Regular Member Meeting 20160114

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
• Amateur Radio Committee
• Automotive Committee
  • Starting weekly small engine rebuild / hovercraft project saturdays @ 2pm
  • Registration deadline for 24 Hours of Lemons event in April at ECR is in 4 weeks
  • There is an awesome automatic opener on ramp door now thanks to Infrastructure
• Blacksmith Committee
• Civic Hacking
• Classroom Committee
• Creative Arts Committee
  • Installed a login to the computers associated with the large format printer. - Thanks to Brooks
  • One sewing machine was set out to pasture. Looking at buying a heavy duty machine as sewing classes advance and grow
  • Leather sewing machine is being taken into repair shop - soon to be up and working
  • Shaking the tree looking for teachers.
  • Bringing in letterpress to the space. We've talked with the teacher and we are willing to invest $500 into the development of this media (if the classes are successful).
  • Sent out 45 letters to Artists in Dallas to ask them to tour makerspace (going to try to send out calls to artists monthly)
  • Cosplay/costume/identity/wearable "maker items"/Renfair/steampunk/jeeezz I don't know what else to call is show goes up at the end of the month please bring pieces to be shown 23-29th to the CA room. Refer to the talk board for discussion. See posters for link to entering pieces
  • Bought several new things over the last two months to outfit the space better: airbrush, sculpture items, sewing notions, fiber items, leather sewing machine etc.
  • At the end of the month we will talk about the money collected for printing and the actual printed items and publish the findings
  • Pot luck for all of DMS on Jan 23rd would really love to see everyone come and bring a friend (and food don't forget that) great way to build up community
  • Shows for the year costume show, makers: make, Vinyl (funny/munny), 10X10 will talk more about each next month
  • CA committee meeting will be on the 21st please join us
• Digital Media Committee
• Electronics Robotics Committee
  • Reminder, we need to keep the room clean and benches clear!
  • The last Adafruit order did not have enough items to reach the $250 minimum. We will start a new order soon, get your list together.
  • Looking to get 1-2 desoldering tools. The Metcal based one is just not cutting it.
  • Join us on Talk to discuss the above and add to the supplies wishlist.
• Financial Committee
• Foundry Committee
• Infrastructure Committee
  • New computer was given to Creative Arts for tracking wide-format printer use.
  • New router was installed and configured.
    • It has two built-in 10GbE ports, which will integrate well with our plan to move servers to 10Gb.
    • AWS VPC VPN is up and running. This has allowed us to finally have multiple AD domain controllers for redundancy.
  • New fileserver build is planned.
• Laser Committee
  • Continued effort to stock spare parts
  • Three spare power supplies are now on hand
  • Repaired failed power supply on Full Spectrum Laser machine using spare parts purchased during the summer
  • New tool purchased to measure optical output of laser tubes
  • Tube in Full Spectrum Laser machine outputting 88% of rated capacity
  • Tube in Lasersaur outputting 62% of rated capacity
  • Ordering a spare tube in the near future
  • Considering options to refurbish or replace Full Spectrum Laser machine
  • New(er) computer running the Lasersaur
  • Considering purchasing Adobe Creative Cloud for laser computers
  • Considering moving to domain login for Full Spectrum Laser computer
  • Instructors and maintainers are doing an excellent job, thank you to all involved!
• Logistics Committee
  • Pallet storage area cleanup initiative has been declared a success
    • Dead projects have been removed!
    • Free space is now available as work area or fresh project storage!
  • Homeless tool adoption drive
    • Woodshop has adopted the spindle sander
    • Creative Arts has committed to adopting the shapeoko CNC router
• Machine Shop Committee
• Metal Shop Committee
• Public Relations Committee
• Remote Control Committee
  • Purchased flight controller for the high-altitude balloon project
  • Began work on balloon payload release mechanism
  • Began work on hardware-in-loop simulation
• Science Committee
  • finished repairs on the freeze dryer- Thank you Dylan and Stan!
  • donated computer was installed- Thank you Brooks!
• VECTOR Committee
• Wood Shop Committee

Agenda

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

New business

Vote on whether to continue using the current Dallas Makerspace logo, an updated version of the current logo, or the completely redesigned version proposed by Michael Paskar (Lisa Selk)

Problem: Michael has created a logo design that he would like to replace our current logo with; however, membership has not had an opportunity to discuss and vote on this proposed change. The design created by Michael is not just a simple "update" of our current logo; but, rather a complete redesign which in no way resembles our current logo. Our current logo has been heavily used in social media and various projects for several years. Our Members deserve the right to have some input into this decision.

Solution: As a member run organization, we should at least allow our members the opportunity to have input on what is a rather significant proposed change to our image (branding). If we meet quorum during the member meeting, I would like to encourage members to vote on whether we should continue using our current logo, use an updated but visually similar version of our current logo (which will be posted on our TALK forums prior to the meeting for review), or change the logo to the one proposed by Michael. If we do not meet quorum, members present should still be allowed to discuss it so the Board of Directors will have a better idea of what the membership would like to do.

Relevance to our tax exempt purpose: As defined on BusinessDirectory.com (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/corporate-logo.html), "Distinctive design, mark, or symbol that uniquely identifies a firm. A corporate logo is a powerful corporate identity tool and, as the symbol by which public recognizes a firm, is in some cases more valuable than the physical assets of the firm."

Minutes

----DRAFT MINUTES----
Meeting called to order at 8:03 PM by Robert Davidson.  45 of 104 voting members present.  Quorum has been met.
Prior minutes pass with no objections.

Item: “Vote on whether to continue using the current Dallas Makerspace logo, an updated version of the current logo, or the completely redesigned version proposed by Michael Paskar (Lisa Selk)”
Proposed by Luke Olson, second by Allen Wan:  Table this item.
Yes:  13
No:  27
Motion does not pass.

Proposed by Haley Moore, second by Doug Paradis: “For an official logo change to take place, it must be voted in favor of at a membership meeting”
Yes:  32
No:  8
Motion passes.

Meeting adjourned at 10:13 PM.