Guten Tag, hakkers!
I've noticed that there was a meeting on 2013-04-16 and that the minutes are
posted. They are visible on the web at
http://synhak.org/wiki/Meetings/16-4-2013. I've also included them in this mail
for reading at your leisure:
{{Infobox_meeting
|time=7PM
|date=2013-04-16
|venue=21 West North
|next=Meetings/23-4-2013
|previous=Meetings/9-4-2013
}}
= Agenda =
* '''Note Taker:''' Trever
* '''Moderator:''' Andrew
== Introduction and Names ==
* Invite a knowledgable member to explain what SYNHAK is about, if anyone new
is present:
<blockquote>SYNHAK is an infrastructure provider for people who want to make
things. SYNHAK provides space, tools, and infrastructure to help others learn
new skills and create cool things. SYNHAK exists through and depends on
membership dues, donations, and the hard work of individuals such as ourselves.
Our code of conduct is "Be excellent to each other."</blockquote>
* Round of introductions
** What is your name?
** What do you do?
** If this is your first time, how did you hear about SYNHAK?
* Trever - Looks for cats
* Chris - Moves
* Devin - builds so many gosh-darn-blasphemous workbenches
* Andy - brings routers, with the lights and the blinking
* Xander - crochets blankets
* Andrew - Underscores instead of hyphens
== Announcements ==
* Silkscreen frames and cloth
** Devin gets put in his place after being silkscreen hipster
* Trever and Xander went to Mini-makerfair in Cleveland
** Passed out fliers
** talked with Rick pollack about the now discontinued Prusa so we're getting
some parts severely discounted/free
** we need motors and such
** $300 towards the printer
*** A person came through and offered to donate towards the printer
*** Same person who's hooking us up w/ silkscreens
** Akron public library folk got in touch about mini-makerfair
*** Downtown Akron partnership is involved as well
*** Akron public schools will be contacted
**** Akron film and pixel
**** The Bomb shelter
**** Contact Trever if you would like to get involved or have companies to
suggest we get in touch with
** There are boxes-o-junk that are up for grabs but will be emptied monthly
**** CRTs will be immediately housed in this pile
**** Chris swears on his honor to throw things out every two weeks
***** put expiration dates on things if you don't want them thrown out sooner
** Trever is going to paint lines in the parking lot and clear weeds
** Code for America meets here tomorrow
*** Starts at 6:30
** Omar's build a PC class will occur next week
*** 4/24/13 8pm
** Not-a-con will be this weekend
*** Woo
** Andy went to Cuyahoga Falls Hamfest and passed out fliers
** Chris brings up mailing list stuff
*** Trever was gonna bring it up too
*** conversation moved to discussion section
== Membership ==
== Financial Report ==
* Funds in bank: 3685.53
== Proposals ==
* Nothing on the mailing list
* Trever wants a second tiny AWS($10/mo) instance to handle mailman and other
infrastructure
** Any issues seen
** Chris has a line on a VPS for $7/mo
*** How quickly can this be implemented
**** Chris spouts out specs faster than I can transcribe(edit later for
accuracy)
** Xander brings up monthly budget and how we have room to run this
** We want a static IP and higher up-time
** Currently not so much a hardware issue as security/uptime issue
== Discussion Items ==
* Chris brings up mailing list stuff
** Trever was gonna bring it up too
** Singer-Songwriter gets in touch about Sunday 5/12/13 and the possibility of
playing here
*** Xander says he'll handle it
*** Trever wants to put it in spiff
** Invite band guy neighbors?
** Small concert?
*** Needs to get organized quick if we want people to show up
** Open mic night
*** Dan you should handle sound stuff since you have fancy toys and knowledge
**** Trever says you're our only hope
* Xander brings up we need better organization in our 'fair presence
** it's hard to explain to interested parties and not get burnt out after 10hrs
straight
* Trever brings up a Boothbox(tm)
** A box-o-stuff that can be unpacked into a fully functional promo booth
*** swag
*** signs
*** fliers
** Chris brings up a Pelican case or otter box type of indestructible case
* Andy wants a space gallery
** Trever will set up a flickr pool
* Soapbox derby sponsorship and such
** host our own soapbox derby
*** no-holds-barred class
**** rockets, HP air, nuclear reactors
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