Bonjour, hakkers!
I've noticed that there was a meeting on 2013-04-30 and that the minutes are
posted. They are visible on the web at
http://synhak.org/wiki/Meetings/30-4-2013. I've also included them in this mail
for reading at your leisure:
{{Infobox_meeting
|time=7PM
|date=2013-04-30
|venue=21 West North
|next=Meetings/7-5-2013
|previous=Meetings/23-4-2013
}}
= Agenda =
* '''Note Taker:''' Trever
* '''Moderator:''' Andrew
== Introduction and Names ==
* Andrew - Gets ready for the end of school
* Xander - Fights crime
* Persa - Frantically organizes awesome events
* Trever - Wastes labels
* Devin - Delivers garnets ("crushed")
* Tracey - Nursing Aide
== Announcements ==
* Any cool new projects? Something you want everyone to know?
* Any happenings that people should be aware of?
* Xander sez: I'm starting a summer program for kids. Monday open hours are
going to be hands on science classes for kids.
** Interest will be gauged
** Summer-long classes for next year will be developed
** Will contact Akron Public Schools, probably start right after classes are
done
** At least two per month
** I'm technically qualified to teach 7th grade and up
* Persa sez: On my quest to organize an awesome event, I've secured $100 in AWS
credits for each participant of HackNEO, our national day of civic hacking event
** And books!
** Pizza and beer is for tomorrow's planning meeting.
** June 1st and June 2nd!
* There's a new coat rack by the door
* Lan Party Happening May 11th
** Minesweeper
** TF2
** Sins of a solar empire
** Soldat
** Minecraft
== Membership ==
* Siddharth Solanki is applying
** "To give shape to my ideas, develop prototypes utilizing the space,
equipment and most importantly awesome, skilled guys"
** "Brainstorming"
** Sponsors: Chris and Trever
** Xander asks: What makes you happy?
*** Doing stuff, making stuff!
** Devin asks: What is the maximum windspeed velocity of an unladen swallow
*** Not a monty python fan
** Trever: What are you working on?
*** Tortilla maker press
** Trever: Why?
*** To make roti
** Persa: What type of food does that come from?
*** Its Indian. Not naan.
** Andy: What do you do for a living?
*** Team center administrator at a manufacturing company.
** Andrew: Are you into more electronic, or are you continuing mechanical?
*** I don't know, i've played with the Arduino, I used to be a programmer,
haven't done much in a while except for some XSLT.
** Trever: What flavour of mtn dew
*** I don't like it!
** Devin: Flavour of beer?
*** Jack Daniels.
** '''Approved'''
== Financial Report ==
* Funds in bank: will be ready by tomorrow.
== Proposals ==
* None
== Discussion Items ==
* Discussion about our tax status
** Trever checked it earlier today, we're still not a 501(c)3, but we're still
a registered not for profit corporation. They're still working on applications
for March 2012
** Persa wants us to collect sponsorship stuff for HackNEO
*** Noone objects
** We don't take bitcoin. Trever is trying to set up a wallet and treasurer
stuff to make it work.
** Devin asks about civic hacking day
*** Working on building a mapping application for the parks system
*** Working on summit wiki
*** Launching an open data catalog for northeast ohio
*** tl;dr: 3 levels of contribution
*** If you show up, you'll be expected to contribute
** http://hackneo.org
* Devin wants to get into the finer detail points of Das Safeteee courses for
Safety.
** He wants to get videos setup for welding, woodworking, etc.
** Andrew sez: Our forge needs operated outside
*** Devin will try to get a welding cart of sorts for it or something
** Welder liner is still needing to be bought
** We'll want a separate course to teach people how to train people
* "Thats sexist!"
* The mini forge
** We need a propane regulator < 5 PSI
* Monthly maintenence budget of ~$70: still pending treasurer approval
** Devin suggests a study on figuring how much of what we use
** Xander sez: Maybe supplies can be part of membership?
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