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-=== New Business ===
+{{Board Meeting Notes
-* Pumping Station: Two?  Matt Campbell contacted info@ regarding starting a south side hackerspace and discussion was had about starting it as a subsidiary.
+| Previous YYYY-MM-DD=2012-02-21
+| Current YY-MM-DD=02-28-2012
+| Next YYYY-MM-DD=2012-03-06
+ | YYYY=2012}}
+Meeting started at 07:05 pm
+=== Attendance ===
+Tim Saylor
+Patrick Callahan
+Shawn Blaszak
+Ishmael Rufus
+Eric Stein
+Zlatan Klebic
+Dan Meyers
+Steve Finkelman
+=== Agenda ===
+==== Old Business ====
+* The First Annual Innov8 Denver Fest (Chris Luiz)
+** This is very light on details. Chris said they'll be figuring out what it'll be in the next few weeks, we should drop it until we hear more.
+* 2dkits class
+** Suggested a date, ball's in their court.
+* Flourish Workshop (flourish is March 30-31)
+** Payment arrival? Need to order kits soon.
+* Update on the space hunt
+** Status of Lawyer hunt
+** get shelves if he doesn't want them?
+* Budget for moving
+** Minimum savings
+** capitalization options
+*** fundraisers
+*** prepayment of memberships
+*** Buy a brick / tool naming rights
+*** Kickstarter
+** Staying at 3354?
+*** Does land lord Steve want his office?
+*** Copy of llSteve's lease with his ll.
+*** Roof/Power/Cost
+* Non-member tool use policy: does this need a member vote?
+==== New Business ====
+* Pumping Station: Two? Matt Campbell contacted info@ regarding starting a south side hackerspace and discussion was had about starting it as a subsidiary.
+* Who set up http://pumpingstationone.wordpress.com/ and can we take it down now? I think we can, and that it was Nathan. -Eric
+* Who has the Twitter @pumpingstation1 account?
+* Financial/membership report full starving members in total
+* The extra room is cleared out. We shouldn't move anything into it until we are prepared to start paying for it.
+=== Minutes ===
+* The First Annual Innov8 Denver Fest (Chris Luiz)
+** This is very light on details. Chris said they'll be figuring out what it'll be in the next few weeks, we should drop it until we hear more.
+* 2dkits class
+** Suggested a date, ball's in their court.
+* Flourish
+** Patrick hasn't heard from the people and needs money soon
+** Patrick will e-mail Aisha
+* Space hunt
+** We will be using Matt's dad as a lawyer
+** No one has contacted the new landlord about the shelves
+* Non-member tool use
+** Do we need to vote on the policy we worked out next week.
+** Tim will bring it up during a main meeting.
+* Tim wants to being up the idea of increasing out insurance in a month or two
+* Tim suggested reserving non-essential voting for only the first week of the month.
+** Tim will bring this up at a main meeting
+* Pumping Station: Two
+** General support for exploring the idea further
+* pumpingstationone.wordpress.com
+** we think Nathan set it up
+** Ish may have control of DNS
+** Tim, Ish, and Nathan can all delete it
+* PS:One Twitter Account
+** we think Nathan and Anne have access to it
+* Rhys and Eric have control over admin@pumpingstationone.org, use it for all new PS:One related accounts
+* Minimum months of savings
+** Two alternative budgets were started with
+*** High spending
+*** Bare minimum
+** General agreement that three months is a good minimum
+** General agreement that 4.5 days is a reasonable point to start spending some and 6 months is a reasonable point to spend all overage freely
+** Area hosts will be discouraged from spending their budgets
+* Fundraising options
+** High price dinner ($100 per plate?) - generally well received
+** Talking with Evanston - Steve's looking into it
+** Fundraising night at a bar and we get a cut of the drinks - generally well received
+** Donations in exchange for naming rights of tools - Rhys sank this idea
+** Pre-paying of memberships - generally well received but maybe something we should hold off on until emergencies
+** Recruiting at co-working space type organizations - generally thought of as something to look into
+*** Brian suggested big monitors around for people to use
+* Landlord Steve
+** Doesn't want to completely leave the space
+** General consensus that not much interest in starying
+** Members interested in staying will be responsible for negotiating with Steve
+*** The board will provide a list of requirements for an acceptable lease
+Meeting adjourned at 08:07 pm