2015 Annual Meeting

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  • Date: 2015 June 20
  • Time: 04:30pm
  • For rules regarding votes, see Voting

President's Report

June 2014 June 2015 Change % Change
Facebook fans 700 1305 +605 +86.43%
Twitter followers 260 698 +438 +168.46%
Square footage ~3,000 ~8,700 +5,700 +190.00%
Active members 25 111 +86 +344.00%
  • Events
    • 20 Workshops
    • 17 other events (Off the grid, Arduino Day, Pi Day, Halloween challenge, Arts Festival, Expos, outreach activities, etc)
    • 26 Open Hack Nights
    • 12 devICT Monthly Talks + hackathons, social events, etc)
  • Other Activities
    • $117,200.00 Grant money (WCF, Knight Foundation, John, Vanessa, April)
    • Featured on Instructables front page (Barb, Jess, Jens, James L, Stephan)
    • Launched Meetup.com (Seth, Gina, Mike)
    • Started a monthly newsletter (391 Subscribers!)
    • Joined with devICT (Seth, Jacob)
    • Electronic Door (Tom, Christian, Dustin)
    • ArtDOG (WCF, April, Dustin, Jess)
    • Benevolent dictator appointments (term: 1 year)
      • James Seymour, Electronics
      • Gavin Rondeau, Metal shop
      • Mike Hutton, Woodshop
      • Jess Bechtelheimer, Studio Arts
      • Bryan Barr / James Lancaster, Fab lab/3D printing
  • Accolades
    • Front page of the Eagle - twice! (Roy Wenzl)
    • Wichita Business Journal (Emily Behlmann)
    • KMUW story (Abigail Johnson)
    • Midwest Digest Podcast (Blake Hamilton)
  • Contributors of the year


Treasurer's Report

Proposed budget for remainder of 2015


Matters for discussion and voting

Election of the board

For roles and duties, please read the bylaws

  • President nominees:
    • Dominic Canare
  • Vice-president nominees:
    • Jens Torell
  • Treasurer nominees:
    • Dustin Richey
  • Secretary nominees:
    • Kip Landwehr
  • Director at large nominees (2x):
    • Curt Gridley
    • Tom McGuire
    • Barbara Davis


Bylaw Changes

  • New board positions for program directors (devICT and Makerspace Director)