Meeting 20101104

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Makerspace Agenda/Meeting

• Makerspace intro (5 mins)
• Makerspace business (5 mins)
  • Monthly budget:
    • income: $1510 (total for Nov)
      • $1310 for Nov (36 members)
      • $200 for Nov (DPRG usage)
    • expense: $921.67 (est for Dec)
    • surplus: $588.33 (est for Dec)
    • total startup funds: $6360
    • remaining startup funds: $1500 (wild assed guess - accurate numbers coming soon)
  • Membership
    • theoretical members: 39
    • subscribing members: 36
    • Encourage non-member to make a donation and sign up for recurring dues
  • What You Can Do:
    • Let people know about our open house on Nov 20!
    • Download, post, repost, or make new flyers here
    • 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
  • Open House
    • Announcement / blog post (Nicole)
    • Task sign ups (Ian)
    • Project sign ups (Steve)
  • Darkroom (Ian or Steve Reeves)
  • Logo design status (Alan, Haley)
  • CNC laser installation (Glenn)
  • Physical space ToDo list / building sub-committee update (Eric)
    • Physical space ToDo list
    • Current Needs
  • Organizational ToDo list / org sub-committee update (Mark)
    • Makerspace ToDo list
  • New Project Proposals
• Events (20 mins)
  • past events
    • Wootstock - Wednesday, November 3, 2010, Granada Theater, Dallas, TX. Tickets here.
  • upcoming events
    • Geeks Without Bounds Hackathon - Saturday, November 6, 2010.
    • Hackerspace Call-in - November 7, 2010
    • HackerSpace Festival - Friday November 12, 2010, through Sunday November 14. 203 Brown St., Huntsville, AL, 35805.
    • DPRG Roborama - Saturday November 13, 2010, 12pm-4pm.
    • Dallas Makerspace Open House - we need to set a date for our first annual open house (and grand opening party) - Date is tentative for Saturday, November 20, 2010.
    • First Lego League - Saturday January 29, 2011, 8am-5pm.

Group Project

Attendees

Name	Relation to DMS