2015 Annual Meeting

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  • Date: 2015 June 20
  • Time: 04:30pm
  • For rules regarding votes, see Voting

President's Report

June 2014 June 2015 Change % Change
Facebook fans 700 1305 +605 +86.43%
Twitter followers 260 698 +438 +168.46%
Square footage ~3,000 ~8,700 +5,700 +190.00%
Active members 25 111 +86 +344.00%
  • Events
    • 20 Workshops
    • 17 other events (Off the grid, Arduino Day, Pi Day, Halloween challenge, Arts Festival, Expos, outreach activities, etc)
    • 26 Open Hack Nights
    • 12 devICT Monthly Talks + hackathons, social events, etc)
  • Other Activities
    • $117,200.00 Grant money (WCF, Knight Foundation, John, Vanessa, April)
    • Featured on Instructables front page (Barb, Jess, Jens, James L, Stephan)
    • Launched Meetup.com (Seth, Gina, Mike)
    • Started a monthly newsletter (391 Subscribers!)
    • Joined with devICT (Seth, Jacob)
    • Electronic Door (Tom, Christian, Dustin)
    • ArtDOG (WCF, April, Dustin, Jess)
    • Benevolent dictator appointments (term: 1 year)
      • James Seymour, Electronics
      • Gavin Rondeau, Metal shop
      • Mike Hutton, Woodshop
      • Jess Bechtelheimer, Studio Arts
      • Bryan Barr / James Lancaster, Fab lab/3D printing
  • Accolades
    • Front page of the Eagle - twice! (Roy Wenzl)
    • Wichita Business Journal (Emily Behlmann)
    • KMUW story (Abigail Johnson)
    • Midwest Digest Podcast (Blake Hamilton)
  • Contributors of the year


Treasurer's Report

Proposed budget for remainder of 2015


Matters for discussion and voting

Election of the board

For roles and duties, please read the bylaws

(Nominations are now closed)

  • President nominees:
    • Dominic Canare
  • Vice-president nominees:
    • Jens Torell
  • Treasurer nominees:
    • Dustin Richey
  • Secretary nominees:
    • Kip Landwehr
  • Director at large nominees (2x):
    • Curt Gridley
    • Tom McGuire
    • Barbara Davis


Bylaw Changes

  • New board positions for program directors (devICT and Makerspace Director)