Area Host Meeting Notes 11-06-2012

Area Host Meeting Minutes
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In attendance:

• Anna Yu
• Adrianna McKinley
• Colin Parsons
• Tim Saylor
• Rhys
• Steve Suspenders
• Steve Indiana
• Shawn

Agenda:

• Successes / concerns / requests from area hosts
• List of essential infrastructure

Minutes:

• The wood shop and metal shop should be two separate areas

• The certification program is broken.
  • too many people are using things without certification
  • Nobody enforces required certification
  • How do I get certified is the next question. We have to have an answer. Once a month classes?
  • There's a lot of latent demand for certification, especially in the metal shop.
  • The current problem is awareness of the options available for learning things.
  • Signs used to work in the old shop, maybe we need more signs. With people's pictures on them.
  • Set up machines with rfid readers to prevent uncertified users
  • grace period after certification where a trainer checks their setup before they start working?
  • Need a simplified manual for the tools that users can learn from on their own.
  • Give them a physical copy of the manuals.

• We should get a vending machine for tooling / electronic parts

• Area hosts should provide a list of essential infrastructure by our next meeting

• Should we use the wiki or something easier? (google docs?)

• Next meeting in three weeks. (All area hosts' TODO)

• create a google group and public email forward to the area hosts. (Tim's TODO)

Edit 11/26/12: Additional important issues that were identified:

• member / project storage policies
• corporate accounts with suppliers