Maker Faire Committee Meeting 2016-12-13

Roll Call

| Logan Pajunen | Dominic Canare | James Lancaster | Lisa Rundstrom | James A Seymour

Old business

Relieved from the board:

• Exploration Place Maker Faire partnership with Jan Luth
  • Proposed partnership agreement
  • Curt: "We need to make sure we have backing in our organization before we commit to this."
    • Proposal: recruit and build committee before signing formal agreement
  • Concern: how much / do we need to budget for this

@DECISION: Committee will relieve this from the board and provide mission critical updates

New business

• explain need for expanded scope
• offer primary roles and define them

@TODO (James, January 27, 2017): Gather dates for regional MakerFaires and build a planning calendar

• discussed initial points of contact for specific roles
  • Malissa Long Wilson - Program assistance for new features
  • Tim Collins - Curation – making decisions on the submissions
  • David Springs - Sat night party

• Days fair will happen 22-23 of July
• Planning for about 75-100 booths
• after party
  • generally thought by EP and MakeICT that Saturday night is a good
  • having it at ERP may be a possibility
• ERP has 20 acres to fill
  • bubbles
  • Iron working
  • drones
  • powerwheels race
• EP plans to have their creator space
• STEM/STEAM projects
  • perhaps invite center for the arts to art
  • Lisa R may head up a project
• Discussed People draw
  • Best robotics
  • Lego robotics
  • Ham Demonstrations

@TODO (Logan, December 24, 2017): get James the Standards paperwork from EP and the Feedback from the last two years @TODO (James, January 27, 2017): Plan next Committee meeting @TODO (EVERYONE, January 27, 2017): Brainstorm Who should come and what demonstrations we should have