March 23 2015

Governance Committee (Dom)

• TBD

Communications Hive (John)

Social media stats

	Count	Change
Facebook	1089	+30
Twitter	666	+125
Meetup	124	+12

• TBD

Finances and Fundraising Task Force (Jens)

Members

	Balance	Change
Member count	62	+7

• Budget check - $47k remaining of $62k equipment budget - see here for itemized list
• Taxes in work
• Some suggestions from members for improvements to new building
  • Enclose wood shop - $1,000-2,500 for walls; $1,500 for ceiling
  • Electrical - $750 (does not include 220 needs)
• Utilities for new building set except for trash

Remote Events and Outreach Gaggle (Barb)

• TBD

Special Projects Brigade (Mike)

• Like to see interactive wall at 1500
  • Chibitronics
  • MakeyMakey + Conductive ink

Programs

Makerspace (Tom)

• Learn to solder went fairly well good turn out. Any feed back welcome.
• @TODO (Dom or Tom)refund two regestrants that didn't make it to the learn to solder class
• mike - I let someone take my space in the class, did not get refund. use my for membership.
• Wood Carving with Roy moved to April second Saturday
• Basic Electronics With James and Tom moved to May Second Saturday
• thanks Gina

devICT (Seth)

• Junior Coders - Initial conversation with John
• Kansas Linux Fest report
• Lawrence Maker Space

Community Updates

• TBD

Calendar

• 26 March 2015 devICT Monthly Talk - Editor throwdown! Vim vs Emacs
• 28 March 2015 Crochet workshop
• 28 March 2015 Arduino Day
• 11 April 2015 Basic Electronics
• May (tentative) Bike-related art workshop for Second Saturday (May is Bike Month!)
• June (tentative) Robot sumo?