April 20 2015

Governance Committee (Dom)

• Badges
• Still need an orientation process
• New fees going into place May 1
  • Members will be able to enroll in (and change to):
    • $25/mo
    • $150/6mo
    • $300/yr
  • $10/mo membership level name will change to "?"
    • @TODO (Dom, 5/4): Come up with $10 membership name
  • Will add ability to support a maker
  • Financial assistance
    • Allow people to sign up directly or add link for people to contact a board member? Who?
      • @DECISION: Dom will add a "Link to board to ask for reduced membership fee"

Communications Hive (John)

Social media stats

	Count	Change
Facebook	1122	14
Twitter	716	26
Meetup	142	8

• Gina, Seth, Jim and I met on the website a little bit back. There's still lots to do. As a stop gap, I'm wondering about moving the main page of staging site to prod.

Finances and Fundraising Task Force (Jens)

Members

	Balance	Change
Member count	72	+6

• ArtDOG imminent!
  • Finish TO-DO's (link)
• Budget
  • Metal shop +$6,000?
  • Facility improvements come from where?
• Studio rental rate
• Sustainability plan
  • Better communication of "need to know" items for approval?
  • Approval creates new "approved" budget?
• Taxes with CPA

Remote Events and Outreach Gaggle (Barb)

• Mclean STEM night
• RiverFest
• (John): I've been talking with the Derby Coding club and they are working on a design of a quad copter and are looking for our help. The have a google drive with the details. Project needs to be complete by May 15.
• (John): working with EP on permission to use the name "Mini Maker Faire." EP goes to press May 4.
• (Dom): F5 celebration on the 26th?

Special Projects Brigade (Mike)

• No topics

Programs

Makerspace (Tom)

• Lock for Studio (Jens)
  • @TODO (Tom, James S., Gina, May 9): Post Basic Elec. Workshop

devICT (Seth)

• Met leader of OpenHouston over the weekend
  • OpenHouston = Code for America in Houston
  • Plan to start conversations and organizing for Wichita
• Startup Weekend winner was a smart electrical socket
  • First hardware based winner, took it by a landslide

Community Updates

• ArtDOG after party at Harvester

Calendar

• 22 April 2015 Earth Day - Electric Bus?
• 23 April 2015 STEM Day at McClean
• 23 April 2015 ArtDog
• 2 May 2015 Arduino at East High (Tom and Dom)
• 9 May 2015 Basic Electronics
• June (tentative) Robot sumo?
• June (tentative) Wearables Tom, Barb
• July 18 - Mini maker faire