January 25 2016

Reports

Governance Committee (Dom)

Area	Status
Electronics	BD initial draft Board of directors review BD revisions Request for comment Board votes to approve
Studio Arts	BD initial draft Board of directors review BD revisions Request for comment Board votes to approve

• Deputy BD's
• New key signature policy proposal
  • More/different signatures
  • Expectations of signers
    • Include name with signature
    • Last signer asks "who owns the makerspace?"
• New education plan
  • Don't charge members for certification
  • Allow non-members to certify (for a $20 fee)
  • Make distinction between free/low-cost workshops and high-quality/deep-content classes
    • Workshops are free for members (except materials); instructors are volunteers
    • Class fees are set by instructor. Class fee revenue split 75% (instructor) / 25% (MakeICT)
• Fiscal sponsorship for ICT Food Circle project
• Guest: Mark Arganbright about creating a show with/at MakeICT (6:50pm)

Communications Hive (Jens)

Social media stats

	Count	Change
Facebook
Twitter
Meetup

• TBD

Finances and Fundraising Task Force (Dustin)

Members

	Active	Change
Member count

• When we transition members to the new rate, can we keep people at the $10 rate, call it a "donation" and revoke their access?
• TBD

Remote Events and Outreach Gaggle (Barb)

• Outreach Gaggle Meeting, January 23, 2016
• SEHS STEM Night, January 27, 2016
• SWE EXPO, February 20, 2016; need volunteers; will demo activities at Mon Feb 8 Maker Meeting

Special Projects Brigade (Kip)

• Security camera update
• NFC Project update
• Network update
• Bus update

Programs

Makerspace (Tom)

• Jewelry making in ERP?
• Status of consumable purchases?
• Motion to make the shelf by the back door hackables
• Any good ideas to finish developing work areas?

devICT (Seth)

• "devICT Present" resumes this week
• Level Up continuing to grow
• Hearing more requests to do educational outreach

Open Wichita (Seth)

• Open Data Day - March 5 (opendataday.org)
• Riverfest Hackathon gearing up
• Open Data Policy drafting

Community Updates

• Dom speaking at Nonprofit Chamber of Service conference on Tuesday

General topics and todos

• TBD

Calendar

• Proposal: Certification Saturday (following 1st Maker Monday of the month)
• COULD ALL BD's SEND JENS DATES FOR SAFETY/CHECKOUT CLASSES IN FIRST QUARTER OF 2016?

• Need to schedule a "MakeICT tech resources" workshop for this quarter
• Need to schedule Fusion360 group learning sessions

• January 29 - Wichitalks (wichitalks.com)