February 23 2015

Unsorted topics

• T@DECISION: put all important pages in a spreadsheet to organize

Communications Hive (John)

Social media stats

	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?

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

Governance Committee (Dom)

• John did touch 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 sent an email 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 did communicate 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.

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

Programs

Makerspace (Tom)

• TBD

devICT (Seth)

• TBD

Calendar

February

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

March

• 14 March 2015 Learn to Solder + Pi Day
• 28 March 2015 Arduino Day