March 23 2015

Governance Committee (Dom)

• Sustainability plan release
• Floor plan release
• Workshop refund policy
  • Proposal 1: Refund policy varies for each workshop. Workshop facilitators must submit a refund policy as part of their final proposal before the workshop will be approved and scheduled.
  • Proposal 2: 100% refund will be granted if reservation is cancelled no less than 7 days in advanced; no refunds will be granted after that date.
• Douglas Design District application

Communications Hive (John)

Social media stats

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

• TBD
• Kill makeict@gmail.com (dom)

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
• ArtDOG (dom for April)

Remote Events and Outreach Gaggle (Barb)

• MakerFaire

Special Projects Brigade (Mike)

• Like to see interactive wall at 1500
  • Chibitronics
  • MakeyMakey + Conductive ink
• Arduino Day - I signed us up for a codebender event
  • "codebender wants to support events and workshops that will take place on the Arduino Day 2015 (March 28th). We want to share these events and promote them through our social media. We also want to send some swag for your event which due to long distance we sincerely hope that they will arrive on time! We will also write a blogpost on codebender’s blog about the Arduino Day and the events/workshops around the world so we’d love to have some photos of your event especially the ones with codebender in :D . Last but not least, we would like to run a contest and offer an Arduino board to a lucky participant of your workshop."
    • Needs information about what we are doing
    • Running a contest and offer an Arduino board to a lucky participant of your workshop

Programs

Makerspace (Tom)

• Learn to solder went fairly well good turn out. Any feed back welcome.
  • Need to send survey
  • (Dom or Tom) need to refund two regestrants that didn't make it to the learn to solder class (already done)
  • (Mike) I let someone take my space in the class, did not get refund. use my for membership. Unable to use RFID chip.
• Wood Carving with Roy moved to April second Saturday
• Basic Electronics With James and Tom moved to May Second Saturday
• thanks Gina
• Phase 2 Day 1 electrical needs (Dustin)
  • Switches for areas currently switched at the breaker
  • Bulbs
• Gordon Murray's Robot Sumo promo video (dom)

devICT (Seth)

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

Community Updates

• Evan Roth show at Ulrich - reception and speaker on March 24 at 630pm
• Havester Arts Kick Off Party at their new location, 8pm March 27
• Bike Walk Wichita built a bike rack for The Workroom (one of our new DDD neighbors)
• Bike Walk Wichita is hosting Bike Beautiful (a women's cycling fashion show) on April 2 at Fisch Haus
• DDD is having their annual meeting April 21

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?
• July 18 - Mini maker faire