Meeting 20100923

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Makerspace Agenda/Meeting

• Makerspace intro (5 mins)
• Makerspace business (5 mins)
  • Makerspace ToDo list
  • Physical space ToDo list
  • Current Needs
  • budget:
    • Monthly budget:
      • monthly income: $1170 (dues + dprg, est for Oct)
      • monthly expense: $901.67 (est as of Sep 1)
    • total startup funds: $6360
    • remaining startup funds: $2500 (wild assed guess - accurate numbers coming soon)
    • theoretical members: 34
    • subscribing members: 30
  • dues: sign up on the website for recurring donations -> Thanks to everyone that has signed up so far!
    • $370 for May (10 people) (added to startup fund)
    • $490 for June (13 people) (added to startup fund)
    • $630 for July (18 people) (added to startup fund)
    • $750 for Aug (21 people)
    • $870 for Sep (25 people)
  • What You Can Do:
    • flyers
      • Download them here
      • design/make new ones
      • post them
      • check and repost as needed
      • hand out flyers at meeting - please pass them out or put them up!
    • tell your friends and coworkers
    • drop a note on any relevant mailing lists, forums, or news groups you're on
• Introduce visitors (best to do 15 min in since they often arrive late)
• Project updates
  • Darkroom (Ian or Steve)
  • TEDxSMU (Alan)
  • Logo design contest (Alan)
• Events (20 mins)
  • past events
    • Software Freedom Day - Dallas Makerspace - Saturday September 18, 2010
      • Planning page
  • upcoming events
    • When is the next hackerspace conference call? Who representing Dallas Makerspace? (Peter?)
    • Dallas Makerspace Open House - we need to set a date for our first annual open house (and grand opening party)
    • World Toy Camera Day - Oct 9-10 (sat & sun) - We need to plan something for this date
    • Pecha Kucha Night vol. 4 - Wednesday October 13, 2010, $7.50 per seat, at Wyly Theatre, 2400 Flora Street, Dallas, TX. - Steve is a speaker and will be talking about Dallas Makerspace
    • HackerSpace Festival - Friday November 12, 2010, through Sunday November 14. 203 Brown St., Huntsville, AL, 35805.
    • First Lego League - Saturday January 29, 2011, 8am-5pm.

Group Project

Attendees

Name	Relation to DMS