Council Meeting Minutes for August 20, 2012

Attending

Shop Security
- Security Camera status:
- RFID status: Waiting for hardware to be mounted (gabe), will do in-place testing (not locking) once mounted. Need user agreement sheet w/ replacement costs.

Announcements list
- Next issue: 31 August, no later than 4 Sept. Need Friday night events.

Dues and Membership Levels - Deferred
- New dues paying options in place.
- Finish membership levels discussion from email - Need to have a dedicated meeting

Website
- Convene sub-group on website redesign - August (Defer)
- Eli's friend eval - Eli will set up meeting w/Drue, council

Form letter to reply to folks who want to donate stuff? (Maybe a wiki page or ...) (deferred)
Donations must be approved by the council. Need to remind membership of this.
Garage sale in August

Unblocked by electrical work
- Electronics Station - still needs work
- Craft area - getting attention
  - Leather sewing machine project
Robot parts: Eli will look at that and at finishing the shop shop reorg.
Shop cleanup:
- Once a Quarter cleanup day (weekend, major)
Propose to members that we shoot for one workshop/class per month
- We're stumbling on getting classes arranged/organized.
Friday night event planning
- Not just talks
- As with Shop Cleanup, maybe we relieve some schedule pressure with:
- FiniSH IT Fridays (every 2nd or 3rd month)?
- Game nights (Artemis or otherwise?)
- Food event (every 2nd/3rd month, we've had Miracle Fruit, Truffles, Mead, and now Coffee)
- Learn-to nights
  - Simple soldering? Yohe did a one solder joint Friday night event that was pretty successful
  - Learn to knit/crochet
  - Some kind of programming intro? (May be too long for a Friday night though)