Meeting Notes 2017-01-03

Meeting Minutes
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Agenda

• Intro to PS1 and what we're about.
• Let new members and visitors intro themselves.
• Pick 2 random people to introduce themselves.
• Introduce the Board and Area Hosts
• Go over things that need doing around the space.
• Awesome call outs
• Tell me about What You Hack
• Announcements
• Questions
• Votes
• Tour

For extended discussions, we may take stack and borrow from MIBS Rules#Meeting Procedures.

Minutes

Intro to PS1

Bylaws#Purpose

Introductions

New People

New People (name - where did you hear about us - what do you make/hack)

• Mark | product designer | has a 3D printer, but no woodshop | found out about us through word of mouth, was member at catalyze |
• Cory | builds things out of wood, codes in swift and C++ | found out about us through codeworkers
• Bill | dabbles in everything from electronics to software, cars, hydroponics, wood, metalworking, but not brain surgery | found us on meetup
• Dennis | makes furniture | found us on Google by typing in makerspace
• Hadley | hot meals, blacksmithing | googled forges in Chicago |
• Maddy | build large-scale props and costumes | found about us from Quinn
• Ed | tinkers with computers | was a hackerspace member in Texas | would like to learn about CNC machines
• Camron | new to Chicago, background in physics and natural science | automated greenhouses
• Larry | background in electronics, woodworking, metalworking | came with David
• David | found us through makezine.com | dabble in everything, interested in electronics and metalworking
• Mike | found us through a friend | thinking about rebuilding a go-kart
• Andy | architectural background, makes furniture, homebrewer, metalworking interest | found us on reddit
• Max | woodworking, software, electronics | found us through coworker

Two Random Members

• Jenny | software testing | visited sector 67 in Madison, then found us
• Brian | art director | woodworking and pipeholding | found us looking for a laser cutter | member since January 1

Board and Area Hosts

• Justin - President
• Jennie - Vice-President
• Simon - Secretary
• Lyn - Director at Purple and Willld Events
• Erik - General Area Host
• Dean - Cold Metals Area Host

Things that need doing around the space

• Make nominations for the board!
• Take out the garbage, clean up after yourself, do not overfill the dumpster!!
• Help Ken with electrical work, come pull cable! No expertise necessary.
• Help the area hosts with the move

Awesome Callouts

• Shellie for giving the arts and crafts area a huge makeover!!
  • Also her army of anonymous helpers who we would love to call out but nobody at the meeting right now knows who you are, sorry!
  • Maybe Jonathan Bisson, Lyn, Jennie? And other folks? Y'all are awesome.
• Jennie for donating pizzas for the NYE gathering
• Lyn for organizing the NYE party
• Erik for putting up cable management for lounge 2.0 projector
• Ken for all of his awesome electrical work
• Ken again, just because he's been doing a ton of work and we owe him a few
• Also Ken.

What have you been hacking

• Lyn dying clothes purple
• Making a wood bluetooth speaker
• Erik finished hanging sink in bathroom
• Turning playing cards into circuit boards
• Ed has been hacking a CCD camera, port scanning to find open ports (What are 8000, 9002?)
• David used housing insulation chucked on a drill press as a lathe with a skateboard wheel as an endstop, and turned a foam cannon
• Bill has been making a car remote controlled

Announcements

• Lockpicking from 8pm onwards on Wednesday in the lounge. Come pick locks and drink beer and talk locks.
• NASA 2017 Space Apps Hackathon Organizing Group - Saturday 1-3
  • We're trying to host the NASA hackathon. Grand prize hackathon winners get to go to a NASA launch.
• Bike Night - Wednesday, 8 pm - come work on bikes
• Door codes changed. Start learning the new one. If you don't have the new code, email info@pumpingstationone.org
• Wikignomes Tool Time - Saturday at noon
• Painting workshop on 1/14
• Cybersecurity for organizers - Monday at 7 pm
• Elections for board of directors are on January 17th - we need more nominations, due January 10.
• We have a vote tonight, stick around to vote
• We need a cold metal authorizer volunteer!
  • Check out http://bit.ly/ps1volauth to learn more about the responsibilities of being a volunteer authorizer.
  • Email president@pumpingstationone.org

Questions

• How do new people get their ID's checked?
  • Come back after the tour
• Do you have 3D printers?
  • Yep
• What plastics are the printers set up for?
  • ABS, PLA,
• Can you bring your own?
  • Please do so.
• Why does my car battery keep dying?
  • Lots of helpful answers.
• I'm going to be traveling for the next month, but I want to join. What should I do?
  • Join next month. Come to a Tuesday meeting to get your ID checked.
• Do we have to get trained on things to use them?
  • Yes - you need to get authorizations for anything more dangerous than a soldering iron.
  • Check the calendar and wiki pages for authorizations
• Does woodshop authorization cover a number of tools?
  • Yep, but not the lathe.
• If an authorization isn't listed, email the list with your availability
• What are the different tiers of membership?
  • $40 Starving Hacker & $70 Full Membership, which comes with voting rights and storage space
• How big are the storage shelves?
  • About yay big.

Votes

• Quorum not met. We'll try again in two weeks.

Tour

Who wants to give a tour?