February 23 2015

Governance Committee (Dom)

• Board meeting format
• (John) touched base with Jan Luth about the Makerfaire deal in July. John and Barb have a meeting scheduled with EP for March 13 to follow up.
• (John) email sent to USD259 trying to open the conversation about a school again. Lynn Rogers responded that he would look into it.
  • @TODO (John, this week): call/email USD259 a few more times
• (John) communicated with Gary about our situation and also explained we are happy to move into anything he can line up before he has his "ducks in a row." Quack.

Communications Hive (John)

Social media stats

(2 weeks change)

	Count	Change
Facebook	1042	47
Twitter	523	38
Meetup	98	27

I need to pick up the loose ends - John

• @TODO (John, by next meeting): touch base with Seth and revitalize plan for website
• @TODO (John, by next meeting): set up password system
• @TODO (John, by next meeting): work with Gina to map out how we publicize events

• I had earlier moved WA to the makeict.org domain but we disabled it because there was a vulnerability in mod_proxy which got exploited. I have emailed WSU ITS to see if we can reenable and patch the exploit.
• Revisiting password management: ok to put in the Makerspace folder in Google drive?
• (?) Put all important MakeICT webpages in a spreadsheet to organize?

Finances and Fundraising Task Force (Jens)

Balances

Account	Balance	Change
Bank
Paypal
Total
Member count

• ArtDOG - login info in hand to setup profile and begin distributing
• Letter to foundations - April wrote letter and will be sent out soon; foundation suggestions welcome
• 3D printer is here! - need to decide on consumables; Jens would like to recommend a jar for donations for filament
• Tax and non-profit filing in work

Remote Events and Outreach Gaggle (Barb)

• Report on SWE EXPO
• McLean STEM Night, April 23 @ 6:30-7:30 pm
• RiverFest, May 29 - June 6
• June 20, 2015
• KC Maker Faire June 27 -28, 2015

Special Projects Brigade (Mike)

• Christmas Downtown - "Spirit of Wichita Christmas"
  • Found a company to light the trees
  • Wrote a pitch to Together Wichita 2015
  • Writing a project? for the Eagle
  • Working on a grant for funding
• Art Hack (when we move) Final Friday

Programs

Makerspace (Tom)

• Code of Conduct?
• New member orientation?
• Guest policy proposal:

 1. Members may bring up to _ guests into the MakeICT makerspace.
 2. Members are responsible for their guests and their actions.
 3. Guests cannot inhabit the MakeICT makerspace without another keyed member present.
 4. Guests are not allowed to use tools and equipment without member supervision.
 5. Guests must sign-in and obey all standing rules.
 6. Guests are encouraged to become members.

devICT (Seth)

• Code for Wichita!
  • http://www.codeforamerica.org/
  • http://codefortulsa.org/

Calendar

February

• 26 February 2015 Real-time Media Manipulation with Pure Data by John Harrison

March

• 10 March 2015 Nerd Beers
• 14 March 2015 Learn to Solder + Pi Day
• 26 March 2015 devICT Talk - Vim and Emacs
• 28 March 2015 Arduino Day