Board Meeting 2014-04-21

Meeting Time: 5:30pm Location: Bluebird Arthouse

All members are welcome to attend, and non-board members can join the conversation when invited.

Legal/Financial

• Treasurer Report
  • Bank balance: 631.65
  • Paypal: 452.54
  • Total: 1084.19
• Taxes and annual report - James

- in work

• Wild Apricot - Jens

- will have all historic info in by next meeting

Check on progress of Building Topics/Projects

• Door access update

- cards may be disabled; might need to reprogram

• EL Sign

- instructable in work; plan to post this weekend

• Bus

- controller hooked up but giving fault code
- planning to rent a controller programmer from Ebay
- ask Jeremiah if the Bus could be in the parade in its current state
- paint the bus at Riverfest?
- set a go/no-go date for bus at Riverfest

• 3D printer explanation video

- to do

• Cleanup Dropbox/Google Drive

- to do - Dom

New equipment/donations

• Black 3D printer filament
• CD Changer
• DVR's

Events

• Past
  • April 17 - Mead Middleschool
  • April 19 - (Real) Computing for Humans and other Non-robots

- 18 participants; went well but need more activity prep; lab was great

• ICT Unconference (April 22)
• Wichita Art and Book Fair (May 9-11)

- will set schedule/work shifts

• Basic Sewing Workshop (May 17)
• Riverfest (May 30-June 6)

- could use demo projects built that relate to the theme of each day

• School STEM Days
  • May 1 - Mclean Magnet

- test out some Riverfest projects
- squishy circuits and bubbles
- take 3D printer, EL sign, and other projects?

• Kansas City Makerfaire (June 28-29)

- application?
- Power Wheels Racing team formed!

Any topics from members or guests who are present

• Jason Opat from Mindfire @ 6:30

- space discussion: who should we talk to?
- WSU, Mindfire, ?

Meeting closed @ 1900