Meeting Notes 2014-11-04

Meeting Minutes
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Agenda

• Intro PS1 and what we're about
• Tell Triano to shut up.
• let new members and visitors intro themselves
• pick 2 random people to introduce themselves
• go over things that need doing around the space
• Awesome callouts
• Announcements

Introductions

• Brief overview of what PS1 is (<1min).
• New members/visitors introduce themselves.
• Introduce the board and area hosts.

Announcements

• Tom put up 3 votes for discussion - Vote to Buy a Fastener stock for the shop, Vote to Buy a Replacement Tube for Epilog, and Vote to Buy a 4th Axis for Epilog - These will be officially announced this week. Check them out on the mailing list.
• Vote to Repair SEM Vacuum Pump
• Next Monday is NERP. Come talk about embedded computing.
• Saturday is analog game night. 5pm.

Minutes

• Meeting begins at 20:02
• Hef tells Triano to shut up.
• Hef introduces PS1.
• New folks introduce themselves.
  • Bob wants to learn how to use tools. He read about hackerspaces in a magazine.
  • Chris wants to build a radiator cover or something else out of wood. He heard about us through Google.
  • Zach is a software guy who wants to learn more hardware. He's obsessed with modularity and does a lot of furniture building. (Seriously, every kind of modularity)
    • Jesse also likes modularity.
  • Alex does robotics, software, hardware. Sought us out, he worked in a machine shop for a couple years and is looking for somewhere to do that sort of thing again.
  • Dave isn't sure how he found out about us. Probably google. He just moved here, just quit his job as a welder. Wanted to find a workshop where he could build furniture and stuff.
  • Steve has been here for a week. He likes woodworking - trying to get into electronics and embedded computing. Found out about us from his brother.
• Hef is Hef - his title is 'Stop Sucking'
• Two random folks introduce yourself.
  • Jonathan found out about us searching for hackerspaces in Chicago. He lives precisely between us and SSH:C.
  • Tom is the hot metals area host. He likes to fasten metal together. Also driving over things.
• Hef needs some help mounting a projection screen! If you're reading this you might have missed it already. Sorry, temporal slacker.
• Awesome Callouts
  • Justin and other folks
  • Ryan for working on the ShopBot safety
  • Lyn organized all of our liability waivers!
  • Michael Russo took an entire evening to help out Erica (Also Derek and Tom and Dan and a bunch of folks!)
  • Ron has done nothing awesome.
• Announcements
• Area hosts introduce themselves.
• Board members are introduced.
  • I'm totally writing down what Hef is saying, verbatim.
• Meeting's over at 20:13. Will leaves with a tour.