Member Meeting Minutes for May 3, 2017

Minutes by Agenda Topic

• Attendees
  • Chad
  • James Hyde
  • Dave Coakley
  • Geno
  • Josh Smith
  • John Lewis
  • Adam Casto
  • Jesse
  • Rob Martin

Called to Order

• Called to Order At: 7:30pm

Learning Tracks / Classes

• Oscilloscope Class (First run is free, no material costs)
  • Will be part of Learning Tracks in the future
  • Scheduled May 5 @7:30pm
• Remake Learning Days
  • May 15 PNC event and May 20: Learn to Solder Class
• Motor Control
  • June 17 @ 10am
• National Week of Making
  • June

Potential Events/Talks/Classes

• Needs to be rescheduled
  • 8 Year Party
  • Biohacking: The moral Imperative to Build a Better You
  • MetaMesh: Ethernet cable class / Talk
  • Fidget Spinner class for kids
    • Dave Coakley and Rob Martin

• Talks
  • John Lewis
    • SSH VNC class

• Classes
  • Edge lit acrylic
    • Rob Martin interested in teaching it
    • 21+ BYOB event
  • Welding Class
    • Dave
  • Learn to use Planar and Jointer
    • Steve Morrison or James Hyde

Shop Projects / Updates

• Autonomous Power Wheels

• Power Wheels

• Laser Cutter

• 3-D Printers
  • Boxzy
  • Mendlemax
  • Makegear
    • Being repaired

• Metal Shop
  • Drill Press Down
  • Welding Curtains Up
    • Thank you Dave Coakley and Chris Quick!

• Wood Shop
  • Dust Collection System
    • Will be loaned by Stephen
  • New Table Saw
    • Sell old one on craigslist?
    • Cut half of woodshop table to make room for new tablesaw

• Electronics Workstation
  • Pieces of wall plaster are falling off, need to fix

• Fabrication Station
  • Need dedicated power to Fabrication Station.

• Automatic dues payment system
  • • Adam has began making new website dev.hackpittsburgh.org
    • Began messing around with rfid code

• Vending Machine

• Server
  • Prespi is working again
  • Slideshow Presentation on TV is going back up

• Misc

• Safety Report
  • Need to test alarms!
    • Done!
  • We are now requiring anyone who walks into HackPGH who is not a member, sign the release form!
  • Anonymous complaints form online for members to report issues.
    • http://bit.ly/HackPGH_Issues

• Redbull Flugtag
  • HackPGH applied
  • Redbull is picking teams in 2 weeks

Old Business

• New Mailing List / Slack/Google Groups - Make it easy for everyone (inclusion)
  • Geno setup mailing list
    • Its in beta testing

• Checklist for various tools to keep track of their condition
  • Will setup soon.
  • Clipboards are here. Progress is being made.

• Update personal info.
  • We are now requiring a Name, Email and a optional phone number to bin.
  • Emergency Contact info
    • Geno will send email on mailing list with form
  • Bins will be removed if this doesn't happen by next meeting

• Shop makes a lot of revenue from classes...
  • We want to highly encourage members to teach classes.

• Becky is working on making us a 501c3
• Volunteer hours being logged

New Business

• 3DPPGH - May 10th
  • Big Event! Featuring Ultimaker, MatterHackers, and Matt Stultz from Make: Magazine (aka Our Founder).
• Shop clean pitiful.
  • Mandatory Shop Clean on Sunday.
• Maker Faire Pittsburgh
  • Oct 13,14,15

Project RollCall

• John Lewis
  • Bitcoin server

New Member Induction

• Raj Prabhakar
  • All board members present (3) and at least 3 members approve
• Alexandra Krogel
  • All board members present (3) and at least 3 members approve
• Frank Gentile
  • Not approved, contact board at info@hackpittsburgh.org

Move to Adjourn

• Adjourned at: 8:38pm

Meeting notes by Geno