announcement and Eventbrite links soon...

Christmas Wreath & Centerpiece Workshop

  • POC: Jen N
  • Bring your greens, the rest will be provided for a $20 fee
  • 12/16 at noon

Board Meeting Schedule

Next week's board meeting will be on Monday instead of Tuesday. Meetings will be back on Tuesday starting in January.

Zone updates

Compute Zone

  • Nothing new, contact James O'Dell for large format printer introduction

Craft Room

Commons

New paint box for doing all your smelly VOC spray painting inside. Just in time for winter!

Sewing

New supplies and stock:

  • Thimbles in small, medium and large
  • Leather needles in 80, 90 and 100 for the "home" machines (Husqvarna SE and Emerald, and Singer 1507
  • Marking pencils
  • new knee pad for the industrial
  • Pins for general sewing, you can find these on our new pin cushion I got a while ago.
  • Fray Block
  • Sew-in Velcro
  • New spools of sew-all thread to replace the used colors

If there's a reimbursement amount marked on these, throw the equivalent of your use into the craft room donation box so we can continue to keep a supply of tools and other stuff for your use.

Leather Loft

  • We have a new awesome press and a ton of bits - Thanks David H for getting it on Black Friday!
  • It will be arriving soon, and will have required traing because it's easy to damage bits.

Media Lab

  • Nothing new, zone has been used a lot

SIGs

Sewing

  • Tomorrow is sewing night
  • Sunday is sewing day

COWBELL

Meeting Metrics

  • Time completed: 8:04
  • Attendees: 20

Action Item Summary

No action items.

Proposal Summary

No proposals.

Attendance

  1. Mike F
  2. Joseph B
  3. Steve N
  4. Dave S
  5. Paul L
  6. Rado S
  7. Evan P
  8. Chris B
  9. Vivian S
  10. Ross S
  11. Karianne G
  12. Ross T
  13. Anthony R
  14. Emily A
  15. Matt C
  16. Alec B
  17. Matt S
  18. James O
  19. David H
  20. Jan H


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