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New People (name - where did you hear about us - what do you make/hack)
New People (name - where did you hear about us - what do you make/hack)
* Mike | Learned about hackerspaces in Detroit | wants to make Raspberry Pi phone & shelves
* Working on a furniture design startup, looking for space with equipment | was at Lost Arts, decided to come here
* Si | likes to tinker with stuff | commercial photography | looking to control cameras and strobes
* Tony | woodworking hobby
* Mari | computer science projects | working on a neural network, maybe robotifying | came a year ago


==== Two Random Members ====
==== Two Random Members ====
* Brian | elaborate costumes, which requires building a vacuum-former, which requires learning how to weld | found us by looking at wood shops on the internet
* Adriana | member for >six months | found us through meetup | wood, metal, ring-fixing


==== Board and Area Hosts ====
==== Board and Area Hosts ====
 
* Justin - President
* Simon - Secretary
* Lyn - Director of Purple and Wiiillld Events
* Gerald - Kitchen Area Host
* Anna - Electronics Area Host
* Erik - General Area Host


=== Things that need doing around the space ===
=== Things that need doing around the space ===
 
* Repair the shopvacs
** They maybe need thermal fuses
* Cleanup day - maybe this Saturday afternoon
* Buildout days coming - maybe Sunday at some point
** Watch the google group for more info
* Take out the garbage, please
* Clean up after yourself, please
* Keep the kitchen clean, please


=== Awesome Callouts ===
=== Awesome Callouts ===
 
* Joe, for teaching Adriana how to mud drywall
* Ashley for helping and teaching Shelly with welding
* Shelly for taking load of fluorescent bulbs to recycling
** Still more fluorescent bulbs from the boiler room need to be taken to recycling
** But some of them are still good, so test them with the fixture in there
* Michael Skilton for parking ticket guidance for Gerald
** Abandoned things in the kitchen are getting ticketed
* Daron for finding out when the buildout days might be
* Everybody who voted


=== What have you been hacking ===
=== What have you been hacking ===
 
* Gerald made chicken stock from scratch
* Mike made a bookshelf
* Si made an crowdsourced online IP camera babysitting setup from old Android phones
* Mari is working on opensource automated webcrawler to create image and text data sets


=== Announcements ===
=== Announcements ===
 
* Kitchen hours are NOT occurring on Friday
* Mari is offering dog walking or cat walking
* Bicycle night, tomorrow at 8pm in the shop, come work on your bike
* SIGBOT - Special Interest Group for Robotics - come work on and talk robot stuff
** Thursday, 7:30
* Simon has an art show at Lake Forest College, opening is Thursday at 7:30, show runs until
* 300 Seconds of Fame - tonight after the member meeting in electronics
* CAJOO - come play instruments, 7pm - 9pm Wednesday
* Electronics Office Hours on Monday, 7pm


=== Questions ===
=== Questions ===
 
* Will there be a tour?
** Yep
* What are the hours?
** 24/7 access for members
* Can we propose a new group in the space?
** Yep!
* Like a gym group or a hydroponics group?
** Yep!


=== Votes ===
=== Votes ===
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Who wants to give a tour?
Who wants to give a tour?
* Mike is going to give a tour, chaperoned by Will. Thanks!