May 18 2015

Governance Committee (Dom)

• TBD

Communications Hive (John)

Social media stats

	Count	Change
Facebook	1199	+30
Twitter	805	+14
Meetup	177	+22

• Website update?
• Do we need to add a link to the new member process in the "Welcome New Member" email when someone joins MakeICT? (Mike)
• Posted on the forum - Come up with a new name for "Open Hack" night (Mike)

Finances and Fundraising Task Force (Jens)

Members

	Balance	Change
Member count	107	+2

• ArtDOG checks
• 2015 Revised budget
  • BD's please submit by Friday, May 22
  • Update for board review next meeting
• New grant strategy to come following the new budget

Remote Events and Outreach Gaggle (Barb)

• River Fest
• Wichita Mini Maker Faire

Special Projects Brigade (Mike)

• Electric bus status
  • Talk to Jeremiah
  • Need to clean bus
  • Put on trailer and move to 1500
  • Potential issue getting electric bus into warehouse area
• Turntable workshop
• Traffic Skills 101 Class, bicycle safety
• Robot sumo workshop
  • Need to order parts
  • Couple of months lead time
• Sewing machine maintenance workshop
• Screen print workshop

Programs

Makerspace (Tom)

• RIaspire.com folks to present retail options 6:45 ish
• Vote to approve Machine Access policy
• Updates on the floor plan and implementation
• TBD

devICT (Seth)

• Getting started with Open Wichita
  • Code for America brigade
    • http://codeforamerica.org
  • Loosely affiliated with devICT
  • First event June 6 - National Day of Civic Hacking
    • http://hackforchange.org
• Game Jam - organized by member Jim Rice
  • July 31st - August 2nd, The Labor Party

Community Updates

• TBD

Calendar

• 29 May - June 6 2015 - RiverFest
• 6 June 2015 - National Day of Civic Hacking (Open Wichita Debut)
• 13 June - 2nd Saturday - Wearables w/ Tom, Barb, and Mike
• 20 June - 2015 Annual Meeting
• 27-28 June - KC Maker Faire
• 11 July - 2nd Saturday - ?
• 18 July - Wichita Mini Maker Faire
• 31 July - 2 August - ICT Game Jam
• 8 August - 2nd Saturday - ?