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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)

Board and Area Hosts

Lyn - Director at Purple
Simon - Secretary
Jennie - Vice President
Erik - General Area Host
Anna - electronics area host
Ron - Hot Metals Area Host
Matt Triano - woodshop area host
Andrew - CNC area host
Arturo - Kitchen Host

Two Random Members

Erik - works with wood and plastic mostly
Will - member for six years | makes stuff for games
Steve - looking at Avondale DNA Chicago, sat the article about the Tardis on the roof

Things that need doing around the space

Everybody please sweep a little bit
Take out the trash
Put away tools
Cleanup in the kitchen

Awesome Callouts

* Jared is helping fix planes

Andrew for getting new sawstop brakes
Eric & Andrew for getting the shopbot working again
Everybody who emptied the dust collector
Shelly & Gerald for hosting the chocolate-working workshop
Jason for fixing the lathe chuck
Andrew for putting a new bed in the laser cutter
Ray for updating the meetup page this week
Andrew for solidifying the shelves in the hot metal area

What have you been hacking

3D printed dumpster
Ron put an infrared camera in the fermentation chamber to monitor
Arturo is learning how to program, controlled (and broke) his camera
Steve - built a solenoid-controlled blinds
Simon - built pedestals
Jennie - made scanner picture frames

Announcements

Send in your proxy votes for SEM vote by Monday at 9pm or come to next week's meeting
Pi Day is March 14, 8pm
- Bring pie & eat pie
Fifth Tuesday Potluck after the member meeting on March 29
- Bring food to share
PS1 Birthday Party - April 2
- It's our copper / wool anniversary
Analog Game Night is Saturday - 5pm until late in the lounge
Chocolate truffle demo (and participation) is Saturday in the kitchen - 4-5:30pm
Flourish conference is April 1-2
- Open Source conference & mini-expo at UIC in Student Center East
- [flourishconf.com]
- Free conference, free t-shirts if you register before the 12th
- If you're interested in running a workshop or volunteering, contact us at the website
Nathan is releasing a beta version of a free game engine this week at www.pawbyte.com www.pawbyte.com
[Intro to V-Carve] class on Thursday @ 6:30 - posted on Meetup group
300 Seconds of Fame starts tonight after the tour

Questions

What can we do with waste chemicals?
- There's a waste can in the flammables closet
- We have a burn bucket
- The firehouse down the road will take nasty chemicals

What's the status of moving the space?
- We are growing into the other half of the building
- Space-planning committee is working on three options for new space layout for a member vote
- We are working on finalizing the lease signing
- May 1st at the earliest

Votes

Tour

Thanks to Will for giving the tour

Who wants to give a tour?

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 New People (name - where did you hear about us - what do you make/hack)
+Doug | online & ran into Ray & Andrew at CNC meeting | has a woodshop in Humboldt Park, adding 6 axis robot arm
+Maron | likes computer science
+Mark | woodshop at home, interested in Arduino & CNC, considering a home machine, background in Analog
+Nick | welcome back | works in woodshop & metalsmithing
+Adam | learned about PS1 from Google & Simon | interest in woodworking
+Erik | architect, does 3D modeling & CNC | googled CNC rental
+Patrick | software background | new to hardware hacking
+Nathan | programmer & game developer, organizes an open source conference at UIC with Chase
+Chase | works with arduinos
 ==== Board and Area Hosts ====
+* Lyn - Director at Purple
+* Simon - Secretary
+* Jennie - Vice President
+* Erik - General Area Host
+* Anna - electronics area host
+* Ron - Hot Metals Area Host
+* Matt Triano - woodshop area host
+* Andrew - CNC area host
+* Arturo - Kitchen Host
 ==== Two Random Members ====
+* Erik - works with wood and plastic mostly
+* Will - member for six years | makes stuff for games
+* Steve - looking at Avondale DNA Chicago, sat the article about the Tardis on the roof
 === Things that need doing around the space ===
+* Everybody please sweep a little bit
+* Take out the trash
+* Put away tools
+* Cleanup in the kitchen
 === Awesome Callouts ===
+ * Jared is helping fix planes
+* Andrew for getting new sawstop brakes
+* Eric & Andrew for getting the shopbot working again
+* Everybody who emptied the dust collector
+* Shelly & Gerald for hosting the chocolate-working workshop
+* Jason for fixing the lathe chuck
+* Andrew for putting a new bed in the laser cutter
+* Ray for updating the meetup page this week
+* Andrew for solidifying the shelves in the hot metal area
 === What have you been hacking ===
+* 3D printed dumpster
+* Ron put an infrared camera in the fermentation chamber to monitor
+* Arturo is learning how to program, controlled (and broke) his camera
+* Steve - built a solenoid-controlled blinds
+* Simon - built pedestals
+* Jennie - made scanner picture frames
 === Announcements ===
+* Send in your proxy votes for SEM vote by Monday at 9pm or come to next week's meeting
+* Pi Day is March 14, 8pm
+** Bring pie & eat pie
+* Fifth Tuesday Potluck after the member meeting on March 29
+** Bring food to share
+* PS1 Birthday Party - April 2
+** It's our copper / wool anniversary
+* Analog Game Night is Saturday - 5pm until late in the lounge
+* Chocolate truffle demo (and participation) is Saturday in the kitchen - 4-5:30pm
+* Flourish conference is April 1-2
+** Open Source conference & mini-expo at UIC in Student Center East
+**[[http://flourishconf.com/2016/ flourishconf.com]]
+** Free conference, free t-shirts if you register before the 12th
+** If you're interested in running a workshop or volunteering, contact us at the website
+* Nathan is releasing a beta version of a free game engine this week at [[www.pawbyte.com www.pawbyte.com]]
+* [[http://www.meetup.com/Pumping-Station-One/events/228615944/ Intro to V-Carve]] class on Thursday @ 6:30 - posted on Meetup group
+* 300 Seconds of Fame starts tonight after the tour
 === Questions ===
+* What can we do with waste chemicals?
+** There's a waste can in the flammables closet
+** We have a burn bucket
+** The firehouse down the road will take nasty chemicals
+* What's the status of moving the space?
+** We are growing into the other half of the building
+** Space-planning committee is working on three options for new space layout for a member vote
+** We are working on finalizing the lease signing
+** May 1st at the earliest
 === Votes ===
 === Tour ===
+* Thanks to Will for giving the tour
 Who wants to give a tour?