Minutes for 2025-08-26

Meeting Location

Meeting was Called to Order At: 19:35

https://i3detroit.org/hangout and at i3Detroit

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Hybrid Meeting Etiquette

Be excellent.
Attendance and voting can be found in the #meetings slack channel.
Please show up early if you are concerned about your audio.
If there is no one waiting to speak feel free to do so at the next opportunity.
If there is someone waiting to speak, please say that you are raising your hand in the google call chat. (This will be demonstrated)
Please refrain from other side conversations, these can be distracting for the rest of the meeting and make it difficult for the chair to keep track of what's going on.
If you're in the space remember that having a single person speaking at a time is helpful for those attending online.

Introductions

What does being excellent at i3 mean

An experienced member explains what being excellent at i3 means to them

Lew: Involves many things. Involves being kind to others in the space and being friendly. Have a warm and inviting community. Leave you r area better than you found it. If you're bale to help somebody please do that.
Jeff P: don't just leave a tool somewhere. Somebody left a mop. It's important to return tools in their place.

Experienced Members

Jeff P: Current media zone coordinator. Soon to be accompanies by a committee that will help lead things. Beieves this is the best structure vs ZCs.
Frank A: Been a member for 3 years. Very active in the wood shop. Also active in other area sin the space. On the board, VP membership and active in the CRM initiative.
Jan H: Coordinator of sewing room. We will have a new sewing room! Have a good team of people. Also co-cooroidinator of the craft zone. Has been a member of i3 for 10 years.

New Members & Guests

Elliot: Recent U of M grad. Like stop do woodworking and sewing, some screen printing, paper craft. Took tour 5 years ago but quickly went back to college but now he's a member here. A lot has changed in 5 years!

Show and Tell

Frank: We got an Avid CNC. We had a challenge with the dust collection. It was very easy to hit clamps, so Frank made a 3D printed clamp system so it doesn't matter if the machine hits it.
Matt: Screen sharing a video of his giant parade puppet. 12 ft tall puppet out of Bambu and gymnasium floor rubber. Mounted onto a hiking backpack which he strapped to himself so he put it on his knees. Operated the hands with his hands.
Lew: Leather wallet!

Old Business

One week left to vote in the board election. You should've received an email from Opavote to your email in the CRM. Please reach out to secretary@i3detroit.org if you didn't
New ZCs for the Auto (Sid W), Paint Zone (Ray L), and Tool Crib (Wei G)

Outstanding Action Items

New Business

Upcoming Events

Volunteers to host upcoming Friday tours?
Up coming Events Calendar
Need people to teach classes.

Notes to events: 2 events are planned (Jewelry, Stop the bleed)- they are not posted yet.

Date	Event	EventBrite Link
26 Aug 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
28 Aug 2025	Kicad PCB Workshop
29 Aug 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
30 Aug 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
2 Sep 2025	Member Meeting- Political speech for Board positions	N/A
5 Sep Aug 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
6 Sep 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
9 Sep 2025	Memberification and paperwork
9 Sep 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
11 Sep 2025	Kicad PCB Workshop
12 Sep 2025	Leather Lounge Fridays	N/A
12 Sep Aug 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
13 Sep 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
14 Sep 2025	SEMCO Board Meeting Meeting 11:30AM
14 Sep 2025	SEMCO Meeting 1 PM
16 Sep 2025	BOARD MEETING
19 Sep 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
20 Sep 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
20 Sep 2025	EMPUG 1 PM
23 Sep 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
25 Sep 2025	Kicad PCB Workshop
26 Sep 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
26 Sep 2025	Still Life Art 2025	N/A
27 Sep 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
27 Sep 2025	POTLOCK
3 Oct 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
4 Oct 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
7 Oct 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
9 Oct 2025	Kicad PCB Workshop
10 Oct 2025	Leather Lounge Fridays	N/A
10 Oct 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
11 Oct 2025	Robot Combat
11 Oct 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
12 Oct 2025	SEMCO Board Meeting Meeting 11:30AM
12 Oct 2025	SEMCO Meeting 1 PM
14 Oct 2025	Memberification and paperwork
14 Oct 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
17 Oct 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
18 Oct 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
18 Oct 2025	EMPUG 1 PM
21 Oct 2025	BOARD MEETING
23 Oct 2025	Kicad PCB Workshop
24 Oct 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
24 Oct 2025	Still Life Art 2025	N/A
25 Oct 2025	Sewing and elab buildout
31 Oct 2025	In-Person Friday Night Tours!
11 Nov 2025	Member Meeting	N/A
25 Nov 2025	Member Meeting	N/A

Do we need to better describe disciplinary action ?

Added by Jeff Burdick.

Looking to discuss disciplinary action.

The only disciplinary methods in our standing rules are probation and banning
The rules do not describe responsibilities around equipment authorization
By extension, the rules do not describe the removal of authorization on equipment

Can members be banned from the use of a zone?
If a user is abusing a zone sufficiently to warrant banning from a zone, should we just extend that to probation or banning from the space?

Trying to see if there's a consensus in agreeing with what the board did in the Auto Zone: like a conditional zone ban.
Some members have been less than excellent in specific zones of the space. The standing rules are lacking. We can do probation and banning, that's pretty much it. Both are rather severe. Equipment authorization/de-authorization isn't in the rules.
People proposed maybe doing "chores" as a punishment or doing some kind of service to the space. The one downside brought up was that people should be doing that regardless.
- People who have been un-excellent have "taken away" from the space, so they should give back to the space with service
- Jeff: somebody in Richmond HackerVA was found to be drinking. The membership voted to ban the member (not at the board level). If you want to be allowed back in, you have to please your case and you have to be voted in. The person came back and apologized and then they were allowed back in and were a great member.
If you can't trust the person in a zone, they shouldn't be in the space. We could also temporarily make them not members anymore (i.e suspension).

Example Topic

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Zone updates

Automotive Zone

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Bicycle Shop

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Ceramics Zone

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Classroom

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CNC Zone

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Commons Area

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Craft Room

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Electronics Lab

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Fab Lab

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Glass Zone

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Infrastructure

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Injection Molding

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Jewelry Zone

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Kitchen Zone

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Laser Zone

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Leather Zone

Bg shoutout and thank you to Alex Z for their help. Everything is now leveled and ready to go. Leather zone is also looking for more people to make some leather stuff. Got a new set of dis for the next wallet class. Will schedule a class! Will also try to be here on Friday to help people to make a new bracelet.

Machine Shop

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Media Lab

Jeff is trying to get printers working. We need to get rid of any printer that says the word i3 on it (if it says xxx- i3). Don't use it. Those will connect with Jeff on this.

Sewing Zone

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Storage Zone

Will set up mini storage zone meeting to fix parking permit format to look into how the new CRM is going to look. Hoping to get other people to hang out to get more input . Will post that in the slack soon - in the storage channel

Tool Crib

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Vinyl Zone

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Welding Zone

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Wiki

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Wood Shop

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SIGs

MotorSports

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HAM

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Letterpress

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Robotics

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Combat Robotics

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Cosplay

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i3TV

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Screen Printing

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Safety Committee

Safety committee is being restarted to review our safety precautions. Next committee meeting will be in September. Please reach out to Paul Askins, or Andrew Youmans to get involved.

COWBELL

Broom Party!

Action Item Summary

No action items.

Proposal Summary

No proposals.

Meeting Metrics

Time completed: 20:29
Attendees: 15

Attendance

Chair: Matt
Secretary: Daniel
Paul L
William K
Jan
David H
Brian B
Jill B
Greg
Evan G
Jeff P
Jeff B
AJ
Martee
Lew D

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