Regular Member Meeting 20150813

This meeting will be held in MIBS SRC3 format.

Time, location

20:00, Dallas Makerspace

Approval of prior minutes

Prior minutes

Officer/Committee reports

Committee chairs are requested to provide their reports in writing. Reports can be short bullet-points.

Committee Chairs

• 3d Fabrication Committee - Lisa Selk

• Amateur Radio Committee - Justin Edwards

• Automotive Committee - Brandon Green

• Blacksmith Committee - John Haskins

• Civic Hacking - Stephen Wylie

• Classroom Committee - Gus Reiter

• Creative Arts Committee - Haley Moore & Nicole Franczvai

• Digital Media Committee - Natasha Cooks

1. Digital Media Committee is working to gain a fully supported, viable Workstation for Editing, Animation and SFX.

     **Classes and projects that require Adobe Creative Cloud are suspended until the computer issue gets resolved.***

2. Digital Media working to get studio lights in order to generate more aesthetically viable projects. 3. Member Projects produced by Digital Media Equipment

     Mitch Cerroni and 3D Fab (*Completion status?)
     Beth Appleton and the Monthly Product shoots
     Adrian Cooks - DMS Tour Video (Suspended)
     Nick Webb Documentary (*Completion status?)
     DMS Studios Creator's Playground (Suspended)

4. Nineteen FREE courses for the month of August (Six suspended due to above mentioned issues)

    Shot Composition 101
    General Camera Usage
    Care and Usage of the Sony RX-10
    Shot Composition 101
    General Camera Usage
    Care and Usage of the Sony RX-10
    Podcasting 101
    Your YouTube Show: From Concept to Creation
    Your Youtube Show: Case Studies
    Editing Basics with Adobe Premiere (Suspended)
    SFX Basics with After Effects (Suspended)
    Audio Recording 101
    Audio Editing with Adobe Audition (Suspended)
    Podcasting Workshop (Suspended)
    Lighting 101 (Suspended)
    Lighting for the Blue Screen (Suspended)
    Principles of Animation 1
    Principles of Animation 2
    Principles of Animation 3

5. Equipment Inventory

   Sony RX-10 with Rode VideoMic for ENG type media
   Tascam DR-70D + peripherals
   2 Dell Color Accurate Monitors
   1 6 cell locker
   1 storage Cabinet

• Electronics Robotics Committee - Ken Purcell

• Financial Committee - Benjamin Groves
• Busy month in accounting:
  • Immediately after processing June books in July, we transitioned from Quickbooks to Quickbooks Online
    • This will provide us a huge benefit to accessibility and timely reports
    • A major hurdle behind our old method (processing an entire month at a time) can be done in a more live fashion
    • This has incurred a large up front effort, specifically the manual handling 2.5 months worth of duplicate entries
      • Committees did not receive transaction statements for June - Please see Benjamin Groves if you wish for a copy to be made for your group
    • Quickbooks online has different rules for account structure and there are open questions on how we migrated (Credit Cards and PayPal)
    • July books should be processed as usual for the August Board of Directors Meeting, and we should be looking forward to the return of less overhead from there
  • We are working with an external accounting firm for handling of our 2014 taxes and an annual audit of our books
    • This is fortuitous as the external is reviewing our Quickbooks Online work, which will help resolve the above open questions
    • We filed for an additional tax extension, which gives us until September - Not a large concern as our tax effort is afoot
• The verdict on the health of our General Fund is still open
  • Prepare for continued tight budget and limited spending

• Foundry Committee - John Kuhlenschmidt

• Infrastructure Committee - Andrew LeCody

• Laser Committee - William Petefish

• Logistics Committee - Allen Wan

• Machine Shop Committee - Bryan Gangwere

• Metal Shop Committee - Danny Meeks

• Public Relations Committee - Krissy Heishman

• Remote Control Hobbies Committee - Nick LeLand and Jayson Woods

• Science Committee - Richard Alexander

• VECTOR Committee - Nicholas Schell

• Wood Shop Committee - Alex Rhodes and Tom Cook

Agenda

Note: The normal cut-off time for agenda items is the Sunday prior at 11:59pm.

Minutes

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