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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

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+| Previous YYYY-MM-DD=2012-02-21
 | Current YY-MM-DD=02-28-2012
-| Next MM-DD-YYYY=03-06-2012
+| Next YYYY-MM-DD=2012-03-06
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 Meeting started at 07:05 pm
-===Attendance===
+=== Attendance ===
-===Agenda===
+Tim Saylor
+Patrick Callahan
+Shawn Blaszak
+Ishmael Rufus
+Eric Stein
+Zlatan Klebic
+Dan Meyers
+Steve Finkelman
-====Old Business====
+=== 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.
+** 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.
+** Payment arrival? Need to order kits soon.
 * Update on the space hunt
 ** Status of Lawyer hunt
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 * Non-member tool use policy: does this need a member vote?
-====New Business====
+==== 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.
+* 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
+* 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.
+* The extra room is cleared out. We shouldn't move anything into it until we are prepared to start paying for it.
-===Minutes===
+=== 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.
+** 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.
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 * PS:One Twitter Account
 ** we think Nathan and Anne have access to it
-* Rhys has control over admin@pumpingstationone.org, use it for all new PS:One related accounts
+* 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 XX:XX  pm
+Meeting adjourned at 08:07 pm