Computer Committee Meeting 20181107

Attendance

 - User:denzuko
 - User:Drako
 - User:StanSimmons

Member Recognition

Member recognition (above and beyond) will be considered before other business. This will allow members that are interested or involved with either to leave without having to sit thru the entire meeting.

 - User:thespacemaker for contributing to the Grant Writing Group
 - User:narkane for hosting several classes on godot and early recruitment efforts 
 - User:datanow For excellence in filling the calendar with classes on a range of technology

Consent Agenda

Newly proposed agenda items appear in the consent agenda. Any member present at the meeting may pull an item out of the consent agenda for discussion, at which point it goes under "New Business". If nobody objects to the solutions presented by the consent agenda, everything in the consent agenda passes by consensus. Items that have more than one proposed solution should be moved to the "New Business" section.

Any member may edit this wiki page and place an item on the agenda. However, discussion of agenda items should be done via the forums. The cut-off time for addition to or revision of the consent agenda items is 48 hours prior to the meeting.

Please note, agenda items (Consent, New, or Old) that request spending $200 or more must include a section on "Relevance to our tax exempt purpose".

A capital equipment form (listed at the bottom of the Finance forms list) is required for all equipment purchase or lease exceeding $5000 for which funds are requested from the Board in part or total, at least two weeks in advance of the board meeting.

CA1 (Committee Space being used as personal space - User:Denzuko)

Problem: A few members have been abusing committee space. This has threaten the closer of the committee several times

Solution: Implement a weekly cleanup with mandatory attendance from committee leadership doing office hours to clean and polish committee areas. In additionally a committee training course is to be scheduled regularly for committee members to attend so they can understand the expectations of the committee.

Relevance: Committee is a public face of the makerspace and we must do better to be excellent.

Agenda

New Business

 - Committee merger of SDC and VCC to Computing Committee
 - Training Session for committee members
 - Emergency Voting for  Computing Committee leadership
 - National Hacking League partnership and additional hack-a-thon volunteers

Meeting Notes

==Minutes==
19:00 Call to Order

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***CONSENT AGENDA - DISCUSSION***

CA1 Topic
 - AS WRITTEN

**NEW BUSINESS**

NB1 Committee merger of SDC and VCC to Computing Committee
 - AS WRITTEN


NB2 Training Session for committee members
 - AS WRITTEN

NB3 Emergency Voting
 - AS WRITTEN


NB4 National Hacking League partnership and additional hack-a-thon volunteers

 - AS WRITTEN


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Next meeting set for 20181121 - https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Computer_Committee_Meeting_20181121

20:00PM Meeting called to close

Action Items

Status	Item Description	Responsible Party
[ ]	Withdraw BoD Item CA3.	Committee Chair
[ ]	Distribute $15 Gift certificates to Members listed for Recognition	Committee Chair