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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)


* Joanna | brought by a Sam & Gene
* Chris | found us online
* Found us through meetup | Retro NES project
* Pedro | Interested in robots, kids are in high school, python C++
* Brian | found us while working at Catalyze | industrial designer, furniture |  
* Brendan | graphic designer + painter, interested in woodshop and other things | friend brought him, now he lives down the street
* Steve | found us on Google | Android/Linux
* Paul | computer stuff, wood, metal | saw us in Make Magazine
* Jason | New Old Member | Unity 3D, Raspberry Pi & mesh networking | came from Noisebridge
* Ashley | design clothing, manufacturing |  
* Rich | Woodworker & tool collector | found out about us through a makerspace in Hyde Park
* Marshall | wants to know what to hack | has been popping in for awhile | heard about us through New Life


==== Two Random Members ====
==== Two Random Members ====
* Deanna | found us on Meetup | furniture & shelving |  
* Eric | timelapse photography, programming, bad embedded electronics, beer breweing | heard about us on hackerspaces.org | joined in 2011
* Ken | found PS1 on Google | Hacks Hackerspaces
* Rhonda | joined in 2013 | works in metal bookbinding with copper | joined in 2013 | represented us in Chicago Artist Month | found out about us in a job interview at the MSI, Dan Meyer mentioned the space


==== Board and Area Hosts ====
==== Board and Area Hosts ====
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* Jennie | Vice-President
* Jennie | Vice-President
* Simon | Secretary
* Simon | Secretary
* Lyn | Director at Purple and Wiiiillld Events
* Ray | Director of Public Relations
* Michael | Director at Large
* Brian | Treasurer
* Anna | Electronics Area Host
* Anna | Electronics Area Host
* Andrew | CNC Area Host
* Andrew | CNC Area Host
* Ron | Hot Metals Area Host
* Ron | Hot Metals Area Host
* Erik | General Area Host
* Erik | General Area Host
* Shellie | Arts & Crafts & Textiles & Digital Media Area Host
* Dean | Cold Metals Area Host


=== Things that need doing around the space ===
=== Things that need doing around the space ===
* Flooring in electronics is loose. It needs to be secured down to the ground.
* Systems group is coming back together and expanding the network
** Masonite and foam flooring is hard to stick to the floor
** Need help in any form: software, documentation, putting holes in walls, etc.
** Try strong carpet tape?
** Contact Daniel Peters, Jonathan Bisson, Sky if you're interested.
** Doobie is going to take a crack at it after the meeting along with any other interested parties
** One specific short-term need: work on a CAD file of the network
 
* Heat leakage from lounge 2.0
* Tables in lounge need bracing across the middle. They have panels that do that now, but they preclude sitting on both sides.
** Radiators do get warm, but the heat leaks out of the room
** Put the metal conduit across the bottom and remove the panels?
** Jonny added weather stripping, which helped
** Swap out the tables with the taller ones by the door
** Doors would be good to add
* Need a floor mat at the entrance to catch muddy feet and snow
* Decorate the Lounge 2.0
* Make it so that the cord doesn't have to run on the floor in front of the front door
* Hang mural panels with french cleats so that we can decorate Lounge 2.0
* Need to decide what to do with the old tool cage
* Take out the garbage
** Do not overfill the dumpster


=== Awesome Callouts ===
=== Awesome Callouts ===
* Everybody who helped with the video: Aaron, Andrew, Ash, Simon, Sky, etc.
* Johnny for weatherstripping the lounge
* Dean, Tucker, Ron Bean for disassembling the old tool cage
* Ed for nailing down the floor to the floor in the Electronics lounge
* Genevieve for cybersecurity talk
* Current board for their awesome work
* Ashley for teaching folks how to weld
* Daniel for taking on huge amount of systems work for several months
* Ken for running electrical in the CNC room
* Andrew for getting the little laser fixed up
* Ken in general for general Ken
* Ken for electrical in CNC
* Andrew for getting the Taz working again
* Skilton for dust collection
* Ron for cutting up door frames
* Jonathan and Daniel for (lit club?)
* Everybody running for the board
* Everybody who nominated somebody for the board
* Shelly for painting seminar
* Jenny & Adriana and others working on the NASA Space Apps hacking application
* Jenny for writing and sharing an essay on the mailing list about what PS:One is about


=== What have you been hacking ===
=== What have you been hacking ===
* Jason got a Raspberry Pi talking to some lights
* Lyn made a squatty potty from scrap wood
* Jennie built her pet rodent a 10'x4'x4' mansion
* Jesse has been making pink pussy hats and dying them pink with Koolaid
* Simon open sourced some code for the first time
** "Ohhh yeah!"
* Shelly has been making toys - dino, doll, and a brown bat
* Will took a class on artisanal bread-baking
* Erik has made repairs to the space:
** Toilet has new flushing mechanism
** New lights in the kitchen
* Made an app for a community center to scan ISBNs for learning materials for the nternal library
* Daniel working on a script to visualize the network traffic and visualize it to music
* Working on OLED lighting, was issued provisional patent on OLED flexible film, entered a fixture in clean energy trust competition


=== Announcements ===
=== Announcements ===
* Vote for the new board on Tuesday at the end of member meeting
* Epilog Laser is back in service
** Send in a proxy if you aren't going to be here and are a full member
* Hot metal office hours happen after the meeting, but now only twice a month
* Game night - play games - Saturday, 5pm until late
* Fifth Tuesday potluck is happening on the fifth Tuesday - January 31st - at the  
* Starting the 23rd, Monday authorizations will be back at 7 pm
* Monday Woodshop Authorizations resume on this coming Monday
* Door codes changed. Old door codes will stop working on 1/15.
* Chicago Maker Faire is going to happen April 22-23 at McCormick Place
* Chiditarod is the first weekend in March, food drive, make stuff, fun, chiditarod.org
* Maker Media wants to do the town hall meeting here, it would be 100 people, on February 7 from 6 pm to 8 pm
* Painting workshop on Thursday, register on Meetup
** Can we fit that many people?
** And a rerun on Monday, 1/16
** Could move the Hot Metals stuff out of the way
* SIGNBOT - Robots! 8 pm! Thursday!
** If we held it in the wood shop, we would need to move the Shopbot before then
* NERP - Not Exactly Raspberry Pi - Monday, hangout, show & tell, talk about microcontrollers and embedded applications
*** Anna has machine-moving casters for the shopbot
** Maybe there will be a discussion of Raspberry Pi mesh networks
** They also want to do a power racing demonstration
* Beehive workshop, Saturday 8 am
** They are looking for large demonstration projects
** Send an email to Humdingerhoney@gmail.com to request a registration form or additional information
*** (50 ft ceilings)
* NASA Space App Hackathon - we're trying to host this, so come help organize on Saturday 1pm - or stay tuned for opportunities to volunteer or take part
** Call for Makers will come out tomorrow
* Wikignomes - Saturday at 1 pm
* Calming Coloring is happening Thursday at 7:30 pm
* Small Metals Office Hours, Sunday: all things nonferrous and of moderate
* Bike night is probably canceled tomorrow, unless you show up and work on bikes
* Tier One Cold Metals authorization happens Saturday at noon
* CAJOO - Wednesday at 7pm - come play instruments, skill or instruments not necessary


=== Questions ===
=== Questions ===
* Do we have answers?
* Does everyone know how to log into the blog and write a blogpost?
** Maybe.
** [https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/Blog This is a good place to start]
* Is there going to be a tour?
* Dubi is asking people to help figure out how best to use his found copy of "The Apprentice: The TV Game"
** Yep! Next, even.
* What are the passwords to the network switches? Please tell Daniel or Jonathan.
* 300 Seconds of Fame: is it tonight?
* When are woodshop authorizations?
** Nope, next week, election edition.
** Both Monday AND Thursday. An embarrassment of riches.
* Is that a guitar amplifier?  
* Do you have a grand plan or vision?
** Yep!
** Yes, we have twenty or thirty of them.
*** Who is working on that?
* Is anybody interested in gathering policy statements and bylaws into a manual that we can print?
**** It's just here to use.
** Bylaws committee is working on it.
***** Is there CAJOO tomorrow?
* When can we tell maker media if we can use the room?
****** Hard to say, since Jennie might be going out of town? But you can CAJOO yourself.
** Ron is willing to offer Hot Metals
******* But what's CAJOO?
** JFDI
******** It's a chance to play music with other folks, no talent or instruments required.
* Can the board move when the board meeting happens?
* Are there dues and things like that?
** Yep, especially if it conflicts with the Maker event February 7
** Yep, two tiers of monthly dues: $40 for starving hacker, $70 for full member (with storage space and right to vote)
* Trying to find IP address for Raspberry Pi on windows with mdns
** Install Bonjour (one way you can install that on Windows is installing iTunes, which it comes bundled with)
** Or you can use arp, fping, or nmap to find the IP address of the Pi on the network


=== Votes ===
=== Votes ===
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Who wants to give a tour?
Who wants to give a tour?
* Thanks Ron for giving a tour!
* Thanks Ron for giving the tour
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